While the painting will focus on revisiting the foklore
of Yeti, the campaign to involve young people and story enthusiasts all across
the country is an effort to create an opportunity to start talking about the
various such myths and legends in the country.
A fundraiser is also planned through the campaign which
will help support our new initiative: the start-up of a Centre for the Study of
Indigenous Storytelling Traditions. It will be the first Centre in the country
to dedicatedly study, promote and preserve tribal oral history, especially with
the support of shamans and their traditions of storytelling.
You can help support this unique and a historic campaign
(in many ways) by way of buying a piece of the painting (being made) and / or by
ordering your pair of Big Foot Slippers. For more on the campaign and how to
book your art or make a purchase, please visit our campaign page here
. 
Big Foot Campaign Launched!
The Big Campaign took off this Friday, 30th March 2012,
with a press gathering at Chowrasta, Darjeeling. With Acoustic Traditional
volunteers wearing Big Foot Slippers and storyteling sessions for young school
children, the launch was an important milestone in our work to promote
disappearing myths, legends and oral history of indigenous communities.
The campaign will include painting a huge water colour
artwork measuring around 20,000 square feet and youth mobilisation work in view
of organising a march or a walk on the 15th of May 2012 (also the display date
for the artwork) - a day which we have collectively come to name it as the "Big
Foot Day".
Media Engagement and
Support
A Press Meeting is organised on the 24.03.12 in view of engaging with the Press and Media of Darjeeling and Sikkim in view of raising awareness on the critical need to conserve the region's disappearing oral history and shamanistic traditions of storytelling.
Through the meeting the idea of initiating the Big Foot Campaign in the region and starting a Centre for the Study of such traditions were also discussed. Mr. Manbhadur Limboo (Limboo shaman we are working with at the moment), Mr. Kachyo Lepcha (AT Regional Coordinator and Asst. Professor, Sikkim Govt. College) and Mr. Anurag Pradhan (Artist) were also present at the meeting.
National Storytelling Tour Starts!
Amidst preparations to revisit the folklore of Yeti, in the place where it first earned the appelation "the abominable snowman", Darjeeling, Acoustic Traditional started the tour with a session at Goobes Book Republic, Bangalore.
The tour will travel across 10 cities in the following months in view of disseminating some rare stories and to stress the need to conserve them
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Mountain Outdoor Field Programme: Announcement
The Registration for the Outdoor Mountain and Field Programme is now open; it closes on the 6th of March 2012.
The Mountain Outdoor field programme (in the Singalila range/ Kanchanzonga bio-sphere reserve, Eastern Himalayas) is a unique way to directly engage with the mountain communities through stories and traditions of storytelling. Developed with a view to support the preservation of dying oral literature (especially in the form of storytelling), the programme provides a unique 7-day retreat in two of the most beautiful peaks of the Himalayan range namely (1) Sandakphu (or the Mountain of Poison Plants) which is also the highest peak (3,690 mts) in the Singalila range in Darjeeling and (2) Dzongu (Special Lepcha Reserve) in North Sikkim which is considered to be the aboriginal home of the disappearing Lepcha tribe and often considered a spiritual sanctuary for the people of the mountains.
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