Sand Artist & Animator: Manas Sahoo

MANAS KUMARSAHOO (Sand Artist & Animator) Born to a middle class family in the land of Lord Jagannath, Puri, Odisha. Son of Sri Prahalad Sahoo and Smt Manorama Sahoo. He has participated various International and Nation sand art festivals in different countries. INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS # Brand Lunch of Consolidated Gulf Company at Doha- QATAR- 2011 # International Talent Hunt @ Dubai media Incorporate by Govt of Dubai-2010 # India Festival-Amstardam-Holand –2008 # Asia fair at Brussels in Belgium in 2008 # Participated in India @ 60 festivals at New York.2007 # Participated in Langkawi International Sand Sculpture Festival at Malaysia in 2007 # Participated in International Students Conference at Dubai in 2007 # Participated in 15TH Asian Games, Doha 2006 # Participated in World Championship of Sand Sculpture in Canada in 2006 # Participated in Muscat Festival at Oman in 2003 # Participated in 3rd World Masters Sand Sculpture Championship 2001 and bagged 3rd Prize in Italy NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS # "Abhinandanika Award- 2011" by Shri Giridhar Gamango (Ex Chief Minister, Govt Of Odisha) # Lunching of BMW X1 series car through Sand Animation at New Delhi- 2011 # Historical Performance at the visit of Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil (The President Of India) for 100yrs CBI Celebration, at Mumbai- 2010. # Felicitate by Sri Pranab Mukharjee, Minister of Finance(Govt of India) at 90th Anniversary of Union Bank Of India, Delhi in 2010 # 'PRIDE OF ODISHA-2010', by "TARANGA Television Networks". # Best Achievers Award by INDIAN RAILWAYS @ East Coast Rly Division in 2010 # Gabbed "ZINDAGI LIVE" prize by CNN-IBN networks for Sand Animation in 2010 # Appreciation award by Sir Vittorio Colao(Global Chief), VODAFONE ESSAR Cellular Limited at Pune in 2010 # Participated in INDIA'S GOT TALENT-2 of on 'COLOR' television Channel in 2010 # Participated in Goa International film festival in 2007 # Participated in 350th Agra Celebration in 2005 # Participated in ITF New Delhi in 2002 & 2003 # Participated in TTF Kolkata in 1999 # Participated in different awareness programmes on Bird Flue, Tsunami, HIV / AIDS etc # Teaching Sand Art to many handicrafts children's and youngsters. # Also participated in several Sand Art Demonstration at Chennai, Pondichery, Mumbai, Haladia- West Bengal (Haldia Festival), Malkanagiri Festival, Berhmpur Beach Festival, Paradeep Beach Festival, Konark Festival, Brahmaputra Festival(Guwahati), Hyderabad, Ranchi, Bijapur (Karnatak), Puri Beach Festival, Shree Khetra Festival, Anjali Programme etc Reach At: Near Surya Complex Grand Road, Puri-752001, Orissa. Email : neelachalcreatives@gmail.com
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