Arrive at your camping village (Oxyfarm Resorts)

Welcome Drink - Herbal Tea

Tent Allocation & setting up

Tents will already be pitched. You just need to make your tent your own space – decorate it if you want, however you want.

Freshen up & breakfast

Freshen up & enjoy a refreshing South Indian breakfast.

Unearthing Creativity Workshop

Group Size - 12

Shilpa Sebastian

In this workshop, you'll get to foray into the wilderness, connect to the living environment, heighten your spatial awareness, get inspired by nature and use your inspiration to express yourself creatively.

Shilpa's workshop would consist of a half an hour walk in nature, collect natural materials on the walk, return to the workshop space and use the items collected to express what you observed.

Body & Being -An exploratory workshop

Group Size - 12

Deepak Srinivasan

In this workshop using expressive art, theatre and wellness tools, Deepak will help us tune into self-expression beyond categories of orientation and gender in an attempt to find our deeper being.

You will get a chance to explore emotional, aesthetic, archetypal, social & cultural dimensions that shape our psychology.

Pottery workshop

Group Size - 12

Balakrishna, Yogam Pottery

In this workshop, you'll be getting your hands dirty with clay and learn the basics of pottery with freehand.

You will be guided by the supremely talented Balakrishna from Yogam pottery and you will get an opportunity to creatively express yourself using clay and shaping them by hand.

Art: Seeing and Translations

Group Size - 25

Vivekananda

Through this workshop, participants will be eased into creating art through curated activities within a safe space using visual and performative mediums. The objective is to demystify art and offer frameworks on how one can approach it by simplifying it. The emphasis of this hybrid session will be on ‘Seeing’ and ‘Translating’. Using experiential activities, diverse mediums and pauses for introspection, the workshop will introduce the methodology and thought process of an artist to the participants.

You do not require any prior experience to participate in the workshop.

Lunch & siesta

Enjoy delicious South Indian meals (vegetable kootu/curry, veg poriyal, rice, sambar, rasam & curd) for lunch and chill.

Poi Spinning Workshop

Group Size - 15

Javed Hassan

In this workshop, you'll be engaging in a 'Mindful movement session' with poi which focuses on enhancing body awareness through ‘Poi Spinning’.

It will be an interactive session, where you will be learning the basic techniques & concepts of spinning poi and how to use it in your daily life as an exercise routine. Poi will be provided for all participants at the venue.

Slacklining Workshop

Group Size - 15

Mac Bhatt

In this workshop, you'll learn the techniques of slacklining and then put it to use by attempting to slackline.

Slacklining is all about balance. Mac will give us insights on how to extend the art of slacklining to bring balance into your everyday life.

Redefining Queer Spaces - Experiential art and poetry workshop

Group Size - 15

Raju Behra

This workshop will be focused on understanding what a safe space means to you. You will use art and poetry to define what a safe space means to you.

Under the guidance of Raju, you will be using using found poetry and blackout poetry to express your lived experiences and understandings of gender and sexuality.

Gender expression using Hula hoop

Group Size - 10

Sessi Gianoglio

This workshop will aim at increasing control on your body and unlocking new understandings of it through movement. You will first explore the space inside and outside of a hoop as a metaphor to look inside and outside your bodies.

The workshop will also involve the creation of a choreography with elements of free gender expression thereby making your personalities visible and loud.

Pottery workshop

One on one sessions

Balakrishna, Yogam Pottery

In this workshop, you'll be getting your hands dirty with clay and learn the basics of pottery on a pottery wheel.

You will get a guided 20 minute one on one session behind the wheel and what you create will be yours to keep .

Evening chai

Head to the cafeteria to buy a snack/tea/coffee/fresh juice of the day. (Pay cash directly at the cafeteria)

Storytelling - Open mic session

15 minute time slots (pre-registration mandatory)

Curated by Amel.

This will be the time for you to come on stage and tell us a story. We encourage stories that dwell on topics such as; sexuality, gender identity, coming out, hometown tales, mental health and body image.

Make it funny. Make it deep. Make it queer.

It is a safe space and your stories are safe with us.

Musical Performance

Mac Bhatt

Mac will make our evening special by performing for us (vocals, djembe & guitar).

Imagine sitting next to a campfire vibing to Mac's tunes.

Intuitive Singing

Vishesh Kalimero

A collective session designed to create a new relationship with your singing voice for non musicians and musicians alike.

Singing is the first musical instrument known to man, being the most instinctive way to express any kind of emotion that we feel in the moment. Instead of trying to sing songs we would dive within and sing without any lyrics to access an intuitive expression.

LED Performance

Javed Hassan

A LED performance by our flow artist Javed.

Dinner

Enjoy a delicious buffet dinner (Roti with veg kurma or alu dum; rice, veg curry, pickle, curd, papad and payasam).

Feel free to bring your food to the campfire area and unwind.

Moonlight cinema

U for Usha by Rohan Kanawade (22 minutes)

Usha, a single mother who works as a farm labourer in rural India, finds herself drawn to a female teacher of local primary school, in ways she never knew possible.

Katha Vachak by Deepak Srinivasan (23 minutes)

A coming of age tale of an adolescent dealing with his repressed desires intertwined with queer stories from mythology.