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13 - 17 December 2012
III Edition of Goa Arts and Literary Festival
Organised and Hosted by
The International Centre Goa
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Dr.
Alka Pande, currently Consultant Art Advisor and Curator, Visual
Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, has curated
some of the most unusual and perceptive shows in recent times,
in India as well as internationally. She has also been a Reader
at the Department of Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh,
and has a range of academic papers and lectures on diverse aspects
of art to her credit.
Apurva
is a graduate in Fine Arts from the local college here and a
post-graduate in art history from M.S. University, Baroda. He
has been teaching art history, design, cultural studies and
art appreciation in institutes as various as the Goa College
of Art, the Goa College of Architecture, at the BBA in MES College
Vasco and the MBA in the Goa University, besides having taught
at the Kala Academy’s College of Music and the School
of Theatre as well. He has conducted art appreciation and art
history courses as well as film appreciation courses at various
galleries in Goa including Gallery Gitanjali. He was the founder
member of the first art group in Goa in the mid-eighties - Synchronicity.
Besides pioneering curated art exhibitions in the state, Apurva
has also been an art critic in the early nineties: his essays
have been published in the Navhind Times and the Gomantak Times
As an artist Apurva has been active in the past decade and has
pioneered performance and installation art in Goa. Since then
he has held a solo show and participated in group shows exhibiting
his installations, assemblages and drawings in and out of Goa
and the country. He conceived and started Lila an open studio
which hosted interdisciplinary events which led to him being
active as a graphic designer 
The
paintings by Atul Dodiya are populated by diverse traditions
in painting, the written words, images from the media and of
saints, legends, national history, political events, traumata
and autobiographical narratives. His allegorical paintings on
canvas or metal roller shutters and watercolours may be aggressive
or poetic.
Born in a village in Dindori district of eastern Madhya Pradesh
in the gond tribe. She started making dignas at the age of six—using
different kinds of clay to draw colourful patterns on walls
during festivals and weddings. She has done art work for several
books, primarily for children. The Night Life of Trees, coauthored
by her, won the BolognaRagazzi Award in 2008. She has handled
a wide range of themes—from our Gond gods to the horror of the
Bhopal gas leak. she has enjoyed drawing Ambedkar’s life along
with her husband Subhash. While doing the book she once told
Anand, this is like the Ramayana! He said,’No, this is Bhimayana’—and
that’s how they hit upon this title. The most striking feature
of Durga Bai’s paintings is their ability to tell a story.
Her forms are mostly drawn from the pantheon of the Gond Pardhan
community. Durga Bai also enjoys painting folktales. For this
she is grateful to her grandmother who told her lots of stories.
Durga Bai’s work is rooted in her birthplace, Burbaspur,
a village in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. 
Gulammohammed
Sheikh was born 1937 in Surendranagar, Gujarat
Harshada
Kerkar Sonak was born in 1965, to a family of artists in Goa.
Her father was an artist and her brother, Subodh, is one of
the state's most renowned watercolourists as well as a medical
doctor. The family also owns their own art gallery in Goa, which
has become a centre of great artistic and cultural activity
in the state. Harshada has obtained her Bachelor's degree in
Fine Arts with a focus in Painting from the SNDT University,
Mumbai. Kerkar has many solo and group exhibitions to her credit
and has also participated in the annual national Lalit Kala
Academy exhibitions in New Delhi. 
Himanshu
Suri, better known as Heems, is an Indian-American artist and
writer from Queens, NY. He is a rapper in the alternative rap
group Das Racist. Das Racist has performed across the US, Europe,
and Asia, including China and Korea. In 2010 they performed
at the Whitney Biennial and were nominated at Sundance Film
Festival for Best Narrative Short for their video for "Who's
That Brooown?!". He manages the group and has also released
their first
Born
in Allahabad, Kanchan Ghosh took his Bachelors Degree in Arts
from Allahabad University and simultaneously worked as an Actor
on stage before moving to New Delhi where he worked in television
writing and producing videotape news stories.He now lives in
Mumbai and independently works as writer-director for films.
His film 'Shwet' (White) was recently screened at IFFI 2011,
Goa and will now travel to the Dhaka Film Festival. His other
recent film 'Motor Mechanic Phulwa ki Kamaal Kahani' will have
it's world premiere on Star Utsav on 25th. December 2011. 
Lou
Majaw (born 1947) is a Khasi guitar strumming singer who is
big Fan of Bob Dylan from Shillong in the North-Eastern India.Born
to a poor family, the Majaws could not afford a guitar or a
radio. In a friend's house he was introduced to the music of
Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, and taught himself the guitar
as most boys and girls did in those days.His mother sent him
to a boarding school where his love for music grew. Majaw then
moved on to Kolkata (Calcutta) where he sang in bars and pubs
for various groups such as the Dynamite Boys, Vanguards,
Louis
John Pinto, better known to all as Gumby, is Pakistan’s
most dynamic and popular drummer having been a definitive part
of the country’s music industry for the part two decades.He
has toured, recorded and produced a range of genres and is well
known for projects like Coke Studio, Noori, Uth Records and
has recorded some of the biggest names in the Pakistani music
industry. His contribution to the folk, contemporary and traditional
music can be heard on television, radio and the internet.He
was member of Noori, Vital Signs and many more bands.
Sohaila
Kapur has done her masters in Political Science and has a
diploma in journalism. She is a writer/playwright/actress
/director, who started her writing career with the Times of
India. She worked as a journalist with them for ten years
at their head office in Mumbai, after which she took up the
editorship of Care, a Free Press Journal publication, which
also runs a television channel today. 
Subhash
Vyam started working with clay at the age of 10. He used to
sculpt in wood. He gave that up since there were no buyers for
bulky sculpture. He has since been doing paintings on canvas
and paper. Once we cracked a way of doing the panels, the Ambedkar
project gave us a lot of scope to experiment with¶fusing
colours 
Subodh
Kerkar gave up his medical profession to pursue his passion,
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 conceptual art.Subodh specializes in creating
works using natural materials like shells, bamboo, stones and
pebbles. He has also worked with plants.Subodh is the only artist
in the country doing monumental works in nature.
Visual
artist and curator has a M.F.A Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University,Baroda.
He
Vipin Sharma graduated from the National School of Drama, New
Delhi, India and after having worked in theatre and films for
a bit migrated to Toronto, Canada in 1991 where he attended
the prestigious Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre.
He has recently shifted back to India to pursue his acting career.His
first film Taare Zameen Par brought him two nominations for
the Best Actor in a Supporting Role from Screen Awards and Cineblitz.
The film was also India’s official entry to Oscars.Vipin
is now working with some of the best directors of Bollywood
like Sudhir Mishra, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Rahul Dholakia, Sriram
Raghvan, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap. He has acted in films
like Lamha, Karthik Calling Karthik, Paan Singh Tomar, Yeh Sali
Zindagi, Showman, The Blueberry Hunt, Saheb, Biwi aur Gangster
and a film from Hollywood Florida Road.