Aims & Objectives

ACTIVITIES OF THE NZCC TO ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES:

1. In order to fulfill its objectives, North Zone Cultural Centre has organizes a variety of programmes/events covering all the aspects of art and culture like Fairs and Festivals, Theatre Workshops, Workshops on Folk Dances etc. at various places in the member states of the Zone as well as outside the Zone in other states of India. A number of programmes were organized every year in rural areas, military cantonments, educational institutions, border districts and remote areas & sub-divisions/districts/state headquarters in member states of the Zone. Emphasis has always been to put up quality performances. It has documented many Art Forms. North Zone Cultural Centre had organized programmes not only at the National level but abroad also under International Cultural Exchange Programme.
2. Some of the important Melas/Fairs & Festivals where NZCC has regularly participated and mainly showcased folk dances, folk music & folk singing are –‘Sindhu Darshan Festival’ at Leh (UT Ladakh); ‘Shoolini Mela’ at Solan (Himachal Pradesh); ‘Teej Festival’ in Punjab; ‘Tribal Festival’ at Keylong (Himachal Pradesh); ‘Baba Sheikh Farid Agaman Parv’ at Faridkot (Punjab); ‘Shri Renuka Mela’ at Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh); ‘Chandigarh Carnival’ at UT Chandigarh; ‘Kinnaur Festival’ at Reckong Peo (Himachal Pradesh); ‘Maa Nanda Devi Mela’ at Almora (Uttarakhand); ‘Lokrang Mahotsav’ at Jaipur (Rajasthan); ‘Gauchar Mela’ at Chamoli (Uttarakhand); ‘International Gita Mahotsav’ at Kurukshetra (Haryana); ‘Patiala Sangeet Samaroh’ at Patiala (Punjab); ‘Lokanuranjan Mela’ at Jodhpur (Rajasthan); ‘Rose Festival’ at UT Chandigarh etc.
3. Government of India, Department of Culture launched a Scheme called ‘Guru Shishya Parampara Scheme’ through Zonal Cultural Centre to preserve and promote rare and vanishing art forms whether classical or folk/tribal so that the young talents be nurtured to acquire skills in their chosen field of art through some financial assistance by the ZCCs in the form of scholarship under the guidance of Experts and Masters in these fields.
4. Documentation and Publication Work: The NZCC has done quality work pertaining to documentation. Aware of the fact that lots of traditional forms like Folk Theatre, Folk Music & Musical Instruments are vanishing and therefore documentation for posterity must be done with the assistance of Anthropologists & Musicologists and other professionals, the NZCC has done quite an impressive audio-visual documentation. We have a collection of more than 200 documentary films covering major Fairs and Festivals, Crafts Fairs of the region including films on folk art forms; folk instruments; Great Masters; Museums; Temples; Art Galleries; and a few films on life styles of villages.
5. Apart from this there are quite a few publications by scholars in vernacular language on various aspects of culture of the Zone.
6. Over the years the NZCC has organized a variety of programmes/events covering all aspects of folk art & culture like Fairs & festivals; Theatre Festivals & Workshops; Painting Camps & Exhibitions; Workshops on Folk Dances, Folk Music, Folk Instruments & Folk Singing. The programmes were organized in rural areas, military cantonments, educational institutions, border districts and remote areas & sub-divisions/districts/state headquarters in member states of the Zone.

Objectives of North Zone Cultural Centre:

1. To develop and promote the rich diversity and uniqueness of various arts primarily folk and tribal arts of the Zone and to upgrade and enrich consciousness of the people about their Cultural heritage;
2. to lay special emphasis on activities of the linkages among various areas through evolution of styles and their contribution to the larger composite identity of cultural heritage of India;
3. to make special efforts to encourage folk and tribal arts and to frame special programme for the preservation and strengthening of the endangered and rare art forms through cultural yatras,  festivals etc. in rural and mofussil  areas of the Member States;
4. to frame programmes to encourage and involve the youth of the Zone amongst themselves and with the youth of the rest of India in creative cultural communications through the process of seminars, exchanges and workshops on matters relating to the cultural heritage of India;
5. to print, publish and exhibit any monograph on rare, vanishing and dying arts, magazines, periodicals, books and issue pamphlets for furthering the objectives of the Society;
6. to assist folk and tribal artists in upgrading their marketing and presentation skills so that the arts and crafts practiced by them could become a self-sustained source of livelihood and to facilitate and promote the legacy industries;
7. to create and maintain Shilpgrams and to also use their other infrastructure for holding quality programmes such as cultural performances, craft melas, visual art camps, Training, seminars, workshops etc;
8. to promote participation and funding of international events inter-alia through Extra- budgetary resources; and
9. to pursue such other activities and programmes to strengthen and promote the cultural interlinkages amongst States, including setting up of Sub-Centres within the Zone.