Patachitra folk tradition from West Bengal - Silk River Project
Patachitra is a unique folk tradition of visual storytelling accompanied by songs performed the Patuas. The painters are called Patua and bear the surname – Chitrakar.
Patua artists Rupban (known also as Swarna) Chitrakar and Manoranjan Chitrakar visited communities on the Thames Estuary to share their storytelling tradition, along with Ruchira Das from Think Arts.
Thanks for the filming go to Mike Eden from RouteStock. Contact him directly on [email protected], www.routestock.org
Silk River is an ambitious project, supported by Arts Council England, which explores the unique relationship between London and Kolkata through artistic exchange between communities along the Thames Estuary and India’s Hooghly River. Find out more about the project here: http://www.silkriver.co.uk
Silk River is a participant in the UK/India 2017 season.