Immersion into the Culture of Chhattisgarh

The students and teachers got an insight into the culture of Chhattisgarh during the morning assembly of August 4, 2018 as the students of class 6 performed ‘Karma’ folk dance of Chhattisgarh, sang Chhattisgarh’sfolk song ‘SuwaGeet’and presented a piece of instrumental music on the folk song of Chhattisgarh ‘Hamar Para Tuhar Para’. The students had learnt dance, vocal music and instrumental music of this state during their Performing Art CCA periods. Thereafter students of classes 6, 7 and 8 witnessed an exhibition of the students’ work comprising of scrapbooks incorporating various facets of the culture of Chhattisgarh viz., location, family and relationships, dance and music, art and crafts, cuisine, places of tourist interest, important traditions and beliefs. Students spoke some greetings as well as numerals from 1 to 10in the Chhattisgarhi language. Gond art and human figures of terracottaprepared by the students during their Visual Art CCA periods were also displayed. Class 6 students had studied about the state of Chhattisgarh during the period June – July 2018.

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