Here is also the official text info:

announcement:
we send  you the information and personal invitation for the
1st art  and sculpture symposium in mamallapuram, tamilnadu, south india
which will start on  friday 21st january 2011, morning.

The announced public site place for the sculpture workers has been extended in cause of infrastructure needs. the place near sculpture museum has been taken for paintings, the sculpture site is in the backside of artstudio  

we invite all media people from public medias to participate for interviews or photo – shooting to the art studio, five radhas  rd. in Mamallapuram  during the event. for making appointments call: (0)8420654065/ or 9840270083

the symposium takes place from 21st january to 4th of februaryin ART STUDIO, five radhas road. artists from different counteries will work there on the subject of metal and stone sculpture every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at mentioned place. the event is public and free to visit or make contacts. you can contact us through email: pallawa2011@gmail.com

we look ahead to see you there.

kind regards

creative sculptors workshop, mamallapuram
art studio workshop, mamallapuram
parvathi sculpture metal work, workshop
swissart.de/ floriamo

time is very short: so i just add the text for the invitation and the copies of the posters

announcement:
we send  you the information and personal invitation for the
1st art and sculpture symposium in mamallapuram, tamilnadu, south india
which will be opened on  friday 21st january 2011, morning 10- 12 (a.m.) o’clock in presence of the councilors and chief of town of mamallapuram.

on 20th of january we invite all media people from public medias to participate for interviews or photo – shooting at the kumar/ shanmuga art gallery in Mamallapuram .time is 6.30 p.m.
art gallery is on mainroad in mamallapuram.

the symposium takes place from 21st january to 4th of february 2011,  in the place opposite sculpture museum, (margatha ponga) artists from different counteries will work on the subject of painting, metal and stone sculpture every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on public ground. the permission has given by the chairman of town and other councellors. at anytime the event is public and free to visit or make contacts .

short correction: art studio, workshop of murugan email correction: stonesculpture2010@gmail.com

Murugan (we say morgan!) runs the art studio, a workshop for stone carving and metal-bronce casting behind mamallapuram. he is another art worker/ artist at the place.

here the letter:

Hi*DEAR*URS*
Thankyou verry much for your e-mail and your web side. i am verry pleased with your LETTER and MESSAGE*
say hello to mark from my side and to niegel and barbra*
this news i have been waiting from a long time . i am happy.
First of all i like to in form you that the number of
participent who compit in this 15,days we are ready to arrange
accomandation & food.
i feel the meterials is better to leave it the
indivguals [litter bit we can back up] also we will be needing ABOUT
ADVERTISEMENT* WE NEED AT LEAST 500 POSTERS FOR THE STARTING > WE
Need to put the posters in CHENNAI* on theE C. R
CHENNAI TO MAPS RD}

NEAR tol plaza* few IMPORTANT PLACES IN THE CITY.
ALSO SOME BANERS* TO tie also weeneed to put
in papapers on FRIDAYS & SATURDAY in the news papers. shot time so
feel moor.
in the posters we need some pictures of works. OF YOURS
& NIGEL* AND MARK , murugans works. to put in . so you your self
can assemble the works of theese people and can choose to put in
theposters. so i am waiting your answer*
also we can arrange THE entrens ticket* that will BE BETTER I THINK MAY BE YOU CAN GIVE YOUR IDEAS*TOO*
**********************************************************************************************
tourist office LETTER SUB. I TIP8 I HAVE GOOD FRIEND8 HE RIGHTING WELL. I GIVE . TOURIST OFFICE WHAT YOU SAY????????? TODAY ALLSO I MEET MURUGAN* he oK. nice SPEEKING*
THANKYOU*
S.KU

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

somu

real name is in the list

he runs a workshop for metal sculptures and is friend and neighbour of murugan, and we talked about that he is the person who will take care on the money. but in any case NOW would be the moment to open an bank account and  give the number of it here public, so we can collect  for the symposium.

Statement

1^st International Art & Sculpture Symposium in Mamallapuram

2011

We, the people mentioned below, planned to organize an international art and sculpture symposium in January 2011 in Mamallapuram, on public ground.

We would like to request an authorization for this event which would contribute to culture and turisme, from the panchayat general council of Mahabalipuram.

contacts for all follwing matters:

D. V. Murugan, art studio, Mamallapuram tel. 98402 70083

S. Kumar, Shanmuga Art Gallery, Mamallapuram tel. 8015136578

first founding commitee:

Kumar / Artist, , Mamallapuram,shanmugaarts@hotmail.com,

Nigel Gray, sculptor/ France, ntbgray@hotmail.com

Urs Floryamo, sculptor, Italy, mail@swissart.de

Mark stonestreet, sculptor, Brighton England mark@mdarts.co.uk,

D.V.Murugan, sculptor, art studio,Mamallapuram, dvmurugan@yahoo.com,

Luz Mattu, sculptor, Germany, steinlutz@web.de,

Varadha Raij, sculptor, Mamallapuram, creativsculptors@yahoo.com,

R. Somasundaram/ Parvathi metal sculptures, Mamallapuram

Demian Wuest, sculptor, Switzerland , demianwust@gmail.com

after that we had a few meetings andf wrote some letters, made visits to officials and all went on.

officials showed all a interest, also to put the date together when the dance festival in mamallapuram takes place, so the ministers who comes for the opening have only ONE date. (its even economic
) .

i make here public the letter of murugan which we had to write as an official request from the tourist office which has to decide (in october) about the date and place.

from D.V. Murugan

Art Studio

No.1 Kalapakkam Road. opp.five Rathas

Mamallapuram 603104

To: Tourist officer

Tourist office

Mamallapuram 603104/ Tamil Nadu

Respected Sir,

subject: planning to organize an international art and sculptore-symposium in January 2011 regards

I am running a sculpture center, namly Art Studio in above adress. I make sculptures in traditional and modern too and accept orders from India and abroad.

I have participated in various sculptural camps, held at India and foreign jointly proposed, to conduct countries. I am giving training to foreign sculptors every year more than two persons. I am having wide contacts in the field of art in India and abroad.

From the above source of my experience, I and my friend namly Kumar artist jointly proposed to conduct an international Art and Sculpture Symposium in Mamallapuram. So that we are expecting to organize the Symposium in the guidence of Tourism Departement.

The expences and other economical bindings are borne by the camp organisation.

We are expecting the permission to conduct the sculpture camp at mentioned anyone of the places.

1. the event would be in the period 21.01.2011 until 06.02.2011

2. timings would be (daytime) 8 a.m. – 7 p.m.

3. proposed place is the vishnu tempelground or garden or childrens park,college rd.

4. the number of artist would not be more then 20

5. it would be an international event so artists from India, England, Italy, France, Germany would participate.

6. the official authorities are excluded to grant for the expenditure

a)for all expences

b) accomodation, food or transports

c) materials for the symposium

d) all advertising and publicity

Yours faithfully

The Organisation group

Mamallapuram

First of all; i do not have the responsability for the organizing of this symposium, but i will do my best with my contributing that it will come up to be organized in mamallapuram, end of january 2011. so alot of the responsability goes also to you as independent artists who has already experienced in other art symposiums or likewise events.

We, some artists who met last january and february 2010 in mamallapuram had some meetings already about this idea and took some effort to write down the papers and made an adresslist which the authorithies asked for. Personally i made this paper for members public so if you are on the list as participant, you can even use the documents, print them or store them on your computer.
You can find them at the adress:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcbcr75b_18hbvsfgfd

copy and paste this adress in your browser and you have access to the other participants contact adresses.

There is some important points to know about these event:
everybody participate at his own costs and responsability
the authorities welcomed the event but want to talk about or give permission in october 2010
we have to find the sponsors
its our responsability to make the PR / advertising
we have to bring our personal tools

FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS
To participate in the symposium it will be needed;
complete name and prename
exact living adress (mailadress)
profession
email adress
telefonnumber
if you make an inscription in www.pallawa.ning.com put also a foto or some infos about your personal work.

Last thougts, ideas, opinions:
the art pieces we work out on the symposium should stay fo a while in public places in mamallapuram. let´s have a talk about it.
The material we work on should be local. (sponsored)
to make the event serious, everybody should pay an inscription fee. (symbolic!)

Lets have an online talking about all these point……go to: http://pallawa2011.wordpress.com and go to the bottom in COMMENT!
OK? hear or see you there……
Urs

The Government of India (and its State Governments) is the major source of art funding in India
is. The Ministry of Culture, currently under the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), works towards the promotion of Indian arts and culture. Most of these funds are directed solely towards promoting local and folk artists.
Organisations such as the ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relations) provide Indian artists with opportunities perform abroad. While they provide financial support (usually only partial funding) to Indian Festivals that invite International Artists, they do not support international collaborations per se.
There a very few funding agencies and trusts in India that have a mandate for supporting the arts.
The key organizations involved in art philanthropy are the Ford Foundation, India Foundation for
the Arts, Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Hivos. It must be noted that these
organizations have a programmatic approach towards funding and focus entirely on supporting
only local Indian artists.
Bilateral and multilateral cultural organisations such as the European Union, the Japan
Foundation, the British Council, Pro Helvetia, Max Muller Bhavan, Alliance Française and Inko
(Indo Korean Centre) play a significant role in supporting artists from their countries to vist India,
and vice versa. Embassies and Consuls for various countries which have an office in India often
support travel and stay for artists from their own countries.
Corporate India does not have an agenda towards supporting the arts; therefore it is almost
impossible to identify a specific list of arts friendly sponsors. On reviewing the CSR (Corporate
Social Responsibility) initiatives of the top 500 companies in India, it was learnt that the arts do not feature at all. If at all, most Corporates believe in sponsoring an end product as a marketing strategy towards boosting their brand image. This naturally creates a situation where the sponsorship comes with strings attached keeping in mind the Company’s target audience, brand profile and the extent of media mileage that can be garnered through this support. Overall, the only Corporates who are most amenable to supporting the arts at all are in the services sector like telecom and banking. On a more positive note, the hospitality and airlines sector are always quite open to offering support in kind.
List of government agencies that promote art and culture:
Name Weblink
Ministry of Culture http://india.gov.in/outerwin.php?id=http://indiaculture.gov.in/
Indian Council for Cultural http://www.iccrindia.org/
Relations
Lalit Kala Akademi http://lalitkala.gov.in/
Chitra Kala Parishad http://www.chitrakalaparishath.org/home.html
Sangeet Natak Akademi http://www.sangeetnatak.org/
National School of Drama http://www.nationalschoolofdrama.org/
Kalakshetra www.kalakshetra.net/
National Folklore Support Centre http://www.indianfolklore.org/
Ministry of Information and http://india.gov.in/outerwin.php?id=http://mib.gov.in/
broadcasting
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List of funding agencies and trusts that promote art and culture:
Ford Foundation www.fordfound.org
India Foundation for the Arts, www.indiaifa.org
Sir Ratan Tata Trust www.srtt.org
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust www.drabjitatatrust.org
Hivos www.hivos.nl
List of international cultural agencies that promote art and culture:
Japan Foundation www.jfindia.org.in
British Council www.britishcouncil.org
Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council www.prohelvetia.in
Goethe Institut- www.goethe.de
Max Muller Bhavan
Alliance Française www.afindia.org
InKo(Indo Korean Centre www.inkocentre.org

same in this blog, when you read, REACT, let us know and share about your ideas, feelings, proposals and work.

three things for the moment:

1. budget for the event

what and how much will be  needed for

material

others

2. proposals for advertizing

send some opinions for a poster, and other advertizements which in the right moment can be printed or showed  as advertizing.

3. supporter list

can we make it in a snowball princip: everyone looks for a few supporters, V.I.P.s. so it would be more strong to come together at once. send  the supporters name and email directly