Goa Arts and Literary Festival 2010

Bulbul Singh
Bulbul Singh has held readings of his poetry in many countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Britain, Switzerland, the USA and Canada. In 1976, he fetaured on nationwide American TV Programme 'To Tell The Truth' and in Ken Kesey's 'All American Poetry Symposium'. In 1981, he participated in Lawrence Ferlinhetti's 'Artists For Survival', an anti-nuclear event, in John Giorno's 'Dial a Poem' and the 'Worldwide Habitat Conference' in Vancouver.
Bulbul Singh held nearly forty solo exhibitions of his paintings in India and abroad. He exhibited in London and Washington in 1972, in Los Angeles in '76 and '81, in New York in '76 and '84, in Hong Kong and Hawaii in '81, and in Aspen and Geneva in '83. The genius of Bulbul Singh as a semi-abstract painter is recognised internationally.
Bulbul Singh on serveral occassions, has donated his paintings for charity causes including running a free school, Little God's Nursery in Kullu Valley, which also provided free meals and dispensery facilities for children for 22 years. He was the highest bid painter in "The All-India Art Auction for Bangladesh Refugees" at Jahangir Art Gallery Mumbai, has donated "Mud Poems" for Maharashtra Drought & Famine Relief. For Kinnaur(Himachal Pradesh) earthquake he gave "Windblown OM".

Pablo Bartholomew
Pablo Bartholomew is a self-taught, Indian photographer. In his late teens was awarded first prize by World Press Photo in 1975 for his series on morphine addicts. In 1984, he won the World Press Picture of the Year for his iconic image of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. As a photojournalist, he documented societies in conflict and transition for over 35 years. His work has been featured in magazines like Time, Life, National Geographic, GEO and has exhibited widely. Recently he has been working with the family archives to create exhibitions and books on the writings and photography of his father, the well known art critic, Richard Bartholomew.

Remo Fernandes
Remo Fernandes (born 8 May 1953) is a pop/rock/Indian fusion artist and playback singer from the state of Goa, India. His musical work is a fusion of many different cultures and styles he's been exposed to as a child in Goa and in his later travels around the world. Such influences include Goan and Portuguese music, Sega music from Mauritius and Seychelles, African music, Latin music from Cuba and Nicaragua, the music of erstwhile European communist states, those of the dancehalls from Jamaica and Soca from Trinidad. Writing and singing songs in English made his success more distinctive in the context of the Bollywood dominated, Hindi language based, Disco music scene that was popular in the 80s and 90s. His music, reflecting life and socio-political happenings in India which every Indian could identify with, became popular largely with the growing, English educated, Indian middle class. A popular stage performer in India, he has also taken part in many music festivals around the world. He now writes and sings his songs in five different languages, English, Hindi, French, Portuguese, and Konkani.

Saeed Mirza
Saeed Akhtar Mirza is an India screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of important Parallel cinema films like Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996.

He is director of the popular TV serials Nukkad (Street Corner) (1986) and Intezaar (Wait) (1988), along with various documentary films on social welfare and cultural activism. He is also a trustee of ANHAD, a Delhi based NGO working for communal harmony.

Salvador Fernandes
Art was a gift for him since his childhood. He always loved to paint rather than anything else. For past 12 years he has been painting seriously and from 2005 to 2010 exhibiting his work. It took him long time to have complete control over medium and to learn lot about art. He paints regularly and is looking forward to exhibit his work at First Goa Arts & Literary Festival.
Collection India and abroad.

Subodh Kerkar
Subodh Kerkar is an Indian installation artist. He is the son of the Goan artist Chandrakant Kerkar. Kerkar gave up his medical profession to pursue visual art. For the past 20 years, he has experimented with different media creating a niche for himself, especially in the field of land art and installations. He lives and works in Goa, India.