The big cultural pageant will also bring in a giant fish measuring 21 feet in length along with three small fishes to emphasise on the benefits of restoration and release of species into the water. 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Ashok; “And Quietly Flows a Much Sullied Vaigai,”. On 24 June 2008, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.Karunanidhi laid the foundation for the construction of barrage. Scant rainfall, garbage and relentless pollution over the years has turned the river into a dumping yard. These individuals representing their respective communities will shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the river by setting up councils later that will implement meaningful actions to rejuvenate Vaigai. Against the norm of 135 litres per capita per day (LPCD), residents are only getting around 100 LPCD. The pageant is just the beginning and will have to be sustained through the participation of every citizen of Madurai, say the organisers, because it is the beginning of a vision. Image Sources: Left- Heritage of India; Right- Indian Temples History; Middle- rémi Karner and Pema; Bottom- Wikipedia. It is called ‘incentivising’ the community, meaning to give away incentives for effecting social change. Water Users Association in Xlth Branch Canal Periyar Vaigai Project : Farmers Experience River imgation systems irrigates one third of the imga&d area in Tamil Nadu. This initiative is leadby Dr. Geeta Mehta, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University and the Founder/President of Asia Initiatives. She has roped in Dr.Gita Mehta, Professor of Architecture in University of Columbia and her Social Capital Credits Model wherein people get rewarded for any good work. ... Ken – Betwa Link Project Phase-I. Lake Carnegie. • Highlight and mobilize community engagement and support for river clean-up efforts including: trash removal, alternatives for waste disposal, clean public toilets, functioning drainage systems, water flow, storage, and irrigation. The project engages the community to address, raise public awareness, and participate in direct action solutions to restore the Vaigai River through an innovative and creative strategy utilizing community-based art and the theatrical pageant indigenous art-form to impact the issue and effect positive change. “We have divided the stretch into 12 zones right from Kochadai to Viraganur and families living on the banks will be given the responsibility of maintaining their part of the river. The system is benefited from both the South-West monsoon and the North-East monsoon. Photo: S. James. His areas of interest are institution building, leadership development and promoting various development themes for poverty reduction The Vaigai River Restoration Pageant Project is an educational ecological art project that engages the local community, raises public environmental awareness, and mobilizes direct action and support to restore the water quality, species, habitats and health of India’s famous Vaigai River in the ancient temple city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, South India. MADURAI, TAMIL NADU, 13/05/2015: Members of the Vaigai River Restoration Project (VRRP) taking out a rally in Madurai on May 13, 2015. Dr. R.P. DHAN (Development of Human Action) Foundation, an NGO based in Madurai was awarded the India NGO award in 2009 by The Rockefeller Foundation. Mixing of sewage water and dumping of solid waste should also be stopped to set it right.” • Educational performances by local performing and community groups address: legacy of Vaigai River in mythological and historic texts; native river species and habitats; issues of waste and sewage dumping; industrial and chemical pollution; and restoration efforts to improve water quality, water flow, and health of the river. But the Vaigai has the potential of becoming a grand waterway again, says Felicia. Samy Project Hub has been established as a project company in Madurai 2014. Dr. M.P. Singapore. They will be able to use the SoCCs thus earned to get services like subsidized electricity, telephone talk time, school scholarships, healthcare, etc. – Mayor V.V. Mulaipari festival at Koovathupatti, Tamil Nadu; Young students performing traditional dances. Vaigai River Restoration Pageant features a procession of giant mobile sculptures, spectacular costumes, and musical bands with site-specific performances along the banks of the Vaigai River from Villangudi to Albert Victor Bridge and the Maiya Mandapam, in Madurai. CPBG/MDU/PBG/ RIC/2017/002 Development of drought tolerant variety in rice. Engaging Communities to Generate Ecological and Social Change through the Arts, Prakash (bamboo sculpture -Vaigai Fish), Ravi (kavadi paper-mache sculpture), Amoudha (water protectress costume), Mohan (natural paint – ceremonial kumbha pot & kolam workshops, Ramesh (natural dye – sungudi vaigai fish shawls). Image Source: Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant Costumes. Later on, we full-fledged entered into the field of preparation of a thesis in supporting Research scholars all over India. Vaigai Mention. Madurai, situated on the banks of the Vaigai River, in Tamil Nadu, Southern India is known as the Temple City of India. Vaigai River Restoration Project. (CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW SoCCs WILL HELP IN VAIGAI RIVER RESTORATION) http://www.asiainitiatives.org/soccs/. • Lack of drainage and sanitation infrastructure. There is no point in talking about Vaigai’s glory only in the past tense, says A.Gurunathan, the project director of the long-term Vaigai River Restoration Project initiated by the DHAN Foundation. A reimagining of Vaigai river’s place in modern Madurai may perhaps gain unprecedented traction in the coming days. Only by increasing the water flow of the river, it can be brought to life again. Earth Celebrations’ creative environmental and arts programs address and effect change on issues such as:  climate change, river species and habitat restoration, and the preservation of community gardens, parks, and a healthy urban environment, while highlighting ecological sustainability. The event was organised as part of the Vaigai River Restoration Project (VRRP), launched by Dhan Foundation on October 2 with the objective of restoring the legendary river to its old glory. The District Collector, the Mayor and the Commissioner of Madurai Corporation have given their consent for the cultural pageant. The Vaigai River Restoration Pageant: April 2015 “Most rivers in India are highly polluted and there’s an urgent need to clean all of them.” Ashia, his friend, says, “The pageant will materialise only if people and the Government join hands. The city centers around the Meenakshi Temple known for its magnificent Dravidian architecture with. Godavari River. “The The Vaigai River Restoration Project & Pageant was publicly launched on October 2, 2014 (Gandhi’s birthday) in Madurai. Under the project, water in the Vaigai River was augmented by diverting water through tunnels from Periyar in Kerala. The Periyar Vaigai is the largest system in Tamil Nadu, next only to the Cauvery system. asiainitiatives.org, David Blake Willis, PhD For years now, cleaning of River Vaigai has remained a difficult conundrum for the multiple stakeholders in the city. The project involves construction of a 255.60-kilometre (158.82 mi) long canal from Mayanur in Karur district to link river Kaveri with Vaigai. Earth Celebrations, which restored the Hudson River in New York, is holding the event in cooperation with Dhan Foundation. degree in English Literature from American College in Madurai River Vaigai is an eyesore today. SL.NO DETAILS DOWNLOAD 1: Vaigai River Restoration Pageant: 2: Vaigai River Restoration Project Chellappa said, “We have also planned for an eviction drive to remove all the encroachments along the Vaigai river and expand the roads along it to make it useful for commuters.”. • Engages participants and the public in culminating Vaigai River Pageant as a collaborative community performance, featuring a procession with site-specific performances along the banks of the Vaigai River from Villangudi to Albert Victor Bridge and the Maiya Mandapam, in Madurai. 1 Name of the project Cauvery (Kattalai) - Vaigai - Gundar link project 2 Type of project (Irrigation or Multipurpose) Multipurpose 3 Location Central coastal region of Tamil Nadu 3.1 River basin a) Name Cauvery basin, Streams between Cauvery and Vaippar b) Location Tamil Nadu 3.2 River / tributary Cauvery and Gundar rivers About Samy Project Hub. She was surprised when students shared their ideas for restoring the Vaigai River with parks, organic shops, fishing, sports, recycling bins, clean public toilets, playgrounds for children along the embankment. From 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. on this Tuesday afternoon, at least 500 people are likely to join in the colourful procession that will boast of multiple innovative elements, conceptualised by Felicia Young, the Founder and Executive Director of Earth Celebrations. Geeta is the Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University in New York. The Vaigai River pageant jointly organised by Earth Celebrations and DHAN Foundation brought together citizens from various walks of life and sparked off healthy discussions on how to rejuvenate the river. Direct Action Fashion Show Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (2013) Vasimalai, Executive Director of DHAN Foundation is a post graduate in Agriculture and a management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. On going engagement and actions continued to thrive with river clean up actions, full moon ceremonies and processional river walks, and a Vaigai River Restoration Trust was established along with an official panel appointed by the Mayor of the City. “I am happy to be part of a great cause,” she says. Pena Manoharan, a policeman-turned-poet who took part in the pageant recalls how he was abhorred by the sight of people defecating in the river on his first visit to the city in 1975. Vaigai Herbal Hair Oil. So inspired was she by the festival pageant that she decided to use music, painting, sculpture, puppetry, dance, poetry, performance and ceremony that she saw being used in Madurai, as a means of getting communities back home to work together. The native third generation New Yorker who is also a community cultural development artist and theatrical pageant director is working on Vaigai River Restoration Pageant (VRRP) with local stakeholders and aims to stop further ruin of the river. They will be presented with specially woven sungundi shawls bearing motifs of fish, the symbol of Pandiya kingdom. “It is important to understand that other than the Moola Vaigai, the river receives water from a chain of interconnected tanks and channels. 2. This River-Linking project is a large-scale civil engineering project. Bamboo expert Prakash bends and tweaks the sticks to design fishes like Maharam, Machameen, Viraal and the Vellichi, now extinct but once found in abundance in the river. Founder director of the organisation Felicia Young said the pageant was just the beginning of long journey top restore the river. We have invited suggestions from people and activists to keep the river clean.” • Improvement of the water quality from contaminants for healthy drinking water which the community depends on for survival. Photo by S. James, Temple Chariot Procession at Madurai, Indian Panorama. •  a colorful procession along the banks of the Vaigai River featuring giant mobile sculptures/puppets, costumes, and visual processional artwork. Earth Celebrations The mayor has ordered cleaning operations of the Vaigai river after appointing 200 corporation workers. Located on the banks of River Vaigai, Madurai has been a major settlement for two millennia. Drainage Basin: The Godavari basin extends over states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha in addition to smaller parts in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Union territory of Puducherry. Chemical Dye Pollution, The Times of India S. Praveen Kumar, Project Executive, Water Knowledge Centre, Dhan Academy, says there is a need to follow the wisdom of our forefathers by restoring the traditional water systems. The city has a beautiful well-maintained river front.”. 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Con Edison. In 2018 Madurai was identified by the Smart Cities Council of India to receive 1 billion rupees for the Vaigai River Restoration implementation. By Dan Garisto | Spectator Senior Staff Writer | October 15, 2015, 1:34 AM. Except for the heritage development project, the remaining four projects are more than 90 percent complete. He served for more than 25 years as Resident Coordinator for the University of Wisconsin’s College Year in India Programme, Madurai, and during that time also assisted a great many visiting scholars from USA and European Universities. http://www.dhan.org, Asia Initiatives Our main aim is to extend project services at low cost. • River Cleansing Ceremony will engage community participants in a choreographed movement and clean-up along the river bank. Holding discarded plastic bottles in her dozen fake hands, Amudha, a school-goer strutted down the northern bank of Vaigai, donning the Trash Protectress. People will be able to earn SoCCs by helping with the pageant, and river cleaning actions such as waste management, maintaining irrigation channels and water tanks, planting trees etc. Source: Godavari river rises from Trimbakeshwar near Nasik in Maharashtra and flows for a length of about 1465 km before outfalling into the Bay of Bengal. • Earn Social Capital Credits (SoCCs), a virtual currency for social good, will be used to implement the above processes not only during the workshops, but as a long term practice for sustainable ecological and social development. Ensure the Idols are Made of Clay, The Hindu, Image Sources Starting from Top: K. Ananthan, The Hindu; Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant Puppet Workshop, New York City; Made with eco-friendly items, each of the arms will carry trash like wrappers and plastic bottles and bags to highlight the kind of items that pollute the river and how they should be disposed off properly. Heavy rains and opening of Vaigai dam have resulted in the overflowing which have led to the closure of two causeways. They have also asked the people to come dressed in blue, to signify the earth and the river. Resultantly, the areas adjoining Chinnalapatti are fast becoming barren due to underground pollution. The Vaigai River Restoration Project hopes to make the river the grand waterway it was at one time. Lord Kallazhagar`s advent into Madurai, Prokerala News, Visual art and performances for the Pageant: She worked with the arts in New York from 1991 to 2005. Feasibility Report of Cauvery Vaigai Gundar Link Project. This River-Linking project is a large-scale civil engineering project. THEATRICAL PAGEANTS He was instrumental in promoting various network organizations. The cultural pageant slated for May 12 will have all the necessary elements of colours, creativity and concepts and also push forth an important message. Engaging Communities to Generate Ecological and Social Change through the Arts. 2. This time round she engaged the community for educational and recreational activities such as oyster planting to organically cleanse the river, rowing and kayaking as new recreational uses of the river, wetlands planting to mitigate flood damage, river clean-ups to clear away garbage, recycling ceremonies, promoting waste solutions and fish release programmes. A second ‘kali’ would depict the restored Vaigai River and carry forms that would signify green, wind and water. ... Mahanadi Godavari link is the first and critical link of nine link system of Mahanadi-Godavari-Krishna-Pennar-Cauvery-Vaigai-Gundar under Peninsular Component of … Students of Fatima College are coming out with poetry on the river, which would be displayed on a rickshaw during the pageant. Vasimalai, Phd, Co-Founder/Co-Sponsor is the Founder/ Executive Director of the DHAN Foundation in India. The Vaigai River Restoration Pageant Project was initiated by social action artist Felicia Young, Founder/Executive Director of Earth Celebrations, a non-profit environmental and arts organization based in New York City, in partnership with the DAHN Foundation, an NGO and non-profit organization working to restore the Vaigai River in Madurai, South India, and New York City based Asia Initiatives, active throughout Asia applying their SoCC (Social Capital Credits) a model community incentive program. Vaigai River Restoration Project (2013-Current) Vaigai River Restoration Project. Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, an NGO and nonprofit organization based in Madurai, South India, has a mission to “build people and institutions for development innovations and upscale (them) to enable poverty reduction and self-reliance in poor communities.” The program has identified ‘Water’ as a unique tool for alleviating poverty and has evolved into a separate people’s institution, the ‘DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation (DVTF)’. Twenty-five years ago, the Vaigai River was a clean, natural waterway. The Vaigai River Restoration Project  & Pageant was initiated in concept by Felicia Young of Earth Celebrations in January 2014 in response to witnessing the polluted state of the Vaigai River in Madurai South India, a city where her ancestors lived for hundreds of years from the 1700’s and earlier. Each of them will pour the water into a huge kumbham, a clay pot measuring four feet high and three feet in diameter that will be carried on a bullock cart at the end of the procession. Vaigai Coir Cluster Pvt Ltd. For the past 20 years Sekar has been researching and documenting the Vaigai River and is Co-Author of Stretch of Life on the Vaigai River with Peter Nabakov. Engaging Communities to Generate Ecological and Social Change through the Arts, Earth Celebrations, DHAN Foundation & Asia Initiatives Present. But, construction of the dam affected its flow and the release of industrial and bio-medical waste and domestic sewage into the river and decreasing rainfall has led to the river’s woeful state. Our main aim is to extend project services at low cost. For this Felicia has an off-beat idea. 1.4K likes. Compare. Prakash who has made a set of big and small 3D models of fish out of plastic cans and bamboo sticks, says, “It’s gratifying to see the result of the show. “People have to come together to ensure that the negative actions that pollute and exploit the river for the gain of a few are kept in check,” she asserts. He has a B.A. “City people can sign up for various roles and tasks for the procession and thereby be involved in the exercise to bring back their river to life,” she says. Samy Project Hub has been established as a project company in Madurai 2014. Marco Polo called Madurai the most splendid province on Earth. Copyright © 2010 Earth Celebrations. Rated 0 out of 5. Creative Strategy to Engage Community Participation, Raise Awareness, and Effect Change, Mulaipari festival at Koovathupatti, Tamil Nadu; Terres de Charme. Read more. It is a concept based costume, according to Felicia. Compare. About Samy Project Hub. Photo by Jacques Torchon Jr. Wetlands and Water costume in Earth Celebrations’ Hudson River Pageant, New York City. • historic legacy of the Vaigai River honored for thousands of years in Indian literature. Development of Humane Action (DHAN) Foundation, an NGO and nonprofit organization based in Madurai, South India, has a mission to “build people and institutions for development innovations and upscale (them) to enable poverty reduction and self-reliance in poor communities.” The program has identified ‘Water’ as a unique tool for alleviating poverty and has evolved into a separate people’s institution, the ‘DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation (DVTF)’. AI has pioneered the use of Social Capital Credits (SoCCs) to incentivize local people to undertake social good activities, and will develop the SoCCs system to incentivize attendance in the workshops, and the restoration the Vaigai River, working closely with the local community and other stakeholders. Asia Initiatives (AI), a New York registered non-profit organization undertakes projects that are pro-environment and pro-poor. Geeta is the past President of the American Institute of Architects’ Japan Chapter. Amid growing criticism over Vaigai Riverfront beautification project which is part of the Vaigai River Front Development programme, a Smart City initiative, the experts have raised alarm that any further go ahead to the project is likely to hit the city heritage hard. Photo by Jacques Torchon Jr. River Species Costumes in Earth Celebrations’ Hudson River Pageant, New York City. He has over three decades of experience in development work and is one of the key people in setting up Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN). Vaigai; Hair wash Powder. 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