Breathtaking art, content faces of the artists and a thronging crowd – this is how one best describes Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. Now in its 17th Year, the festival attracts art connoisseurs, artists and visitors from all over the world. The festival presents and celebrates art in all its diverse forms, encapsulating music, dance, theater, literature, food, street stalls, cinema, workshops, visual arts, urban design and architecture and heritage walks.
The festival has gained immense popularity, that people colloquially call the venue, ‘Kala Ghoda Arts District’. The Kala Ghoda precinct can be roughly defined as the area that stretches from the Regal Circle at the Southern end of Mahatma Gandhi Road, up to the Mumbai University at the northern end, flanked by the Oval Maidan on the west and the Lion Gate on the east. The area is teeming with cultural and artistic activity with many institutions of repute such as the Max Mueller Bhavan, Prince of Wales Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, Jehangir Art Gallery, Institute of Science, Bombay Natural History Society, Elphinstone College, Bombay University, and David Sassoon Library around it, all within a comfortable walking distance of each other.
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016, was bigger and better. Extended by three days at cross maidan for Make in India Festival, the Festival hosted some of the most scintillating presentations of art. The theme of every art was amazing and unique in its own way. Some of the artwork touched sensitive issues like, child sexual abuse, crime & violence against women, digital addiction, and environmental changes. Spirited participation from Maximum City made it more glamorous and successful.
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai is one of the biggest art festivals in India. Since its inception in 1999, the Festival has grown each year in terms of visitors and participants from across the globe. The Festival is organised by the Kala Ghoda Association (a non-profit organisation that states its objectives as “physically upgrading the Kala Ghoda sub-precinct and making it the Art District of Mumbai”) and is managed by teams each of which handle the 12 sections of the festival.
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