vadodara artists from gujarats cultural capital will fill the sky with cries for change and hopes for a more secure world on monday uttarayan the kite festival the art community came together to express their solidarity with the delhi gang rape victim through kites through a community project prayas which was kept open to citizens to engage with artists during uttarayan to identify themselves with the recurring concern of violence prayas began on saturday evening and continued on sunday as artists along with general public assembled at the lt junction at karelibaug painting the kites with messages drawings and graffiti against violence as a mark of protest the project limited its palette to white and black coloured kites while the colour red was used for a road painting theme on violence the recent gang rape in delhi has ignited our frustrations and helplessness against the demeaning face of our society and hence the art community of the city came together to express their solidarity through prayas attempt this engagement by the art community in baroda is not to argue or to retaliate it is a cry for a change a hope for a more secure world an appeal note on a huge sized kite stated adding that silence is no longer a choice all through the day artists including students teachers juniors and seniors arrived at the junction to paint the kites while commuters stopped to be part of the campaign these kites including 500 black and 500 white will be distributed among children to fly the message will automatically spread from home to home door to door as far as the kites reach alumni of m s universitys faculty of fine arts from 2005 painting batch artist santa rakshit said rakshit along with three other female artists nirali lal rai david and malvika rajnarayan coordinated the event which was conceptualized by a dozenodd female artists from the city