Serendipity Art Festival launches film announcing it’s 5th edition

Goa Khabar:The eagerly awaited Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) makes a comeback to the heart of Panaji from 15th to 23rd December 2022 after a gap of two years. The short film was released on SAF’s social media channels recently to announce the return of the festival.

Spread across 10 venues with the Old GMC Palace at its heart, the festival will continue to uphold its fundamental values of sustainability, inclusivity, and accessibility.

The illustrious line-up of curators for this year’s festival are Bickram Ghosh, Ehsaan Noorani, Geeta Chandran, Mayuri Upadhya, Sudarshan Shetty, Veerangana Solanki, Pramod Kumar KG, Anjana Somany, Quasar Thakore Padamsee and Prahlad Sukhtankar.

The curators have lined up a range of exciting programmes this year. Bickram Ghosh and Ehsaan Noorani will bring you indie pop & rock, folk, and classical music concerts; the dance programmes, put together by Geeta Chandran and Mayuri Upadhya, will span across various genres such as classical, experimental, and contemporary; our Visual Arts curators Sudarshan Shetty and Veerangana Solanki will focus on young artists in South Asia exploring questions of medium and narrative; Pramod Kumar KG and Anjana Somany will enliven the world of craft; Quasar Thakore Padamsee will showcase a selection of diverse plays addressing the idea of community for all age groups; and finally, Prahlad Sukhtankar will curate the important culinary quotient of Serendipity Arts Festival with community meals and a series of workshops decoding food as we know it.

 Launch video- Serendipity Arts Festival is back! #MeetMeAtSerendipity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh4PXH7deB0&ab_channel=SerendipityArtsFestival

To register for Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 please visit – https://www.serendipityartsfestival.com/festival2022/registrations

About Serendipity Arts Foundation

Serendipity Arts is an arts and cultural development foundation created to encourage and support the arts as a significant contributor to civil society. It aims to promote new creative strategies, artistic interventions, and cultural partnerships that are responsive and seek to address the social, cultural, and environmental milieu of South Asia. Committed to innovation, SA intends to promote and create platforms for creativity, providing the wider public with a unique source of contemporary art and culture. SA programmes are designed and initiated through collaborations with partners across a multitude of fields, and each intervention uses the arts to impact education, create social initiatives, foster community development, and explore multidisciplinarity forays in the arts, with a special focus on South Asia.

About Serendipity Arts Festival

The Foundation’s primary initiative and largest project, Serendipity Arts Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts event held annually every December in Goa. Curated by a panel of eminent artists and institutional figures, the Festival is a long-term cultural project that hopes to instigate positive change across the arts in India on a large scale. Spanning the visual, performing and culinary arts, the Festival’s programming includes music, dance, visual arts, craft, photography, film, and theatre. The Festival addresses pressing social issues such as arts education and pedagogy, cultural patronage, interdisciplinary discourse, and access to the arts. Serendipity Arts Festival intensive programme of exhibitions and performances is energised by spaces for social and educational engagement. The fifth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival will take place in Goa from 15-23 December 2022.