With a vision to showcase and promote the artistic abilities of Govandi and reclaim the narrative of the neighbourhood, the Govandi Arts Festival — a five-day cultural movement — will commence on Wednesday, February 15. Through varied performative and visual arts, the Govandi Arts Festival — part of the ‘India/UK Together, a Season of Culture’, taking place in India and the UK from June 2022 to March 2023 — aims to highlight that Govandi is more than just a ‘ghetto’. She added, “The residency aimed to showcase some of the work through designing products that would be used during the Govandi Arts Festival itself. These stories will be accessible through the community podcast and take the form of an exhibition at the Arts festival. Darvesh added that she initially assumed the Govandi Arts Festival to be just about painting murals and never expected that the youth from the neighbourhood would get a chance their talent.

Source: Indian Express February 15, 2023 07:07 UTC