SHILLONG: Many experimental creative practitioners will gather in the city from around India and the world to play out ” 10th annual Carnival of e-Creativity” (CeC 2016), as a rich bouquet of experimental creative presentations, performances, acts, and entities, ranging from live music and dance through robotics and others for three days from February 26 onwards.
Co-presented by the Meghalaya Department of Arts & Culture along with the Academy of Electronic Arts (TheAeA.org), the India office of Arduino and also Cologne OFF from Germany, the event has Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council robustly pitching in as a Country-Partner.
CeC 2016 is described as a ‘peer-group conclave’ that will comprise 2 days of semi-closed-door confabulations at the ICSSR-NERC facility in NEHU, before culminating into an open day of performances and exhibits in and around the U Soso Tham Auditorium at State Central Library on February 28 .
“Some of what we will all see and experience will be surprising and unexpected,” said CeC curator Shankar Barua, while adding, “some of it will succeed, some of it may not, but from the creative point of view, this is an experimentation itself, because that alone is the one creative route by which everybody can participate in the ideas, the actions, the values, and the entities, that will affect and define our collective future”.
