MAD-Music Art and Dance

Capacity Building with school students to re-interpret the waters of Kolkata. The works have been produced by the students as a part of different workshops conducted with them during the pandemic. All works have thus been produced remotely to look at Kolkata's waters through different forms of art.

Curated By

Students of Modern High School for Girls and Delhi Public School Howrah

Introduction

While the Living Waters Museum is a virtual museum that looks at reimagining our water heritage, we also believe in building capacity within youth groups so that they too can look at their surrounding waters in creative and innovative ways and experience it in a more holistic manner. During the lockdown, we collaborated with students of Modern High School, Kolkata and the Delhi Public School, Howrah to interpret their river heritage through different forms of art.

The Ghats and Rani Rashmoni

Women, rivers and rituals

The Goddess within

Immersive Immersions

The Middle School department of the All About Art club made short videos featuring puppets in the form of animals to spread awareness about the pollution in the ghats and other water bodies in the city :

Hands on Awareness

The Messenger Bird

The Ghats of Kolkata contribute to one of the richest and most versatile urban scapes of the city. It is very unfortunate that there is anot enough awareness around the different smaller ghats particularly the ones that exist on either sides of the two bridges. It is for this reason the students of Delhi Public School, Howrah came up with the idea of a rap song to reach out to a larger audience with the stories around these ghats.