The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival this year will open doors from Saturday 6th February to Wednesday 17th February 2016. With a kaleidoscope of music, dance, theatre, literature, food, and more, this 12-day extravaganza promises a cultural palate like never before witnessed!
What to expect at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016?
With a galore of movies on display to freshen up your cinematic experience, Kala Ghoda will be showcasing movies from various genre.
‘Court’ is India’s official entry to the Oscar’s this year!
Where: Coomaraswamy Hall
When: 8th Feb
Time: 2:30 pm
Also, the festival will be screening ‘Island of Magic’ which is an award winning documentary set in a Dharavi school.
When: 9th Feb
Where: Visitor’s Centre
Time: 2:30 pm
Get your dancing shoes on, as Kala Ghoda festival brings to you the best of dance in India.
Prachee Shah Kathak Recital
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 6th Feb
Time: 7 pm
Amaara by Ashley Lobo’s Navdhara
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 6th Feb
Time: 8:50 pm
Rare Grooves Dance Company ( Latin Street Style)
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 8th Feb
Time: 9:30 pm
Eight Count Dance Company (Belly Dancing)
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 9th Feb
Time: 9:40 pm
Dhrut by Sumeet Nagdev Dance Arts (Contemporary & Kathak)
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 13th Feb
Time: 9:05 pm
Are you the kind of person who takes pictures of food before eating? Is your Instagram feed full of food porn? Then you just can’t afford to miss the foodie extravaganza at Kala Ghoda.
Food Styling & Photography by Amrita Raina
Where: Wisk
When: 6th Feb
Time: 1 pm
Modern Pan Asian Cuisine- Pa Pa Ya
Where: Westside
When: 6th Feb
Time: 4 pm
Cooking Canadian with Chef Curtis Pintye
Where: Westside
When: 7th Feb
Time: 1 pm
Topsy Turvy Cakes
Where: Wisk
When: 12th Feb
Time: 5 pm
Maria Goretti will showcasing her culinary skills and telling how to launch your own book.
Where: Westside
When: 13th Feb
Time: 1 pm
Sanjeev Kapoor all set to dazzle with his special recipes.
Where: Westside
When: 13th Feb
Time: 4 pm
You can participate in exploring Mumbai as a ‘food hub’ with celebrity chef Vicky Ratani.
Where: On the pavement outside Khyber Restaurant
When: 13th Feb
Time: 12:30 pm
The journey extends to peek into the hospitality culture of 19th century Mumbai by visiting the premium hotels and indulging in a slice of good ol’ times.
Where: Westside
When: 14th Feb
Time: 12:30 pm
With the expansion in reading culture to escape in our imaginations and fantasies, literature speaks out, voicing a celebration of words.
You can reflect on your intimate connection with literature today at Poetry Slam Dunk which is poetry rapping contemporary style.
Where: Seminar Room, CSMVS
When: 7th Feb
Time: 2 pm
Also read: Lots in store for kids at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016!
Speculate your writing to see how it impacts activism and politics.
Where: DSL Garden
When: 9th Feb
Time: 7:30 pm
You can also catch up on conversation regarding feminism and LGBT issues out in the open.
Where: Artists’ Centre
When: 10th Feb
Time: 5:30 pm
Music itself is a language with many dialects that speaks the heart out.
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Sons
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 7th Feb
Time: 6:30 pm
Sandhya Sanjana– vocalist who intrigates Indian classical vocals with jazz and world music.
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 7th Feb
Time: 9:20 pm
Natalie Di Luccio who is best known for her track Navrai Majhi from ‘English Vinglish’.
Where: Cross Maidan
When: 11th Feb
Time: 9:25 pm
Shibani Kashyap
Where: Asiatic Steps
When: 13th Feb
Time: 8 pm
Karsh Kale
Where: Asiatic Steps
When: 13th Feb
Time: 9 pm
Leave all that work talk behind and de-stress yourself by jerking with tons of laughter at this stand up comedy space with laughter gurus like Kautuk Srivastav, Anirban Dasgupta, Abhishek Upamanyu, And Atul Khatri.
Where: Irish House
When: 11th Feb
Time: 4:30 pm
Kautuk Srivastav |
Lights! Camera! Drama!. With theatre artists wearing masks of beautifully made up characters, we take a look at the dramatic culture at KGAF.
‘Tee’- a Maharashtrain folktale inspired by the gothic novel’ A Woman in Black’ is a horror play worth a seating.
Where: Horniman Circle Gardens
When: 6th Feb
Time: 7:30 pm
You can also tick a play by the students of Salaam Bombay who will be sprinkling some comic dust here.
Where: David Sassoon Library
When: 7th Feb
Time: 11 pm
TV actors Barkha Bisht, Delnaaz Irani, Kishwer Merchant, Paritosh Painter and Nasir Khan, will also be seen coming together in See no Evil, Speak no Evil, Hear no Evil, Do no Evil.
Where: Horniman Circle Gardens
When: 12th Feb
Time: 7:30 pm
If you aspire to take a chunk of knowledge back home from KGAF, head for these amazing workshops held by Niloufar Venkatraman, Editor-in-Chief of Nat Geo Traveller India, for those interested in travel writing.
Where: Artists’ Centre
When: 7th Feb
Time: 11 am
An entertaining session on advertising by experts who say, “Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on”.
Where: Somaiya Centre for Lifelong Learning
When: 7th Feb
Time: 4 pm
If you plan to get your artistic mode on, sit back for a class on speaking about what exactly is art? Where does it stop? And where does design begin?
Where: Artisans’
When: 12th Feb
Time: 5:30 pm
