This Friday night, the city is going to party differently and at an unlikely venue. And paint the town red. ‘Heritage party: paint the kote red’ will see Bangalore Fort — to which the city’s history is attached — come alive.
Volunteers will be seen clothed in red and armed with red ropes, paint or torches and candles from 11 p.m. in front of the entrance to the fort (from K.R. Market). What they plan to do is to “retrace the borders of the kote (fort) by means of a human chain and other artistic expressions.” The intention behind the event is to “re-visualise” the fort’s significance.
“Bengaluru is a modern and vibrant city that moves with great pace and rapid strides into the future. But it also has a long history and a grand past. The kote is the place where the city once took form. The fort played a crucial role in the history of the city, and it is the core of its identity as a cosmopolitan metropolis — but today only a few parts of it are still visible, by which it is hard to measure its former extension,” the upcoming event’s page on a social networking site said.
The event is being organised by the bangaloREsidency of Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, in cooperation with MOD-Institute and Suchitra Film Society. B.PAC is supporting the event.
