Day One: Magnificent Bananas. The Walk Begins at Kew Gardens
You can’t walk down a London street carrying a seven-metre tall flag without drawing attention. “Why are those funny people doing that?” asks a small child. Trust a five-year-old to cut to the chase. Throughout the first day of this Silk River walk I have been asking myself the same question. I hope that the next ten days of walking will come up with an answer.
Bengal artists join hands and cross – Banglanatak Blog
Now, after all these years, how would it be if we RE – IMAGINED the two rivers in a different context?
This blog post gives a project update from one of our key Indian partners Bangla Natak.
Over to you Dipika! – Elizabeth Lynch
As I write now, I’m sitting outside the Jain Koti, home to the second residency this month at in Azimganj, Murshidabad. 15 artists and crafts people from West Bengal are here for 6 days to exchange skills and techniques with Kinetika artists and make five of the ten silk scrolls. Inside the hall, six-metre lengths of Murshidabad silk are laid out, wax is being heated, dyes are being mixed.
10 Days in November
Ali Pretty, Jacci Todd, (Kinetika UK) and Ruchira Das, Naireet Basak (Think Arts) took a ten-day journey along the banks of the Hooghly to hear stories from local people along the way.
Beginnings – Ali Pretty and India
I hope this journey can be for you, as inspirational as it is for me, let me share with you how it began…
