Womens Bazaar - 2020
Posted on: 06/Mar/2020 6:08:57 PM
To celebrate International Women’s Day, C.P. Art Centre has organized an annual exhibition of art, craft, textiles and food items made by women and marketed by women entrepreneurs.
Suhasini Maniratnam inaugurated the exhibition today. The exhibition and sale take place in all the three galleries of C.P. Art Centre at Alwarpet, from March 4 to 9, 2020 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Women’s Bazaar provides a platform for women to sell their products. This is a worthy cause which encourages women to help themselves. All expenses are covered by C.P. Art Centre.
The women belong to a variety of backgrounds: women from rural areas, from Chennai’s hutments, middle-class women and economically disadvantaged women. They are self-employed; employ other women, market goods made by women and so on. The potential of the entrepreneur varies from pottery to pickle-making to weaving and garment manufacturing. There are a variety of items, such as textiles, crafts, jewellery, food and health and organic products.
The Women’s Bazaar is an annual feature in the itinerary of C.P. Art Centre’s activities since 1994 and this is the 27th year of Women’s Bazaar. From a mere trickle of half a dozen women entrepreneurs, today the number of women participating in the annual craft bazaar has increased exponentially.
Around 50 women’s groups are participating this year. All proceeds from the sales go to the women and/or the women’s organizations, which include Women’s India Association (WIA), NAAM Foundation, Srinivasa Gandhi Nilayam, Tamilnadu Association for the Blind, Banyan Adaikalam and others, apart from those supported by the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation.
The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, through its various constituents, has been actively involved in women’s development. In the Mini gallery, the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre, have organized an exhibition of the Kurumba Paintings, Kota Pottery, Coconut Shell and Bamboo Handicrafts for display and sale, made by participants of the Green Skill Development Project GSDP supported by Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India, organized by CPREEC-ENVIS-RP, CHENNAI.
