Cuisines around the world build upon a grammar and vocabulary that enables culinary conversations within communities and with the world. And yet, a global history of migration, colonisation, and exploitation of the natural world has shaped how the world sources its food, cooks, and eats today.
Curated by:
Edible Issues
Project by:
Priya Mani
A Serendipity Arts Foundation Grant
Chennai-based band Uru Paanar strives to preserve the rich heritage of Tamil music through a unique blend of independent sounds and indigenous instruments.
Foundation Initiative
Sweets are an integral part of rituals, and Goa is no different. While certain sweets attain an iconic status some sweets remain secrets of domestic kitchens and are not commercially available. Through a tasting of two sweets by two home chefs, we bring to you how gender, sweets, and rituals are inseparable from each other.
Curated by:
Edible Issues
Project by:
Ishita Dey, Anjana Amonkar and Monica
Finding Heaven by The Tapi Project pushes the boundaries that define our fixed ideas of art and culture. It gives the audience a chance to experience fluidity in structure and complete surrender through a fusion of folk and contemporary music and poetry.
Curated by:
Bickram Ghosh
The Dranyen is a traditional Himalayan folk music lute with six strings, used primarily as an accompaniment to singing in the Drukpa Buddhist culture and society in Bhutan, Tibet, Sikkim and Himalayan West Bengal.
Facilitated by:
Tsering Angchuk
Skalzang Tundup
B-side is an initiative by Serendipity Arts centred around independent music and cultural currents stemming from contemporary music practices.
Foundation Initiative
This innovative concert will highlight the dynamic musical dialogue between diverse instruments, creating a vibrant and harmonious blend of textures and rhythms.
Curated by:
Bickram Ghosh
The Isheeta Chakrvarty Collective will showcase original music interspersed with reimagined and rearranged traditional and contemporary songs.
Curated by:
Bickram Ghosh
Commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation for Serendipity Arts Festival 2024
In this project, the curator envisions an adaptation of traditional women’s work songs through dance performances that traverse our nation, probing a critical question: what comes to our mind when we think of women’s songs of labour and millstone?
Curated by:
Geeta Chandran
A one hour music piece by Folks-Wagon capturing the sounds of the West Coast of India from Gujarat to Kerala. The performance would include the native music and instruments from the region with a compelling narrative.
Special Project

