The Charkula arts Academy is a non-profit organisation working towards the improvement of the lives of poor artists in Mathura reagion (Utter pradesh).
Mr. Murari Lal Sharma - a artist & Yash Bharti , Sangeet Natak Academy award & Sanskartik Samman winner - founded the Academy in 1982. The Charkula Arts Academy has grown to benefit more than 500 families of mostly artists, dancers and others. The artists perform at local and international cultural fairs.
Charkula Arts Academy has been established to promote dance, music and culture of Uttar Pradesh (India) , and to impart this training to students.During the subsequent years, organization has grown, providing an ever-increasing number of services and programs to our clients, as well as acting as an information resource to the public on various folk dances from Braj folk to All Inia Folk dances.
The Organization produces original dance works and sponsors festivals, exhibitions and workshops; supports research into rare dance forms; and gives professional opportunities to budding artists
The aim of the Academy in India is to keep the traditional arts of artist communities alive by providing them with services to meet the basic needs they have identified. The most important needs of these communities centre on education and health services, income generation projects, community management and related activities. The artists themselves play an important role in the planning, monitoring and adjustment of all project activities. Participation occurs through individual and group meetings on a daily basis.
The Charkula Arts Academy has started developing international exchanges with artists from other countries. We believe it is very important to develop greater understanding between people at all levels. The arts can be a good vehicle towards this end. Joint performances and workshops are being organised to help artists from different countries develop their skills through mutual inspiration.
The Charkula Arts Academy is also engaged in gaining recognition for dying traditional arts, which are part of our proud age-old Indian civilisation. These arts were passed down for generations and are mastered over a number of years.
The Charkula Arts Academy has performed traditional Charkula and other Indian folk & classical dances at several prestiguous venues in India and abroad (Recently performed in Village festival-2000 in Singapore & Dubai shopping festival).
In India the Charkula Arts Academy has performed for National Centre of the Performing Arts, Nehru Centre, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and for Television.charkula has been selected in the Republic parade of India 1986 to represent Uttar Pradesh.
One of the prime objectives of the Charkula Arts Academy is to work for National integration through Cultural interaction. On the one hand, the Academy seeks to inspire, foster and promote folk arts, dance, drama, music, crafts and related forms of creative expression and on the other, it has to take culture, hitherto the preserve of the elite and affluent to the doorstep of the common man. The Academy also preserves art forms by improving opportunities for the artists for performance, through its out reach activities, and providing artists to various cultural festivals & events. It is also the endeavor of the Academy to enlist the participation of the youth in cultural activities
