Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on October 27, 2020 launched the virtual festival of ‘Parampara Series 2020-National Festival of Music and Dance’.
- The festival has been organized by Natya Tarangini in partnership with the United Nations.
- This festival was organized to coincide with the World Day for Audio-visual Heritage
- Natya Tarangini has been organising the ‘Parampara Series’ continuously since past 23 years, and adopting innovative efforts to make it happen for the 24th year, even in difficult times like this.
- NATYA TARANGINI in New Delhi has been founded by the Kuchipudi dancers Raja and Radha Reddy.
- Started in 1998, ‘Parampara Series’ was the first of its kind Festival of Dance & Music in Delhi, bringing in together various classical dance forms, vocal & instrumental music, by stalwarts and stars of classical and contemporary dance and music dance both on a National and International scale and repute.
World Day for Audio-visual Heritage
- The United Nations organised this day on 27th October.
- The year (2020) the day was organised with theme of ‘Your Window to the World.’
- The objective of the day is to Safeguard and Preserve sound recordings and Moving Images.
- The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAH) provides an occasion to raise general awareness of the need to take urgent measures and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents.
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