Workshop: Improv for All at Serendipity Arts Festival

Friends in and around Goa, we can’t wait to play with you!

Join our workshop ‘Improv for All’ at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 and explore the art of spontaneous storytelling with us. 

Date: 21 & 22 December

Time : 12:00pm - 2:00pm & 6:00pm - 8:00

Venue: Access Lounge, Old GMC Complex

Facilitator: Varoon P. Anand, artistic director Kaivalya Plays

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Tune in for a fun introductory session to improvised theatre and storytelling with Kaivalya Plays, India's leading improvisational theatre company. With fun games and interactive exercises, explore the art of improvisation at the Serendipity Arts Festival in a safe, no-pressure environment and allow your imagination to run free!

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) is one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts initiatives in the South Asian region. It spans the visual, performing and culinary arts, whilst exploring genres with film, live arts, literature and fashion. Besides the core content, which is conceptualized by an eminent curatorial panel, the Festival has various layers of programming, in the form of educational initiatives, workshops, special projects, and institutional engagements. The fifth edition of Serendipity Arts Festival will take place in Panaji, Goa from 15 to 23 December 2022.

ABOUT KAIVALYA PLAYS

Kaivalya Plays is an Indian performing arts and production organization, led by Varoon P. Anand as Artistic Director and Gaurav Singh Nijjer as General Manager. Their artistic training is grounded in spontaneous improvisation, lying at the intersection of short-form improvisations (for performances and workshop) and applied improvisation (with a focus on mental healthcare, business, education, training). Their improv group CueLess improv was one of Delhi's first improv teams and became the training ground for a generation of improv performers and heads of new teams. Kaivalya Plays' original play 'Unravel' uses improvisational theatre techniques to drive conversations about mental health. Their innovative use of the improv methodology spans different sectors – driving safety conversations in the performing arts, expanding mental health dialogue through their 'Improv for Wellness' program, fostering a global community with their 'Open Space' improv jam, supporting foreign language learning with their 'Improv for Languages' programs in Hindi, Spanish and Punjabi as well as furthering improv as an artform with the multilingual 'India Improv Ensemble' and 'India Improv Sxene' that puts the spotlight on the Indian improvisational theatre community. They are committed to finding new formats and applications to make improv accessible and available to a wider audience.