Thatta Kedona

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THATTA KEDONA on DACCHI bazar in LAHORE

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Thatta Kedona is a handicrafts initiative. It is in the village Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka, District Okara, Pakistan. It is showing its wonderful handmade dolls. It has many other colorful handicrafts. They are at the Daachi Arts & Crafts Exhibition in Lahore.

It started on the 2nd of March 2024 and ended on the 4th of March. These handicrafts depict the cultures and costumes of various regions across Pakistan. The German artist, designer, and anthropologist Dr. Senta Siller started it over 30 years ago. Thatta Kedona works under the local NGO Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama (AFA).



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DAACHI Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Lahore

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 2-4 March 2024




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2023 - A Year full of joy, and surprises

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Pakistan

as well as

Greece-Iceland-Italy-Switzerland-Austria

and

Germany


with

Meetings of volunteers, friends, and acquaintances

on the occasion of

Exhibitions, Workshops - ZoomConferences


and

new publications and movies!

Greetings also to the friends in Cameroun and Colombia, who face further challenges!!!

Many thanks to everyone

Friends - Sponsors - Supporters


Thank you very much for everything together.

Dr Senta Siller and Dr Norbert Pintsch

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Thatta Kedona virtual workshop on Zoom

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On December 16, 2023, Thatta Kedona and its German friends conducted their first virtual workshop over Zoom. Prof. Norbert Pintsch of Gross Behnitz, Germany, Prof. Aamir Rafique of Lahore, and Amjad Ali of TGD (Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka) served as the hosts. Germany's Sabine Piltz and Dr. Senta Siller took part. Our upcoming virtual workshop, which will focus on silk painting, is scheduled for 27th January 2024.

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Happy Birthday Senta Siller

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Download Creations of Senta Siller

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Poster Legend BookLets

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Overall and individual representations

The design and format of the catalogs about Senta Siller are based on the catalogs of the former gallery EYLAU'5-Berlin - see www.DGFK-archive.de


The cover photo is a cut-out from a family photo titled Before the Big Trip by D. Eckardt from 1978.

Catalog with an overall overview

35 pages of work examples and 11 pages of photos (At Work – While Inspiring – At Leisure)

2015 first printing

Heikus

Visual implementation of Japanese short poems

60 pages

2020

Compilation

Work highlights of 75 years as a poster

60 pages

2021

AphroMics

A mixture of contemplative texts and minimal sketches

48 pages

2023/24

Material

Nature sketches and material alterations

48 pages

2023/24

Private Moments

Selected documents from the Siller archive

48 pages

2023/24

SSi 88 2022

66 words of greetings from all over the world on Senta Siller's 88th birthday.

Categorized according to 7 decades of creativity (1946-2021) as per SSA.

108 pages

2023

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2004 - 2022

PRELIMINARY NOTE

The projects of the initiator S. Siller were reported in quarterly magazines, DIN A4 format, each with a volume of 16, etc. in the DGFK newsletter, Indus River, Sanaga rive, Rio Magdalena, etc.


At the end of 1999 the print publications were discontinued and since the beginning of 2000, the reporting was carried out via an Internet website.

Since this method was not flexible enough, a blog THATTA KEDONA was set up in 2004.

It is said, that everything can be found on the internet. During research however, it was discovered: That's probably not the case! Important reports and representations were lost. As a countermeasure and also in order to minimize the loss of texts and images, the ForZat-RCAT data was transferred from digital back into the analogue.

THATTA KEDONA Blog

Pakistan Project

2004 – 2022

DIN A 4 format

372 pages

HAATC Blog

Cameroon Project

2010 – 2022

DIN A 4 format

148 pages

ELCAMPOMIRANDO blog

Colombia Project

2012 – 2022

DIN A 4 format

58 pages

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Poster Legend BookLets

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Overall and individual representations


The design and format of the catalogs about Senta Siller are based on the the catalogs of the former gallery EYLAU'5-Berlin - see www.DGFK-archive.de

The cover photo is a cut-out from a family photo titled Before the Big Trip by D. Eckardt from 1978.

Catalog with an overall overview

35 pages of work examples and 11 pages of photos (At Work – While Inspiring – At Leisure)

2015 first printing

Heikus

Visual implementation of Japanese short poems

60 pages

2020

Compilation

Work highlights of 75 years as a poster

60 pages

2021

AphroMics

A mixture of contemplative texts and minimal sketches

48 pages

2023/24

Material

Nature sketches and material alterations

48 pages

2023/24

Private Moments

Selected documents from the Siller archive

48 pages

2023/24

SSi 88 2022

66 words of greetings from all over the world on Senta Siller's 88th birthday.

Categorized according to 7 decades of creativity (1946-2021) as per SSA.

108 pages

2023

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Poster-Legend PUBL

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1980-2023

The poster project was created by the circle of Friends of the SSDC in Lahore under the leadership of Prof Aamir Rafique and the SSDC in Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka under the leadership of Amjad Ali, - in close collaboration with the SSA / LGS-Nauen and the ForZat / HVK-Berlin.


For this purpose, around 1000 different tasks from the SSA were recorded in advance and categorized in seven classes. Due to large number of handwritten documents and research material, the reader of the publications would be missing the context without this classification.

A total of five brochures were created:

In the case of Garden dwarfs the documentation is unfortunately missing; The company that produced the garden dwarf has closed its archives and no specific articles were found in the press.

In the case of Al Andalus, appropriate sections from recovered letters were able to be compared with the sketches.

In the case of SSi 88, suitable sequences from friends, employees or clients who had already expired were included from a private collection and linked to current contributions, using the order from the SSA with 7 decades.

In the Marienleben case, water-damaged sketches from the SSA were restored and prepared for publication.

In the case of Three Little Dragons, a private collection was found and text and illustration were combined.

Gnomis Berlin garden guide 1985 on the occasion of the BUGA Federal Garden Show Berlin 1985 In Memoriam Werner Stephan, screenwriter The title character was designed as a basic model by Senta Siller, who also made the illustrations.

Al Andalus 1954

Notes and sketches by Senta Siller

SSi 88 2022

66 greetings from all over the world on Senta Siller's 88th birthday. Assigned towards 7 decades of creativity (1946-2021) according to SSA.

Marienleben 1970

Mirka Yemendzakis performs Hindemith-Rilke

In Memoriam Mirka Dzakis, voice trainer and soprano

sketched by Senta Siller

Three Little Dragons 1968

as told and drawn by Senta Siller

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News from Our German Friends

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H.E. Saqlain Syedah and Dr Senta SIller

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