Cultural Rendezvous

Celebrating 12 years of #CuratingCulture

THE Park Hotels, pioneers of luxury boutique hotels in India, and Prakriti Foundation brings a bouquet of commendable performing arts across music, dance, comedy and dramatic theatre with The Park’s New Festival 2018. To be held across 6 cities over a period of almost a month, this is the 12^th edition of this annual cultural rendezvous.

To be held across six cities – Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad, The Park’s New Festival will kick start from 30 August in Chennai and will culminate on 21 September in Hyderabad

Artists Line up:

• Stories by Hand by Preeti Vasudevan

Stories by Hand is a solo work on identity told through personal stories and narrated through the continuous placement and displacement of gestures affected by memory. Stories by Hand is a solo work searching for an individual identity through stories which are personal, mythical, and social and are narrated through the continuous placement and displacement of gestures affected by memory. Stories by Hand takes the hand gestures of Bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance) as the basis for a storytelling dance-theater interweaving east and west, past and present, the mythic and the everyday. The show is experienced through three clustered themes: Relationships, The Dancing Body and Death.

• Noise Over Artists- A stand-up comedy show by Rajiv Rajaram & Utsav Chakraborty

Featuring two voice over (One Professional & One Rookie) professionals who have been creating more noises than voices since their childhoods. Rajiv Rajaram & Utsav Chakraborty aims to take through the everyday absurdities that voice-over artist endure and the impact it has on their lives. In a time of fake news, family WhatsApp groups and absolute polarization; two men will stand up and try to make you understand the greatest weapon that is used by our fellow Indians.

• To See or Not To See – A talk by Ana Lamata

Ana Lamata, Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History, has largely focused her research on the resonances between art and science. To See or Not to See is a reflection on how, at the beginning of the 20^th century, the discovery of X-rays changed the way the world was perceived and the notion of reality itself. Today, when new technologies are challenging again our conceptions of reality, art can play a vital role in decoding these discoveries, questioning conventions and just helping us see.

• Two Sides of Karma by IndoSoul

IndoSoul is a leading band from Chennai that has extensively performed across the country and in USA. Their band, led by violinist & singer, Karthick Iyer has been in the scene since 2012 and their third album, ‘Two sides of Karma’, is a testimony for their success. They believe in making music that is Indian at its core and global in its sounding. The songs from the album premiered in USA in 2017. Seeking to broaden his horizons, Karthick Iyer started playing in the Indian film industry, with AR Rahman, Imman, Devi Sri Prasad and other notable music directors. He composed a song for a Bollywood movie along the way, as well as jingles for multiple TV ads.

For more information, please visit:

www.theparksnewfestival.com | www.prakritifoundation.com