Lamakaan

Are you an artist trying to figure out how to speak about issues relating to gender that are close to your heart? Are you an activist, researcher, trainer, organiser, cultural enthusiast, college student, or simply a student of life wanting to speak in an artistic, creative way about gender, and how it intersects with caste, class, religion, ethnicity, work, leisure, dis/ability, biology, desire or much more? Or someone who wants to talk about gender in the context of the environment, economy, governance or nationalism/s? Then the Gender. Kala. Aur Hum workshops may be just the thing for you.

A series of three art appreciation workshops, each with a specific artform as its focus through which they will look at issues of gendered lives and living. The workshops will deconstruct various artworks to understand how they address diverse concerns and issues, and help you think through how you may want to use these or other artforms to express yourself.

Details of workshops:
2nd August - Gender and Digital Performance: When technology becomes part of the performance
3rd August - Gender and Mixed Media Art: When anything becomes a medium to create art
4th August - Gender and Film: When we go beyond the tropes of popular cinema

Objectives of the workshop series:
1. Review contemporary Indian feminist artworks together
2. Discover some global feminist art and artists
3. Explore the intersections of political art around gender
4. Discuss creative ideas of participants

Medium of Instruction:
English and Hindi.

Entry Fee:
Registration required

Workshop timings:
2 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
3 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
4 August - 12 pm to 6:30 pm

Resource Team:
The workshops will be conducted by members of reFrame, a Delhi based initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary social and political challenges.
Vani Subramanian, feminist activist, documentary filmmaker and mixed media artist.
Tulika Srivastava, documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Ridhima Mehra, feminist documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Neeharika Sreedhar, researcher and designer.

Participants:
The workshops are open to all who may or may not see themselves as artists, but are interested in creating and using art for social change. Participants could include students, art enthusiasts, those involved in social movements, political/cultural organisations and societies. Those with a basic understanding of gender and its intersectionalities will be given preference.

No. of participants:
20-25 people per workshop

How to apply:
1. Complete and submit the form here - www.reframeonline.net/gkh-lamakaan
2. Last date for applications is 20th July 2024.
3. Participants are free to register for one, two or three workshops.

A special live musical and spoken word performance by artist and music educator, Urvija Priyadarshini from Hyderabad. Moving narratives on the struggles and contemplations of being a feminist, aptly titled A Feminist in Fragments. This is its first showing in Hyderabad after its recent premiere at Kerala Museum, Kochi.

Are you an artist trying to figure out how to speak about issues relating to gender that are close to your heart? Are you an activist, researcher, trainer, organiser, cultural enthusiast, college student, or simply a student of life wanting to speak in an artistic, creative way about gender, and how it intersects with caste, class, religion, ethnicity, work, leisure, dis/ability, biology, desire or much more? Or someone who wants to talk about gender in the context of the environment, economy, governance or nationalism/s? Then the Gender. Kala. Aur Hum workshops may be just the thing for you.

A series of three art appreciation workshops, each with a specific artform as its focus through which they will look at issues of gendered lives and living. The workshops will deconstruct various artworks to understand how they address diverse concerns and issues, and help you think through how you may want to use these or other artforms to express yourself.

Details of workshops:
2nd August - Gender and Digital Performance: When technology becomes part of the performance
3rd August - Gender and Mixed Media Art: When anything becomes a medium to create art
4th August - Gender and Film: When we go beyond the tropes of popular cinema

Objectives of the workshop series:
1. Review contemporary Indian feminist artworks together
2. Discover some global feminist art and artists
3. Explore the intersections of political art around gender
4. Discuss creative ideas of participants

Medium of Instruction:
English and Hindi.

Entry Fee:
Registration required

Workshop timings:
2 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
3 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
4 August - 12 pm to 6:30 pm

Resource Team:
The workshops will be conducted by members of reFrame, a Delhi based initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary social and political challenges.
Vani Subramanian, feminist activist, documentary filmmaker and mixed media artist.
Tulika Srivastava, documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Ridhima Mehra, feminist documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Neeharika Sreedhar, researcher and designer.

Participants:
The workshops are open to all who may or may not see themselves as artists, but are interested in creating and using art for social change. Participants could include students, art enthusiasts, those involved in social movements, political/cultural organisations and societies. Those with a basic understanding of gender and its intersectionalities will be given preference.

No. of participants:
20-25 people per workshop

How to apply:
1. Complete and submit the form here - www.reframeonline.net/gkh-lamakaan
2. Last date for applications is 20th July 2024.
3. Participants are free to register for one, two or three workshops.

Screening of the award-winning feature film, ‘Ek Jagah Apni’ by Ektara Collective, which offers a glimpse into the lives of the transgender community in the city of Bhopal. The film follows the two transwomens’ lives, as they search for a house to rent and shows the challenges they face in their daily lives.
The film has won the FFSI K. R Mohanan Certificate of Merit and an International Jury Special Mention for both the lead actors at the International Film Festival of Kerala (2022), Audience Choice Award at the SXSW Film & TV Festival (2023), HIVOS Free To Be Me Award at Roze Filmdagen, 26th Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival (2023) and the Special Jury Mention, Kashish Film Festival (2023).

Aagandi! Nenu Vasthunna! is a Telugu comedy play that revolves around Sitaramaiah where his son Satyam along with his co-actors teaches a lesson to his father, where he enacts a play in his own house to show the greatness of the art of drama. It is a work of art that humorously depicts that drama is a powerful art that guides man and society in a better way.

A dramatic presentation of a poetry written by various poets on the auspitious ocassion of 15th August.

Date:15th August (Thursday) 2024
Tiome: 07:30 pm
Duration: 80 Minutes
Donor Pass: 250/-
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills.

I am Sakthi, a bharathanatyam dancer and Teacher. I would like to conduct a 2 hours Bharathanatyam event for my Students at Lamakaan. It will be a group of 4 kids performing for their first time. It would be great if i can get the space on the 1st of September 2024, 6 pm to 8 pm.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Are you an artist trying to figure out how to speak about issues relating to gender that are close to your heart? Are you an activist, researcher, trainer, organiser, cultural enthusiast, college student, or simply a student of life wanting to speak in an artistic, creative way about gender, and how it intersects with caste, class, religion, ethnicity, work, leisure, dis/ability, biology, desire or much more? Or someone who wants to talk about gender in the context of the environment, economy, governance or nationalism/s? Then the Gender. Kala. Aur Hum workshops may be just the thing for you.

A series of three art appreciation workshops, each with a specific artform as its focus through which they will look at issues of gendered lives and living. The workshops will deconstruct various artworks to understand how they address diverse concerns and issues, and help you think through how you may want to use these or other artforms to express yourself.

Details of workshops:
2nd August - Gender and Digital Performance: When technology becomes part of the performance
3rd August - Gender and Mixed Media Art: When anything becomes a medium to create art
4th August - Gender and Film: When we go beyond the tropes of popular cinema

Objectives of the workshop series:
1. Review contemporary Indian feminist artworks together
2. Discover some global feminist art and artists
3. Explore the intersections of political art around gender
4. Discuss creative ideas of participants

Medium of Instruction:
English and Hindi.

Entry Fee:
Registration required

Workshop timings:
2 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
3 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
4 August - 12 pm to 6:30 pm

Resource Team:
The workshops will be conducted by members of reFrame, a Delhi based initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary social and political challenges.
Vani Subramanian, feminist activist, documentary filmmaker and mixed media artist.
Tulika Srivastava, documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Ridhima Mehra, feminist documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Neeharika Sreedhar, researcher and designer.

Participants:
The workshops are open to all who may or may not see themselves as artists, but are interested in creating and using art for social change. Participants could include students, art enthusiasts, those involved in social movements, political/cultural organisations and societies. Those with a basic understanding of gender and its intersectionalities will be given preference.

No. of participants:
20-25 people per workshop

How to apply:
1. Complete and submit the form here - www.reframeonline.net/gkh-lamakaan
2. Last date for applications is 20th July 2024.
3. Participants are free to register for one, two or three workshops.

A special live musical and spoken word performance by artist and music educator, Urvija Priyadarshini from Hyderabad. Moving narratives on the struggles and contemplations of being a feminist, aptly titled A Feminist in Fragments. This is its first showing in Hyderabad after its recent premiere at Kerala Museum, Kochi.

Are you an artist trying to figure out how to speak about issues relating to gender that are close to your heart? Are you an activist, researcher, trainer, organiser, cultural enthusiast, college student, or simply a student of life wanting to speak in an artistic, creative way about gender, and how it intersects with caste, class, religion, ethnicity, work, leisure, dis/ability, biology, desire or much more? Or someone who wants to talk about gender in the context of the environment, economy, governance or nationalism/s? Then the Gender. Kala. Aur Hum workshops may be just the thing for you.

A series of three art appreciation workshops, each with a specific artform as its focus through which they will look at issues of gendered lives and living. The workshops will deconstruct various artworks to understand how they address diverse concerns and issues, and help you think through how you may want to use these or other artforms to express yourself.

Details of workshops:
2nd August - Gender and Digital Performance: When technology becomes part of the performance
3rd August - Gender and Mixed Media Art: When anything becomes a medium to create art
4th August - Gender and Film: When we go beyond the tropes of popular cinema

Objectives of the workshop series:
1. Review contemporary Indian feminist artworks together
2. Discover some global feminist art and artists
3. Explore the intersections of political art around gender
4. Discuss creative ideas of participants

Medium of Instruction:
English and Hindi.

Entry Fee:
Registration required

Workshop timings:
2 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
3 August - 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm
4 August - 12 pm to 6:30 pm

Resource Team:
The workshops will be conducted by members of reFrame, a Delhi based initiative that produces, mentors and disseminates artistic efforts that respond to contemporary social and political challenges.
Vani Subramanian, feminist activist, documentary filmmaker and mixed media artist.
Tulika Srivastava, documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Ridhima Mehra, feminist documentary film commissioner, mentor and programmer.
Neeharika Sreedhar, researcher and designer.

Participants:
The workshops are open to all who may or may not see themselves as artists, but are interested in creating and using art for social change. Participants could include students, art enthusiasts, those involved in social movements, political/cultural organisations and societies. Those with a basic understanding of gender and its intersectionalities will be given preference.

No. of participants:
20-25 people per workshop

How to apply:
1. Complete and submit the form here - www.reframeonline.net/gkh-lamakaan
2. Last date for applications is 20th July 2024.
3. Participants are free to register for one, two or three workshops.

Screening of the award-winning feature film, ‘Ek Jagah Apni’ by Ektara Collective, which offers a glimpse into the lives of the transgender community in the city of Bhopal. The film follows the two transwomens’ lives, as they search for a house to rent and shows the challenges they face in their daily lives.
The film has won the FFSI K. R Mohanan Certificate of Merit and an International Jury Special Mention for both the lead actors at the International Film Festival of Kerala (2022), Audience Choice Award at the SXSW Film & TV Festival (2023), HIVOS Free To Be Me Award at Roze Filmdagen, 26th Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival (2023) and the Special Jury Mention, Kashish Film Festival (2023).

Aagandi! Nenu Vasthunna! is a Telugu comedy play that revolves around Sitaramaiah where his son Satyam along with his co-actors teaches a lesson to his father, where he enacts a play in his own house to show the greatness of the art of drama. It is a work of art that humorously depicts that drama is a powerful art that guides man and society in a better way.

A dramatic presentation of a poetry written by various poets on the auspitious ocassion of 15th August.

Date:15th August (Thursday) 2024
Tiome: 07:30 pm
Duration: 80 Minutes
Donor Pass: 250/-
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills.

I am Sakthi, a bharathanatyam dancer and Teacher. I would like to conduct a 2 hours Bharathanatyam event for my Students at Lamakaan. It will be a group of 4 kids performing for their first time. It would be great if i can get the space on the 1st of September 2024, 6 pm to 8 pm.