Serendipityartsfestival.com Website Review

Serendipity Arts Festival is a multidisciplinary Festival that brings together performative, visual, and culinary practices from India and beyond, in ways unseen before. Spread across various venues in Panaji, Goa, the Festival serves as a platform for eminent and emerging An exhibition that explores handcraft in India through objects of utility for everyday living, through an abstract installation of the home-workshop environment. This exhibition highlights how material handcrafts in India are experienced through collaborations. A performance that explores motifs from nature represented in song-texts expressed in the repertoire of Qawwals, Bauls and What happens when a woman enters the professional space of a form performed by men for the last 800 years? Akshayambara explores the representation of the feminine within the male-dominated practice of Yakshagana. Drawing from research and personal experience, the performance imagines a reversal of roles in the popular Yakshagana plot of Draupadi Vastrapaharana. To Die Upon a Kiss… is a Kathakali performance, based on the world famous tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare. Constituting one of the most prominent clas*ical dance forms of India, Kathakali is characterised by elaborate make up, face-masks and costumes. The characters will be presenting edited scenes of Shakespeare’s play, touching upon the broad themes of downfall, betrayal, and love. Originally part of the ancient gaunkari system, enjoy the ‘Tinto’ (marketplace) experience, with stalls serving organic and Saraswat thalis, freshly-made fish dishes, pickles, meat dishes and desserts through an artistic representation of a true Goan story. The YS project in 2018 expands points of contact, explores sightlines of common struggles and aspirations in South Asia, looking at the reas*ertion and reinvention of geographies, facilitating conversations and narratives. An exhibition developed around the proposition of ‘the sacred everyday’—the interrelationship between the domain of the divine,