Peace in the air at Bali art event

Peace in the air at Bali art event

DENPASAR, Bali: A performance by noted Balinese painter Made
Wianta will cap the Art and Peace Festival, to be held at
Padanggalak beach here from Dec. 8 to Dec. 10.

Wianta said a helicopter would fly a 2,000-meter-long white
cloth bearing a peace message written in several languages from
Klating beach in Tabanan to Padanggalak, about five kilometers
east of here.

The banner will be paraded in a dance with about 2,000 local
performers. Wianta said the number of dancers represented the
year 2000.

Among the major events in the festival are poetry reading, a
seminar, a drawing contest and the Agni Hotra ceremony, a Hindu
purification ritual.

"We want to organize an event in which the arts community is
free to voice its dreams about a peaceful world," Wianta
said. (39/edt)