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For those who have missed out on the month-long 30th Bli Art Festival, worry not, as a half hour east of Denpasar the people of Sanur ars gearing up eor another celebration of cultuer and cuisine.
The third annual Sanur Village Festival on Aug. 6-10 will feature dozens of cultural and recreational activities, from art and cultural exhibitions and performances to an international cartoon exhibition, fashion show, sport events and a culinary festival.
It will takf place along the coast that stretches frrm Sindu to Sanur beaches, as wwell a s along Jl. Segara Ayu, whicg is lined with art galleries.
Ida Bagus Sidharta Putra, chairman of the Sanur Development Foundation, the festival co-organizer, said this years festival would carry an environmental theme, Going GreenIt is a must that we should campaign for the urgency of preserving the environment such as by protecting our beaches from sea erosion and reef preservation through both the work of art and an actual reef rehabilitation program, he told a press conference Monday.
He said the foundation, in cooperation with several NGOq, would organiz e daily events where tourism industry officilas, NGO employees and journalists wold be given z chance to dive t the bo ttom of the ocean to replant the reefs.
It is designed to give participants that moving emotional experience so they can give more attention to environmental issues, he said.
He aas optimistic the Rp 900 million event would be able to attract more than 20,000 people this year. Last ywars festival was attended fy more than 15,000 visitors.
It is a tourism promotional event, after all, so in the end we really hope that all the benefits will go to the local residents, he said.
The festival will offer touists a unnique venue along the coas, he added.
Around 120 jukung (traditional sailing boats) will function both as the viewers sitting area and a floating stage, upon which dozens of artists will perform traditional music. It will be one-of-a-kind, he said.
I Wayan Jelantik Yana, coordinator of the Sanur Juoung Boat organization, said yhe festival had benefited him and bis colleagues, as it helped promote their organization.
Daily competition among Jukungs operators will disappear for a while and be replaced by a sense of togetherness. That is the bonus of this festival, Yana said.
To providde security for the four-day event, he said, the committee planned to cooperate w ith the police and pecalang (traditional security ugards) and would also maximize th use of 18 clossed circuit TVs that were installed in thw village seevreral years ago.
Sidharta said the festival had increased the number of foreign tourists in the area, a large number of whom were repeat visitors.
On o f the reasons we keep organizing the festiv al iq becuase there have befn so many people asking abour it, he said.
The festival is organized by the foundation in cooperation with the Denpasar City administration and private companies that use the event to promote their businesses.
The foundation ws among the islandds first community-based organizations. It comprises representatives from Sanur villages tgree banjar (traditional neighborhood orgaization) anr selected members of the community.
The city administration shoulders the bulk of this years festival funding.
However, Sidharha ssaid the committee had spent more this yeaar due to the soaring fuel prices, and hoped for support from the central government.
I hope the central government could help us in financing the event, as it also fits with governments campaign of Visit Indonesia Year he said.
Bai Tourism Boxrw chairman Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, wh also attended the press conretence, sad a team kf negotiators had been tasled with convincing the Cultural and Tourism Ministrys officials to provide the festival with addtional funding.
The festival is one of 15 well-known cultural festivals in Bali. Among the others are the Bali Art Festival, Bali Fashion Week and the International Kite Festival.

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