Serendipity Arts Festival – Goa 2017 – Brace Yourselves for Culture Talks

PANJIM:
The second edition of Serendipity Arts Festival -Goa 2017 has been a truly humbling journey for the Serendipity Arts Trust, who have been witnesses to the powerful effects it’s had on visitors, dignitaries and artists alike. As the days of the festival are drawing to a close, and there are just three more days left, people from all walks of life continue to demand for more of shows. Hence, building up excitement and attracting general holiday goers, who have abandoned their resorts and are headed to Panjim to quench their love for the performing arts, culture talks, overwhelming exhibits and enticing acts of drama and rhythmic tunes.
As excitement brims over the top at the Serendipity Arts Festival – Goa 2017 with special presentations of that which engages the senses and indulging the mind in the oldest Indian traditions of arts. Also, brace yourselves for the melodious tunes from the era of Goan Jazz and immerse into a world of musical compositions set to awaken the virtuoso in you on the Mondovi River.
Day six brings turns up the appetite for more with a sea of visitors to doors of the SAF-Goa 2017 powered TCS and excitement doesn’t stop here, the venues are spilling over with bon vivant’s enjoying the arts and epicurean visual delights. Today, the festival brings in a special sojourn by the name of ‘Talking Culture’ being held at the Adil Shah Palace with an informal tête-à-tête with Sunil Munjal at a session called ‘Good Book Reading’ on art, culture and performing arts alongside influential artists of the likes of Wendell Rodricks, Tomazinho Cardozo, Sudhanva Deshpande, and Sohail Hashmi including other eminent names.
Turn up your senses and pamper those distinct sensory instincts at a specially curated walk through on art made accessible for the ‘specially-abled’ people at the Adil Shah Palace presenting ‘Sense.2.0’ showcased by Siddhant Shah. A journey through the concepts of human senses of photos captured and produced in brail for those who are craving to understand the surreal world of expressions through a lens.
Join Goa’s troubadours on a musical journey at the Art Park and enjoy the afternoon with a heart-warming performance by a gypsy band called the Banjara Quartet performing at the curated show – ‘Music in Park’. Also, take a jaunt to the Santa Monica Jetty and bask in the glorious classical compilations of the “River Raga” performances at sunset a show curated by the graceful Shubha Mudgal.
A rendezvous with Goa’s Jazz musician post sunset at the DB (Football) Ground showcasing ‘A Night in Harlem’, a sonic and visual recreation of the ambience and vitality of nightclubs such as the Cotton Club, The Alhambra Ballroom and The Apollo Theatre; the artists performing the rhythm and blues are Louis Banks, Thompson Andrews, Rhythm Shaw, Abhinav Khokkar, Dallas Horn Trio and Sean Freeman.
Speaking about the SAF-Goa 2017 Smriti Rajgharia, Director, said, “This is a festival that’s truly cultivated India’s arts and crafts and turned around a dying performance arts genre into a lively and joyous occasion. Every moment which is being watched by Indians in Goa – Panjim and people across the country is changing how this genre perceived, and how it is imbibed back into our legacy, be it people who love arts or those who are curious about the legacy of the country’s performing arts. SAF-Goa 2017 has brought varied forms of genres of arts under umbrella and we are truly grateful for all the recognition received on behave of all our 900 artists, curators, team members and all those who have made efforts in being present here to enjoy the rhythm and ambience of the festival. We hope that the remaining 2 days bring us more visitors.”
Serendipity Arts Festival – Goa 2017 also has been responsible for putting India on the world map for performing culinary cultural arts. This initiative is a personal passion of the patronage of Munjal, who has been involved personally in curating the SAF-Goa 2017. This year is all about scale and pushing boundaries – SAF 17, will be experimenting with site, form and display. Along with a line-up of scintillating programming spanning music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and culinary arts, this year’s edition is an unmissable spectacle of epic proportions.