About Contemporary Dance-
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance, which is a mix of classical, modern, Jazz, modern ballet, etc. This is a technical dance style that focuses on modern Ballet leg work, & controlled movements of the torso.
In these classes, students will be learning many techniques like space awareness, partnering work, weight shifts, floor work, fall & recovery, improvisation & flying low. This dance style will help students improve core strength, flexibility, stamina, balance & overall body conditioning.
About the instructor-
Arushi Rawtani founder & artistic director of Feather Feet Dance studio started dancing at the age of 4. She has learned from various teachers from India & abroad. She professionalizes in Contemporary & Belly Dance. Fitness is very important in a dancer’s life. She has also trained in Yoga, aerial yoga & aerobics. She has also represented India in the SMARK international dance festival in Dubai in 2018 & Island Dance Competition In Malinska, Croatia in 2019.
Age: 7+ years
Days: Saturdays & Sundays
Time: 10.30 am to 11.30 am (IST)
Fee: Rs 2000 per month (8 sessions)
Contemporary Dance – Online Live Classes (For Adults)
About Contemporary Dance-
Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance, which is a mix of classical, modern, Jazz, modern ballet, etc. This is a technical dance style which focuses on modern Ballet leg work, & controlled movements of the torso.
In these classes, students will be learning many techniques like space awareness, partnering work, weight shifts, floor work, fall & recovery, improvisation & flying low. This dance style will help students improve core strength, flexibility, stamina, balance & over all body conditioning.
**Participants will be given individual feedback on their dance recordings.
About the instructor-
Arushi Rawtani founder & artistic director of Feather Feet Dance studio, started dancing at the age of 4. She has learnt from various teachers from India & abroad. She professionalizes in Contemporary & Belly Dance. Fitness is very important in a dancers life. She has also trained in Yoga, aerial yoga & aerobics. She has also represented India in the SMARK international dance festival in Dubai in 2018 & Island Dance Competition In Malinska, Croatia in 2019.
Age: 15+ years
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm (IST)
Venue: Online classes on zoom
Fee: Rs 2000 per person (per month consisting of 8 hours)
Participants can gpay to 9900052747 also can contact for any details.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
Mandala Muse is a mandala pen art workshop facilitated by Vedha Sreeram. Mandalas are created with simple patterns and shapes starting from a centre point, mostly in circular form. Mandala means “Circle” in Sanskrit and it is a spiritual symbol in many religions.
Mandalas are not just an artform but they serve as an aid to meditation and help to focus attention and improve concentration. That is why it is called as a meditative art.
So come over, enroll in the Mandala muse workshop, experience the beauty of Mandala, create your own appealing artwork and feel the effect it has on your mind! All material required for the workshop will be explained in detail which is sure to keep you encouraged to stay in touch with this beautiful art form even beyond the workshop.
No prior knowledge of art is required. This is a beginner friendly workshop.
Materials required:
– A drawing sheet of your choice A4 size
(Drawing book/Sketch book or any thick art sheet)
– Pencil, Eraser & Sharpener
– Scale (preferably 1 feet scale)
– Compass
– Protractor (or) Procircle
– Black Pigment pen/Fine liner pen or Black gel pen
– 1 or 2 rough sheets
– Brush pens (optional and only if you want to add colour)
Day & Date: Saturday, 6th June
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
Fee: Rs 600 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Blue pottery in India is widely recognized as a traditional craft of Jaipur, though it is Turko-Persian in origin. The name “blue pottery” comes from the eye catching blue dye used to colour the pottery.
Learn to make faux blue pottery designs on a plate as a lovely home decor piece.
Materials required:-
– Terracotta plate / any ceramic plate
(The plate will need to be primed one coat of white acrylic paint on the surface and dried before we begin the session)
– Acrylic colours – Prussian blue, white, orange ,golden yellow, and a waterproof black pen or black paint .
– Brush no. – 2, 3
– Palette
– Water bowl
– A rough rag
– Pencil
– Eraser
About the Artist:
Pooja Banka creates modern and contemporary art forms while maintaining the love for Indian folk art over 15 years. She is a certified fine artist from Pune and a certified artist from Pidilite. Her page on insta is__@hunnaraunlimited.
Age : Adults and Children above 8 years.
Date: 6th June 2020
Day: Saturday
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Macramé Wall Plant Hanger Live Workshop with The Square Knot
Macramé is the art of knotting. This beautiful craft/skill enables you to make beautiful home decor products. You don’t have to have any prior art and craft experience to expert this!
It’s meant to be very calming and fun !
In this workshop, you will learn how to make a beautiful Macramé wall plant hanger which include 4-5 macrame techniques. Each participant is assured to have a final product at the end of this workshop.
Material Required:
1. Bangle (thicker one)
2. A good pair of scissors
3. Yarn
**Now, you can go creative here.
Here are some examples of different materials you can use to make this :
– Cotton cord/rope
– Jute rope
– Rope
– Nylon yarn
– Fabric strips (cut the fabric into long strips, 2-3 inches wide and join them together)
4. Hard Bound book
5. Tape
Age :Adults and Children above 10 years
Date: 30th May, 2020
Day: Saturday
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 600 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience fees)
Macrame Wall Hanging Session with @The_Square_Knot – Free Live Session
Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques. Macramé design is made by using some common materials like, Hemp, Leather and cotton twine, essentially any kind of cord! In this free session, you will learn various Macramé knots.
No prior experience is needed.
All you require are the following things:
– Yarn (of any sort – wool, cotton, nylon etc)
– Scissors
– A Stick (can also be a tree branch)
– A Small Notebook
Date: 24th May, 2020
Day: Sunday
Time: 6:30 pm (IST)
Learn basic embroidery to make masterpiece!
Master the basics of hand embroidery! In this session you will learn how to set up and begin an embroidery project. You will also be introduced to few basic stitches that can be used for many designs.
Baking Workshop with Exotic Musings – Live Online Session
This online session in Baking will give you the much needed head-start into the world of Baking by teaching you the do’s and don’ts of this much loved culinary skill. This will be a guided session in Baking with Sheenu guiding participants from her own kitchen.
You will learn to make the following recipes:
1. Banana walnut loaf cake
2. Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
3. Foccacia bread
4. Yogurt Mango Tart
Participants can choose to do it along or watch as Sheenu bakes. Participants can later choose to make the recipe at home.
An early registration will help the participant buy the ingredients early, for a ‘Bake along’ with Sheenu.
Date: 31st May, 2020
Day: Sunday
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in. This will also be used to handhold participants and clarify doubts if any at a later stage when baking.
Scratch Programming – Four Days Live Online Workshop with Smitha
About Scratch
Scratch is a block-based programming platform, developed by MIT. It is very visual, gives instant feedback for code written, and allows kids to be very creative. Because of this, it is the perfect platform to get started with programming. Kids of ages 10+ enjoy working with this platform to create projects of all types. If you are interested in starting programming for your kid, but think Python is too difficult, then Scratch might be just right for you.
About this course
In this course, we will be learning the basics of programming, individual blocks, how they can be put together to do complex things. We will make an animated movie using Scratch programming language, which the students can then share with family and friends! Students will also learn the art of storytelling, and effective techniques to make captivating movie plots. They will implement their idea using the programming concepts they learnt, to make an animated movie online.
About the Trainer:
Smitha Pisupati, a maker, tinkerer, and founder of Tinkerama. She love building things, and love teaching. Tinkerama is her venture to bring Creative Confidence to children through hands on learning. With an electronics background, she had worked as a firmware engineer for 11 years, and programming has been a large part of her previous career.
Age group: 10 years and above
Dates: 26th May to 29th May
Days: Tuesday to Friday
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 1800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Drawing and Painting – Free Trial Class For Children
Drawing and Painting is one of the way for kids to express their emotions and thoughts. Keep your children engaged with the best combination of productivity, learning and fun! The online structured art classes are configured for ages 5 to 9 years and will be conducted by Vinita Jalan. Vinita has been teaching and sketching for over 20 years to children.
Date: 21st May, 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 5 pm to 6 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Zentangle is a “Meditative Artform”, that is easy to learn and is a relaxing method of creating beautiful abstract art using structured patterns. It teaches and focuses on being mindful and present. No artistic skills required.
If you can write your name, you can create a Zentangle. Apart from creating beautiful art, practicing the Zentangle method has wonderful benefits
Here are some of the benefits enjoyed:
– Helps with Relaxation
– Cultivates mindfulness
– Helps with Insomnia (Improved sleep by creating Zentangle art before bedtime)
– Creating beautiful works of art
– Nurtures and develops creative abilities
– Relieves stress
– Improves hand-eye coordination
– Develops and rehabilitate fine motor skills
– Increases attention span and ability to concentrate
During this session, we shall get you comfortable working with patterns and help you create a beautiful Zentangle Mini Project.
About the Trainer:
Sandhya is a Certified Zentangle Teacher and has been practicing Zentangle for 11 yrs now. In 2011, she got Certified as a Zentangle Teacher making her India’s first Zentangle Teacher. She could now share this amazing art with others to build their creativity focus concentration and many other benefits that Zentangle offers. Since then she has taught 1000s of people both in the US and India through community colleges art associations schools corporate sessions private sessions group classes international online classes.
Age group: 10 years and above
Date: Sunday, 11th April
Time: 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
In this workshop, create a dreamy quilled landscape using colorful quilling strips during this quarantine time.
Materials Required:
1. Quilling strips/ strips of coloured paper
2. Quilling needle/ tooth picks
3. Glue
4. Thick paper for artwork to be stuck on
5. Paper Cutter
Age group: Adults and Children above 10 years
Date: 19th and 21st May, 2020
Day: Tuesday and Thursday
Time: 3 pm to 4 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 600 per person (for both days) (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Note: This class will involve homework where the participants will need to complete the project at home under the guidance of the trainer on the whatsapp group.
Emotionally Empowered Parenting – Live Online Session
Empowered Parenting is a unique session that focuses on building the relationship between parent and child and helping you as the parent become more aware of what your child is communicating through their play. After attending this session, you will feel empowered and able to understand your child’s inner world.
Session 1 (Sunday, 17th May) – Understanding Emotions
– Introduction to parenting
– Understanding Emotions
– Are we operating from love or fear?
– What are our beliefs about parenting and emotions?
– Guided meditation, breathing practices, self-reflection through journaling
– 1 hour of talk and 1 hour of Q&A
– 1 hour of Q&A (Optional to stay back)
Session 2 (Sunday, 24th May) – Empowerment
– The root of negative emotions
– What do our children really need?
– Setting healthy nurturing boundaries
– Tips for empowerment
– 1 hour of talk and 1 hour of Q&A (Can stay if needed only)Tips for empowerment
– 1 hour of Q&A (Optional)
* This session is a follow up to session 1 and cannot be taken as a stand alone session.
About the trainer:
Divya Jain is a healer and a transformational coach. She truly believes in the inside out approach for personal growth. Divya brings a unique perspective on communication, interpersonal relationships and group dynamics through her long and varied experiences in theater, the corporate world and in her own spiritual pursuits. She finds great joy and deep fulfilment in being a guide and fellow traveler on journeys of self-discovery. She is a trained counselor and is certified in NLP at the Masters level. She has also trained in Inner child healing, rebirthing breathwork and energy healing under various teachers.
Date: 17th May and 24th May
Day: Sundays
Time: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 400 per person (For Session 1 Only)
Rs 650 per person (For Both Sessions)
(Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Tie and Dye, Shibori with Natural Material – Live online session
This workshop is an experience to come together and to play with living colours and feel the feel the joy of making and spontaneity through ancient textile design techniques.
Everyday wastes like onion peel, used tea leaves, coffee powder, dried pomegranate peel are some of our magic ingredients used in this process. This workshop gives you hands on experience of playing with ancient textile design techniques and art forms of Shibori (Japan) and Bandhej (India).The participants will pleat, pluck & twist the fabrics to create their unique explorations and dye their cloth (T-shirt) using the method/techniques taught.
You can do a hands-on session with the artist if you do have the following materials ready, else you could join in for the session and clarify all your queries post the session. We will be creating a whatsapp group for ease of communication and clarification of doubts.
Materials required:
1. PRE washed cloth/ old garment (You can keep multiple small swatches of cloth if you want to try different techniques on each, provided you have enough dye solution)
2. Nylon thread (Must)
3. Binding props ( buttons, beads, nails etc )
4. Pole (optional)
5. Clear Tape
6. Random shaped Wood cut pieces (optional)
7. Large metal clips (optional)
8. A potful Organic household stuff like onion peel / tea wastes (Must)
9. Alum (Ideal) or common salt for now.
10. A vessel to boil the peels,teawaste etc.
Date: 14th May, 2020
Day: Thursday
Time: 4 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and Convenience charges)
Venue: Online session on zoom
The 5-day online art camp is all about inspiring creativity in kids of all ages. These activities will keep your kids not only entertained and engaged but give them a zeal to DIY and upcycle things that are around them.
Day 1: Monday, 18th Oct Zentangle Still Life – The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. We call these patterns, tangles. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves and orbs. These simple shapes are the “Elemental Strokes” in all Zentangle art. Materials required – Marker/Microtip pen and colors
Day 2 : Tuesday, 19th Oct Bottle Painting – Upcycle your glass bottles to a beautiful piece of art using some fun and endearing art techniques making most of the materials available with you. These bottles may be used as vases, lampshade holders, etc.
Materials required – Empty glass/ plastic/ metal bottle or jar, acrylic paints, brushes sponge (optional) earbuds/ Q tips, any marker or sketch pen.
Day 3: Wednesday, 20th Oct Harry Potter Painting – Little treat to all Potterheads, as Hedwig brings you your Letter from Hogwarts. After getting sorted into your Houses we shall swish and flick our brushes to paint the adorable Hedwig. All supplies will be brought straight from Diagon Alley to your desk. Do not hold back if you have never painted before, we have got it all sorted for you.
Materials required – Canvas/ Drawing sheet, brushes, acrylic paints
Day 4: Thursday, 21st Oct
Texture Painting: Acrylic painting of cupcake with textured background. Participants will learn how to create textures with various materials like bubble wraps/ newspapers, tooth brush, fingers etc
Materials require – Acrylic paints and available materials for texturing
Day 5: Friday, 22nd Oct Lippan Art – Lippan Kaam, also known as Mud and mirror work is a traditional Mural Craft of Kutch, Gujarat India. Learn Clay Modeling techniques and Mirror placing in this session.
Materials required – Mirrors, Shilpkaar clay, canvas/any MDF board
Date: Mon, 18th Oct to Fri, 22nd Oct
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (IST)
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
Fee: Rs 1800 per person (for 5 days)
Rs 500 per person (for ANY one day)
Fee inclusive of taxes
Note: Participants may register for any one day. Look forward to an engaging experience in picking up new skills.
