Welcome to first-time author Hannah’s book launch at Atta Galatta. She has issued her work on one of the leading platforms, Amazon. She is currently a university student, pursuing her graduation. As a young writer, her published book being out there and available to every person has always been her dream. The book is a poetry compilation and is prepared to take you on a voyage with feelings and emotions from the phase of life you're now aspiring to emerge from or maybe examining for a ray of hope on the road towards healing. It would be an incredible opportunity to be a part of Read More..

A bit of Cheese; A bit of Chat is Kingshuk Ganguly’s first book of 35 short stories. It’s all of 60 pages. It started with Linkedin posts and articles, about 10 years ago. Actually, much before that – when his Thakuma (Granny) started telling stories and putting him to sleep. He would usually fall asleep first. The story finished after or, at least, so he thinks because he doesn’t recall asking for a second story. That left another imprint – that stories should be calming / soothing. In this collection, you will come across everyday events that left an impre Read More..

Once Upon a Time is part of our initiative to bring theatre and performance to children. In this program, children will get to watch a performance created using handpicked stories. The performance will be followed by an activity with the children to help them respond to the story in their own unique ways. The World-Renowned Nose is a fantastical story of a person, whose nose starts growing in length when he hits a certain age. How Mr Nose and the world around him respond to this strange phenomenon is what forms the crux of this delightful story. Read More..

Indian Mythology is full of answers to the many whys of our culture. Join Lavanya Prasad and Meenu Sivaramakrishnan, as they explore and bring forth the marvellous stories from the Indian Mythology through music, dance and theatre. The month of December, also known as Margazhi or Dhanur, is considered the month dear to Krishna. The holy month is the time when devotion is experienced through music, dance and bhajans all across India. The hindu mythology has amazing answers that help us relate to this through fascinating tales of devotion. Do not miss this session that gives you a glimps Read More..

On December 8th, 2023, Anil K.V. will debut as an author with the launch of his first book, 'Amour in the Wanderlust.' Read More..

As we celebrate 50 years of Karnataka statehood, Anjuman presents a curated evening of Hindi-Urdu poetry chronicling the city of Bengaluru. This will be followed by an open-mic of Hindi-Urdu poetry, which has been organized continuously since 2011 in Bengaluru. Participation in the program is free and open for all. Read More..

Scribe Rites Lab presents, Son, a solo physical theatre performance experiment exploring the Seeker Archetype by Abhay Srivastava. Son is a private loss shared. Son is a journey of embodiment. It is a formal exploration of self-awareness, connection, self-regulation, towards self-acceptance. It is a son’s journey through dreams and dreaming. It looks at meaning making as an artist and worries about craft. Son considers flights and falls.  Is there a way to seek the sun without an Icarus burn? This work is part of a Performance as Research project on Embodiment by Abh Read More..

Our emotions and memories are intrinsically related to the food we eat and the genre of food literature combines them in a way that helps us connect not only to our past and our present, to different cultures, and communities, values and rituals, events both life-changing and mundane but to each other as well. So, if viewing the world through the lens of food and literature interests you, then join us to begin a dialogue on “Food in Indian Literature” and to celebrate those stories and their diversity. Each month with Prachi Grover, we will be reading our way through several pow Read More..

Welcome to this one-of-a-kind poetry workshop for children, conducted by published poet and award-winning screenwriter/filmmaker, Ayesha Banerjee, where children are introduced to poetry as a means of expression, healing, and communication - with both themselves and the world around. The short objectives of the workshop are as follows: Exploring the power of poetry Poetry as an emotional expression tool Effective communication Poetry as a self-healing tool Threading the arts: Poetry-Art-Story telling. Bringing along your favourite poem is encouraged! Suitable for child Read More..

Celebrate the beauty in the everyday with Let Poetry Be! Join us on December 22nd at 5:30pm, for our English language poetry open-mic. This month’s theme is “family (get together, celebrating festivals, toxic, dysfunctional)” hosted by Varsha Kalyani. Varsha Kalyani, poet, educator and comic, based out of Bangalore. She completed MFA Creative Writing in New York and now facilitates Creative Writing Workshops in Bangalore. In her free time, she personifies inanimate objects around her or writes jokes about humans of planet earth. Read More..