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| 1. As a first step in achieving its main objective, FACD organized Group Art Exhibition by deaf at The Taj West End on 8th and 9th of August 2004. About 15 deaf artists were present on the occasion. This maiden event was a moderate success. | 
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| 2. As a second step, on the occasion of International
Deaf Day which was celebrated all over the world, FACD held painting
demonstration by deaf artists on 26.09.2004 on the pavement of M.G
Road in order to bring out the hidden talents to one and all and also
draw attention to some demands/kinds of assistances from Government
of India, Government of Karnataka, Corporates, Bank, Industries etc.
Deaf artists painted on a long 75 meters canvas cloth. Their paintings
depicted their plights as well as their reasonable expectations /
demands from the Govts/Society. |
 
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| 3. FACD is proud to inform that the foundation was invited to join Bangalore International Art Festival, held from 17th October 2004 to 22nd October 2004 at the pavement of M.G Road. One of our artists Shri Ganesh was selected to join International Art Exhibition, held at KSCA during Indo-Australia Test Series and also at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat. He was the only one to sell the works even though there were other reputed names. About 10 deaf artists showed their works at the fest. |   |
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| 4. Another interesting program was our deaf
artists were invited to join Bangalore Art Festival- Bangalore Habba
2004, held from 5/12/2004 to 12/12/2004 at M.G Road. We were also invited to participate in one day Chitra Sathe on 26-12-2004, organized by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore. |
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| 5. We received an invitation to celebrate World Disabled Day, held on 22nd and 23rd January 2005 and exhibit our paintings at The Golden Palms, Hotel & Spa. About 12-15 deaf artists displayed their paintings. This programme was organized to encourage our deaf artists by showing their hidden talents/skills to one and all, especially business people, members, foreigners-tourists etc. who helped them by purchasing their paintings and enabled them to have good earnings. Film star Sanjay Khan inaugurated the exhibition and appreciated our foundation for organizing good programme and also our artist for their best talents. |    |
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| 6. Three major events viz i) Inauguration of One day group art exhibition by professional deaf artists, ii) Launching of website and iii) Launching of free class for animation for deaf artists were organized at The Taj Residency Bangalore. These three events are important mile stones for FACD. Smt. C. Triveni, GEM artist inaugurated the exhibition while Sri. K N Srinivas, founder president of Vinivinc Group of Companies launched the website. Sri Ashish Kulkarani, animation specialist launched free class for animation. Sri S Chetan Managing Director of ANTS studio (P) Ltd was special chief guest. Website is useful for exchanging information, programs etc to improve activities of our foundation, especially art and culture. Free coaching classes for animation will enable poor and middle class deaf persons to learn animation and take up as profession for their lively hood. |
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| 7. 5 Deaf persons –Miss Priya Drashini,
Miss Archana T S. Miss Gayathri, Miss Lekha, Sri Praveen have been
selected to undergo training in animation at ANTS Studio (P) Ltd (from
5-02-05 onwards for 6 months on every Saturday between 2pm & 4pm).
Teachers of ANTS Studio (P) Ltd are kind, friendly, co-operative and
enthusiastic. Sri Chetan MD is very helpful. Next batch will be announced shortly. |
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8. On the occasion of the International
Women’s Day, our foundation organized a felicitation programme
for deaf women who have outstanding ability in various fields such
as dance, curriculum, painting, teaching etc. A one day group art
exhibition by professional deaf women artists was also organized
at The Capitol, Bangalore. Mrs Nandini Alva, artist, Foundation for Arts inaugurated the exhibition
while Mrs Usha. A. Narayan, Partner, PriceWater House honoured deaf
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9. In Occasion Of World Mother Day, World Family Day, World Environment Day And Also 1st Anniversary Of our Foundation, A Three Day Group Art Exhibition Day was held at Gallerie Mantram from 03-06-05 to 05-06-05 About 10 Professional Deaf Artists exhibited their paintings relating to mother, family and environment to one and all. About 250 visitors saw our exhibition and appreciated us for organizing such an excellent programme. |
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10. On the Occasion of 1st Anniversary of our Foundation, Free Film Show "Magic Ajji" (Kannada Film) for deaf school children was arranged on 30 -06-2005 @ Triveni Theatre, Bangalore @ 10.00A.M. The Show was sponsored by Shri. Subbaraju, producer of this film. Child Cine Actor Shri Tejas had agreed to join deaf children for the show. Inauguration took place. About 500 deaf children from 15 deaf Schools in Bangalore, attended the show & enjoyed. Shri.Subbaraju promised that he would select some deaf children to be the child actor / actress for his next film. |
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11. Foundation for Art & Culture for deaf (R), Bangalore presented an exhibition of paintings depicting Lord Ganesha and Lord Krishna in various forms by professional deaf artists, held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan from 10-09-2005 to 12-09-2005. Shri Ajay Kumar, I.P.S, Commissioner of Police and Mrs. Antoninette Lopez, iVolunteer, were the guests of honour. Shri Suresh, Director (Programme and project) and Shri Ashok Kumar, A.O.of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan were special chief guests. About 8 deaf artists took part in this exhibition. |
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| 12. Mantram Art Foundation invited us to take part in The Art Village Festival, held at Chinnaswamy Stadium from 23/09/2005 to 25/09/2005. Our professional deaf artists exhibited their paintings . More than 1,000 persons visited the exhibition and appreciated our talents very much. One of our artists Mrs. Rajni was invited to light the lamp during the inauguration of this festival along with another VIP. | 
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13. Foundation for Art & Culture for Deaf (R) organised Handwriting competition for hearing-impaired students for various standards (both Kannada & English) on the occasion of Children’s Day on 24.11.2005 at R.V. Teachers College, Bangalore. As many as 100 students From 10 schools in the city participated. of late, majority of people, particularly students use gadgets like computer, cell phone, simputer ect to communicate with others. Our handwriting skills are gradually deteriorating. In order to encourage them to retain /develop their handwriting skills, Foundation had organised this first of its kind event |
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14. Our hearing impaired artists were invited for a ten day art exhibition in connection with Habba festival-2006, held at M.G. Road, Bangalore for which the response was excellent. Miss Archana Apte and Rajni demonstrated Tatto & Portrait skills in front of huge audience who appreciated them for their fine, quick and extra ordinary skills. |
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15. Puniya Publishing (P) Ltd. headed by Dr.Poonam.S.Kohli, Managing Director and Foundation for Art & Culture for Deaf (R) jointly organised Releasing book “LUCIFER” on 21.12.2005 at Raj Bhavan, Bangalore where Governor of Karnataka Shri Chaturvedi released the book- A book of poems, written by poet Shri Bashish Namit relating to paintings of our artists which is the first of its kind in the world. |
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16. One day Chitra Santhe-2006 was held on 25.12.2005 at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat where our hearing impaired artists took part in. |
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| 17. As part of world Disabled Day, Best Hearing
Impaired Student Award Ceremony to felicitate hearing impaired students
in recognition of their outstanding achievements in various fields
like Art, Sports, Culture, Curriculum etc was organised at Royal Orchid
Central on 7.1.2006. 10 Students from different hearing impaired schools,
art colleges and other colleges were selected for the award. Apart from this, one day group art exhibition by professional hearing impaired artists of about 10 was held at the same venue which also played host to the award function. Shir Ramalinga Reddy, Minister for Primary & Secondary Education, Smt Sumalatha Ambarish, film actress and Shri K.Balachandra, Managing Director, ADC Krone were the chief guest at the award function. |
 
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18. On occasion of International Women's
Day, Best Physically Challenged Women Award ceremony to honour selected
physically challenged women like hearing impaired, visually impaired,
mentally retarded, cerebral palsy etc in recognition of their outstanding
achievements in various fields like sports, adventure, social service,
art etc was held on 09-03-06 at Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavan,
Bangalore. Smt. Pramila Nesagari, Ex. MLA & Senior Advocate
was special chief guest and gave awards |
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| 19. On the occasion of 2 nd anniversary
of late Mrs. Rashida S Nassur who was hearing impaired woman and affectionately
called as Mehandi woman and also 2 nd anniversary of the foundation,
foundation organised mehandi competition for hearing impaired girls/women,
expressing our fond remembrances of such great artist. We felt, to
encourage the hearing impaired girls/ women by exposing their hidden
talents to one and all, is the correct way of paying homage to the
eminent personality on 22-06-06 at Kannada Bhavan along with felicitation
ceremony to honour selected hearing impaired students who have scored
above 60% in SSLC & PUC exams, held in April, 2006. As a token
of appreciation & encouragement to the meritorious hearing-impaired
students in curriculum, awards were given to 12 individuals with the
motive of recognizing and highlighting their excellent achievements
in their studies to the society. Mrs. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, Trustee and CEO – Adamaya Chetana Trust and Shri V. Lakshminarayana, Managing Director, Nirman Shelters [B] Pvt. Ltd were special chief guests and gave awards. |
 
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20. On Occasion of International Deaf Day and Indo-Nepal Friendship Day, our Foundation For Art and culture for Deaf(R) Organised a week long group art exhibition by professional hearing impaired artists from Nepal and Karnataka held at Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore from 26th to 30th of September, 2006 and also painting demonstration by selected professional hearing impaired artists from Nepal and Karnataka held on 26th evening at Spencer’s Super Market, M.G. Road , Bangalore. About 13 hearing impaired artists(3 From Nepal And 8 from Karnataka) took part in this gala Art Festival by exhibiting their paintings. New friendship, exchange of ideas especially art and culture, export and iImport of paintings etc would be helpful to both of these countries. At Venkatappa Art Gallery we had more than 1000 Visitors because of Dasara holidays after visiting Museum, nearby Venkatappa Art Gallery and they appreciated our artists' achievements . At Spencer's Super Market, M.G.Road we had more than 500 Spectators who enjoyed by attending our painting demonstration. |
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| 21. Foundation for the Arts (AFFA) had invited our hearing impaired artists to take part in 10 day art exhibition held in connection with Bengalooru Habba 2006 from 3.12.06 to 10.12.2006 at St.George's Square, Cubbon Park, Bangalore for 4 days and then at Palace Ground for 3 days. The stalls were put up by Foundation for Art & Culture for Deaf® (FACD). The stalls had on display greeting cards with batik work done by artist Anuradha. Also on display were works of our other artists Rekha Chitrakumar, Ganesh Shetty and Archana Apte. More than 25,000 persons visited our exhibition and conveyed their appreciations. | |||
| 22. As part of FACD's fund raising efforts, AFFA had organised an auction of paintings donated by famous artists like Raghava, S.G.Vasudeva, Nethra etc at the Taj West End Hotel, Bangalore. However, many corporates that selected the paintings have not yet collected them and paid auction money to AFFA or FACD. This is disappointing to us. | |||
| 23. Felicitation Ceremony to honour selected hearing impaired students in recognition of their outstanding achievements in various fields was organized by FACD at Kannada Bhavan on 28.2.2007. Nine hearing impaired students from various deaf schools were selected to receive our awards. Special programmes i.e. "Krishna" dance programme was performed very beautifully by hearing impaired students of R.V. Integrated school for hearing impaired, Bangalore. Also group art exhibition by professional hearing impaired artists was organised . Shri Chandrasekhar, M.L.A. representing Basvangudi Constituency in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and Smt.Rani Satish, Ex-Minister for Kannada & Culture were present on this occasion. |     |
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| 24. On occasion of International Women's Day, Felicitation ceremony to honour selected physically challenged women in recognition of their outstanding achievements in various fields was organised on 18.3.2007 at The Chancery Hotel, Bangalore. 5 selected physically challenged women were honoured. Apart from this, Group art exhibition by professional hearing impaired women artists was organised. Shri. Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for Industries gave awards while Smt Kavitha Lankesh, Film Director & Celebrity attended our exhibition. Both of them spent nice time with all of us for nearly one hour and appreciated our FACD for organising very enjoyable programmes. |   
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| 25. We are proud to announce that FACD has completed 3 years of its purposeful and eventful existence. We sincerely convey our heartfelt thanks to those who were kind to support us since 3 years. We sincerely pray and hope that with everyone's blessings we will continue to serve hearing impaired persons, especially in the area of Art & Culture. | |||
| 26. On the occasion of 3rd anniversary
of our foundation, our Foundation for Art and Culture for Deaf organised
felicitation ceremony to honour 15 hearing impaired students who have
scored above 60% in SSLC exams held in April 2007 on 24th of June,
2007 at 4.00 pm at Indian Institute of World Culture, Bangalore. As
a token of appreciation and encouragement to the meritorious hearing-impaired
students in curriculum, awards were given to about 15 individuals,
with the motive of recognising and highlighting their excellent achievements
in their studies to the society. Education Minister Shri Shankara Murthy and Shri Mahantesh, Managing Trustee, Samarthanam Trust for the disabled were our special chief guests. |
  
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| 27. World Federation of the Deaf had invited our hearing impaired artists to attend 15th World Congress for Deaf held at Madrid, Spain from 16-07-07 to 22-07-07. Government of Karnataka had agreed to sponsor for their participation but at the last moment, they could not obtain visa from Embassy of Spain, New Delhi and were advised to cancel their visit to Spain. | |||
| 28. 0n 07th Feb, 08 our Foundation
was asked to sponsor hearing impaired students to the world famous
Disney Magic show performed by artists from the USA. The event that
was free for the hearing impaired was scheduled at Koramangala indoor
Stadium. About 110 hearing impaired students from various hearing impaired schools in Bangalore attended and enjoyed wonderful programme. |
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| 29. On 07th March 08 was observed as the International Women's day. On this occasion, a felicitation ceremony was held to honour six physically challenged women in recognition of their outstanding achievements in various fields. A group art exhibition by hearing impaired women artists was also organised at the Hotel Grand Ashok, Bangalore. Dr. Shalini Rajneesh, IAS, Secretary, Dept of Child and Women, Government of Karnataka and Mrs. Devika Muthukrishnan, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India were our special Chief Guests. This is fourth time in succession that we had organised such a delightful programme which was enjoyed by one and all. | 
 
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FACD organized a Free Swimming Camp for the benefit of Hearing-impaired children of Bangalore in the age group of 5 to 13. This event was held jointly with and Jyothi Kendriya Vidyalaya (JKV) in close association with Sindia Swimming School (SSS). Jyothi Aquatic Center (JAC) hosted the event in their Swimming pool located in Kanakapura Road, Bangalore. The Camp was conducted from the 11th Apr to 04th May 2008 in which 15 students participated. Expert Coaches were arranged solely for coaching the participants who cannot get to hear the splash of pool/river water in their life. Obviously, it was indeed a tough task for the Coaches.
Such a bold & risky initiative exclusively for the benefit of Hearing impaired has been arranged for the first time in Karnataka. The objective was to instill a sense of self-confidence, boldness, and fearlessness besides safety-consciousness in the minds of Hearing Impaired. Out of 14 schools in Bangalore meant for the Hearing Impaired only one School viz R V Public School for Deaf had deputed their students for participation. FACD places on record R V School’s initiative & enthusiasm. Camp-concluding ceremony was held on the 04th May. Shri Amit S Kiran, CEO of Sports Management Private Ltd, was the Special Chief Guest on the occasion. Certificates were distributed to the participants. Shri Saran lauded the efforts of FACD and had special word of appreciation for Mr. Lokesh who, though himself a physically challenged, coached the participants. Shri Sindia, Chief Coach of JAC promised to select one or two participants for intensive coaching so that they can participate in the Swimming Competition in future. Camp was a great success and all the participants enjoyed the event. |
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31. Feliciatation ceremony to honour deaf students who scored 60% and above in SSLC exams held recently was arranged on 11/08/2008 @ Kannada Bhavan. A total of 17 deaf students like RV school for deaf, Sheila kothavala school for deaf, Amrutha vani kannada school for deaf all from Banagalore and Rotary west school, Mysore were awarded. Shri Ravi Subramanya, Basavangudi MLA and Shri B.C Ganesh, Cheif Accountant of Nirman shelters were present on the occasion |
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| 32. On the Occasion of “The World Disabled Day”, Foundation for Art and Culture for Deaf ® Organized a 5 day Group Art Exhibition by selected Professional deaf artists from across India commencing on 05th Dec at Venkatappa Art Gallery, Bangalore. On this Occasion, a felicitation ceremony was arranged to honour the Best Teachers from among the Deaf schools in Bangalore. About 13 deaf artists( one each from Rajasthan, Mumbai, Poducherry, Delhi, three from Chennai, and six from Karanataka) participated in the Art Exhibition. More than 2,000 Vistiors attended our exhibition. Shri Subir Hari Singh, Principal Secretary to the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karanataka was our Special Chief Guest. He spent nearly two hours with all of us. we all enjoyed the programmes.
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| 33.On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of our Foundation,a felicitation ceremony was organised to honour few selected physically challenged women in recognition of their achievements in various fields. A group Art Exhibition by selected professional deaf artists was also held on 8th of April,2009 at The Chancerry Hotel,Bangalore.7,the awardees were present to receive the awards. Miss sanjanaa, a film actress was present on this occasion.She presented the awards and inaugurated the Art Exhibition.Her presence was attractive.She said that she was proud of their achievements.She appreciated the talents which are truly wonderful gifts given by God.She congratulated the winners and also ,the Foundation for organising such a beautiful function.She felt that such programme was far better than film star awards/Nites etc that are conducted frequently these days. |
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| 34.We were invited to attend 9th international workshop on resource mobilisation,organised by IWRM ,U.K. which was held from 25th to 28th of june,2009 at infosys convention.also,our 5 professional deaf artists were invited to exhibit their paintings during these period.about 250 delegates-both from foreign countries and india attended workshop and appreciated our deaf artists very much. |    |
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A Felicitation Ceremony was held on the 08th of September at Nayana Auditorium, Kannada Bhavan, Bangalore to honor 10 hearing impaired students who had scored 60% and above in SSLC exam held in April, 2009. Five candidates from Bangalore, one from Tiptur, and remaining four from Mysore were present to receive the awards.
The Minister for Medical Education Shri Ramachandra Gowda, noted Kannada Cine Actor Shri Srinivas Murthy, and Ms Lakshmi Nair, PR and Promotions Executive of Titan Industries were present on the occasion. They all praised us for the excellent team work. Shri Gowda promised to recommend the State Government, the cases four candidates for sponsorship in the World Expo for Deaf to be held at Las Vegas, USA in July, 2010. Shri Srinivas Murthy appreciated the efforts of FACD in organizing the beautiful function and congratulated all the members of FACD. |
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36. On the occasion of the World Disabled Day, Foundation for Art and culture for Deaf, Bangalore, in association with Punya Publishing celebrated International Disabled Day on 7th of December, 2009 at Raj Bhavan, Bangalore at 5.00 p.m. On this occasion, we organised an Interactive Seminar on inclusive education for the disabled where principals and teachers of deaf schools attended. Also,interesting programmes like story presentation (mime show by deaf students of R.V.School for Deaf,V V Puram, painting demonstration by our professional deaf artists relating to education and A Group Art Exhibition by professional deaf artists were arranged. |
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