Founders of Art Escape, The Live Music Project, Inspire Trust, Ideas Boutique, Vinesh & Darryl have brought quality music, art, creative workshops, environmental projects and festivals to Goa for ten years now. How has the pandemic affected them, their activities and goals, and what’s in store in the future? In conversation with Shweta Bajaj, an…
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Rapid urbanisation has made it critical for us to conserve the environment, now more than ever. Accountability is the need of the hour and creating a database of all the trees ought to be a good start. The Living Heritage App is the way forward as it enables you to geo-tag trees, do health checks…
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To celebrate the centenary year of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth, musicologist and arts writer S Kalidas will make a presentation on the life and music of this global Indian genius whom he calls the Tansen of our times.
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The Goan Afrikander who became a musician during the transitional age from jazz to rock. Naresh Fernandes and Steve Siqueira, through music, will take us through jazz history and the role Goan musicians played.
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Recently, citizens of Goa came out to assist the Covid relief operations – collaborating with the Government procedures.
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Pantaleão Fernandes is a Goan author and Photographer will be showing us how the traditional Goan professions are dying due to modernism. He will also allow you to witness some locals demonstrating their work to you at the venue while he speaks about it. Pantaleão is a Goa-based writer, photographer and ethnographer. Being very passionate…
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A singular record of recent history and of individual witness, Singh’s prison diary, newly expanded, appears in English for the first time. Offering unprecedented intimacy with the everyday life of the imprisoned everyman, Singh challenges us to look without flinching and question our assumptions about crime and punishment.
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Bullet Proof Ideas – Gauri Lankesh Readings A gathering to remember Gauri Lankesh by reading some of her works. Its most fitting to read and keep reading what she wrote and stood for. Its her views that was targeted. She died serving democracy. Please come to keep her works and dissent alive. Readings by media…
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Musical Warriors is an open group comprising of Goan music performers and activists, who love Goa in all its natural beauty, social harmony and loving hospitality. The group has come together to promote the idea of preservation of our centuries-old tradition of peaceful living in harmony with nature, ecology and environment, which is, sadly, fast being destroyed. The group has conducted many street performances all over Goa creating awareness of various issues such as land grabbing by the state authorities in Mopa and Tuem for government projects and opposition towards Raheja housing project in Carmona and golf course in Tiracol.
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This event is a tribute to Bismarque Dias, his spirit, and his unending love for Goa. Dias’ role as a priest took on an entirely new meaning in 2010, when he vehemently opposed the Church’s decision to sell its land in Vanxim Island. He went on to protest several similar projects, which threatened the biodiversity…
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