Anupama Hoskere is a puppeteer from the Indian state of Karnataka.
17 Facts About Anupama Hoskere
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Anupama Hoskere began training in Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam dance at a very young age.
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Anupama and her husband Vidyashankar Hoskere have three children, Prakruti Hoskere, Vedhus Hoskere and Divya Hoskere.
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In puppetry, Anupama Hoskere have experience in all areas, including puppet making, character design, costume design, script writing for puppet plays, music and lyrics for puppet plays, lighting, and sound effects in puppet plays.
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Anupama Hoskere is the founder director of the Dhaatu Puppet Theatre in Bengaluru.
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Anupama Hoskere is the Festival Director of the Dhaatu International Puppet Festival, an annual festival held in Bengaluru, which started in the year 2009.
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Anupama Hoskere founded the Dhaatu Puppet Museum in Bengaluru, a puppet museum that houses a collection of unique puppets from various states in India and around the world.
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Owner of over five thousand of different puppets, Anupama Hoskere is the owner of the largest puppet collection in India.
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Anupama Hoskere tries to innovate by breaking away from the traditional methods of puppetry.
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Anupama Hoskere has won the UN Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to teach Indian classical puppetry to postgraduate students, and taught at Polytech Nice Sophia in France, Free University of Brussels, and at University of Paris.
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Anupama Hoskere is a visiting faculty of the National Institute of Design, Bengaluru and TEDx speaker at many universities of India.
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Anupama Hoskere is an empaneled artist of Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
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Anupama Hoskere have created about 14 one-hour puppet shows and 8 short puppet shows based on Inian epics and other stories.
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Anupama Hoskere held several positions including one of the advisory board members of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, member of the Central Advisory Board on Culture, India, advisory board member of the Puppetry Cell of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, board member of the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, and the committee member of the Karnataka Bayalata Akademi.
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Anupama Hoskere received Senior Fellowship in Puppetry from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, to revitalize traditional eachanoor puppetry.
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Anupama Hoskere received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Puppetry in 2018.
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Anupama Hoskere has received many awards including the Vishalakshi Award from the Art of Living Foundation, and the Outstanding Woman Award from the Association of Kannada Kootas of America, San Francisco.