The International Clown Festival- India is a gathering of world class talent from across the Globe. The first ever International Clown Festival in the history of India was held in 2010 and is scheduled to continue for years to come. The festival features clowns in stage shows as pantomimes, as jugglers, as magicians, as puppeteers, as acrobats, as bubble artists, as stilt walkers, as balloon sculptors, as face painters, and more.

On this site you will find everything you wanted to know about the festival and clowns. Browse through the site, like us on face book and sign up to receive some exciting clown videos, and updates on the clown world. A special request to all visitors: please spread the word about the clown fest to all you know. We need sponsors and partners to bring quality entertainment to our families and less fortunate in India.

November

http://www.clownfestindia.com/

The Park’s New Festival began in 2007 replacing The Other Festival that had been launched in 1998 as an annual cultural event. The New Festival is an expression visual and the performing arts that include: theatre, dance, music, painting, sculpture and mime, without any limits and boundaries.

The Founder and Artistic Director Ranvir Shah has created an event of diverse and thought provoking expressions that stimulate debate and discussion and through that creative dissonance, raise art and art forms to another new, higher level.

http://www.theparksnewfestival.com/

September

We are a premier Indian theatre group with its headquarters in Kolkata, West Bengal. Over the last 50 years we have played a proactive role in spreading theatrical activities in India through our performances primarily under the guidance of first Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay and then Rudraprasad Sengupta. Besides doing theatre on stage Nandikar is also into spreading theatre amongst the children and the youth. We regularly work with different schools, colleges, street children, marginalised children and corporate houses. The annual Nandikar National Theatre Festival is the biggest theatre carnival of Kolkata and one of the largest in the country as well. The festival provides a platform for the stalwarts and amateurs alike for not just participants from all over India, but also from the international arena. We regularly perform on invitation by international theatre organizations of UK, Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany, Bangladesh and many other countries. Most of our plays are in Bengali.

Over the years Nandikar has become a symbol of an institution that works relentlessly for honest, thought-provoking, meaningful theatre. Most of our plays have achieved critical and mass acclaim in India and abroad. Among our current members Rudraprasad Sengupta and Swatilekha Sengupta are winners of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists. With this rich cultural heritage in our DNA, we are always eager to find newer space for theatre in our community life. Old as a banyan tree, we still continuously strive to remain fresh as a seedling.

http://www.nandikar.net/

Aarohan was founded in 1982 by a group of theatre workers. In Nepali, Aarohan means to climb. It also means performing space. We work to create a Nepali theatre movement. We perform proscenium theatre by Nepali playwrights and adapt foreign plays to the Nepali context. We have given training throughout the country, helping communities create their own theatre groups. We also perform Forum Theatre and train marginalised and oppressed people to use theatre as a weapon to improve their lives. In 2002, we founded Gurukul, Nepal’s first school of theatre. We believe that an indigenous theatre movement is both an alternative to a globalized consumer-oriented mass-media and a tool for empowering communities and individuals rendered marginal in modern Nepal.

Nepal is a theatre of colors, rituals, and folklore. A theatre that evolved among the lived experience of peoples who cultivated fields in the lush plains in the south, tilled terraced valleys in the hills, and kept herds in the high mountains. Buddhist, Hindu, and indigenous rituals constantly provided energy for the the stage.

For the past two decades, the Aarohan Theatre Group has celebrated this cultural dynamism. Our guiding principle has been that every voice has a place in this diverse country. This is reflected on our stage and in our audience. We have created highly artistic theatre for the proscenium and socially committed theatre for the streets and villages of our country. Our theatre is committed to creating a healthy, beautiful, honest and fearless society. With this vision Aarohan has established itself as one of the country’s most dynamic and respected cultural institutions.

http://www.aarohantheatre.org.np/

November - December