Bali art mission joining festival in Netherlands
May 11th, 2007
Denpasar, Bali - A Bali art team consisting of 10 artists on Wednesday left for the Netherlands to participate in the Amsterdam Museum Tropical Festival.
“The international festival will last one month and be participated in by art teams from a number of countries. We will have the honor of presenting Balinese dances and music,” I Nyoman Hadi Artha, head of the Bali Art Mission, said before leaving Denpasar for the Netherlands.
Budi Artha, who is concurrently head of the Tri Pusaka Sakti Batuan Art Gallery in Gianyar district, said the Indonesian art team would stay in the Ntherlands for one week, until mid-May.
They would perform in two events together with art teams from Taiwan and Japan.
Hadi Artha would also speak at a workshop to be organized as part of the festival. A prominent artist himself, Hadi in February 2006 also spoke at international seminars at Baptist Hong Kong University and Old Hong Kong University. His paper was titled “The Transformation of Balinese Ancient Arts in Contemporary Art Development”.
The Balinese art team would also promote Bali`s tourism in the Netherlands.
Last year, Tri Pusaka Sakti Batuan Art Gallery also took part in an international art festival in Versace, Italy.(*)
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