Monday, October 6, 2008

Hadu Hakki - an introduction

Ananya is a non-profit cultural organization established for promoting, propagating and nurturing the varied cultural art forms of India. After over a decade of multifaceted service to music, for the first time, Ananya is now organizing 'Hadu Hakki Habba' – a festival for young students of Carnatic music.
Ananya initiated the ‘Hadu Hakki’ project with the aim of introducing and encouraging learning and appreciation of Carnatic music among children. Supported by a grant from the India Foundation for the Arts, ‘Hadu Hakki’, a series of 19-episodes were aired through all the All India Radio stations of Karnataka, last year. The series were designed as simple interactive sessions to present the children with an overview of Carnatic music and were accompanied by articles for children in Ananya’s monthly magazine ‘Ananya Abhivyakti’.

As a fitting finale to this, Ananya now presents ‘Hadu Hakki Habba’, a festival that aspires to encourage an exciting and fun-filled approach to the learning and appreciation of Carnatic music among children through activities such as essay, collage, quiz, games, presentations, group events and interactions with senior musicians, all based on the theme of Carnatic music.

All the episodes of Hadu Hakki that were aired on AIR will be released as a set of ten CDs at the festival.
(visit www.ananyaculture.org for more on Ananya)

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