Aug 24 2025 to Aug 24 2025 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The Good.to.Go. Death Literacy Festival presents a theatrical experience by TACT that weaves poetry from world literature into contemplations on death, dying, and the art of letting go. Temporary and Contemporary Theatre (TACT), initiated in 2004, creates projects that work with the unexpressed and reflect on contemporary concerns, existing only when one of its theatre pieces is in the works.

“Parting with Words” opens a gentle space for dialogue about our hopes, fears, and thoughts related to parting. Through well-known classical poems, irreverent pieces, new and unknown verses, the performance explores our relationship with death and dying, closure and grief, relief and rejoicing. The intimate presentation features actors deliberately ‘reading’ poetry, creating space for the audience to retreat, reflect and find release. Interspersed with silence, musical notes, folk ditties and popular tunes, these unornamented sounds represent the unsaid in our engagement with death.

The piece invites us to get comfortable with death as acceptable, naturally inevitable, and a significant companion of our life. As poet Neeraj writes: जन्म मरण समय की गित के हैं दो चरण (Birth and death are two steps in time’s rhythm).

This performance is part of the two day Good.to.Go. Death Literacy Festival organised by Pallium India and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy on behalf of the Advanced Care Planning Collective. The festival is supported by Microland Foundation and Ajit Isaac Foundation.   

Performers

Aanand Chabuskwar
Director and Actor
Aanand Chabuskwar has been active in theatre and its application in education, community, and therapy for more than twenty years. He has been part of WCCL Foundation – an organization that pioneered ABT (arts-based therapy) in India. As a teacher and facilitator, he has worked with diverse groups in institutions and Universities across India, Europe, and SE Asia. He designed and teaches Applied Theatre at Centre for Performing Arts (Lalit kala Kendra) Savitribai Phule Pune University since 2007. His research and writings have been published internationally. He initiated TACT in 2004. He has a special interest in poetry, folktales, and training of young people. He is formally trained in Economics, Literature, and Dramatherapy.

Rupali Bhave
Actress
Rupali Bhave is an actress, author, translator, theatre facilitator and voice artist. She is the founder of Jacaranda – a  theatre organisation for children. Jacaranda conducts a three year Certificate Course in Theatre in collaboration with a school in Pune. Jacaranda also stages productions that give a  voice to children. Rupali has a post-graduate degree in management studies. She has formally studied French and is also proficient in  English, Hindi and Marathi.

Ashwini Giri
Actress
Ashwini Giri is an alumnus of the National School of Drama, New Delhi. She worked with the National School of Drama Repertory Co from 1995-97, where she worked under major theatre practitioners including Barry John, Prasanna, Ratan  Theyyam. She has acted in several critically acclaimed films  including Shwas, Valu, Vihir, Restaurant, Shala, Chittthi, and  Lathe Joshi. Shwas was an official Indian entry for the Oscars in 2005-06. She has many awards to her name including V. Shantaram Award  (2006), Mama Varerkar Purskar (2005), and Zee Gaurav Purskar (2005) State  Award (2017). Apart from working in Theatre and cinema, she also works as a  teacher and is a visiting faculty at the Centre for Performing Arts (Lalit Kala Kendra) Savitribai Phule Pune University, and an adjunct faculty at Flame University since 2008.