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Avid Learning is one of India’s leading public programming platforms for arts and culture, continuously innovating and charting newer territories to present the most topical, informative and exciting events to our audiences. In this vein, we have thoughtfully crafted unique series and niche IPs that educate, enlighten and entertain. Leveraging on our time-honoured associations, we curated interdisciplinary programs across our many series spotlighting contemporary and traditional art, heritage and cultural legacies, architectural marvels, inspiring literature, the need for sustainability, as well as the rapid advancements in technology and innovation through panel discussions, workshops, lecture-presentations, and more.


Multipolis Mumbai
Multipolis Mumbai is a series that decodes the past while looking to the future and finding novel ways of engaging, interacting with and reenergizing the city that we love! The original nine-part series, which began in 2012, examined how Architecture, Music, Food, Theatre, Fashion, Environment, Literature, Innovation, and Film influenced and were influenced by the city. Our second iteration of this series, which began in 2017, attempts to renegotiate larger perspectives on the city, dig de...
Cultural Capitals
Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata are some of the most influential and impactful cities – overwhelmingly present in India’s urbanscape. Yet, the country’s urban identity and milieu are shaped and influenced by a number of other cities that have cultural importance. Cultural Capitals: Future Legacy of India’s Cities is a series of discussions celebrating the historical and current legacy of culturally rich and diverse cities across India. This series aims to examine a wide...
Uncovering Urban Legacies
Uncovering Urban Legacies is a series that looks at small but unique communities and how their rich culture and legacy have historically, economically and socio-culturally shaped the trading port city of Bombay. This series offers coveted academic perspectives on fascinating communities that have contributed to and influenced our city, the variety of fascinating cultures, their significant history and the enduring legacy of many diasporic communities in Mumbai.  By far the series has e...
Beyond Contemporary Art
Beyond Contemporary Art (BCA) was developed in 2015 as a three-part forward-looking, thought leadership series that offered a rounded view of where contemporary art is headed; it unveiled the emerging image of the art world through the changing roles and dynamics of the four main stakeholders: the artist, the curator, the institution, and the viewer. The first iteration examined new movements in artistic production systems and practices. The series encored with a second season in 2016 where we c...
Across Cultures
Music is a language deeper than words. While Indian classical music can be improvised as desired by the performer, the Western counterpart is strictly composed like a straight-cut diamond. The merging of the two gives birth to a new form of fusion. Across Cultures is an online lecture demonstration series that examines the nuances of this fusion as well as the challenges and the future of eclectic east-west musical amalgamations. The discussions feature some of the most noteworthy musicians, a...
Blurring Boundaries
This series showcases the trajectory of a unique virtual art collaboration between six cutting-edge young and contemporary artists working across a wide breadth of media including photography, film, collage, mixed natural media, watercolour, GIFs and animation. They came together to build on each other’s work and create a final exciting outcome which reflects the unique interventions, perspectives and creative inputs of each while sharing insights into the making and process of the artwork...
Coral Woman
To extend the conversation on sustainability and climate change to young learners, Avid Learning conceptualized and created an illustrated children’s book called ‘Coral Woman’ under its much-acclaimed series ‘Sustainability NOW’. This educational book aims to shed light on the importance of coral reefs and the very real danger they face by creating awareness among the future stakeholders of our planet. The book is published by HarperCollins Publishers India, written by Luba...
Sustainability NOW
Sustainability NOW is a thematised and targeted series of discussions that aim to convert audiences into change-makers, active catalysts and custodians of a greener tomorrow. The series aims to highlight the environment-positive work and insights of leading artists, designers, chefs, architects, creative entrepreneurs, policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, educators, philanthropists, scholars, and business leaders. Sustainability NOW features 75+ speakers over 50+ programs tha...
AVID Online
Adapting to the need of the hour during the pandemic, in April 2020, we launched AVID Online – a virtual further learning campaign on our social media platforms for our followers to engage with a range of varied topics across the breadth of the arts. Our eclectic faculty of experts, thought leaders, practitioners and innovators shared their learnings, expertise and knowledge digitally through tailored content for AVID’s online community and beyond. In collaboration with long-term and new par...
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
Avid Learning and Kala Ghoda Arts Festival have brought festival-goers a unique opportunity to experience the world of literature, art, heritage and culture through specially curated workshops, panel discussions and activities with industry stalwarts and practitioners since 2016. From curating discussions on Mumbai’s heritage and the contemporary arts and culture scene; to co-curating the literature section of the festival; facilitating a unique community-driven art installation and pop-...
Mumbai Urban Arts Festival by St+Art India
St+Art India’s most recent art fest – Mumbai Urban Art Festival (MUAF) – aims to build a contemporary public art heritage in the city through interdisciplinary art interventions and executions on the larger theme of sustainability from Nov 2022 to March 2023. Avid Learning is proud to collaborate with this vibrant festival platform to curate lecture-demonstrations, workshops for children, performances, walkthroughs, art installations and panel discussions on the themes of ‘city...
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