with several activities and performances like slacklining spoken word kathak fado belly dancing magic show aerial theatre laser show and ukulele picnic the audience was in for a treat at the recently concluded lalaland festival in nagoaduring the weekend a beautiful goan villa and the surrounding area was converted into lalaland where one could get lost in a host of creative and interesting activities there were acrobatics and spectacular performances in the garden and a wide variety of music on the main stage apart from intimate and thoughtprovoking interactions like mime theatre spoken word and more then there were food stalls whipping out delicious items like pizzas nachos and even goan delicacies kids could take part in several workshops like slacklining and ukulele at this familyfriendly festivalformer indian cricketers ashish nehra actor shveta salve and model zahra powell were spotted at the festival with their kids shveta who was there with her family says it was my first time at the festival and i was pleasantly surprised with the activities there and how the festival was organised and executed its amazing for people who live in goa with families it was exceptionally good for the kids there were fabulous activities and my little one had a great time my daughter enjoyed the activities and the performances we are already looking forward to the next yearpradeep vidhate delivered a stunning kathak and belly dance performance while fadista nadia rebelo enthralled the crowd with her soulful singing some of the other interesting activities included the silent disco and a secret bar wherein one had to navigate through t h e clues connect to strangers to find their partner and eventually get a complimentary drink apart from buying your own drinks that is one of the best things for me was watching the spoken word set by priyal and chilling at the secret bar which was cosy with some good music and of course the carrom board says nupura hautamaki who was at the festivalsofia paul from sweden who was there with her kids says i absolutely love lalaland both my kids enjoyed a lot the atmosphere is awesome and the performances are fantastic this year we even had to find a secret bar by solving riddles so clever and such fun the children can run around perfectly safe and enjoy a silent disco arts and craft workshops and so much more we just wish we could have it more than once a yearthe festival had a unique trash4cash ticket sales wherein visitors could buy tickets in exchange for trash one could get a day ticket to the festival in exchange of 15 old newspapers or 20 empty cigarette or chips packs festival director noreen van holstein told us we got a photography institute on board and half of the students took part we also had four pickup points and around 20 to 30 people dropped by each day apart from people actually taking part many of them appreciated the initiative and promised