Curated by Prakriti foundation, the festival will showcase brilliance in music, dance, art and theatre
New Delhi, October 15, 2014:Continuing its legacy of promoting art and culture, The Park Hotels is back with its much awaited contemporary performance arts festival of India,‘The Park’s New Festival 2014’. Curated by Prakriti Foundation, the festival aims to bring together international and local artists at a world class forum to celebrate art and culture.The eighth edition of the festival has on offer compelling performances in the genre of music, dance, art andtheatre.
Kickstaring from India’s cultural capital Kolkata on 31st October, the festival will travel to six cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore before concluding in Chennai on 23rd November. With striking contemporary dance performance by UK based hip-hop/contemporary dance company Avant Garde, observational humour of Azeem Banatwalla, a devised performance piece by actress cum performing artist Jyoti Dogra, a unique brew of music by Filter Coffee, an improvised performance based on the character of Madame Kby K TWO dance group and an exhibition of moving image works by Claire Pencak, The Park’s New Festival will witness all this and much more. In addition to the performances scheduled, the Avant Garde Dance Company will conduct contemporary dance workshops across six cities.
Speaking about the festivalMs. Priya Paul, Chairperson, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Ltd said, “With creativity and innovation ingrained in our collective DNA, we at The Park Hotels, draw from myriad cultural and global influences to create a landscape that is illustrative of contemporary India. Keeping our promise of Curating Culture, we bring for our discerning audience the 8th edition of The Park’s New Festival, one of the oldest Contemporary Performance Arts Festivals in India.We are delighted to share with you performances that are truly Anything But Ordinary.”
Mr. Ranvir Shah, Founder- Prakriti Foundationand the curator of the festival said, “With the new season of The Park’s New Festival, our aim is to help showcase exciting new work in the field of art, promote and encourage cultural skills development and convene valuable forums for artists in mutually beneficial projects. Our long association with The Park Hotels has been an incredible journey and we wish to flourish and continue our celebration of art, expression, creativity and culture in the coming years.”
For more information about the festival, please visit:
www.theparksnewfestival.com / www.prakritifoundation.com
| The Park’s New Festival 2014 – Schedule | ||
| DATE AND TIME | ARTIST | VENUE |
| KOLKATA | ||
| 31st Oct, 2014 – Fri 7PM | Avant Garde | Kala Mandir |
| 01st Nov, 2014 – Sat 8PM | Azeem Banatwalla | Galaxy, The Park |
| 02ndNov, 2014 – Sun 8PM | Filter Coffee | Roxy, The Park |
| 02nd – 06th Nov, 2014 | Between the web & the loom | Weavers Studio |
| MUMBAI | ||
| 05thNov, 2014- Wed 8:30PM | Azeem Banatwalla | The Park, Navi Mumbai |
| 06th Nov, 2014 – Thu 7PM | Avant Garde | Tata Theatre, NCPA |
| 07th Nov, 2014 – Fri 7 PM | Jyoti Dogra | Sitara Studio |
| DELHI | ||
| 08th Nov, 2014 – Sat 7 PM | Azeem Banatwalla | Agni, The Park |
| 09th Nov, 2014 – Sun 7 PM | Filter Coffee | Agni, The Park |
| 10th Nov, 2014 – Mon 7 PM | Avant Garde | Shriram Centre |
| 10th-13th Nov, 2014 | Between the web & the loom | Experimental Art Gallery |
| HYDERABAD | ||
| 11th Nov, 2014 – Tue 8 PM | Azeem Banatwalla | Kismet, The Park |
| 12th Nov, 2014 – Wed 7 PM | Avant Garde | Ravindra Bharathi |
| 13th Nov, 2014 – Thu 8 PM | Jyoti Dogra | Kismet, The Park |
| BANGALORE | ||
| 14th Nov, 2014 – Fri 7 PM | Avant Garde | Chowdiah Hall |
| 15th Nov, 2014 – Sat 8 PM | Azeem Banatwalla | Oak Room, The Park |
| 16th Nov, 2014 – Sun 8 PM | Jyoti Dogra | Oak Room, The Park |
| CHENNAI | ||
| 17th – 20th Nov, 2014 | Between the web & the loom | Forum Art Gallery |
| 17th Nov, 2014 – Mon 7:30PM | Filter Coffee | Sansara, The Park |
| 18th Nov, 2014 – Tue 7 PM | Avant Garde | Museum Theatre |
| 19th Nov, 2014- Wed 7:30PM | Azeem Banatwalla | Pasha, The Park |
| 20th Nov, 2014 – Thu 7 PM | Jyoti Dogra | Spaces |
| 23rd Nov, 2014 – Sun 7 PM | K TWO | Kalakshetra |
About The Park Hotels:
The Park Hotels, pioneers of luxury boutique hotels in India are present in the major cities & leisure destinations. Situated in prime locations, we house some of India’s most inventive restaurants, liveliest bars & nightclubs, award winning spa and health club. Our state-of-the-art business aids, edgy art & stylish spaces, all make us a natural choice for the corporate & leisure traveler.
The Park is present in Bangalore*, Chennai*, Hyderabad*, Kolkata*, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi* and Visakhapatnam. The Park Collection is The Park Calangute Beach* (Goa) and The Park Pod (Chennai).
About Prakriti Foundation:
Prakriti Foundation was founded by Ranvir Shah in Chennai in 1998 to host events enquiring into our cultural heritage and inheritance. The vision behind Prakriti was to host events that would play a catalytic role in changing and enlarging the cultural scene in Chennai. It saw itself as the moving force behind events as diverse as music concerts, seminars and serious scholarly discourse, multi media events, experimental and protest cinema and theatre festivals. In the last nine years, Prakriti Foundation has worked to explore identity through history and heritage, art and cultural expression in the city of Chennai. It has been the space where scholars, researchers, artists, critics, poets and filmmakers have been able to present their work to those who engage with it on serious terms. Our lecture demonstrations, poetry readings, film screenings and intimate performances continue to dot the Chennai calendar.
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