Biodiversity By The Bay is a festival of music, art and comedy to raise awareness around climate issues and celebrate Mumbai’s diverse ecosystem. The three week festival is being hosted across Instagram and YouTube and includes special performances by Jose Covaco , Shilo Shiv Suleman and Anushka Manchanda and many more.

This free to attend festival has been put together by Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic, a new collective committed to raising awareness around Mumbai’s pressing climate issues. Partnering with DeadAnt they are launching Biodiversity By The Bay as part of their campaign to use digital and social action to help protect what makes Mumbai special. Split into three weeks of music, art and comedy the festival kicks off on 5th October with a week of music performances.

The line-up includes:

Monday 7pm - 7:30pm - Parekh + Singh

Tuesday 7pm - 7:30pm - Nikhil D’souza

Wednesday 7pm - 7:30pm - Tejas

Thursday 7pm - 7:20pm - Anushka Manchanda

Friday 7pm - 8pm - Blot!

Saturday 7pm - 7:30pm - Dee MC, Live with Poetik Justice

Following this, Biodiversity By The Bay will host a week of artistic interventions (11-20 October) where artists and designers launch new works which respond to Bombay’s ecosystem. The selection of artists is an impressive one with names such as Shilo Shiv Suleman and Pia Alize, who have created artworks to continue raising awareness around the Aarey forest; and Shweta Malhotra who is producing work celebrating Mumbai’s Flamingos. The festival ends with a week of comedy (20-25 October) including sets from Jose Covaco , Anu Menon and Prashasti Singh , streamed live on Instagram and Youtube. Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic is a collective of Mumbaikars who believe in the idea of Mumbai as a city where climate consciousness and modernity are synonymous. Made up of organisations including Waatavarn, a climate non-profit, and Civs, an organisation that works to ensure public opinion is heard, they have created a list of demands that will be presented to civic bodies and policy makers within the government of Maharashtra.

Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic hopes that Biodiversity By The Bay will be more than the usual digital festival and emerge as a campaign to build a community of young Mumbaikars who use their creativity and collective voice to fight for Mumbai’s biodiversity.

“We are delighted to be working with the Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic on this project. We have put together a really strong lineup of artists, musicians and comedians. But most importantly, this is a lineup of people who care passionately about the environment and Mumbai's rich ecosystems, using their craft to spread awareness and talk to young audiences about the urgent need for their attention.” Ravina Rawal, Founder & Editor-in-Chief DeadAnt, India’s first and only entertainment, newsand new-media company dedicated to comedy.