JANUARY 2024 WORKSHOP 7
JANUARY 2024 WORKSHOP 7
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Join hands with us to patron our Artists-In-Residence, gearing towards their first ever Kamatipura Art Festival!!
REFLECTIONS WORKSHOP- THEATRE, ZINES AND ALIBAUGH
REFLECTIONS WORKSHOP- THEATRE, ZINES AND ALIBAUGH
Our New Year began with the theme "Reflections".
We met at Kamathipura with a focused participant group of sex workers who had completed many of our workshops. We decided to spend some time with them, to be able to gather their interest as well as to enable them to become independent facilitators. Hence our workshop was very focused on those participants who showed interest and intention in working with us.
We began with theatre exercises intended to have a memory walk through the workshops, recollect important memories and breakthroughs, and express our hope for 2028 through movement. Excellently facilitated by Jaya Iyer, this session was very illuiminating.
We proceeded to the next day of workshop, with our facilitator Sheetal Jain, who is a Krantikari, a daughter of a sex worker, working in art therapy with children and adults towards social change and healing.
Sheetal led us through art appreciation of the self-portraits we created at Lonavala, where participants went through each of their self portraits and discussed in great deal about the emotions and hope and freedom they felt while creating the artwork, and their reflection on their art now.
We also did a video slideshow of photos and videos from our previous workshop, which served as a reminder of memories, as well as to reflect on the growth personal and community-wise each one of them have experienced.
Anil Jha, our ceramic afrtist and core-team member, facilitated the next session of creating zines of their indivudual life. For the very first time, our participants had created a physical artefact that is completely their own. The ultimate form of self expression using drawings, collages and patterns, using dry media, our participants created and named wonderful zines about themselves, their friends, their happiest moments in life etc. These zines will be displayed at our Kamatipura Kala Mela along with the other artworks they created.
On the last day of this workshop, we gathered together and left for a day-trip on a ferry to Alibaugh. From our earlier trip to Gateway of India to catch the ferry, this time, our participants comfortably enjoyed the scenery and occupied public spaces of the gateway, having lunch and having a good time overall.
Many of them have never gone into the sea, so the ferry ride was so amusing, with the sea pigeons keeping us company.
When we reached Alibaugh beach, the beach became our canvas magically, and our sex workers explored the expansiveness of wind, sea, sun, and chose to create their own artworks with no prompt or plan! This was the most magical moment of this entire workshop.
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