Sports

National award-winning voluntary youth organisation of Panaji, YUVA hosted the second edition of its All Goa 6A Side Corporate Football Championship at Athletic Stadium, Bambolim. Sixteen corporates based in Goa namely Godrej, Putzmeister, IFB, Alcon Auto Group, Goa Marriott, Accelya Kale, Persistent, HDFC, Indusind Bank, GFDC, FC Goa, Sai Service, GKB Vision, GKB HiTech, Casino Pride Group of Hotels participated in the tournament. Team Casino Pride Group of Hotels won the tournament defeating team HDFC. Team Casino Pride dominated from the beginning as Babu scored the opening goal followed by Suraj in the first half while Suraj and Prajyot scored one each in second half to take team Casino Pride to 4-0 lead against HDFC. Chief guest for the event was Goa International footballer, Laxmikant Kattimani. Guests of honour were YUVA founder and vice-president, Raghuvir Mahale; YUVA secretary, Akhil Prabhu Verlekar; YUVA treasurer, Shashank Sukhthankar; YUVA coordinator, Amey Shanbhag; and YUVA advisors, Amey Panvelcar, Pravin Sopte and Prashant Naik. In his address, Mahale congratulated the winners and runners up for their performance and briefed the gathering about the activities of YUVA. Kattimani along with other guests presented the second place along with the trophy and cash prize of `15,000 to […]

Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts in collaboration with Abhivyaktee conducted a 15-day intensive theatre workshop with a special emphasis on ‘tiatr’. The workshop concluded with a presentation of skits in Konkani performed by the participants aged between 10 to 16 years. Based on the various exercises gleaned in the workshop, the presentation included various humorous scenes ‘dekhave’; an incident based on an exercise on ‘improvisation’; a comedy play titled ‘Teacher, Mhaka Pass Kor’; and a special cantar written by Tina Costa and performed by the participants. Chief guest at the event was the member secretary of Tiatr Academy of Goa, Cezar D’Mello. In his address, he briefly explained the history of tiatr and encouraged the participants to take a more active part in the art form. He also appreciated the efforts put in by Sunaparanta and Abhivyaktee to carry the tradition to the next generation. The resource persons at the workshop were Anagha Deshpande and Saish Deshpande backed by the president of Abhivyaktee, Sandip Deshpande and tiatr practitioners Carmin Joseph e Vas and Fermino Goes who conducted various sessions on character development, body movement, use of proscenium, voice and speech, improvisations, theatre games and the history of tiatr. […]

The curatorial panel for the fourth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, an eight-day multidisciplinary arts event held in Panaji (15 – 22 December), has been announced and includes leading names from various arts disciplines. The annual arts festival will include disciplines like music, dance, theatre, culinary arts, visual arts, craft and photography. Each discipline will be curated by two curators. For music, the curators are tabla player Aneesh Pradhan, and Sneha Khanwalkar, a music director best known for her music in the film series ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. In the field of dance, Bharatnatyam dancer and former chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (2011-2015), Leela Samson, and choreographer-dancer Mayuri Upadhya will curate projects. As per the organisers, Mumbai-based actor and director Atul Kumar, and film and theatre actress Arundhati Nag will handle curation for theatre. For culinary arts, restaurant mogul and chef Rahul Akerkar and Goa-based Prahlad Sukhtankar are curating for the festival. For photography, curator Rahaab Allana and photographer-environmental campaigner Ravi Agarwal have been named. Visual arts will have contemporary Indian artist Sudarshan Shetty and art-cultural historian and museologist Jyotindra Jain as curators. Curator Pramod K G, who has recently curated the first-ever exhibition of a collection […]

The Goan film industry is witnessing growth in the recent few years. Independent directors with an interest in cinema and storytelling have emerged to showcase their works. From entertainment and feature films to documentaries, they make sure, their theme and content is in sync with what the audience wants. Thus, with a focus on documentaries and feature films made by Goan filmmakers on Goan themes, nine selected films will be screened over four days at the Sunaparanta amphitheatre from May 22 to May 26 (excluding May 23). Titled ‘Goa in Film @Sunaparanta’ the screenings will be held at 6.35 p.m. onwards and will be presented by the film directors. There will be post-screening discussions that will be moderated by Frederick Noronha WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019 Film: A Cold Summer Night (2018) Directed by: Yash Sawant Duration: 21 mins An ordinary night starts to turn wildly dramatic for Ketan, a Maharashtrian migrant, when an anonymous attack on his car congregates excessive attention in the conformist Goan neighbourhood. Dreadful coldness knocks when the entire locality is calling out to Ketan and he’s stuck with his paramour in his small rented room while his pregnant wife is away at her parent’s house. WEDNESDAY, […]