Oct 13 2022 to Oct 13 2022 5 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

To commemorate World Sight Day, we will have a presentation by Siddhant Shah, who will talk about the current situation of exhibition spaces, highlighting the apathy and insensitivity to the situation for persons with disabilities and the new approaches that are being legislated by both governmental and public sensitivities. This is the foundation for his work in making museums, and corporate and educational spaces more inclusive and accessible. He will show examples of Access for ALL’s work, highlighting key indicators of Universal Design, with tips on inclusion and sensitivity to the issue of visual impairment in our day to day to day life, thus helping all the views adopt an INCLUSIVE – Art of Living! Following his presentation, he will engage in a conversation with Preema John, the Director of the Indian Music Experience who will be speaking about IME’s work in the area of Accessibility and Inclusion, with a focus on cognitive, auditory and visual impairment. This will be followed by a Q&A. In collaboration with the Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation. Established as a registered Trust in the year 2019, the Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation was founded by Ganesh Shivaswamy. A lawyer by profession, he hails from a family of lawyers who have resided in Bangalore for several generations. His grand-father was Justice A. R. Somnath Iyer, Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka and the Acting Governor of the State in the year 1969. In addition to his profession, Ganesh has extensively collected and researched the work and legacy of Raja Ravi Varma, India’s foremost modern artist. The Ganesh Shivaswamy Foundation partnered with Google Arts & Culture and the platform was launched by Shubhangini Raje, the Rajmataji of Baroda in September 2019 at the Maharaja Fatesingh Museum, Baroda. In 2020, the Foundation collaborated with collectors and legacy custodians across the world to showcase the paintings, sketches and archival photographs of Raja Ravi Varma leading to the largest online resource for the artist on the Google Arts & Culture platform. See the collection here