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Dances and Colours

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Published: September 2022 By: Leah-Marie Uvia /Love your A&C P apua New Guinea is a nation that holds pride in its beauty in cultural heritage. It is home to hundreds of beautiful ethnic cultural groups that together, contribute to make PNG the culturally diverse nation that it is.    Every year, these groups come together and present their cultures and traditions through the most beautiful cultural festivals, filled with traditional sing-sings and bilas, where colours, culture, arts and history fill the air in its beauty. The following are just 4 prodigious cultural festivals (among the many) from the 4 regions of PNG: 1.  The Goroka Show The Goroka Show is a well-known and significant cultural event held in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea. It is usually held annually in September, during the week of the country’s Independence anniversary.   Men with kundu drums and traditional wear during a performance             ...

Relatedness of art and culture

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Published: September 2022 By: Aviv Talukdar/ Love Your A&C  Art and culture are inter connected in many ways .  Art and culture being together dates to 1665 BC which was when the first humans were on Earth.  They used to make art using leaves and colors made of powder of plants, and slicks, rocks, etc. They later started understanding art more thoroughly and started making paints, colors, etc and now we even have alchohol and paint-based markers which are used for coloring. You can see the first extistence of art in caveman paintings   source: iStock Now in many cultures like the Japanese culture the make Kimonos which is their traditional dresses which they wear on festivals like New years eve. Indian culture also has a lot of arts in it like in HOLI the festival of colors they make big statues of the goddess and the monster and in DIWALI the festival of lights is the most famous festival in India, the people make pottery ,jewelery , and dresses. source:Telegra...