United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

Intangible Cultural Heritage

NGO accreditation ICH-09- Form

REQUEST BY A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION TO BE ACCREDITED TO PROVIDE ADVISORY SERVICES TO THE COMMITTEE

DEADLINE 31 MAY 2013

Instructions for completing the request form are available at:

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1. Name of the organization

1.a. Official name

Please provide the full official name of the organization, in its original language, as it appears in the supporting documentation establishing its legal personality (section 8.b below).

Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan Hindi attached in email

1.b. Name in English and/or French

Please provide the name of the organization in English and/or French.

I Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan

2.a. Address of the organization

Please provide the complete postal address of the organization, as well as additional contact information such as its telephone or fax numbers, e-mail address, website, etc. This should be the postal address where the organization carries out its business, regardless of where it may be legally domiciled (see section 8).

Organization: Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan

Address: Merasi Para #20 Building #3 Jaisalmer Rajasthan India 345001

Telephone number: 91-982-863-2318 and 91-2992-2-51171

Fax number: NA

E-mail address: Sarwar Khan - drsarwarmerasi@gmail.com; Asha Khan -merasiyouth@gmail.com

Website: www.FolkArtsRajasthan.org

Other relevant All communication, please cc info@FolkArtsRajasthan.org & information: karenlukasfar@gmail.com

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2.b Contact person for correspondence

Provide the complete name, address and other contact information of the person responsible for correspondence concerning this request. If an e-mail address cannot be provided, the information should include a fax number.

Title (Ms/Mr, etc.): Dr.

Family name: Khan

Given name: Sarwar

Institution/position: Director Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan

Address: Merasi Para #20 Building #3 Jaisalmer Rajasthan India 345001

Telephone number: 91-982-863-2318 and 91-2992-2-51171

Fax number: NA

E-mail address: Sarwar Khan - drsarwarmerasi@gmail.com; Asha Khan -merasiyouth@gmail.com

Other relevant All communication, please cc info@FolkArtsRajasthan.org & information: karenlukasfar@gmail.com

3. Country or countries in which the organization is active

Please identify the country or countries in which the organization actively operates. If it operates entirely within one country, please indicate which country. If its activities are international, please indicate whether it operates globally or in one or more regions, and please list the primary countries in which it carries out activities.

[S] national

D international (please specify: )

D worldwide

D Africa

D Arab States

D Asia & the Pacific

D Europe & North America

D Latin America & the Caribbean

Please list the primary country(ies) where it is active:

India

4. Date of its founding or approximate duration of its existence

Please state when the organization came into existence.

1996

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5. Objectives of the organization

Please describe the objectives for which the organization was established, which should be 'in conformity with the spirit of the Convention' (Criterion C). If the organization's primary objectives are other than safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, please explain how its safeguarding objectives relate to those larger objectives.

Not to exceed 350 words; do not attach additional information

LKSS ICH Preservation and Education Objectives:

The musical Merasi community of Northwest Rajasthan has for thirty-eight generations traditionally been an oral society and is essentially illiterate.

The NGO Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan was registered in 1996 to address the preservation of the Merasi-Manganiyar Intangible Cultural Heritage and ongoing dire needs of the Merasi community.

Beyond its traditional historic functions in a patronage system, Merasi music plays a significant contemporary role in Indian tourism, both locally and in International campaigns.

Yet buried beneath this ICH inherited by 14,000 men women and children located primarily in Jaisalmer District Rajasthan lies a tradition of poverty and social paralysis.

To protect this distinct traditional music from extinction, several small Merasi!Manganiyar run NGOs focus on training their children as generations before have done.

Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) was registered in 1996 for the Merasi!Manganiyar community by Dr. Sarwar Khan a passionate community activist and master Merasi drummer from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Recognizing that lack of education, inherited poverty, and social marginalization would spell the end for the musical legacy his father passed onto him, LKSS is a community hub offering a multitude of instruments housed in one location, provides ample space for music classes, rehearsal, and performances, offers elementary tutorials and scholarships to empower female members of the Merasi community.

Beyond the ambitious and holistic LKSS mission summarized as "One hand on the Pen, One hand on the Drum", LKSS has also continued to reach out interfacing with those interested in looking beyond the traditional tourist fa<;:ade to gain deeper understanding of a stunning intangible cultural heritage. These alliances with like-minded NGOs, Foundations, groups, and individuals are ongoing.

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6. The organization's activities in the field of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage

Sections 6.a to 6.c are the primary place to establish that the NGO satisfies the criterion of having 'proven competence, expertise and experience in safeguarding (as defined in Article 2.3 of the Convention) intangible cultural heritage belonging, inter alia, to one or more specific domains' (Criterion A).

6.a. Domain(s) in which the organization is active

Please tick one or more boxes to indicate the primary domains in which the organization is most active. If its activities involve domains other than those listed, please tick 'other domains' and indicate which domains are concerned.

L8J oral traditions and expressions

L8J performing arts

L8J social practices, rituals and festive events

D knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe

L8J traditional craftsmanship

L8J other domains - please specify:

Basic Literacy and Elementary Education

6.b. Primary safeguarding activities in which the organization is involved

Please tick one or more boxes to indicate the organization's primary safeguarding activities. If its activities involve safeguarding measures not listed here, please tick 'other safeguarding measures' and specify which ones are concerned.

L8J identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)

L8J preservation, protection

L8J promotion, enhancement

L8J transmission, formal or non-formal education

D revitalization

D other safeguarding measures- please specify:

6.c. Description of the organization's activities

Organizations requesting accreditation should briefly describe their recent activities and their relevant experience in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Please provide information on the personnel and membership of the organization, describe their competence and expertise in the domain of intangible cultural heritage and explain how they acquired such competence. Documentation of such activities and competences may be submitted, if necessary, under section 8.c below.

Not to exceed 750 words; do not attach additional information

Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) Education & Preservation Activities

LKSS was registered in 1996 as a Merasi Preservation NGO and since its inception performance space and music classes have been available at LKSS. From 2004-2007, LKSS ran women's one­hour basic Hindi-English tutorials. In mid-2007, LKSS began operating the Merasi School/Music Merasi program six days a week four hours a day year-round, offering a program of English-Hindi­Math-Music classes for Merasi youth.

On a regular basis since 2005, volunteer visitors from USA based Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR) have

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enriched the educational experience in Basic Health, Computer, Story-telling and Youth Leadership.

In 2011 at UNESCO, B.Goodbody's International Women's Day photographs portrayed the Merasi story and success of the LKSS-FAR alliance.

Merasi Youth have participated in performances at the Delhi American Embassy School weeklong 2010 "Celebrate India", corporate events in Jaipur and Mumbai 2010-12, and in numerous performances at the prestigious Mumbai Kala Ghoda Festival in 2012 & 13. Merasi children also offered two programs for street children in the Nagpada neighborhood of Mumbai and at Mumbai government schools. Jaisalmer participation in music and dance competitions is ongoing.

LKSS Musical Narrative Project activities document the music and culture of the community with photos, video, and audio recording of men women and children to create a growing archive and capture the aging masters. A twenty-minute film on the making of an instrument called the Merasi Murli, was premiered at the Maine Media Workshops in 2008 from material culled from this substantial archive.

LKSS & Folk Arts Rajasthan have produced two International US tours in 2005 & 2008 that included 108 performances at the Smithsonian Institution, The Kennedy Center, St.John the Divine Cathedral, museums, Universities, schools, and more.

Participation in the annual Jaisalmer Desert Festival from 2004-12 as well as in individual performances, private commissions, and tourist events are ongoing.

Focusing solely on Merasi!Manganiyar music in local, national, and international performance are Jaisalmer District community NGOs run by Ghazi Khan in Kuri-Barna Village, and Sakar Khan's Manganiar Lok Sangeet Sansthan in Hamira Village and musicians from both NGOs have performed in LKSS programs.

2013-14 LKSS Key Activities

The Role Model Scholarships

Select students attending private schools continue to act as peer teachers fostering gender sensitivity and empowerment among the growing numbers of Merasi children studying both at LKSS and now in government and private schools. Together they will establish more historic firsts achievements, garnering praise and increasing pride within the Merasi community. Alliances with skilled community development professionals will guide and release greater leadership potential among this youth demographic, which will promote longevity and sustainability in the programs and in social progress for their community.

Merasi School

Educational programs continue providing elementary skills in Hindi, English, arithmetic, basic health as the primary steps taken towards self-advocacy. Curriculum developments promote proficiency in bilingual speaking and computer skills to encourage documentation and communication with the world at large in the Merasi's own voice.

Music Merasi

Music classes reinforce the enthusiasm, joy, and self-esteem that participating in the arts brings to both artist and audience by offering access to instruments and master teachers who train students to play the instruments and the Merasi repertoire.

Musical Narrative Project

Musical performances promote the Merasi legacy nationally and internationally, while the Musical Narrative Project Archive documents such cultural exchange, the Merasi people, and their changing world.

Community Participation Mechanisms

Merasi community meetings, called Samelans, have been hosted by LKSS in 2006 with one for men only having more than 200 villages represented, 2009/2010/ & 2011 for women only with thirty

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eight, fifty six, and eighty participants, and in 2013 the first for sixty-three children, all to give voice to the silent while recording the Merasi issues at hand. In 2013-14, LKSS will host a total of four youth Samelans to promote cultural retention along with capacity building for the youthful participants.

7. The organization's experiences cooperating with communities, groups and intangible cultural heritage practitioners

The Committee will evaluate whether NGOs requesting accreditation 'cooperate in a spirit of mutual respect with communities, groups and, where appropriate, individuals that create, maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage' (Criterion D). Please briefly describe such experiences here.

Not to exceed 350 words; do not attach additional information

Cultural Heritage Practitioners

Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS) is a Merasi (meaning musician) operated and driven Rajasthan NGO. Their traditional folk music legacy calls them Manganiyar by the caste system (derogatorily meaning beggar) Music is passed from generation to generation beginning in childhood. Adolescents learn to play multiple instruments unique to the Thar Desert. Merasi males are often "all-arounders" meaning they play six or more instruments skillfully. The women of the community play the drum called the Dhol and have their own rhythms and songs. The rising generations are calling themselves Merasi as they embrace their ICH dating back more than 800 years and they simultaneously endeavor to be educated.

Ongoing Alliances

Jaisalmer based LKSS and Delhi based Sakshi, Mumbai based Salaam Bombay and Narotam Sekhsaria Foundations (NSF), along with the USA based Folk Arts Rajasthan (FAR) support the well-being and education of Merasi Youth while perpetuating the preservation of the Merasi ICH musical legacy.

In 2008, LKSS Director Sarwar Khan received an honorary doctorate degree for his efforts in ICH preservation from Maine College of Art (MECCA) USA during which time Troupe Merasi performed for the formal MECCA graduation ceremonies. A 2014 MECCA collaboration and a US International tour are in development. The two previous US tours produced in alliance with FAR created bridges of cultural understanding during 108 programs, including three at the Sackler Museum at the Smithsonian Institution and those at the Portland Museum.

Selected ICH Alliance Activities- Publications

International Women's Day 2011 UNESCO Paris Photo Exhibition LKSS & FAR

By Barbara Goodbody

http://unesco.usmission.gov/iwd-photo-exhibit-2011.html

Daughters of India: Art & Identity

By Stephen P. Huyler

Mapin Publishing Ahmdabad 2008

The Manganiyars of Jaisalmer and Their Patrons -A Doctoral Thesis

and

The Meaningfulness of Recentering: Case Study of a Thar Narrative

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By Laurent Maheaux Department lnde,

Institute National des Langues et Civilizations Orientales 2006 Paris

8. Documentation of the operational capacities of the organization

The Operational Directives (paragraph 97) require that an organization requesting accreditation submit documentation proving that it possesses the operational capacities listed under Criterion E. Such supporting documents may take various forms, in light of the diverse legal regimes in effect in different States. Submitted documents should be translated whenever possible into English or French if the originals are in another language. Please label supporting documents clearly with the section (8.a, 8.b or 8.c) to which they refer.

8.a. Membership and personnel

Proof of the participation of the members of the organization, as requested under Criterion E (i), may take diverse forms such as a list of directors, list of personnel and statistical information on the quantity and categories of members; a complete membership roster usually need not be submitted.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled 'Section B.a'.

8.b. Recognized legal personality

If the organization has a charter, articles of incorporation, by-laws or similar establishing documents, a copy should be attached. If, under the applicable domestic law, the organization has a legal personality recognized through some means other than an establishing document (for instance, through a published notice in an official gazette or journal), please provide documentation showing how that legal personality was established.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled 'Section B.b'.

8.c. Duration of existence and activities

If it is not already indicated clearly from the documentation provided for section 8.b, please submit documentation proving that the organization has existed for at least four years at the time it requests accreditation. Please provide documentation showing that it has carried out appropriate safeguarding activities during that time, including those described above in section 6.c. Supplementary materials such as books, COs or DVDs, or similar publications cannot be taken into consideration and should not be submitted.

Please attach supporting documents, labelled 'Section B.c'.

9. Signature

The application must include the name and signature of the person empowered to sign it on behalf of the organization requesting accreditation. Requests without a signature cannot be considered.

Name: Sarwar Khan

Title: Director Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan

Date: 5.29.13- Application prepared by Folk Arts Rajasthan 5.30.13

Signature: Attached in E-mail Sarwar Khan signed letter 5.29.13

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Folk Arts Rajasthan 314 East 841

h St. #11, New York, NY 10028 Phone 212-628-7210 info@folkartsrajasthan.org, www.folkartsrajasthan.org

With Heart and Hope

Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan Merasi Para (Street #20) Building 3 Located near Patwon Havali Jaisalmer, Rajasthan 345001 India

011-91-982-862-2318

May 28, 2013

Dear Dr. Sarwar Khan,

I invite you as Director of the Merasi NGO Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan (LKSS), for those traditionally known as Manganiyar, to read and sign this letter of release. By doing so, we can proceed with the UNESCO's NGO application for LKSS to be recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage NGO preserving the Merasi musical legacy. As we have discussed many times on the Merasi people's behalf (those traditionally known derogatorily as Manganiyar, meaning beggar), Folk Arts Rajasthan supports the LKSS mission and its preservation efforts. FAR also regards the Merasi legacy as an endangered world-class treasure that needs continued safeguarding and official recognition of its unique historical and cultural values.

Recognizing that your legacy deserves to be described, acknowledged, and protected in the manner that your people feel is appropriate, please confirm your agreement with a UNESCO LKSS NGO application submission.

We at FAR are honored to help you complete the application.

Regards, Karen Lukas Director Folk Arts Rajasthan

Confirmation of consent by Dr. Sarwar Khan, Director of the NGO Lok Kala Sagar Sansthan and the Merasi School/Music Merasi programs

Signature

Sarwar Khan