APPLICATIONS INVITED FROM HANDICRAFT ARTISANS, FOOD STALLS FOR LOKOTSAV – 2026

Panaji: December 18, 2025

Directorate of Art and Culture, in association with West Zone cultural Centre, Udaipur, will be organising annual National Folk Festival “Lokotsav 2026” at Darya Sangam, Kala Academy, Campal. Applications are invited in prescribed forms by the Department from interested Goan crafts persons having the handicraft artisans card/licence and who are producing the handicraft, handlooms, traditional Jewellery etc. for putting up their stalls for the Lokotsav festival 2026. Applications are also invited from Goan Individuals who are having food licences for putting up the Packed/serving food items such as Traditional Goan/Indian Recipes, Goan Traditional Snacks etc. during the festival.

Around 500 performing artists from different states of India will participate in this festival and present folk dances and folk music of their states. More than 600 craft persons and traditional food vendors from various states of India and from the State of Goa will be putting up their stalls to showcase and sale their Handicrafts, Handlooms and Traditional Jewellery Items etc, during the festival period.

The stalls charges will be applicable to all the stalls. The stalls of handicrafts and packed food will be on sharing basis (i.e. shared by 2 persons) and the charges will be shared accordingly. The same have to be paid at the time of allotment of stalls by way of debit card or UPI only. The application forms charges will be @ Rs.10/-. It is mandatory to carry Artisan Card issued by competent authority and photo Identity proof (EPIC/Election Card) to avail the application form for the Handicraft stall and photo Identity proof (EPIC/Election Card) to avail the application form for the Packed food/Serving food.

Limited numbers of applications forms shall be available at the Directorate of Art & Culture, Sanskruti Bhavan, Patto Panaji on December 23-24, 2025 on first come first serve basis from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm. The duly filled forms shall have to be submitted to the department strictly on or before December 29, 2025 upto 5.30 pm. Late applications shall not be entertained. These application forms are only for Goan handicraft artisans, packed stall /serving food vendors stalls. Only one form will be issued to each vendor against valid artisan card.

DIP/NB/AXP/CR/SM/2025/1055