Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- Artist Bivas Rai's solo exhibition 'Myth & Memory' will open at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited, on August 28.

Presented by the Australian Himalayan Foundation (AHF) and Siddhartha Art Gallery, the exhibition brings together paintings that explore Kirati Rai culture through Sakela, a communal dance and festival celebrated to honour nature and ancestors.

Rai, recipient of the 2025 AHF Himalayan Art Award, grew up in an extended Rai family surrounded by stories. As a child, however, he says he rarely had the patience to listen to them. Years later, his relationship with those stories has changed.

"Indigenous history is primarily passed down in the form of stories from one generation to the next," says ...