Serendipity Arts Festival 2020- One of the Largest South Asian Virtual Events

Events always excite us. Unfortunately, 2020 was one of the most monotonous years in mankind's history because a lot of events had cancelled looking at the spread of the pandemic COVID-19. However, some events were conducted online to engage audiences from the comfort of their home. One such event was the Serendipity Arts Festival 2020. Serendipity Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization in South Asia, took the event online instead of cancelling it. It resulted in one of the most successful virtual events in 2020.

SAF or Serendipity Arts Festival takes place every year in December in Goa, India. The multidisciplinary event aims at enhancing the arts and culture by giving new talents the platform to showcase their skills to the world. 2017, 2018, and 2019 SAF events were grand. Thousands of footfalls were recorded in these events. They were breaking their own records. The Serendipity’s team was expecting the same for 2020, but the pandemic shifted the event online. However, Serendipity’s team took the adverse condition as an opportunity.

Like every year, Serendipity Foundation left no stone untouched to make the event successful. A new website was launched specially to organize the event online. The website carries the schedule of events and all the details of each event such as artists, curators, and the logic of the event. Audiences could save the timing of their interesting events on Google calendars so as not to miss the show.

Serendipity Arts requires online free registration for audiences and participants.

Highlights of SAF 2020 Projects

Goa Familia

Goa Familia was one of a new kind of event that allowed people to peep into the lifestyle of Goan people in the late 80s and 90s. The online art gallery had a rich collection of photographs from Goan family albums and Goan families’ individual experiences in form of audio and videos. They shared their personal memory and collection. The curator of the event was Lina Vincent and the collaborators were several Goan families.

Kite Making

Serendipity Arts Festival is a multidisciplinary arts festival. Over the years, Serendipity Foundation has expressed its honour by showcasing the finest craft of the finest artists of the South Asian region. By organizing kite making, SAF tried to rejuvenate the old memories of childhood where children were involved in creating and flying kites. Kite Making was a workshop organized by Umar Daraz, a Delhi-based famous kite artist. He has been practicing the art since his childhood. He is a master in making kites of different materials. His creativity is out-of-the-box. The event was so successful. The seat of the participants was full and pre-booked.

Sanjhi Paper Cutting

It is another very successful workshop of SAF 2020. The workshop encouraged artists to create something creative from a piece of plain paper. The workshop aims to give a boost to paper cutting art that is new and full of creativity. Artists use a plain piece of paper and a scissor to cut the paper piece into several different forms like flowers and animals. The workshop was conducted under the guidance of Mohan Verma who is a leading paper cutting artist. His artwork has been displayed multiple times on national and international platforms.

Culinary Workshops

This year, the culinary workshop was scheduled from day one to the end of the event. Every day, some expert chefs taught delicious dishes of Goa and a signature cocktail. The workshop was special with the pre-decided menu. Participants were requested to arrange materials beforehand before joining the workshop. Various types of mouth-watering easy dishes were the prime highlight of the workshop.

Master Class Vertigo Dance Company

Vertigo Dance Company is an internationally famous dance company. The event was for those who were interested in music and dance. A team of expert choreographers, vocals, costume artists, and state design artists came together to make the event successful. These artists had taken the dancing creativity to the next level.

SAF 2020 was a successful event. People from all over the world who are interested in culture and arts appreciated the effort of the Serendipity Arts Foundation. Like previous years, SAF 2020 was also a multidisciplinary event. Curators from all the fields of arts came together to organize the SAF 2020 in a well-organized manner. Overall, it was one of the most desirable events of 2020 not only in South Asia but also internationally.