Birmingham’s rich history, its vibrant creative institutions, dynamic urban landscape, its diverse diaspora, and unique position at the confluence of the local, the multi-local, and the translocal creates a possibility for conversation and community-building.
We are incredibly excited to bring Serendipity Arts Festival to Birmingham for the first time, from 23rd May - 1st June, 2025. We are dedicated to celebrating the arts and bringing people together, and we are honored that Birmingham City University has invited us to host the festival in their vibrant city!
NOSTALGIA, IDENTITY & THE FUTURE(S)
Our aim is to engage with South Asia's rich cultural heritage, exploring themes of nostalgia and identity, while also inquiring into the present and future landscapes of artistic practice in public spaces. We seek to find threads connecting the East and the West, to foster communities and bridge cultures, while bringing the joy of the arts to a larger audience and impacting societal well-being.
A BIG BIT OF EVERYTHING
Serendipity Arts (SA) is an arts and cultural development foundation created to encourage and support the arts as a significant contributor to civil society. It aims to promote new creative strategies, artistic interventions, and cultural partnerships that are responsive and seek to address the social, cultural, and environmental milieu of South Asia. Committed to innovation, SA intends to promote and create platforms for creativity, providing the wider public with a unique source of contemporary art and culture. SA programmes are designed and initiated through collaborations with partners across a multitude of fields, and each intervention uses the arts to impact education, create social initiatives, foster community development, and explore multi-disciplinarity forays in the arts, with a special focus on South Asia.
Serendipity Arts Festival is a long-term cultural project that hopes to instigate positive change across the arts in India on a large scale. Spanning the visual, performing and culinary arts, the Festival's programming includes music, dance, visual arts, craft, photography, film and theater. The Festival's Goa edition, now in its ninth year, is held annually in Panjim, Goa every December. It is curated by a panel of eminent artists and institutional figures.