PANAJI
A day after the State government retracted its permissions for the controversial Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival citing the Covid-19 situation, Sunburn organisers resigned to not holding it in December but said they hopefully will announce new dates to host it.
“In consultation with the authorities, we have decided to re-schedule Sunburn Goa 2020, originally planned for December 27, 28 and 29 in Vagator, Goa,” the organisers said in a statement.
It said, they have been constantly monitoring Goa’s COVID-19 situation and in the next few weeks we will hopefully continue to see an improvement in the COVID-19 numbers and overall situation which will enable us to ascertain new dates for the festival.
“We hope to be able to announce this very soon,” the statement said.
“The plans for hosting a small, safe and socially distanced Sunburn event was made in view of the gradually improving situation and in anticipation of this to continue,” the statement adds.
“We would also like to clarify that the plans being drawn up for Sunburn Goa have been in line with the guidelines for outdoor shows specified in the Unlock 5.0 program,” the organisers said.
“Another pertinent point to note is that our industry has been practically shut down for nine months now, as a result of which the livelihood of tens of thousands of people is at stake. This is also a small attempt to re-start our industry in a safe and secure manner, just as most other industries have already done so,” the statement added.
