#Akademi Chronicles – what can we learn?
Urged by the creator Shivaangee Agrawal to take some time to explore the Akademi Archives (a Heritage Lottery funded project), I grudgingly accepted the nudge. Once I began, I was hooked.
Dancing in the Kitchen- a disco with serious intentions
Creating a community of common interest while being immersed in something that gives pure pleasure, has been our experience of developing the Dancing in the Kitchen night with DJ Ritu.
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 5: Veera ('Courage')
The exploration of the state of being ‘courage’, veera in Sanskrit, opened with renowned dance artist Aditi Mangaldas highlighting the gender bias in the popular perception of the word ‘courage’.
AO Global: The Road to Nine. Bisakha Sarker, blogpost 3: Karuna
The state of being we explored in the third week was Karuna, ‘Compassion’, with two very sensitive artists, contemporary dancer Gizem Aksu and photographer Nirvair Singh Rai. Aakash introduced Nirvair as his friend and mentor.