Soulful Events - Week 4 Feb '23

Welcome to another edition of the Soulful Events newsletter! We bring you activities and events that nourish your soul.

Bangalore

• Pottery Workshop at Lahe Lahe - Wed - Thurs; 22nd Feb - 23rd Feb, 2023

Pottery Workshops for Skillbuilding and Therapy! Trying your hand at pottery will not only help you build up a skill during these difficult times but be of great therapeutic help - the need of the hour!

• February Poets Unite - Sat, 25th Feb 2023

Share the poetry you love or you created; with theme around love songs or poems and meet other poets and poetry lover in an intimate setting!Vedike -Sat-Sun; 25th Feb-26th FebBIC Hubba & Blue Planet Performing Arts present a Weekend of Dance and Music. Carnatic Duet; Kathakali Lec-dem by V Kaladharan; Nava, a Bharatanatyam and Carnatic Music Collaboration; Hindustani Vocal Concert; Earth Unlimited, a Bharatanatyam and Carnatic Music Collaboration; Kalyanasugandhikam, a Kathakali performance

• Ark Of Meraki presents Pottery Workshop - Sun, 26th Feb, 2023

An Experience Not To Be Missed By An Adult Or By A Kid. A Connection With The Earth, To Play With Clay. It Will Help Open Your Ideation & Creativity With The Most Beautiful Art Form Of Pottery. This Workshop Helps You To Understand The Feel Of Natural Clay And Hand-Building Techniques Like Pinching, Coiling & Slab Making. Also, They Will Be Trying Their Hands On Potter`s Potter`S Wheel Under The Guidance To Make Their Own Vase Or Bowl.

• Evening Ragas on Sitar and Tabla - Sun, 26th Feb 2023

Ekta’s Gatherings are dedicated to bring in the beauty of Hindustani Classical music to everyone. Here they are inviting you to an intimate Baithak of Hindustani Classical Music with the very amazing and talented sitartist Siddharth Garud. He will be accompanied with a tabla artist, where they will speak about the special significance of the instrument and participants are encouraged to interact with questions around it..while enjoying a specially curated performance.

• Physical Theatre Workshop - Sunday, 26th Feb, 2023

This workshop would be based on Decroux’s method, known as Corporeal Mime. The aim of this theatre method is to express through body the internal ongoing such as thoughts, emotions, doubts, contradictions… Or as Decroux would say, the aim is to make the invisible visible.

• Gaga/Dancers & Dance Jam workshop - Mon, 27th Feb 2023 - Fri, 3rd Mar 2023

Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.

Regular Weekly Events

• Saaz : A Musical Evening by Lahe Lahe - Every First Sunday

Welcome to an evening of music! Come along as Lahe Lahe hosts 2 amazing singers/ bands from Bangalore and get mesmerized with their music ! Each performer/ band performs their music, shares their experience of how they got into music, shares their inspirations and gets candid. The audience gets to interact, questions and more… That’s not all, there will also be 3 minutes of open mic. You. Your music. A receptive audience. Sounds good?

• Pottery Workshop at Lahe Lahe - Tuesday-Friday, Every Week

Pottery Workshops for Skillbuilding and Therapy!

Trying your hand at pottery will not only help you build up a skill during these difficult times but be of great therapeutic help - the need of the hour. Learn Hand-building and how to throw a pot on the Potter's Wheel.

• Painting with Acrylic at Lahe Lahe - Every Sunday

Grab this chance to showcase your talent and perform in front of a love audience! Don't want to perform? Bring your energy and support to cheer on the talented artists taking the stage! Let's meetup and vibe over an art filled evening.

• Music Jam - Every Wednesday

Every Wednesday we gather in a circle as if around a Bonfire at the end of a busy day... We pull out our instruments and warm up our voices... the sounds come up slowly… and Magic!

Bring your positive energy and your voice for a soulful evening of music.

• Bharatnatyam Brunch - Everyday

Bharathanatyam Brunch is a durational session hosted by Nirali and Shoonya, facilitated by Priyanka Chandrasekhar. The session is a platform for inter-disciplinary collaboration, and exchange where we make space for creative improvisation, personal reflection, experiments with body technique, questioning and experiential engagement with the arts. Though largely it is a movement based session, we welcome people from fully different professions and practitioners of all and any kind of art form. We are also open to any kind of engagement. Participants could just observe the session or talk to us, move, question, bring your own work and practice alongside or even facilitate. Conversation during the session range from World politics to deeply personal stories interspersed with a lot of fun, games and sweat. We encourage you to bring your whole selves, with honesty and curiosity.