Dates: September 15-17, 2025
Venue: Freedom Land, Karnataka
The BhāratShakti team has been invited to curate and conduct a 3-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 10-18) on the theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and youth titled ‘Invoking Shakti’ developed by the BhāratShakti team, and is one of the several activities being planned under a larger collaboration emerging between The Creative School, a unit of The Healing Circle, Bengaluru and BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society. See HERE for the various works we have been doing with the school for the past several years.
Last year, a workshop was conducted from September 24, 2024 to September 27, 2024 under the title ‘Invoking Shakti: Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’ at the same venue. In 2023, we did a workshop from October 9, 2023 to October 12, 2023 under the title ‘Invoking Shakti: Workshop on ‘The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture’ at the two campuses of The Creative School.
This year the workshop focus is on providing an experiential understanding to the students of selected aspects of the spirit and forms of Indian art, aesthetics and art appreciation.
Ongoing planning work for the workshop includes developing and designing a range of age-appropriate learning activities for different groups of students. These activities shall include: storytelling sessions, visually appealing presentations and video content for interactive sessions, chanting sessions, crafts activities, practice sessions, poster exhibitions, exercises and games, cultural activities, and more.
The workshop planning and organization team from BhāratShakti comprises of Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director; Ms. Biswajita Mohapatra, Research Assistant; Ms. Runalika Roy and Ms. Bindu Popli, Volunteer Resource Persons. The team is intensively working on a number of details for the workshop, in discussions with Ms. Jayashree Ashok, co-founder of the Creative School and several members of her team. Research and design work for exhibitions related to the workshop theme as well as other collaborative projects with the Creative School is also in full swing.