IFA@Bangalore | Festival | Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices | October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
in collaboration with
Bangalore International Centre
presents

Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices
OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 01, 2019

Be Present at Past Forward

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is delighted to invite you to Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices, an arts festival brought to you by IFA in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre over three days on October 30, 31 and November 01, 2019 at Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore. This festival brings together over 40 diverse artistic expressions under six themes of Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Engaging Communities, Making Meanings of Myths, Thinking Audiences and Imagining Futures through panel discussions, performances, film screenings, workshops and exhibitions.

As we count down, check out the events planned under its themes Engaging Communities and Making Meanings of Myths at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices.

Engaging Communities
Artistic and cultural practices of various communities, community knowledge systems, and traditional / contemporary political and social discourses embedded within specific communities, have been at the centre of many arts projects. Practitioners have often drawn strongly on community knowledge, attempted to address questions of community identity/ies and taken their work back into the community space after spending time working with them and making the work. The projects showcased here are representative of the diverse ways in which community engagement in the arts are prevalent today. Engage with this theme through theatre, music, art and film.
Works of the following grantees will be showcased:
Panel Discussion: Alakananda Nag, Ekta Mittal, Sumona Chakravarty, Soumya Sankar Bose, Sumana Chandrashekhar (Moderator)
Exhibition: Alakananda Nag, Soumya Sankar Bose
Performance: Ronidkumar Chingangbam (Akhu)

Making Meanings of Myths
Myths have played a significant role in helping humanity interpret their lives, understand their experiences and make meanings of their existence. They connect quotidian lived realities to larger concepts of power and truth. Artists have always used and borrowed from myths to make works that attempt to extend beyond the immediate struggles of living, to seek broader questions of life. The projects showcased under this theme represent some of these attempts. While some of the projects relook at myths of the past, others consider the possibility of constructing new ones. Engage with this theme through art, theatre and music.
Works of the following grantees will be showcased:
Panel Discussion: Deepika Arwind, George Mathen (Appupen), Ranjini Krishnan, S Murugaboopathy, Shena Gamat, Gitanjali Rao (Moderator)
Exhibition: Ranjini Krishnan
Performance: Shena Gamat

Click here for details on other themes – Interrogating Pasts, Confluence of Forms, Thinking Audiences, and Imagining Futures.

Stay tuned for the festival schedule and brochure featuring exciting details of events planned at Past Forward: Celebrating Critical Practices!

We would like to thank our philanthropy partners – Bangalore International Centre, Biocon Limited, C. Krishniah Chetty Group Of Jewellers, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, RMZ Foundation, Sandeep and Gitanjali Maini Foundation, and Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao; and outreach partner – Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru, for supporting this festival.