The Taste of Coffee

The Taste of Coffee is an experience of life lived with coffee in the farm as witnessed by three artists who set out to capture the richness of home-grown coffee beans on their canvas, microphone and camera respectively. Three artists, Clara Puddu, Eloïse Calatayud and Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, with diverse skills and passion in their respective fields of art have highlighted the uniqueness of this rich and aromatic crop through their paintings, sound design and photography through this exhibition.

However, The Taste of Coffee isn't just about coffee, it is about the people involved in the sowing and reaping of the crop. The exhibition tries to draw attention to the lives of people involved in coffee farming though the chores of Surya Prasad Adhikari and his wife Saraswoti Adhikari, who run a permaculture coffee farm in Lekhnath -10, Begnas of Kaski district, Nepal. The exhibition also highlights the couple's perception and contribution to conservation and improvements of local varieties of cultivation, organic farming and sustainable uses of local biological resources.

The Taste of Coffee is up in painting, sound and photography exhibition at Nepal Art Council Gallery, Babarmahal, Kathmandu 19th through 27th February 2011. The exhibition will be inaugurated by veteran photographer Mr. Hari Bangsha Kirant.

The exhibition has been organised by NEPALPHOTOGRAPHY.org with support from Galleria CUC and Momomagic.

Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka

6th Sense

6th Sense: Photo Exhibition by Mohan K. Duwal
2nd - 16th October 2010
Moods Studio Lounge
Bluebird Mall, Thapathali
Kathmandu, Nepal

Colours of Silence: Glimpses of Mustang

Colours of Silence: Glimpses of Mustang,
Photography exhibition by Italian Restorer Luigi Fieni.
26 September to 24 October, 10 am - 5.30pm,
Siddhartha Art Gallery, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Rivers of Pilgrimage

A photography exhibition by Kishore Kayastha, Bijay Gajmer, Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi, Prashant Panjiar, Dinesh Khanna and Ravi Agrawal

Organized by Indian Cultural Centre in collaboration with Siddhartha Art Gallery
14 September - 1 October 2010
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Cycle 4: Selfie Photography Exhibition

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This month, we are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Canada based photographer Surendra Lawoti.

Surendra Lawoti was born in 1972 in Panchthar, Nepal. He is currently based in Toronto, Ontario, where he teaches Photography as an Adjunct Faculty at Ontario College of Art and Design. He received his BA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (1999) and MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2005) in Boston. He has received grants from Artadia, Somerville Arts Council, Community Arts Assistance Program Grant through City of Chicago and Ontario Arts Council. His work has been exhibited widely in Chicago and Boston in the US, in Toronto, in Medellin, Colombia and in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Surendra is interested in the dynamics of social class, race, gender, religion and sexuality and how that affects individuals and social groups in a given historical time frame. For his current work Don River, he has been photographing the landscape of Lower Don River Valley in Toronto, its residents and its recreational users. The work deals with the inglorious history of Lower Don, homelessness, socioeconomic disparities and effects on urbanization on the river.

Along with Don River, Surendra will show work that depicts the Nepali Diaspora that he made while he was in the United States. He will also share his personal experiences of studying, teaching and working in the field of photography.

Please join us;

Saturday, August 21st, 2010
9:45 am - 11 am
The Bakery Cafe, Sundhara

See you then!

The life of food in Nepal

The life of food in Nepal
A photo exhibition organized by World Food Programme
10 AM - 7 PM | 21 - 25 July 2010
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bahini: Life of my Sisters.

Call for Entry

New Nepal?

Today’s Youth Asia (TYA)’s student in April 2009 attended as intense photographic workshop led by Danish photographer Stephen Freiheit and project coordinator Thomas Kurek.

Students worked with 8 topics within portrait and documentary photography: My City, My Dream, My Mother, My Neighborhood, New Democracy, New Generation, Religions and Women’s conditions in Nepal.

In September 2009 the exhibition was inaugurated at the Cultural House Kvarterhuset in Copenhagen, Denmark by Nepali Ambassador to Denmark, HE Vijay Kant Lal Karna. The Danish media welcomed the exhibition by publishing pictures and writing warmly about the artistic works of the young Nepali student of TYA.

The project is supported by The Danish Centre for Culture and Development (DCCD).

The exhibition “New Nepal?” is going on at Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka

Cycle 3: Mist Photography Exhibition

BASOBAS

'BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha
edited by Angela Pellicanò techno 'Contemporary Art Gallery

ECHNE 'CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
Via correctors, 6
Reggio di Calabria, Italy

Show 'BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha edited by Angela Pellicanò
techno 'Contemporary Art Gallery

From 27 February to 14 March 2010, the gallery TECHNE 'Contemporary Art presents' BASOBAS' of Birman Shrestha edited by Angela Pellicano.
The exhibition offers a glimpse through 27 shots of an anthropological and social Nepal seen from the objective of an unknown 'Nepali' (Man of Nepal).

The path Birman Shrestha has chosen is outside the tourist circuit and nothing and none of the persons proposed by him can be considered folklore as there is no representation or complacency of a people living a diachronic dimension.
The photographs come from a survey of Burmese territorial and the combination of time and of its authenticity.

There is construction but not randomness. Just wait, as we define the Nepali photographer, his career lasted five years.
His first exhibition in Europe, is only stop on his route in the West, will continue its project to deepen America where the techniques of photography.
Techno Contemporary Art with 'Basobas' continues the trilogy dedicated to photography began with 'Paradoxalvision' Margaret Crocco, an artist who works between Paris and New York and ending with a photo exhibition ever on the trip.
At the vernissage, which takes place February 27 pv at 17.00, will feature the artist.

Techne 'Contemporary Art Gallery - Via correctors, 6 (Palazzo ICFTU) Reggio Calabria
The exhibition will be open to the public from February 27 to March 14, 2010 daily from h.10, 00 to h.19, 00 (except Sunday)

Info:
0965-040268 - 339-1863561
tiellecommunication@gmail.com
angelapellicano1963@libero.it

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Happy New Year

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers

photo.circle is pleased to invite you to the book launch and exhibition opening of

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers

11 am | Friday, December 18th 2009
Nepal Art Council, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Some of the featured grandmothers have arrived in Kathmandu and are eager to meet their audience!
For project updates please visit www.hajurama.org.np

The exhibition is on till 25 December from 10 AM - 6 PM

Hamra Hajurama: Our Grandmothers is a storytelling project using the primary mediums of photography and text. The project was designed to encourage writers and photographers to collaborate and produce work together. The 15 writers and photographers involved in Hamra Hajurama have fanned out across the country since May 2009, seeking voices and encountering a fascinating range of women with much to tell- not just tales of sorrow and injustice, but also ones of survival, dreams and hopes.

Cycle 2: Flora Photography Exhibition

In unison with God

A photography exhibition by Pasang Sherpa from 19th-25th August 2009 at Yala Maya Kendra (Baggikhana), Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur.

Inauguration of Galleria CUC

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This month we would like to share with you some of the outcomes of the Hajurama project including photos and text by our 15 participanting writers and photographers.

In addition to this, young photo student Prateek Rajbhandari will be presenting a collection of unique landscape collage work. And Umesh Shrestha will be presenting his brand new multimedia documentary on the underground death metal scene in Nepal.

Saturday, August 8th 2009
9:45 am
The Bakery Cafe, Sundhara

See you there!

Our world your move

Our world your move a photography exhibition by Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Nepal.

DATE: 12 JULY 2009 TIME: 2:00 PM
VENUE: NEPAL ART COUNCIL, BABARMAHAL, KATHMANDU, NEPAL.