A month-long arts festival to warm up Kolkata’s winter

Starting Thursday, Kolkata is set for a big month-long arts festival — consisting of exhibitions, dance, music, theatre, talks, film screenings, workshops — spread across several locations in the city including Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Priya Cinema, and host Kolkata Centre for Creativity. This year the festival, which kicks off on November 21 and continues till December 22, will showcase 200-plus creative personalities including Manav Kaul, Parambrata Chatterjee, Piya Chakraborty, Shujaat Khan, Danish Husain, Shabnam Virmani, Aniruddha Roychowdhury, and bands like Indian Ocean, Chandrabindoo, Fakira, HooliGaanism, and Murshidabadi Project. Among the various other events, Affordable Art Fair will focus on established and emerging visual artists from Kolkata showcasing their art for sale at accessible prices; Karigari will bring together traditional crafts, textiles, and endangered folk arts; and My Kolkata in Kolkata 5.0, a photography exhibition in collaboration with Chennai Photo Biennale, will provide a platform for photographers to showcase their work at KCC. “There will be a special performance by wheelchair-bound individuals at Victoria Memorial Hall, workshops for disadvantaged women from red-light districts of Kolkata and children with disabilities, film screenings, talks, and special sensory corners ensuring we cater to a wide range of audience across the city,” the KCC chairperson said.