Festival Archives

Children will be invited to express what they think of a 2D map of their home/school with their eyes closed reflecting on visual, sonic, and visceral textures over different frames: Spaces, Sounds, Smells, Feelings.

Facilitated by:
Maanasi Hattangadi

A participatory collage activity using materials across a variety of shapes, colours and textures.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Jo Nathan

This workshop gets its name from the 5800 miles between Deniliquin and Goa — homes to the artists leading this storytelling workshop. The workshop will feature stories and characters from their respective regions.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Project by:
ThinkArts

Facilitated by:
Sarah Parsons

Participants will interact with puppets and create their own characters inspired by the Festival programme.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Tanashri Jaising Rane

Taking inspiration from the exhibition Goa Familia, the workshop will invite participants to create their own records for the future.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Prachi Singh

A music workshop inviting children to respond to music through memory and imagination. An introduction to synaesthesia, this workshop will encourage the participants to visit the exhibition, A Haptic Score at the Old GMC Complex.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Antara Dasgupta

What makes up a city? How can one begin to decipher it and make interventions? This workshop is designed to help children discover correlations between the built environment and its users.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Maanasi Hattangadi

An expressive visual art workshop that combines elements of theatre, the art of Laban movement, and voice work. As the young participants collaborate in creating art works, they will discover use these threads to translate themselves onto a canvas.

This workshop is a part of the ‘Young at Art’ curation by ThinkArts.

Facilitated by:
Shazia Jifri

François is a French Muppet who was left behind in Goa in the 1770s. He has seen Goa go through various shifts and changes.

Facilitated by:
Shaizia Jifri

Bookworm, in collaboration with Foundation for Rivers and Ecology, has been working with four libraries along the Dudhsagar-Khandepar stretch of the Mhadei (Mandovi) river, on a project to document the riparian biodiversity of the region.

Facilitated by:
Akshatra Fernandes
Sanika Dhakephalkar

This workshop is inspired by Martia, a spring tradition of the Balkans. As a part of this tradition, people wear woven bracelets on the first day of March each year, and later, the bracelet is tied to the first flowering branch of the season that they chance upon.

Facilitated by: Lalita Da Cunha

A fun session of book readings and play activities based on Architecture, nature, etc. books from the Bookworm Library.

Transform glass waste into unique designs through the art of acid incising. In this process, participants will create stencils by cutting vinyl and applying them to the glass surface using a craft knife.

Curated by: Kristine Michael

One of the oldest building techniques, adobe walls are made with sun dried mud bricks. The participants will learn about how to make their own bricks and lay them into a wall.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

Participants will learn about a walling technique which has been used for over 600 years. Wattle and daub is composed of a woven lattice called ‘wattle’ which is ‘daubed’ with a mixture of mud, straw and dung.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

An interactive workshop for children that introduces them to the concept of gentle city-making with the help of the book, Happiness City.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

In this hands-on workshop for children, participants will use waste materials like broken tiles and ceramic to create beautiful flooring patterns.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

Mud plasters are an eco-friendlier alternative to cement plasters. Participants will learn to both create and apply mud plasters on a wall.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

In this workshop, participants will explore their relationship to a city of their choosing and write stories based on this. They will write very short prose pieces on a piece of A5 paper which they will then learn how to turn into DIY stickers using cello tape and butter paper.

Facilitated by: Sanika Dhakephalkar

In this workshop, participants will learn about mycelia and the fungal biodiversity of Goa with a focus on its Western Ghats. The workshop will also involve learning how to grow edible mushrooms.

This workshop is a part of the ‘The Library is a Growing Organism’ curation by Bookworm.

Facilitated by:
Akshatra Fernandes

Listening to the Earth pays homage to the people and their building techniques, perfected over centuries to respond not just their own personal needs, comfort and aspirations but also the ecosystem of all living and non-living beings around.

Facilitated by:
Bhawna Jaimini
Himani Choudhary

This workshop will introduce participants to the role bees play in conserving biodiversity. It will help participants understand the habitats of bees and what it means for our collective futures to conserve these creatures.

Facilitated by: Savio D’Cunha