This week, experience culture with an edge at the Serendipity Arts Virtual festival
Away from Goa’s happening beaches, the fun for a few days in December takes place on a 1.8-km stretch along river Mandovi that erupts with paintings, music, theatre, graffiti, dance, cooking and aesthetic comments on social politics, among others. Updated: December 21, 2020 11:14:38 am
Sometimes, art rubs power the wrong way. Last year, four members of the music band, Dastaan Live, were arrested for allegedly “performing songs that insult the Hindu religion”. (Photo: Serendipity Arts Festival)
Started in 2016, the Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) in Panaji, Goa, has grown into one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts initiatives in South Asia. Artists from across the world shed the pressures of political correctness or ticket sales to push the envelope as far as it can go.