Attend A Six-Day Independence Day Celebration Of Art & Culture At IFBE Mumbai

Recently opened at Ballard Estate in Mumbai is IFBE. A once-disintegrating 144-year-old ice factory has now been refashioned into a space for new art, design and architecture. Hosting their first annual Independence Day exhibition, the programme of events will include artists, filmmakers, doctors, dancers and theatre performers over the course of the week.

An extensive program being held from 15-20 August 2022, ‘The Independence Project’ is to serve as a crucible for torchbearers of openness, inclusivity, and unfettered thinking. Launching with a photography exhibition titled ‘freedom looks good on you’ by Acqui Thami x The Dharavi Art Room. The show features specially commissioned photographs made by seven talented young artists who are the first individuals in their families to go to college and to experience Mumbai outside of Dharavi every day.

“We are delighted to present The Independence Project. At IFBE, we believe that the foundation of all meaningful creative pursuit is freedom, and also that the journey to achieve freedom begins from within. We dedicate the week of India’s Independence to amplifying free voices from across the country, through a variety of workshops, film screenings, exhibitions and performances. Come to experience freedom, minus empty rhetoric and mindless jargon. Come to celebrate freedom with an open mind.”

— Sarita Vijayan, Program Director of IFBE

Their upcoming extensive calendar will include:

• Voices of Freedom, a film installation by The Citizen’s Archive of India | 6PM onwards, 15-20 August
• freedom looks good on you, an exhibition by Acqui Thami x Dharavi Art Room | 6PM onwards, 15-20 August
• Swavidhan: Hum Log, an inter-disciplinary musical performance by Kavish Seth | 7:30PM, 15 August
• Unlocking Vitality, a breath workshop by Dr. Shailendra Chaubey | 8AM - 9AM, 16 -18 August
• A Paradigm Shift, curated by Khushboo Ranka of India Docs. Film screenings of An Insignificant Man by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla (11AM), About Love by Archana Phadke (1PM), Cities of Sleep by Shaunak Sen (2:45PM), Placebo by Abhay Kumar (4:15PM) and A Rifle and A Bag by Arya Rothe (6PM) followed by a panel discussion in the evening | 11AM onwards, 16 August
• Unstitched Echoes of Movement: Blurring Lines Between Movement and Body, dance performances curated by Gauri Sharma Tripathi and Aaron Fernandes | 6PM, 17-18 August
• A Movement and Awareness Workshop titled Embodied Writing conducted by artist Diya Naidu | 10 AM, 18 August
• Aaeen, a play by The Company Theatre | 7PM, 19 and 20 August

You can find the ticketed events here.

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