PEOPLE TREE INVITES YOU to sales, exhibitions and events At the Mini Open Air Auditorium, Kala Academy, Panjim From Wednesday Feb 10 to Saturday Feb 13 (4pm to 8pm) and Sunday Feb 14 (10am to 2pm & 4pm to 8pm)
People Tree is organising a series of interactive sessions and craft workshops in Panjim, accompanied by an exhibition-cum-sale of People Tree products and crafts. The exhibition will be held at the Mini Open Air Auditorium in the Kala Academy. From February 10 to 13, the display will be on from 4 pm-8 pm. Sunday February 14, the last day, is a full-day affair, starting at 10 am. People Tree is perhaps best known for its hand-painted T-shirts, and there will be sessions on two days that allow you to participate in this street art form at the ‘Paint your T’ sessions. You can paint on a blank T-shirt and take your masterpiece home with you when you’re done. The workshops planned are: * FEB 10 (4 – 8 pm): Chandra (Alessandra) will work on her loom and narrate the story of textiles – how it comes to the weaver, how it is woven, what happens to it before you can wear it. Chandra is a hand weaver and textile designer, inspired by the Gandhian principle of Sarvodaya (welfare for all). She is active in the promotion of khadi and malkha textiles. * FEB 11 (5:30 – 6:30 pm): Bookworm will have a reading-cum-visualisation session for children. As a story is read out, children can draw and paint their own interpretation of the story. (4 – 8 pm): ‘Paint your T’ session. * FEB 12 (6 – 7 pm): Rahul Alvares will cover identification of venomous snakes, first aid (in case of snake bite), how to handle a snake in emergencies, how to reduce the chances of getting bitten by snakes, snake myths and superstitions. * FEB 13 (5 – 6 pm): Clinton Vaz will talk about waste management issues that affect us, and demonstrate how you can recycle many common household wastes. * FEB 14 (10 am – 2 pm): Goa Center for Alternative Photography (Goa-CAP) will talk about pinhole cameras – how to make them at home, what materials to use, and how to take photographs with them. In addition, a Camera Obscura – which can hold two people – will also be set up. It will capture the surrounding scenery and produce a reasonably large inverted image on a screen inside the camera. People can then sketch the image on paper. This is a demonstration of techniques used by some of the Renaissance Old Masters, including Rembrandt and da Vinci, to achieve lifelike realism in their paintings. (5 – 7 pm): Kanwarjit Nagy and Yashodara Kundaji will hold an origami session, teaching you how to create beautiful shapes out of flat paper. (4 – 8 pm): ‘Paint your T’ session. A Delhi-based design studio-cum-shop which started in 1991, People Tree is committed to the promotion of hand skills, self-expression and quality workmanship. It combines a sense of social purpose and ecological responsibility with the spirit of collective creativity. It is a place where art and ideas collide and merge, creating an exciting fusion of modern and traditional ideas and skills from all over the Indian subcontinent. For more information, check out peopletreegoa.blogspot.com or facebook.com/peopletree; or contact: Anjali Sen Gupta at 9860089733, peopletree...@gmail.com ------ Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious-- Peter Ustinov Aniruddha Sen Gupta House no 912, Philips Cottage, Near Damian de Goa Showroom, Bairo Alt, Porvorim, Bardez, Goa 403 501 Tel: 0832-2415449
