The humanities and tradition season is in full swing.
If Kolkata and Shantiniketan is presently being wowed by the inaugural version of the bold Bengal Biennale, and Chennai by the wealthy tapestry of artwork on the Madras Artwork Weekend, then Goa is gearing up for the ninth version of the Serendipity Arts Pageant, which has turn into a should within the calendar of tradition connoisseurs.
As industrialist Sunil Kant Munjal, the founder patron of the interdisciplinary competition, that’s being held in Panaji from December 15-22, says, “The Serendipity Arts Pageant, which is South Asia’s largest multidisciplinary arts competition, can’t be defined. It needs to be skilled.”
This yr, the competition — supported by the Goa authorities amongst others and has a number of company patrons — options 1,800-plus artists and 200-plus initiatives, panels, workshops and public artwork interventions throughout 22 venues.
Some 13 curators are threading collectively numerous strands of the competition.
AI-driven initiatives
There’s a lot happening for certain — from enjoyable culinary initiatives just like the intriguing climate-controlled dosa picnic basket and convey your personal pickle to a seaweed tasting mission, to design explorations by manufacturers, craftsmanship, music, theatre, dance and movies — all of which have a component involving the native Goan neighborhood.
This yr, there’s synthetic intelligence as properly within the form of an AI Mini lab curated by Mathieu Wothke.
“AI is the brand new power shaking up the world. We like to stay present in our explorations. By introducing AI-driven initiatives, we intention to encourage artists and audiences alike to have interaction with these new potentialities that escape neat categorisation,” says Munjal.
going world
Munjal factors out that at SAF, proper from the primary yr, “we have now accomplished issues which have a wider perspective past a portray or seeing a theatre present.
“Now we have accomplished programmes on science and artwork, artwork and well being, on NFTs, crypto forex, and we are actually bringing in stuff on synthetic intelligence.”
Considerably sufficient, the SAF goes world subsequent yr.
The celebration of tradition and creativity shall be held at Birmingham from Could 23 to June 1, 2025 in partnership with Birmingham Metropolis College. “Now we have had requests for a few years from many international locations to come back in and convey the competition,” says Munjal, who’s enthusiastic about elevating India’s mushy energy. He provides, “England is is a really acquainted place for many people, with kids or grandkids learning there. So it’s a straightforward place culturally for us to tackle as the following outpost of the competition.”
