India Culture Lab

A big thank you to all our supporters and collaborators over the years. We are grateful to each of you. Till we see you again, please stay safe and do keep on visiting our website archive of previous events and programs.

Dear friends, the Covid pandemic has been unprecedented, and for our Culture Lab, it has meant that our on ground events have been unable to take place. In this context, our lab will now be going on a long sabbatical to re-imagine our purpose.

Mail your entries to team.indiaculturelab@godrejinds.com by 31 October, 2020! Click here: indiaculturelab.org/leadershipprog… for more details.

Applications for the 2021 batch are now open. Your application should be the answer to the question- 'What is your idea for a digital project in culture that the Indian internet audience needs right now?'

Our Leadership Programme is the coolest cultural internship in town! But don’t just take our word for it, read what our 2019 alum Shamik has to say about his take aways from the Programme! #culturelabfellows2021

Applications for the Leadership Programme 2021 are now open-find out more about how to apply with the link here: indiaculturelab.org/leadershipprog… #culturelabfellows2021

Click here: indiaculturelab.org/blog/conservat… for a blog by our Leadership Programme fellows Shamik and Nishanti detailing the takeaways from this session!

Our #CultureLabFellows2019 attended a masterclass by architect @preetigsanghi where she spoke to them about the relationship between buildings and monuments and the heritage of a place.

Catch their full conversation here:youtube.com/watch?v=9-wD3v…

Recently, Lab head @parmeshs joined @BDUTT - courtesy of @WeTheWomenAsia and @Maersk - to talk about his new book #Queeristan, the power of jugaad resistance, how inclusive the Indian workspace has become post-377, and more. #conversationsforchange

Email your submissions to coronaquiltproject@gmail.com Mark your first name, age, country, and the date on the front of your square. Send in your submission by 10 October, 2020! Click here: ruhcoleaders.com/corona-quilt-2/ for more details! @GodrejGroup

You can send in your own corona quilt squares as submissions in .jpg, .png, .jpeg, video or gif formats. These will then be stitched together to create a quilt installation that will be a fitting testament to this unique time of change, survival and perseverance.

Godrej has partnered with the beautiful @coronaquiltpro1 which is a community initiative-asking people from all over the world to creatively express their experience with the pandemic. #coronaquiltproject

They have speakers from all over the globe for these two exciting sessions including Ratna Pathak Shah, Firenza Guidi, Samik Bandhopadhyay and more. Register now for these incredible sessions! Click here: picklefactory.in/contagion/ to register.

This will then move on to the second session which asks what it is about performance that connects the different dimensions of our lives - the social, the political and the human?

Tune in TODAY for the first session of @picklefactoryin's latest project ‘Contagion’ at 7pm! The first session opens with the question: what is special about the live act of gathering?

Catch Lab head @parmeshs in conversation with our dear friend and collaborator @anushka1991 for a #InstaLive conversation at @Civic_Studios TODAY at 6:30pm. They will talk about life beyond Section 377 through Parmesh's latest book #Queeristan. Do tune in!

Pavel was part of our event ‘Migration Museum’ which was co-curated by our Leadership Programme Batch of 2019 as their graduation project. Applications for the Leadership Programme 2021 are now open-find out more about how to apply with the link here: indiaculturelab.org/leadershipprog…

They highlight the issues of belonging and exclusion as queer and a migrant from the North East. Click here: indiaculturelab.org/videos/library… to check out Pavel’s full talk.

Today we’re looking back at founder of the Chinky Homo Project, Pavel Sagolsem’s talk at our Lab. Pavel spoke to our audiences about the vulnerabilities of migrants from North East India by drawing from their own experiences of living in major cities of India.