If kite flying has ever caught your fancy, ‘Gaalipata Time’ maybe a good place to start. Namma Bengaluru Foundation and Citizen Matters are organising this community event on Sunday, February 12th.
Venue: Koramangala 3rd block playground, next to Post Office, 12th main, 3rd block.
Kite expert and former state award winner Sabir Hussian will guide those participating in kite flying. "There will be some 50 varieties of kites for sale and exhibition at the event. In additional to traditional kites, there will be designer kites with bird and animal patterns. Kites will be on sale in the range of Rs 50 to Rs 500," says Hussain.
There will also be traditional games like Pagade, Chowka Bara, Aadu Huli Aata, Tops and Marbles, hosted by toy store Kavade. Sreeranjini G S, founder of Kavade, says that the store has held similar events before and that the response has been usually good.
Kavade was founded to promote traditional games that provide active entertainment and foster interpersonal skills and logical thinking.
Children playing Chowka Bara. File Pic: Deepti Sarma.
"Traditional games resonate more with adults, and they are the ones usually bringing children to the events. Children – even those as young as six years – engage with these games very fast. Games like Chowka Bara are very popular," she says. The tradional games session is sponsored by ApnaComplex, developer of apartment management software.
Also enjoy snacks, ice creams and refreshments at the event. The event is open to all from 9 am to 3 pm at Koramangala 3rd block playground.
Namma Bengaluru Foundation is an organization working towards making Bengaluru a model city, be it in terms of well planned infrastructure, well laid out neighborhood community models, or its people-driven governance measures. Namma Bengaluru Foundation aims to be the voice of the people; a voice that needs to be heard in order for Bengaluru to become a truly Global City.
The event is supported by Bulldog Tennis Academy (BTA), KO Shop, Printo and Apna Complex. BTA is a tennis training academy affiliated to tennis governing bodies at state and national level. The KO Shop is the retail outlet of Karwar Ornaments which designs customised jewellery. Printo is a retail chain providing printing services. ApnaComplex is an housing society and apartment accounting and management software. Radio Indigo is our Radio partner.
The event will also commemorate three years of Citizen Matters’ print edition in South Bangalore.
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* Stalls by Kavade.org will also be put up, and interested people can buy the traditional board games
Hi Team,
Had a good time and it reminded me of my childhood. I had take some snaps, thought of sharing it with your team.
http://desizntalk.com/photography.php?album=patang
Regards,
Rupak
Enjoyed this event!
It was well organised: giving away free kites was a great idea (even tho’ they werent very good, but you could buy better ones). My son got a thread cut, and there was basic first aid on hand. Wonderful that there were expert kite flyers willing to help out novices.
Thanks Ajay! Glad you folks had a good time.
We got the kites made with surplus print mag sheets, looks they were not light enough :-/
Well, lesson learnt and next time, we will fix that.