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GOA OPEN ARTS is a platform for Goa based creative practitioners

14/06/2026

✨ Still shaping your proposal? We've got some good news.

The deadline for applications to the 7th Edition of the Goa Open Arts Grants has been extended to 20 June 2026.

We’re inviting applications for two grant opportunities for the 2026–2027 cycle:

The Catalyst Grant
For Goa-based creative practitioners working across disciplines, including painting, sculpture, photography, performance, installation, film, new media, and more. The grant supports the development or continuation of an artistic practice, providing artists with the resources and space to experiment, deepen their inquiry, and advance their work.

The Engage Grant
For community-based, process-led projects that engage with specific communities, groups, or publics. This grant supports collaborative and socially engaged practices that foster dialogue, participation, and meaningful exchange. Applicants should demonstrate an existing relationship with the community they propose to work with.

Both grants will culminate in a public presentation of the supported projects and practices.

📅 New Deadline: 20 June 2026
📍 Open to individuals, groups, and collectives based in Goa
🌐 More information and application details: www.goaopenarts.com

05/06/2026

✨ We're already receiving some exciting proposals, and there's still time to send yours in.

With just 10 days left to apply for the Goa Open Arts Grants 2026–27, we're looking forward to hearing from artists across Goa and learning more about their projects.

🎨 Through the Catalyst Grant and Engage Grant, Goa Open Arts supports artistic and community-based initiatives across disciplines.

Whether you're developing a new body of work, exploring a question, conducting research, or creating a project with your community, we encourage you to apply.

📅 Applications close on 15 June 2026.

🔗 Apply via the link in bio or at goaopenarts.com.

13/05/2026

The Skatepark, part of Playscape and supported by RMZ Foundation, brought a completely different energy into the festival. 🛹🔥

Painted by artist Dattaraj Naik and his team, it stood out as a one of its kind addition within an art festival, open, accessible, and constantly in motion.

It was a space where anyone could step in and try. With experienced skaters around, many got their first introduction to skating, picking up basics, trying a few tricks, and finding their balance along the way.

Beginner workshops, open sessions, a skaters’ showcase and a competition kept the momentum going, drawing in both participants and spectators through the days.

By the end, the skatepark became a gathering point, with a music jam that brought the festival to a close on a high note.

A big thank you to RMZ Foundation for supporting and helping bring this space alive.

05/05/2026

The Children’s Pavilion, part of Playscape and supported by RMZ Foundation, brought together a wide range of activities for younger audiences across the festival. 🧩✨

With contributions from Bookworm Goa, Studio Playhem, Children’s Art Studio (MOG), Arthy Muthanna Singh and RMZ Foundation, the space moved between reading, making and hands-on exploration. RMZ also hosted a workshop based on works from their collection, adding another layer to how children engaged with art.

Artist Ansh Kumar led a series of workshops where participants worked on pivoting canvases and experimented with painting using light, turning the space into one of constant activity and shared making. 🎨💡

Alongside this, a special book reading by Kalki Koechlin brought children and parents together for a quieter, collective moment within the pavilion. 📚

Across the days, the space saw strong participation, with kids settling in, moving around, coming back to things they liked and spending time on their own terms, and honestly, even the adults didn’t mind getting pulled into it.

A big thank you to RMZ Foundation for helping bring this space alive. 🙌

02/05/2026

Working on an idea but not sure how it fits? 🤔

We’ve put together a quick FAQ to walk you through the Catalyst & Engage Grants.

Everything you need to move forward is right here ✨
Dive in and start building your application 📝

Questions still on your mind? Write to us, we’d love to hear from you 💬

[email protected]
www.goaopenarts.com 🌐

01/05/2026

✨ Applications are now open for the 7th edition of the Goa Open Arts Grants

For the 2026–2027 cycle, we’re inviting proposals across two grant categories:

🎨 The Catalyst Grant
For Goa-based practitioners working across mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, performance, new media, installation and more. This grant supports the development of new or ongoing work, encouraging experimentation, risk taking and critical engagement with context and practice.

🤝 The Engage Grant
For process-led, community-oriented projects situated within the public sphere. Ideal for practitioners working in close collaboration with specific groups or communities, with a focus on dialogue, participation and long term engagement. Applicants should demonstrate an existing or sustained relationship with the community they wish to work with.

📍 The selected projects will culminate in a public exhibition.

🗓 Deadline to apply: June 15, 2026
🌿 Open to individuals, groups and collectives based in Goa

🔗 Find more details at www.goaopenarts.com
📲 Apply via the link in bio

28/04/2026

We’re grateful to IFB Spice Secrets for being one of the key supporters of the Goa Open Arts Festival 2026.

Supported by them, the food and flea section became an integral part of the festival, running across the first three days. From IFB Spice Secrets' A Diaspora Called Goa, which brought together stories of Goan cuisine through samplers and conversations, to the larger food and flea area, this space stayed active through the day.

By evening, it settled into a different rhythm, especially once the music stage started.

Thank you to IFB Spice Secrets for their support in bringing this part of the festival alive. 🍽️

25/04/2026

Over six days, the 3rd edition of Goa Open Arts Festival brought together a wide mix of practices, people and ways of engaging with art.

With over 8,000 people moving through the festival, 135 artists, musicians, filmmakers and facilitators, and close to 40 public programmes, the space stayed in constant motion. ✨

From performances and film screenings to workshops, talks and community gatherings, alongside 38 hands-on sessions, there was always something unfolding.

A big shoutout to everyone who made this possible, artists, curators, performers, facilitators, partners, volunteers and the teams working across the festival who kept things going as it evolved.

Goa Open Arts Festival really builds itself through these overlaps, through conversations, experiments, and everything that doesn’t always get recorded, so a big thank you to everyone who was part of it and shaped it. 🤍

If you were there, we’d love to hear from you. Do take a moment to fill out our feedback form, link in bio.

We’ll be revisiting some of it over the next few weeks, because clearly we’re not done with it yet. 🎞️

20/04/2026

Museo Camera X Goa Open Arts: Soham Bhende

Soham Bhende’s My Mother’s House, My Summers reflects on return, memory, and the slow loss of an ancestral home. Revisiting a space shaped by childhood and family, his photographs trace its present state of decay alongside the emotional weight it continues to hold. The work considers how homes shift over time, carrying personal histories, fragile inheritances, and what quietly remains.

Works part of What Remains, on view till 26th April.

What Remains is a travelling exhibition by Goa Open Arts in collaboration with Museo Camera.

Timings: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm (Tuesday to Sunday; closed on Mondays)
Venue: Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts Gurugram

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Bardez
Moira
403513

Website

https://www.goaopenarts.com/

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