UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Inside Out: A workshop around Machines facilitated by Shailesh BR
3rd - 4th August, 2025, 4 PM to 6 PM
Age: 12+
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Jodhpur
Inside Out is a two-day hands-on workshop where children take apart everyday machines, like fans, clocks, and toys, and reassemble them into playful, sculptural contraptions. Inspired by kinetic art, the workshop encourages curiosity, imagination, and absurd invention.
Why must machines always be useful? Can they tell stories, express feelings, or simply move for no reason at all? Blending invention with creativity, Inside Out invites kids to see machines as more than tools, transforming them into objects of wonder, expression, and playful exploration.
PAST EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
Session 1: Scarecrow - A Living Tale
26th April, 2025: 10 AM to 1 PM
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Jodhpur
Theme: Folklore as Ecological Memory
Medium: Documentation, regional puzzle, object-making.
This session will employ the scarecrow—a well-recognized yet frequently neglected agrarian archetype—as a symbol of ecological intelligence, resilience, and regional identity. Participants will investigate scarecrows' cultural heterogeneity across different regions, elucidating how each is intertwined with climate-related knowledge, material characteristics, and local belief systems. Through an interactive group exercise, they will reinterpret scarecrows as living repositories of narratives, encapsulating the historical memories of land and labor.
Session 2: साँठ गाँठ
28th April, 2025: 10 AM to 1 PM
Venue: Sardar Museum
Theme: Human-Nature connection through everyday practice
Medium: Knot-making, regional mapping, sensory exploration
In this session, knots will be explored as both functional tools and cultural connectors. Participants will learn traditional knotting techniques that will be used in charpais, camel harnesses, and rope-making, all of which are tied to specific regional ecologies. Materials such as khajur, khejri, and moonj grass will be studied not only for their tactile quality but also for what they will reveal about sustainable living. This session will serve as an act of remembering through touch, tension, and tying, demonstrating how knots will carry the wisdom of survival and adaptation.
Session 3: City as a Museum- Tracing Lac in Lakhara Bazaar
4th May, 2025: 6 PM to 8 PM
Venue: Lakhara Bazaar
Theme: Material Heritage and City Memory
Medium: Curatorial walk, process demonstration, artisan interaction, storytelling
This session invites participants to engage with Lakhara Bazaar as a dynamic cultural repository, wherein the streets, shops, and populace encapsulate multifaceted layers of memory, history, and artisanal practice. Participants will investigate the intricacies of this time-honored craft, which embodies a wealth of knowledge spanning ecological practices, socio-economic narratives, and traditional healing modalities. Through interactive demonstrations, dialogues with artisans, and the sharing of personal narratives, this exploration aims to elucidate how this craft sustains cultural heritage—not within the confines of museums, but through the hands of those who perpetuate and innovate upon it.
Session 4: Baata Ri Ladi- Vanishing Language & Memory
11th May, 2025: 10 AM to 1 PM
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Jodhpur
Languages embody identity, memory, and culture. In Rajasthan, the Marwadi language thrives through dialects shaped by unique regional and communal influences. The fading lexicons signify the loss of entire frameworks for understanding the world. Participants will explore the fragile resilience of oral traditions through games and symbolic acts of inscription and erasure. We will ask: What knowledge vanishes with lost words, and how can we reclaim this heritage? The session will end with a vibrant Marwadi rap performance by local artists, transforming lost words into a contemporary memory through rhythm and rhyme.
Theme: Language as a Vessel of Knowledge
Medium: Wordplay, movement, erasure & music
Paper as Place: A Painting Workshop by Laxmipriya Panigrahi
19th July, 2025: 4 PM to 6 PM
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Jodhpur
Join artist Laxmipriya Panigrahi for a reflective art-making session that centers not on outcome, but on process. In this meditative workshop, participants are invited to slow down and reconnect with their inner rhythm through intuitive mark-making on paper. Rooted in presence, memory, and imagination, the experience offers a gentle yet powerful space to explore the act of creation as a way of being—rather than a goal to be achieved.
Rather than teaching a specific style or technique, Laxmipriya opens up a practice that encourages mindfulness, observation, and emotional balance. This is not about miniature painting or formal rules, but about learning how everyday gestures and quiet moments can lead to sustainable creativity. Participants will leave not just with artworks, but with small practices to carry into their daily lives—fueling a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them.