The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Croc tail chronicles
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Workers lend a hand to install a crocodile replica in an artificial pond in a garden in Ghatkopar East.
Knitting stories from Kala Ghoda
American designer Henry Skupniewicz, has been sharing techniques and insights about backstrap heddle loom weaving and intuitive embroidery at ARTISANS’, Kala Ghoda over the past couple of Sundays. “It has been so wonderful to spend time with everyone. We all bring different perspectives, a unique piece of knowledge, and a particular aesthetic eye, which is so valuable to the experience,” Skupniewicz shared with this diarist, as he readies for his next workshop on knitting. He thinks that there is something very primal to create from scratch; perhaps it is hardwired in our DNA, “And so it goes beyond getting something or being creative,” he told this diarist.
They can and will be able to dream
Khushi Ganatra
In order to provide a space where people with locomotor disabilities can get fitness assessment, access to dietitians and counsellors; and consultation for mobility devices; Walk N Wheels, an NGO has collaborated with K J Somaiya of Physiotherapy. “We want to be treated equally, so we are charging Rs 250, a nominal amount. We don’t want anything for free,” says co-founder of the NGO Khushi Ganatra (below) proudly. The college campus is ideal for this session, as it is wheel-chair accessible, “And the doctors have been extremely supportive of this cause,” she says. Together, they have arranged for nutritionists as weight-related issues are a common problem faced by people with locomotor disabilities.
My guru is cool
For musicians, there is no greater joy than the company of other musicians. Composer and sitarist Ravi Chary certainly adheres to that saying. To celebrate the month of Guru Purnima, Ravi Chary Swar Sanskruti Academy will host a guruvandan — a salutation of teachers this Sunday. “It is our annual event, and a tradition to felicitate legends in the field of music,” Chary revealed. The felicitation will be led by over 90 students — “We hope to have 100 students performing next year,” he added — showcasing their skills in front of names such as Ustad Fazal Qureshi, Louiz Banks, Ranjit Barot, Aditya Kalyanpur and Sheldon D’Silva among others. The performance will include solos, quatrains, and sitar symphonies among them. “There will be a fusion concert later in the evening with myself, Banks, Barot, Ustad Fazal Qureshi, among others. They are my masters and peers,” the talented musician remarked.
A record-breaking dance
Paritosh Parmar and Suresh Mukund
Popular dance group Kings United and To The Culture, a hub for everything hip-hop, has done India proud. One beat at a time, they have managed to enter the Guinness World Records with the largest on-ground hip-hop dance activity, with a participation of 1,864 dancers! The five-minute-long act was conducted inside Goregaon’s Film City and required plenty of preparation.
A total of 1,864 dancers got together to enter the Guinness World Records
“We are proud of ourselves, and we worked extremely hard for a week to get so many people on board. This hasn’t been previously attempted in India, so we are extremely proud,” says Suresh Mukund of Kings United. “We reached out to various dance academies, schools, local dance groups and individuals on Instagram to form the group,” Paritosh Parmar of To The Culture told this diarist. The biggest task was to choreograph the dance piece of five minutes, with 1,864 people, for which they had to ensure that the hip-hop moves were not too complicated.
KG Subramanyan on our mind
Naveen Kishore. Pic Courtesy /Sunandini Banerjee; (left) Mortimer Chatterjee
Should you find yourself in Colaba today at 5 pm, you might want to step into Chatterjee and Lal for a talk by poet-publisher Naveen Kishore with gallerist Mortimer Chatterjee on the life and times of artist KG Subramanyan. Chatterjee remarked, “[The talk will bring out] the relationship Kishore shared with Subramanyan for decades and through different avatars, as a publisher, someone connected with his art practice and as a friend.” Noting that the session will be an intimate set of remembrances shared with the artist, Kishore said, “The talk was written around the time of KG Subramanyan’s passing [in 2016] so it is part tribute and part memory that quotes from our letters to each other and our poetry. It’s putting together two people’s voices.”
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