12th April to 20th April 2026
Why we need your help?
While most groups are happy to perform for a negligible fee, we, being performing artists ourselves, understand the importance of remuneration for creative effort. We require Rs.8,00,000 to pay all those performers who have offered to perform at the festival.
Since Adishakti already has all the necessary infrastructure for conducting a festival – theatre spaces, state-of-the-art equipment, and guestrooms – any contributions you make will go directly to the artists performing.
Remembering Veenapani Festival
In memory of our late founder, Veenapani Chawla
What started as a spontaneous celebration of Veenapani’s life and work immediately after her death has grown into an annual event, the Remembering Veenapani festival. It is now looked forward to by performing arts communities across the country and many parts of the world.
The festival is Adishakti’s way of continuing, disseminating, and expanding the work and vision of our founder, late Veenapani Chawla. The 12th edition is all set to take off from the 12th to the 20th of April 2026 at our campus near Auroville, Pondicherry. Your contribution will only help us make this festival even more memorable for both performers and our audience.
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Remembering Veenapani - April 2019
Remembering Veenapani - Feb 2018
Remembering Veenapani - Feb 2017
Remembering Veenapani - Feb 2016
Remembering Veenapani - April 2015
Winter Festival
In 2003 Adishakti began to curate it’s Winter Workshop. This programme brought together a Koodiyattam performer, a Noh performer, poets, musicians, cultural psychologists, philosophers, film makers, actors – so as to investigate how each of these, views or uses, ‘breath’ as a source of expression.
Ramayana Festival
The three-year Ramayana festival programme was to provide the traditional / folk/ contemporary performer with a new approach to an old text and thereby compel her to recreate her performance language, making it aesthetically accessible to a contemporary world. And release new knowledge and rescue an old cultural symbol from being suffocated by “purism”.
Today from out of this programme have emerged three Adishakti Productions: Nidrawathwam, The Hanuman Ramayana, and The Tenth Head. Two others evolved, Sita and Luv & Kush.
Vachika Project
