“Together for the Seminary”- Impressive

“Together for the Seminary”- Impressive

“Together for the Seminary’ a three days festival of Goan Music and Cuisine got underway on 13^th instant when the traditional lamp was lighted by the MLA of Calangute Constituency,  Agnelo Fernandes in the presence of  Tomazinho Cardozo, president of TAG, Alexyz, the popular cartoonist, Fermino Fernandes, Sarpanch of Candolim and Fr. Tony Salema, Rector of  Seminary at the grounds of the Seminary, Saligao. The three day festival is organized in order to raise funds for the renovation of the seminary. Agnelo Fernandes,  MLA of Calangute constituency donated Rs. 10 lacs for the renovation work of the Seminary.

 
On this occasion a Konkani musical programme “Svadik Konkani Git” directed by Tomazinho Cardozo was presented. Anthony San, Clarissa, Sonia Fernandes, Maria Cardozo, Irence Cardozo, Joycelyn Misquita, Anthony Carvalho, Nanesh Morajkar, Zico and Shivanand Naik participated in the lively programme of Konkani songs and skits. The music was provided by Nolvert Cota.

This was followed by numerous cultural items from different parishes which included songs and dances including folk dances. After the performances from different villages the musical band – Band wagon – entertained the people. Seminarians also presented few items which were appreciated by the people.

Tomorrow – 15^th May – is the last day of the festival. Lulu Fortes and Troupe will presents a musical programme on the occasion. The audience will be treated with  Konkani and English songs. This will be followed by the Band – Ventures. Seminarians too will present more cultural items on the last day.

“Together for the Seminary” – the Festival of three days of Music and Cuisine is an opportunity for the people to be a part of the renovation of the Seminary.

Photographs;

1. Fr. Tony Salema adressing the gathering in the prtesence of Agnelo Fernandes, Tomazinho Cardozo and Alexyz.

2. A Scene from Tomazinho Cardozo's "Svadik Konkani Git".

13 May 2011
[as forwarded by the Director to gaspar almeida, www.goa-world.com]

Digambar Kamat’s Contribution to Goan Tiatr

Digambar Kamat’s Contribution to Goan Tiatr

Published on: June 13, 2010

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He opened the doors of the Art and Culture Department to all artistes and forms of cultural and literary activities. Tiatr artistes started benefiting the Department’s schemes.  The Department started giving financial assistance to organisers to promote mando and dulpods and other folk songs. Today there are at least five mando festivals that take place. A scheme for publishing books in the Roman scripts was started. Mr Kamat was instrumental in naming the main auditorium of the prestigious cultural complex at Margao after the Father of Tiatr – late Joao Agostinho Fernandes. By doing this he not only recognised the importance of Goan Tiatr but also brought honour to the whole Tiatr fraternity. To preserve and promote literature in Konkani in the Roman script he made budgetary provision to the Dalgado Konknni Academy thereby giving much needed support and encouragement those who wrote in the Roman script. As assured, he formed the Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) for the promotion, preservation and development of the most popular dramatic form of Goa - the Tiatr. He provided the TAG with adequate finances for a modern office, a conference hall and library. A praiseworthy act indeed! 

By Tomazinho CardozoDigambar Kamat completed three years as the Chief Minister of Goa recently. Considering Goa’s political scene, continuing in the office of Chief Minister for three full years is an achievement.
Different people have different opinions about him depending on the issues they have been directly or indirectly involved. Accordingly, protagonists of Konkani in the Roman script have a success story to tell.
Konkani became the Official Language of Goa in 1987 after a bloody agitation. Throughout the agitation the script issue was never allowed to surface because it would split the movement. However, most unfortunate was the introduction of the definition of the Konkani language in the Goa Official Language Act, which states: “Konkani language means Konkani written in Devnagori script.”
For me it was the greatest betrayal of the protagonists of Konkani in Roman script. With this one sentence, the hopes and aspirations of the majority of Goans were shattered.
Konkani in the Roman script was side-tracked at every level thereafter. The supporters of Roman script had no alternative but to fight back. Thus the Dalgado Konknni Academy put forth 13 demands before the government for the preservation, promotion and development of Konkani in the Roman script.
As the president of DKA then, along with other office bearers of DKA, I approached chief ministers, ministers and MLAs from the ruling as well as opposition requesting them to help us preserve, promote and develop Konkani in the Roman script along with Devnagori script. After listening to our grievances, some of them assured us of their support while some were reluctant to give any assurances.
At this juncture, we met Mr Digambar Kamat. He was the minister of art and culture besides power then. We submitted the memorandum of our demands and brought to his notice the injustice meted to Konkani in the Roman script. After listening to us patiently his brief assurance to us was, “I do understand your problem. I shall do whatever I can through the Department Of Art and Culture to help fulfil some of your demands.” He is the only politician, then as a minister of art and culture and now as Chief Minister, who tried his best to fulfil the assurances given to us.
The formation of the Tiatr Academy of Goa has helped tiatr, tiatr artistes and tiatr appreciators to work towards the development of the art form.
 The Tiatr Academy Goa has initiated various schemes to raise the level of tiatrs. Some of the important schemes are: Oral documentation of history of tiatr, documentation of tiatr through research work, preservation of tiatr literature, promotion of tiatr, its song and music academically, promotion of tiatr music, promotion of award winning tiatrs, remembering tiatr artistes of yesteryears, financial assistance to troupes going to Mumbai/Poona and other parts of the country, encouragement to production of tiatr in villages, preservation of tiatr material, Popular Tiatr Festival/Competition, Konkani song and music awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards to senior tiatr artistes, encouragement to tiatr related activities, yearly production of a ‘model tiatr’, encouragement for the production of tiatrs/programmes on patriotism and communal harmony, regular orientation in dramatics, children’s tiatrs, promotion of Konkani songs like duets/trios/quartets, promotion of Konkani songs through choreography.
The impact of these schemes will have on tiatr will be seen within the next five years.

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 Feeling nostalgic about village tiatr

Published on: April 17, 2010 

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BY CLARA A RODRIGUES

Tiatr has retained its vibrant nature with the nurturing of this form of theatre at a village level. The whacky tiatr writer, the melodious singer, an actress full of verve, have all known to have discovered yet another aspect to their personality when they that to the stage in front of a familiar audience.
Misha D’Souza from Calangute remembers that as recently as three years ago attending a tiatr written by a local and staged by the people of the village for the chapel feast in their ward. A face is all smiles as she recalls how the slips made by the actors always draws noisy whistles from the audience. And yes, the time when the boy dresses up as a girl for a scene is attracts whistles that mean to say, “O my, you could never have looked better”.  A village tiatr has all the ingredients to kindle the most classic feeling of congeniality.

The loud promptings sometimes leaves an actor into a tinge of embarrassment as he repeats the same. It’s these performances that make you the cynosure of villager’s eyes as they sometimes address you by the name of your character.
Cut to years ago, and the stalwarts of the tiatr stage will tell you how commercial viability was a concept unknown hitherto. With patromax lamps doing the present day task of stage lights, these un-ticketed shows had actors screaming their dialogues as there was no sound system.
The actor with a loud voice was an asset says Tomazinho Cardozo, a tiatr writer and the president of the Tiatr Academy of Goa. The people sitting on the on the ground and often fields was a thin dividing line between the actors on stage and the audiences whose stories were being told by different people.
But things have long changed. Tiatrs still run to packed shows in villages but the striking difference is that the tiatrs are performed by commercial troupes.  The tiatr at the village level is a place from which future stars grow informs Tomazinho terming the development as a sad trend that needs to be reversed. He says, “Since the last 25 years tiatrs at a village level has declined, as a result commercial performances reap huge income.
All most all the shining artistes of the tiatr stage are products of the tiatr at a village level. I myself began my journey into tiatr by writing tiatrs for the village”.
Prince Jacob’s latest tiatr ‘Aiz hanv, Faleam tu’ introduces lead actress Rosy Travasso, a talented lass whom Prince Jacob scouted during a performance at a khell tiatr during the Carnival.
Says tiatr writer, Roseferns who began his tryst with the tiatr world by writing scripts for school drams and tiatrs that were staged for the village Church feasts says that “the different reactions we get from the people you have grown along with is different from feedback you receive being part of a commercial troupe. We used to stage a lot of tiatrs with the boys and girls of the village eagerly lending their hand in making it a success. In those times tiatr troupes from Bombay used to come and perform in Goa. It was difficult to stage a tiatr in a village but we used to always pull off one which used to meet with tremendous success. We had problems of entertainment tax (which was later removed), licenses etc. We had no light effects; instead the two bulbs hanging from above served a similar purpose. Today, people do not have time to help in putting together a tiatr. Everyone is so busy”.

Tiatr has an effervescent presence till today. But the need to nurture it at a grass root level is important to get the best. Tiatrs whereby locals act are performed but that’s no enough. The tradition needs to be revived. The Tiatr Academy of Goa has offer schemes offering financial and technical assistance to those willing to organise a tiatr where the people of the village act in it. Besides, there are also offering schemes to schools and colleges to produce tiatrs.
http://www.navhindtimes.in/ Lucasinho Ribeiro’s staging of the first modern Konkani tiatr on April 17, 1892 marked the beginning an epoch in the history of tiatr. Today being Tiatr Day, ‘The Navhind Times' takes a look at one aspect of tiatr—the staging of tiatrs by locals of a village to be performed in the village itself, which is on the wane and highlighting steps being taken to reverse the trend. 

Konkani Cinema Day on April 24

Published on: April 22, 2010 

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The Dalgado Konknni Akademi in collaboration with the Tiatr Academy of Goa will organise a special function on April 24 at 5 p.m. at the Conference Hall of the Tiatr Academy Goa, Campal Trade Centre, Panaji to commemorate the screening of the first Konkani film ‘Mogacho Anvddo’ on April 24, 1950 in Mumbai.

‘Mogacho Anvddo’ was written, produced and directed by A L Jerry Braganza from Mapusa, Bardez-Goa.
On this occasion an exhibition of photographs of the film ‘Mogacho Anvddo’ and ‘Sukhachem Sopon’, both films by A L Jerry Braganza, will he held. A newly released Konkani film ‘Nisha’ produced by Neville Pereira will be screened on the occasion.
Director of Information and Publicity, Mr Menino Pires will be the chief guest while film writer and director, Mr Dharmanand Vernekar will be the guest of honour. President of Dalgado Konknni Akademi, Mr Premanand Lotlikar and president of Tiatr Academy of Goa, Mr Tomazinho Cardozo will grace the occasion.

‘Konkani Literature in Roman Script – A Brief History’ released

Published on: May 11, 2010

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To commemorate the 156th birth anniversary of Msgr Sebastiao Rudolfo Dalgado, the great son of Goa and a scholar of international repute, the Dalgado Konkani Akademi (DKA) released the much awaited scholarly book, ‘Konkani Literature in Roman Script – A Brief History’ written by eminent Konknni stalwart
, the late Prof Dr Olivinho Gomes, at the hands of Mr Vinayak Naik, editor of Goa Today at a special function organised by DKA Saturday at Kala Academy’s Black Box, Panaji.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Vinayak Naik said that the late Prof. Dr. Olivinho Gomes was an extraordinary Konknni person. He said that the profundity of his knowledge of every aspect of the Konknni language was simply incomparable. He was the ultimate in the field of Konknni language and literature. Ms. Eslinda Gomes, wife of the late Prof Dr Gomes was the special invitee for the function.
Mr Vinayak did not hesitate to take a pot shot at the script controversy of Konknni. He said that he was in total agreement with all those who suggest that one script and one language could be the norm, but in some cases like that of Konknni making an exception is a must. “By that I mean, more than one script should be unhesitatingly permitted. Those who think that if Konknni is allowed to be written in multiple scripts will affect the language are all wrong. Konknni will not be a unique case of one language and multiple scripts. Because there are already so many other languages written in two or three scripts, and they are flourishing”, he argued. He maintained, “Therefore, the argument of the Devnagari script supporters that Konknni will make be divided if Romi script is given recognition has absolutely no foundation.”
He further said that actually by refusing to give Romi script its rightful place under the sun, the Devnagari script supporters were unwittingly contributing eventually towards the doom of Konknni and that would be very tragic indeed. “A writer is a writer regardless in which script he writes. It does not make him inferior if he writes in Romi script. What is important are his thoughts and not the script, Mr Naik strongly said”.
He further said that it pains to see that the advocates of Devnagari script talk about setting a time frame to Romi script writers to change over to Devnagari script. This type of thinking is not very much different from the time bound resolution policy of Government of India for the dalits, said Mr Naik. If this view of the Devnagari supporters is accepted then it will mean the ‘dalitising’ of the Roman script of Konknni, he said.
Mr Naik expressed the need for harmony between both the scripts of Konknni and also to officially accommodate the Roman script in the Official Language Act.
The President of Tiatr Academy and former Speaker of Legislative Assembly, Mr Tomazinho Cardozo spoke on the book and said that the book covers the literary works printed right from 1556, when the first printing press came to Goa.
The president of DKA, Mr Premanand A Lotlikar presided over the function. He said that ‘Konkani Literature in Roman Script – A Brief History’ written by the late Prof Dr Olivinho Gomes will be translated in Konknni  and will be released next year on May 8, 2011. He also announced that the important publication of yet another book of the DKA’s which is on the history of Konknni novels.  DKA Secretary, Jose Salvador Fernandes proposed the vote of thanks. Mr Walter Menezes welcomed the gathering and Mr Daniel F de Souza compered the function.

TAG introduces new award category at Konkani Song and Music Awards 2009

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Awards for Best Male Singer, Best Female Singer, Best Lyricist are regular features at award functions, however at the Konkani Song and Music Award 2009, for the first time, a Best Audio Album was declared.
Winners in each category were awarded prize money of Rs 10,000, a certificate and an award, with the exception of the Best Audio Album, which was given a special prize of Rs 20,000.
The Best Male Singer award, 2009 went to Anthony San for his song ‘Pai ani Put’ from the album ‘Nanv Vosto Tiatrist’ while the Best Female Singer, 2009 was Nephie Rod for the song ‘Mirchi’ from the album ‘Valley of Colorz’. Lawry Travasso won the award for Best Lyricist, 2009 for the song ‘Manngeachim Dukam’ from the album ‘Devak Donation Naka’. The Best Music Composer, 2009 was awarded to Sidhanath Buyao for the song ‘Chandrim Mama’ from the album ‘Valley of Colorz’. And the award in the newly introduced category of Best Audio Album, 2009 went to Neville Pereira for ‘Nisha’.
Chief Guest, Dr Colaco appreciated the efforts of the artists. He praised Mr Cardozo for his hard work that he felt would definitely account for the progress of the regional language. Commenting that it was nice to hear that research and documentations of the 100-year-old tiatr were on, Dr Colaco added that there was a need for the documentation Konkani songs too.
Every artist expressed his happiness and gratitude to the academy.

Recently the Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) had organised the Konkani Song and Music Award 2009. Speaking on the occasion the president of TAG, Mr Tomazinho Cardozo, Said that the aim behind organising the event was to promote Konkani songs.