Soulful Events - Week 4 Jan '23

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

Bangalore

• Listener’s Circle, Thursday, 19th Jan

Listener's Circle is an event that has been created for people who need a space to air their woes without judgement. It's a safe space for all kind of burdens to be unloaded, in a calming group setting. All the participants are encouraged to listen and speak with empathy. A facilitator will guide this session. Together, the goal is to help each other out, and learn the skills required to deal with difficult situations, personal or otherwise.

• Natural Color Festival - Friday 20-22nd Jan

A celebration of the beauty and magic of natural colors. Equally, it is an exploration of a safe, eco-friendly, and sustainable alternative to the synthetic colors in textile, fashion, and other industries that are the second largest polluters of water bodies the world over.

• Jazzplorations - Friday, 20th Jan

‘Jazzplorations’, an event which will not just transport the audience into an exploration of the world of jazz but will also take them on a journey of emotions ranging from happiness to excitement to rapture, culminating in an overall sense of peace and calm.

• Mini Canvas Painting Workshop - Friday, 20th Jan

Loads of picturesCanvas size – 4 x 4 inches – High-quality stretched canvasNote: All materials will be provided by Art Beat.What do you need to bring? An open mind.

• Movement Therapy with iDare - Friday, 20th Jan

These sessions work through your personal traumas and unexpressed emotions in a safe space by tapping into the intuitive knowing of your own body. As emotions reside in the body, these sessions aim at experiencing the somatic (body) space much more deeply using breath and movement which helps in finding newer and insightful ways to express the unspoken. The healing that takes place through these sessions is multifold and multidimensional, seeping into all areas of your life, personal as well as professional and is deeply felt in the body, gut and mind.

• Childhood Gup-Shup - Saturday, 21st Jan

We cannot stop the Gupshup with Sonali Bhatia! Therefore, continuing from the series. This Saturday morning we get together for a Childhood Gup-Shup! Let's chatter about childhood!

Challenges of childhood, changing childhoods, choices in childhood.

• Community Plant Swap, Saturday, 21st Jan

Share your garden with other green thumbs and grow your plant collection. Join us to learn from other plant enthusiasts. Open to both beginners and experts

• Wabi-Sabi - Sunday, 22nd Jan

Wabi-sabi - finding beauty in imperfections. This workshop is an invitation to finding the wabi-sabi within you. How? Through the therapeutic world of art. With a unique blend of art, music, and poetry, you get to experience the beauty of self-exploration and letting go of your fears. Come join us in our safe, non-judgemental, highly vulnerable environment and see your creativity open up.

• Block Printing on Tote Bags - Sunday, 22 Jan

You'll learn the technique of block printing on tote bags. Then you'll use that knowledge to create your very own canvas bag! This learning process is both fun and easy. You get to choose from 20+ available design options!! It's a creative way to express yourself and showoff your work by carrying it around! Yes! you get to keep your work! It also makes a great gift for a loved one!

• Weekend Breakfast Celebration, Sunday, 22 Jan

Enjoy a delicious English breakfast platter at your convenience and celebrate the joy of a good weekend with good company!

• Ishq Mastana | Drunk on Love, Sunday, 22 Jan

An introduction to the enigmatic, iconoclastic 15th century Bhakti-Sufi poet, Kabir, through storytelling, commentary, poetry and songs. The songs are in dialects of Hindi and the entire narration will be in English.

• The Cosmic Tree, Wednesday, 25 Jan

The Cosmic Tree is a multi lingual, multi style, multi genre, concert stage production that includes the poetry of Andaal, Basava, Kabir, Bharatiyar, Tagore and others worked into music, narrative and movement – from light to darkness into light again with influences of Jazz, European Classical, Indian classical and World music.

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.