What The Needle Knows by Trisha Dutta | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ An embroidery workshop where inner landscapes are mapped through thread. Blending neurographic drawing with slow stitching, participants explore craft as a practice of care, translating emotion into textile form. No prior experience needed — just curiosity and a willingness to sit with the needle and thread.

A Shared Canvas of Empathy by Ketki & Preksha | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18 to 40 years of age An immersive workshop blending art, movement, and play to explore the essence of human connection. Through hands-on activities and group reflection, we’ll move beyond theory to experience how empathy and mirror neurons shape our real-life bonds. Expect a joyful, transformative space designed to foster deeper emotional resonance and lasting understanding.

The Memory of Place by Rohit Kale | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ This workshop explores Psychogeography, a term coined by Guy Debord, and asks a simple but layered question: how do places shape the way we feel, think, and move through the world? Through reflections, narratives, memories, identities, imaginations, experiences, observations, personal archives and histories, participants will translate the spatial experiences into drawings, collages, text, and maps—ending with a shared dialogue that reveals how geography quietly scripts our inner lives.

Communitree by Shirin Chimthanawala & Teresa Joshy | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ This workshop explores the intersection of sensory art-making and neuroscience to promote emotional regulation and community building. Participants will use mixed media, including textiles to translate personal narratives into sensory art. By contributing individual "leaves" to a shared "Communitree," the group physically weaves personal experiences into a collective tapestry of belonging and social connection.

The Art of Seeing by Taranbir Singh Sawhney | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ An interactive workshop built around play, imagination and pareidolia. Through simple creative experiments, participants discover how unexpected images and stories can appear from shapes, textures and chance. It is a hands-on session that celebrates beautiful messes, curiosity and the small moments of magic that emerge when we trust our creative instincts.

Self-Compassion and Pigments by Carmen Caro | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: English-speaking, 18+ A laboratory to deepen self-compassion through the use of pigments as social binding agents that embody key concepts within collective artistic and research practice. Grounded in South–South dialogue, it creates a relational and care-centered space to critically reflect on internalized oppression and rehearse non-oppressive, regenerative ways of knowing and relating.

Circle of Life by Khushmita Sanghvi | 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ What if you could pause, and see your whole life mapped with a holistic lens? In this 2-hour immersive workshop, we’ll explore every key area of your life: relationships, finances, career, health, emotions, spirituality, creativity and more through guided reflection, intuitive art-making, movement and journaling. You’ll visually map where you are right now, gently uncover what feels nourished or neglected, and create a holistic vision for your next chapter.

Zindabad: A Celebration of Life by Shayontoni Ghosh | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Eligibility Criteria: 18+ ZINDABAD is a 3-hour experiential workshop where theatre, ritual, and the Work That Reconnects weave into a journey through gratitude, grief, and radical celebration. Through games, movement, and storytelling, you'll process what's hard and rediscover what you love — in the company of others who also showed up. No experience needed: just bring your body, your feelings, and whatever you're carrying right now.