Friends & Links
"The river that flows in you also flows in me."
Kabir
Fireflies
Intercultural Centre
Our home and hosts for the South India Gatherings & Retreats. Outside Bangalore city, closer to nature, with a warm team, multiple working halls and rooms, dining areas and rooms for plenty. The land and people who hold us, feed us and support us while we work and sing and dance.
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Fireflies is a 10-acre estate, nestled among trees, on a land that slopes towards a lake. It is ideal for spending time away from the noises of city life, immersed in majestic isolation and sheltered by Mother Nature’ healing embrace.
Arun Reetha
Skink Tattoos
Arun Reetha of Skink Tattoos, who worked with the movement of ancestral
grace through some of the participants of the 2019, 2022 & 2023 Retreats to create sacred tattoos as memories, celebrations and rites of passage.
Infinite Souls
Artists' Retreat
Nestled in the shadow of the beautiful monolith Savandurga, it is 40km from the centre of Bangalore, in Vardenahalli village.
The cottages, rehearsal spaces, outdoor kitchen, woodfire oven and dining area were built by young masons from a labour collective using stabilized mud block, local granite and recycled wood.
Infinite Souls is an entirely un-funded, artist-led space. It is sustained by the workshops, residencies and performances it hosts.
Swarga
Homestay
Shoonya
Centre for Art
and Somatic Practices
Shoonya is a non-profit, multi-arts centre in Bangalore on Lalbagh Road. A beautiful light-filled space, it has been thoughtfully designed for people of different artistic disciplines and somatic practices to create, connect and collaborate.
They offer a space for artists and the community to engage; for people from diverse cultures and ages to impart knowledge and share experiences around creativity, performance, holistic health and education.
