Thursday, 17 July 2014

Handicrafts Fair and Folklore Festival 2014 begins in Sonargaon

Month-long handicrafts fair and folklore festival of 2014 begins at Friday, 14 February. This festival is arranged every year in the premises of Folk Arts and Crafts Foundation (Sonargaon Museum) in the old capital of Bangladesh – Sonargaon to get the new generation familiar with the folklore culture of Bangladesh.
44 crafts artist from the rural parts of the country will participate and display there crafts on the fair in 20 stalls. Other than this, there will be 49 stalls for handicrafts, 40 apparels, 36 stationary and cosmetics, 25 food and Chotpoti, and 12 stalls for sweets.
Shola crafts from Jhinaidah and Magura, Sokher Hari from Rajshahi, gorgeous hand-weaving from Chittagong, Shotoronji from Rangpur, elephants, horse, doll, and other woodcraft from Sonargaon, Sheetal Pati from Sylhet, metal crafts from Dhamrai, tribal handicrafts, terracotta from Kishorgonj, and wood crafts from Tangail will be displayed in the fair.
Folklore songs will be organized in the fair too. Baul, Poetic, Bhaoaiya, Bhatiali, Jari, Sari, Hason Raja, Lalon, Maijbhandar, Murshidi, Alkap, and wedding songs has also been arranged to be staged in the fair.

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