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The Arena is the loud, energetic soul of The Gathering. It’s the festival’s pulse point, a space where the powerful current of conversation and the vibrant spectacle of performance become the perfect soundtrack to your culinary discovery. It’s not just a listening experience; it is the ark of the nation’s music scene that complements fine dining & culture.

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art exhibit at
the arena

We are mixing art & sound in The Gathering’s distinctive way. This is the coming together of the artists who move us, the art that stays with us, and a crowd that knows how to have a good time.

Poison Berries by Janhavi Sharma

In Poison Berries, the artist explores the fragile relationship between memory, identity and inheritance. She returns to her childhood and matrilineal heritage through a recurring presence in her home garden: the orange, inedible berries of a plant native to the Caribbean. Now thriving in her backyard, the berries attract songbirds while holding traces of a past that continues to shape the present.

Layering the fruit over new and archival photographs, she explores how memory shifts between what we remember and what we imagine. The berries become a fitting metaphor for nostalgia: vivid and tempting, yet harmful to consume. The past draws us in, but remains just beyond our reach.

Poison Berries by Janhavi Sharma, a photographic work layering orange berries over tree silhouettes
Janhavi Sharma

Janhavi Sharma

Photographer, artist, Mumbai

Janhavi Sharma works with photography, film and installation to explore how personal histories become entangled with larger questions of food, gender and ecology. Her practice moves between the intimate and the inherited, drawing on family histories, domestic spaces and the natural world. She is interested in the slippage between what is remembered and what is imagined, and in how images can hold both at once.