Cultural outreach programs are a venture brought together by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bengaluru and Infosys Foundation Bengaluru. Initiated in the year 2015, these programs aim at protecting, preserving and promoting India’s culture and heritage embedded in performing and visual arts such as dance, music and paintings.

The Bengaluru Kendra of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has tied up with its 12 sister centres in the country to promote traditional performing arts native to the respective states as part of a special project of Infosys foundation.

The major goals of the program are:

1. Promote our hidden classical Dances/Bhajans/Folk Art/Hari-Katha, Pippetery etc.
2. Select budding and talented artists with rural background belonging to economically weaker section of the society.
3. Promote region-specific folk art and other near extinct arts and popularize it for the future.
4. Help assist young artists to take these as profession.
5. Promote societal harmony, friendliness, peaceful co-existence.
6. Promote National integration through culture.

All these programs organized under the aegis of the cultural outreach program are OPEN TO PUBLIC and are FREE OF COST.

AT JAIPUR KENDRA

Jaipur Kendra was bestowed this opportunity in June 2016 when Shri Vishwas Deshpande was the Director of Bhavan’s Jaipur Kendra. Jaipur Kendra has the responsibility of the entire Rajasthan State.

Smt. Asha Golcha is the Chairperson and Shri Rajendra Singh Payal the member Secretary for this program.

Jaipur Kendra has been able to organize 98 programs till date. Nearly 912 artists have been benefited and 37000 people have benefited so far as audience from these programs.