As part of London’s Great Exhibition Road Festival 2026, Serendipity Arts presents two major public interventions: ‘Giants on the Move’, a large-scale puppet parade directed by Dadi Pudumjee, and ‘Eyes Shall Deceive’, an immersive film and live music experience by Sneha Khanwalkar and Sudarshan Shetty at the Science Museum.
As part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, Serendipity Arts is bringing two striking interventions to South Kensington and the Science Museum this June, transforming public space and museum architecture into sites of movement, music, and collective gathering.
On June 5, the Science Museum’s adults-only Innovation Lates will host the premiere of ‘नैनन की ठगी’ (Eyes Shall Deceive), directed by Sneha Khanwalkar and visual artist Sudarshan Shetty. Commissioned by Serendipity Arts, the 30-minute experimental film blends cinema and live musical performance across multiple spaces within the museum.
Shot on 16mm film across Kolkata, Mumbai, and Varanasi, the film interrogates urban India’s musical folklore through brass bands, chants, and percussion ensembles performed live alongside the screening. Moving through the Science Museum’s galleries and culminating in the museum’s IMAX theatre, ‘Eyes Shall Deceive’ explores rites of passage, migration, intimacy, and collective listening — proposing a form of cinema to be experienced actively and together.
The film screening is followed by ‘Giants on the Move: A Puppet Street Parade’, a large-scale puppet procession directed by legendary Indian puppeteer Dadi Pudumjee, taking over Exhibition Road on June 6 and 7. Featuring towering puppets of elephants, birds, camels, deer, and human figures, the parade moves through South Kensington accompanied by live drummers and puppeteers. The performance reimagines the street as a space of both transit and of coexistence and celebration. Presented twice daily, the 30-minute procession brings together handmade puppets, created from bamboo and dyed cloth, into a living urban environment.
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