Serendipity Arts Festival is an annual

arts festival An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and isn't solely focused on visual arts. Arts festivals may feature a mixed program that include music, lite ...

held in

Panaji Panaji (; also known as Panjim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. Previously, it was the territorial capital of the former Portuguese India. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi river estuary ...

, Goa over a week in late December. It was founded in 2016 by

Sunil Kant Munjal Sunil Kant Munjal (born 14 December 1957) is an Indian businessman and the chairman of Hero Enterprise. He is also the founder of India's Serendipity Arts Festival, and is the chairman of the board of governors of The Doon School. He is the youn ...

, chairman of Hero Enterprise. It is the only arts festival in the country whose programming spans multi-disciplinary fields such as

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

literature Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

, food and

crafts A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale prod ...

. The festival's inter-disciplinary approach has been reported in Indian media, along with its impact on "India's art scene". Admission to the festival is free, and in 2018 it received 450,000 visitors. For the 2019 edition, the festival took over 12 venues, including some of the heritage structures along the

Mandovi The Mahadayi/Mandovi River (''Mandovi'', pronounced ), also known as Mahadayi or Mhadei river, is described as the lifeline of the Indian state of Goa. The Mandovi and the Zuari are the two primary rivers in the state of Goa. Mandovi joins wi ...

river, and featured over 95 projects, including workshops, live performances and art exhibitions. The festival is organised by the

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

Serendipity Arts Foundation. Every edition is programmed by a new curatorial team, which includes established figures in particular fields; in 2019, the

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

programming was curated by artists

Jyotindra Jain Jyotindra Jain (born 5 June 1943) is an Indian art and cultural historian, and museologist. A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, he was the Director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, Member Secretary and Professor (Cultural Archiv ...

and

Sudarshan Shetty Sudarshan Shetty (born 1961) is a contemporary Indian artist who has worked in painting, sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. He has exhibited widely in India and more recently he has become increasingly visible on the inter ...

, culinary arts by chef

Rahul Akerkar Rahul Akerkar is an Indian chef, restaurateur and the founder of Indigo (restaurant), Indigo, a Mumbai restaurant credited with introducing the concept of European fine-dining in the city, when it opened in 1999. In the 1990s nascent Indian resta ...

, dance by Mayuri Upadhya, music by

Sneha Khanwalkar Sneha Khanwalkar is an Indian music director who works in Hindi films. She is best known for her score for the film, ''Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!'', and also for ''Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1, Part 2''. She had been nominated in Best Music Director ...

, among others.

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External links

Official website
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