raipur in an initiative to promote states buddhist tourist destination chhattisgarh tourism board is set to organize a threeday nationallevel sirpur dance and music festival 2014 from january 4 state tourism board officials told toi that the aim of the festival is to promote sirpur at internationallevel as an extension to buddhist circuit beyond sarnath and sanchi in central india artistes from different states would be participating in the mega event the ancient site of sirpur in mahasamund district of chhattisgarh is set to welcome the artistes of various dance forms on a common platform for a cultural extravaganza along with the dance and music festival events like national artist camp painting competition for schoolchildren will also be conducted during the festival besides encouraging various dance and music forms of the country on one platform the grand festival is set to showcase the diverse art forms of the country bringing together artistes from across the nation the tourism board is also looking forward to host various adventure sports during the festival the schedule of the event is prepared but the presence of special guests is yet to be ascertained vibrant folk dances samanvaya will be performed on january 4 along with panthi dance karma dance five classical dances including odissi kathak manipuri and kathakali by maitreyee pahari from kolkata january 5 will be a blend of sufiana presentation and local dances while january 6 will witness special performance by tejanbai pandavani singer vocal music by shubha mudgal and others the aim behind this festival is to bring major dance and music forms artistes together on one platform and showcase diverse art forms of the country this will be the second year of sirpur festival