Overview
In this virtual and wired universe, doing real and flow-based things with an empathetic tribe or a relaxed community is the need of the hour. This is what we bring together in this immersive workshop––place and people to share personal stories of sari love, nostalgia, and grief. And transform the emotions into zerowaste wearables without ruthless cutting. Why? Because saris as physical and non-physical forms of energy hold space for connecting, creating, releasing, and healing more than we know.
Features
The session will have short, guided meditation (sensorial experience) and a set of self-observational, artistic activities conducted in a sharing circle. It will have a safe environment for us to express our stories and emotions connected to our saris. It will have exchange and learning of Reduce-Refuse-Reuse-Repurpose-Recycle (zerowaste) sari upcycling techniques and ideas based on real-time experience of the facilitator(s). The design ideas can be tweaked, applied, and / or outsourced.
Benefits
The session will give us a chance to immerse ourselves in a transformative fashion experience with yogic awareness. It will help us release our stored sari emotions related to love, celebration, separation, heartbreak, divorce or death and identify their symbolism. It will help us understand the WHYs and HOWs of zerowaste sari upcycling. It will give us ideas to apply the 5Rs techniques to redesign our sari, in a self-paced way. And be part of a spiritual community of humans who are conscious .
Components
Interact with other like-minded fashion conscious individuals
Activities
Integrations
Become aware of our relationship with saris and emotions
Techniques
Learn zerowaste methods to restyle and upcycle unused saris
Resources
Know where to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle our saris
NOTE
Kindly carry a sari which you want to let go, is uber-close to your heart. or do not want to chop. It could be yours or anyone else’s (inherited / hand-me-down / pre-loved / swapped). This event is an experiential and immersive workshop and not a counselling session. It is to explore emotions through our senses and saris.
It is curated for a limited number of participants. Registrations will close early. We request you to sign up accordingly.
Connections
Interact with other like-minded fashion conscious individuals
Activities
Indulge in self-paced, thoughtful, and sensorial sari handwork
Observations
Notice our silences and words that are not usually linked to saris
Date
27th September 2024
Day
Saturday
Time
4pm to 7pm
Venue
Will be Notified
Cost
INR 2000
Facilitator
Fashion editor-educator and mother Bhawana Pingali will work through the immersive process based on her professional explorations in the fashion world and personal experiences of navigating emotions through saris and other clothing.
Bhawana is a mother of a teen and has been a writer-academic for the last 19+ years. After her stint as Features Editor-Fashion with FEMINA (Worldwide Media Ltd.—Times of India / BBC Magazines), she contributed independently to The Hindu, Hindustan Times-Mint Lounge, Time Out, Lonely Planet,
Travel + Leisure, Maxim, Orissa Post, Signature-Oman, among others. She has taught at NIFT, Pearl Academy, Symbiosis Institute of Design, CEPT-Ahmedabad, IIM-A, British Council (TEFL-certified trainer), GD Goenka and Ansal Universities. Her heart now lies in teaching yoga-meditation, and reviving saris and old-world rituals through fashion research lab REVASTRA.
