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Spreading hope through the arts
Serendipity Arts Festival launches a new digital experience:
SAF
2020 x You
April 24, New Delhi: Serendipity Arts Festival is launching
a new digital experience for all those who are braving the pandemic in
quarantine and living in lockdown. SAF
2020 x You, a digital initiative, starting from the 25th of April, will be evenly spread
across 5 - 6 days and will be hosted
on the different social media platforms of the Festival, supported by a new,
specially designed webpage.
The new webpage
will carry the essential details about the daily offerings of this digital
collaborative festival. The virtual festival will
be bringing a range of multi-disciplinary experiences, from a cross section of
the arts in the form of archived and aggregated content from the past and
present. The offerings will see a diverse mix of content presented
through webinars, performances, readings and workshops. People can expect to be
a part of special sessions by the likes of Bickram
Ghosh, tabla virtuoso and percussionist,
Ranjit Barot, Drummer & Percussionist and curator of the music discipline from
the Serendipity Arts Festival 2016,
Sneha Khanwalkar, music director and
curator to the Serendipity Arts Festival. Along with messages and special presentations by notable artists
and curators who have been associated with the Serendipity Arts Foundation & Festival like Vidya Shivadas, Rahaab Allana, Ravi Agarwal, Veeranganakumari Solanki,
Anuja Ghosalkar, Niketan Sharma, Astad Deboo and many more. Much like the annual festival the
digital experience will also package
elements for people of all ages. Ranga Shankara Theater, envisioned by
Arundhati Nag, actress, theater
personality and curator, will do special readings and storytelling sessions
for children from fables and children’s literature. The programming will also
include several workshops on theater, music and culinary arts for everyone to
participate in and rejoice from the comfort of their homes.
Speaking about SAF 2020 x You, Mr. Sunil Kant
Munjal, Founder Patron, Serendipity Arts Foundation, said, “Over the years, Serendipity Arts
Festival has become known as a people’s festival. We
wholeheartedly support creative inclusion, and have worked hard these past
few years to remove the hurdles and barriers that exist between the arts and
people. At a time when people across all nations are hurting, and
lives have been disrupted, the arts brings us together and helps us
stay connected. SAF 2020 x YOU celebrates the human spirit, the ability to
support each other, and to come out on top of any crisis with the human spirit
and humanity intact. We hope this will brighten your day and give you reason
for joy.”
The official hashtag of the
digital festival would be #SAFeFestival, and its daily programming would be offered
through the digital platforms of the Serendipity Arts Festival. Both the aggregated and original content is bracketed
into four segments namely Exhibitions,
Performances, Workshops and Readings/Resources. The content put up in these
brackets would be shared by the partners and affiliates, past and present
curators and artists from previous editions, along with a combination of
popular content available from public sources, with due credit to the
publisher.
For more information and the daily
schedule please visit www.serendipityartsfestival-safxyou.com
About
Serendipity Arts Foundation
Serendipity Arts
Foundation, a Munjal initiative for creativity, is a not-for-profit arts and
cultural development Foundation that fosters cultural development and supports
emerging artists across South Asia. The Foundation aims to promote new creative
strategies, artistic interventions, and cultural partnerships which are
responsive, addressing the social, cultural and environmental milieu of South
Asia. The Foundation’s programmes are designed and initiated through innovative
collaborations with partners across a multitude of fields, impacting education,
promoting social growth via community development programmes, and exploring
interdisciplinarity across the arts.
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 accessibility to the arts. Serendipity Arts
Festival’s intensive programme of exhibitions and performances is energized by
spaces for social and educational engagement.
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**Universally, this
pandemic has taught us to come together and rally around the greatest strength
we possess - the human spirit. Through all this, we at SAF are re- emphasizing
what is most important - our audience, our team members and our beloved
community.
As we sit at home, checking the news countless times to see how
the vaccine for COVID-19 is progressing, our perception of time changes.
Distances have changed, the value of a hug has altered, the importance of
friends, family, and community is stronger than before. The things we took for
granted have been made abundantly clear. Everything we knew “before Covid” will
be redefined by philosophers and poets, historians, environmentalists, and
economists in years to come. Our team has been working tirelessly and
thinking about the ways in which we could
both engage and support the human spirit. Our team has been
putting together newsletters which include recommendations on film, music,
books, online courses etc. https://saf-newsletter.squarespace.com/
We are, however, particularly fortunate to
be at a point in time where technology allows us to explore and experience the
arts like never before. From the comfort of your home, you can virtually travel
to see / hear /experience / participate in a range of exhibitions, concerts,
performances and workshops, all just the click of a link
away! We would like to thank the arts community for their efforts in keeping the arts alive and kicking! In this vein, we invite you to SAF 2020 x You. From April 25th onwards, join us to experience a multi-disciplinary cross section of the arts, both regional and international, in an online festival of sorts. In the spirit of collaboration, join us on this journey travelling, learning, and spreading joy through the arts. The show will go on!
away! We would like to thank the arts community for their efforts in keeping the arts alive and kicking! In this vein, we invite you to SAF 2020 x You. From April 25th onwards, join us to experience a multi-disciplinary cross section of the arts, both regional and international, in an online festival of sorts. In the spirit of collaboration, join us on this journey travelling, learning, and spreading joy through the arts. The show will go on!
#StayHome #StaySafe
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