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Antique merchants spread Biennale spirit

The art festival draws near on December 12

KOCHI: Antique dealers in Mattancherry’s historical Jew Town are poised to whip up excitement for the new-age Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB).

As the art festival draws near on December 12, as many as 32 shops which form part of the Jew Town Antique Dealers Association (JADA) will put up flags, banners and other Biennale decoration to attract tourist attention to the 108-day KMB.

“We felt we had missed an opportunity by not participating in the debut KMB (of 2012),” said Jose Mathew Leen, who is part of the seven-member committee set up by JADA to work on the Biennale project.

“We thoroughly enjoyed the last edition and felt that as a local business community we must lend our support to this mega event which brings the world of art to our doorsteps,” he said. Jose, who owns Leens Exports, is offering a wall space to any visiting KMB artist to create graffiti.

As part of the tie-up, JADA members, who have shops on Jew Town Road and Synagogue Lane, underwent an orientation to enable them to suitably guide visitors on KMB programmes and venues. The area’s Kashmiri shopkeepers, who are not part of JADA, also took part in the session on November 15.

( Source : dc correspondent )
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