This December, Goa will host the 10th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival from 12–21 December 2025. This landmark celebration has grown over the past decade into South Asia’s most significant multidisciplinary cultural festival. By bringing together visual arts, theatre, dance, music, craft, design, photography, and culinary traditions, the festival has transformed India’s cultural calendar, creating a space where art and audiences converge in unforgettable ways. Registrations for Serendipity Arts Festival 2025 are now live! Visit the official festival website to secure your Art Pass, book tickets, and stay updated on workshops, performances, exhibitions, and more. Additional programming will be announced soon, so check back regularly for updates. Link: https://www.serendipityartsfestival.com/register
This year, Gujarat finds itself at the heart of these milestone celebrations. One project in particular carries the spirit of the region into the festival: The Games People Play, curated by WEFT Foundation, at the Plaza, Kala Academy showcasing from 14 December – 21 December, 2025,
The Games People Play sees Harsh Bhavsar of WEFT Foundation reinterpreting ancient Indian board games such as Chaupar, Gyan Chaupar, Nav-kakdi, and Wagh Bakri. Designed with traditional materials and processes, the exhibition transforms these games into an immersive, participatory archive that connects mythology, mathematics, and craft. Rather than simply viewing these works, visitors engage directly—playing and rediscovering strategy, morality, and cosmology through the tactile act of gaming.
“Gujarat has always been a crucible of craft, tradition, and design thinking,” says Harsh Bhavsar. “To bring these ideas into dialogue with a festival of Serendipity’s scale is to show how local practices can speak to global audiences.”
Gujarat’s influence extends beyond this central project. Home Is Where the Heart Is, curated by Kristine Michael and featuring a Gujarati artist, invites audiences to reflect on belonging, memory, and migration through handmade craft. Meanwhile, Anjana Somany‘s Stepwells: Poetry in Craft draws from the stepwells of Gujarat and Rajasthan, tracing the cultural imagination of water and the architecture it shapes. The musical program Serendipity Soundscapes presents Vaarso by Priya Saraiya and Anandadhara by Sourendro and Soumyojit—a curation by Aneesh Pradhan and Shubha Mudgal that features Gujarati and Rajasthani folk and fusion sounds.
These Gujarat-led projects form part of a larger tapestry of more than 150 performances and exhibitions that will unfold across Panjim. The programming spans from powerful theatre adaptations curated by Anuradha Kapur and Lillete Dubey to experimental food journeys led by Chef Thomas Zacharias & The Locavore and Chef Manu Chandra. Musical offerings include jazz-fusion concerts by Zubin Balaporia and Ehsaan Noorani, alongside classical music performances assembled by Shubha Mudgal, Aneesh Pradhan, and Bickram Ghosh. Visual arts programming features exhibitions on photography, craft, and contemporary art by curators including Rahaab Allana, Dinesh Khanna, Rashmi Varma, Sandeep Sangaru, Veerangana Solanki, Ranjit Hoskote, Sudarshan Shetty, and many others.
Together, these diverse offerings will transform the city into a vibrant hub of creativity. With riverfront promenades, heritage buildings, and public parks reimagined as cultural venues, Serendipity Arts Festival offers a rare opportunity to experience India’s artistic diversity in one place across ten extraordinary days.
As Serendipity Arts Festival marks its tenth edition, it simultaneously looks toward expanding its footprint across India with its belief in the power of collaboration. In a significant announcement, the Foundation confirmed its partnership with the inaugural Ahmedabad Cultural Week (ACW) in association with India Art Fair. Serendipity Arts takes this opportunity to congratulate ACW on this exciting new initiative to make art more accessible in our country, while bridging traditional heritage with contemporary expression.
This year promises to be the festival’s biggest and most compelling edition yet. For Gujarat’s audiences, the 10th Serendipity Arts Festival represents both a homecoming and an invitation. Seeing the works of the most celebrated names in contemporary art demonstrates how the state’s creative spirit resonates on national and global stages. To be in Goa this December means joining an extraordinary celebration—one that will be remembered as a milestone in India’s cultural story.
Come be part of the country’s biggest celebration of the arts at the Serendipity Arts Festival from December 12–21 in Goa.
