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Come join us this Sunday to get insights into the creation and curation of an arts festival.

Our presenters are members of collectives that put together such events. One is a festival has artists from around the world and the best from India as well, and serves a community that creates and loves an art form that is ancient, but still not considered mainstream by some: ceramics. The other is a multi-arts festival that is determinedly independent, small and local: of, for, and by its community (and that community is TGP’s spiritual home, Goa).

Neha Kudchadkar will tell us about the Indian Ceramics Triennale, and Sitara Chowfla will talk about the platform and the festival that is Goa Open Arts.

Register here: https://bit.ly/TGPSessions
More about:
Neha: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/from-the-ground-up-neha-kudchadkar/
Sitara: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/home-made-sitara-chowfla/
This Sunday at #TGPSessions, we chat about laboratories and markets.We’re in our science & technology track this time, and in a format we have used rarely, with our speakers in conversation with each other. Both our speakers inhabit the intersection between the life sciences and the startup ecosystem in India. One has successfully run such a biotech startup and is now innovating in the vaccine space, and the other is an investor who has worked as a scientist in this field. They will talk about what it takes to run a business in this nascent field, especially in India, the potential advantages or pitfalls, working with regulators and other innovators.

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More about our presenters: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/life-and-science-aditya-kapil-and-gautham-nadig/


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Friends,

This weekend we talk about urban design, which affects all of us, even those of us who don’t live in busy metropolitan areas. We will discuss how everyday public spaces are created, and human resilience, and what happens when urban interventions by the state can be counter to the interests and desires of city dwellers.

More about
Mustansir: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/fixing-the-unbroken-mustansir-dalvi/
Surjyatapa: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/how-you-design-cities-surjyatapa-ray/

As usual free to attend and open to all, but registration is required. Register here: https://bit.ly/TGPSessions
This Sunday, 5th May, 5:30 p.m. IST

As we in India wilt in a scorching summer, it seemed like a good time to discuss water.
We’re certainly seeing many of our metropolises scraping the bottom of the barrel, and drought and its fallout have always been a looming threat in the heartland.
This weekend, we chat with two people who have spent their careers working on water issues. Biplab will look at current realities, particularly at rural India, and Anu will look ahead at what the current science tells us India’s water future may look like.

Biplab has been a development innovator for 32 years, and has pioneered Bhungroo, a technology repurposing floodwater to combat drought, which has aided over 250,000 ultra-poor farming families across India, southeast Asia, east Asia, and Africa, aligning with the UN SDGs 1, 2, 5, and 13. Through Naireeta Services, he empowers women farmers to become climate leaders, promoting crop income doubling and disaster risk-reduction. Rooted in Gandhi’s antyodaya principle, this model has gained global recognition. He has received 32 global awards, serves as a mentor at IIT Kanpur’s incubation centre, and is a director of Gujarat’s Ecology Commission.

Anu is a two-time Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, a Y Combinator alumnus (Summer 2017), and a TED Institute speaker. She has spent her career trying to understand and solve water issues in India.


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This Sunday, we park at the intersection of the arts and marginalisation. We talk with a practitioner of an ancient art form rooted in India, and a much newer one that Indians have made their own.
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More about:
Nrithya Pillai: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/classical-barriers-nrithya-pillai/
Pasha Bhai: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/busting-rhymes-and-prejudices-pasha-bhai/
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