We all have family heirlooms - recipes, objects, clothing and even anecdotes. The passion with which these collectibles were procured and the emotions behind each of these remnants of the past gets dulled with the passage of time.  Polish these memories with a structured story around your heirloom. Join Aparna Jaishankar on Feb 04, Sunday at 5.30 PM and create a memory scape of your family heirloom. This will be a practical workshop on using Storytelling techniques for creating a narrative. Please bring anything that you would like storified. Read More..

Inkspiration by Author Shalaka Kulkarni is an interactive creative writing workshop, featuring 3-4 live writing exercises designed to inkspire the writer within you, by widening your perspectives. For 8+ Agenda:  📚Reading Exercise 💭What does creativity mean to you? 📝 Live writing exercise – 1 🙇🏻‍♀️ Unleashing your inner writer (step-wise approach with examples) ✍️ How to widen your perspective to write better 📝 Live writing exercise – 2 📖 Peer review and discussion ⚙️About online literary tools 🗓� Read More..

You are cordially invited to the launch of Aishwarya Iyer’s first book of poems, The Grasp of Things, which establishes a new lyrical ‘I’ in Indian Anglophone poetry—that of the woman who wants to claim urban spaces as her own. She will be in conversation with Devika Rege, author of Quarterlife (2023) about the book. Read More..

Year Diary is an activity filled, warm, reflective space which is meant to make you feel connected and grounded as a celebrate the beginning of a new year and wrap up the roller-coaster which was 2023. The intent is to build conversations and take pauses that revolve around gratitude, shared stories, and personal growth. Read More..

Join us for the launch of this very special book written by Jorge A. Livraga Rizzi, the founder of New Acropolis. Written from the unique and imaginative perspective of a dog, transformed into a man who travels the world, this work is the author’s way of expressing his views on some of the world's sociopolitical systems. A deeply relevant and philosophical work for our times, this book encourages us to connect to the state of our world with open eyes, beginning with our own individual consciousness. We invite you to join Moassy, the Dog, in his travels around the world. Join Read More..

Wondering why you should be there? 🤔 This orientation is a great opportunity to break free from the routine, discover the artist within you and explore your creativity. And the best part? No experience is needed – just bring your enthusiasm and an open mind! This 2-hour orientation is open for anyone in the creative field or those looking to explore their creative side. Age is no barrier to participation. Read More..

The Sarjapur Blues Band (SBB) is an underground, eclectic, backstreet, workingmen's, original, rhythm and blues band. The duo consists of Shekhar Seshadri on vocals and acoustic guitar, and Vinoo Matthew on electric guitar. This concert will include their famous hits such as ‘Lady Nicotine’, their world-famous-in-Bangalore song written over 30 years ago. At the time, they believed it would get them into the Top 40s, but these days they are more realistic and hope to at least win a Granny Award. Come, join them for an evening of eclectic music at Atta Galatta on 12th January Read More..

The BWW Short Story Community This month we will discuss Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’ Connor. What this is: This is a ticketed, curated literary and community event, presented by Bhumika Anand from the Bangalore Writers Workshop, where we will do a deep-dive analysis and discussion of a short story. You get to join a reading community where you will get to read a pre-chosen short story a month. You get to examine the story in terms of its literary merit, yes, but also in terms of writing craft and context, which will be very useful if you are an aspir Read More..

Celebrate the beauty in the everyday with Let Poetry Be! Join us on January 19th at 5:30pm, for our English language poetry open-mic. This month’s theme, very aptly, is “Beginnings” hosted by Srividya Srinivasan. Srividya Srinivasan is an entrepreneur, author, poet, podcaster, film maker, cinephile, actress and activist. As a poet, she expresses through powerful evocative words on the journey of the self, relationships, issues of feminism, women and children issues of freedom, war and tragedy, nature, and participates in poetry sessions and readings regularly at Bangalore. Read More..

We all drink our teas, coffees and juices with different sizes of paper cups both printed as well as plain ones. This workshop will show ways of how to make creative use of these paper cups, primarily 2 cups and how to use them to create puppetry characters come to life, in a simple expressive way. Read More..