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To make the process more absorbing,the audience and artists will get to interact and exchange ideas. The first day of the festival will see a recital by Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar,a noted Hindustani classical vocalist trained in the Gwalior gharana. Last year,literary and art workshops were a huge hit. This year too,the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi is organising an art workshop from March 28 to April 1 at the Government Museum and Art Gallery Sector 10,Chandigarh. The five-day workshop will be led by artist Jatin Das,with 10 city artists participating. Art lovers can visit the venue and see the artists at work.

The Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi will also organise interactions with eminent writers on March 28 in the auditorium of Government Museum & Art Gallery,Sector 10. Ashok Bajpai,poet,author and Chairman of National Lalit Kala Akademi,will recite his poems and share his creative process. Dr. Manjula Rana will read extracts from her stories.

March 28 will see a classical dance performance by Leela Samson while sitarist Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee will perform live on March 29 at 7 pm at Tagore Theatre. On March 30,The Making of King Lear will be screened at 11 am at Studio Theatre,Department of Indian Theatre,Panjab University. In the evening,around 350 NZCC artists from around 15 states will perform a dance choreographed by Kaplesh Dalai and directed by Bansi Kaul.

On March 31,The Grotowski Workshop will be screened at PU’s Department of Indian Theatre, followed by a Hindi play Erendira & Her Heartless Grand Mother directed by Amal Allana at 7 pm at Tagore Theatre. The festival ends with the screening of In the Jungle of Cities. The evening will have Ranjit Kapoor stage Chekhov Ki Duniya at Tagore Theatre.

Passes for the festival will be available at Tagore Theatre on a first-cum-first-serve basis from March 25