250 projects across eight art forms: 10 reasons to visit the tenth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2015, the Serendipity Arts Festival was envisaged as a project that would bring the arts out of rigid compartments. According to Smriti Rajgarhia, director, Serendipity Arts Foundation and Festival, the decision to create these conversations between art forms wasn’t arbitrary but about restoring something fundamental.
“When you place visual arts alongside performance, culinary practice sits next to craft, sound installation encounters dance, unexpected resonances emerge. Our curatorial model actively encourages collision," she explains. This year, for the tenth edition, the team has expanded its scope by bringing in 35 curators, who are presenting 250 multidisciplinary projects across eight art forms—visual arts, music, dance, theatre, culinary arts, craft, photography and new media.
“But these are not parallel tracks; they are in constant dialogue," adds Rajgarhia. Here are ten reasons to visit the festival taking place across Panjim till 21 December: The dialogue between the various art forms manifests itself in projects such as Multiplay 02: Soft Systems by Thukral and Tagra, which lies at the intersection of visual arts, interactive installation and social intervention. Then there is Ranjit Barot and Roysten Abel’s Beat Route, with percussion from Kerala's Mizhavu and Chenda alongside instruments from Rajasthan and visuals by Kabir Singh Chowdhry.
“It's not fusion for fusion's sake, but is revelatory of the common language of rhythm that connects India's diverse musical geographies," says Rajgarhia. The city of Panjim has always served as a backdrop to the programming, and the projects respond to the heritage and sociocultural landscape of the city. The Old GMC Complex, which is
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