An introduction to the basics of improvisation, this workshop focuses on the simple act of saying "yes" as a way to heighten self awareness and acceptance. It creates a safe and fun space to observe and enhance your own thoughts, behaviors, abilities and mental wellness. Often limited as merely a comedic performance medium, improv also has far reaching effects on life skills like patience, perseverance, hope and trust. Participants can come for one day or all three. For ages 16 and above.

Unravel is an interactive theatre ​production bringing experiences with mental health and wellness to the fore. The ensemble uses spontaneous improv, theatre exercises and audience suggestions to devise the final performance on the spot. What follows is a candid and light hearted sharing from the room at large, that offers an approachable perspective on emotional challenges that are often intimidating or stigmatized. For ages 16 and above.

Combining romance and fantasy with a sensitive commentary on learning disabilities Akvarious Productions, Mumbai presents a slice of life comedy about an adolescent boy coming of age. Homi, our protagonist, can’t seem to focus in school. He is told that he has ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), which affects his concentration in class. With the help of his mother, his father's guitar, his first potential girlfriend, and some great thinkers from history, Homi comes up with creative ways of dealing...(more) with his condition. Based on the work of Pierre Pichot and adapted for the stage by Akarsh Khurana, this play tugs at the emotional strings that tie the bonds between parents and children. Younger audiences and their adults will likely find that this story speaks to people on both ends of this tender relationship, and indeed, everyone in between. For ages 9 and above.

This is a reading & discussion that puts the focus on disappearing dialects of our city. Dastango Fouzia & academic Saneya explore the ways of life and 'boli' (dialects) of micro-communities that once resided here, through poems and prose from Urdu literature. Their distinct speech, gendered idiolect and mannerisms will be contextualised with a historical brief, followed by Fouzia narrating excerpts in Naayi (barber) ki boli, Karkhandari Zubaan, Dhoban (washerwoman) ki boli, Begumati Zubaan.

One BHK explores a mother-daughter relationship through a series of phone conversations, emails, text messages, recollections and reflections which span a period of one year. In a way, One BHK is about everyone who has left home to find a new one. It is about the everyday monotony of living alone. It is about young, reckless dreams and old, unlived ones. It is about learning to live with yourself. And it is about understanding that the old were once young too. In this experiment, audience member...(more)s themselves participate in the storytelling. 6 members of the audience can choose to read while others listen. The milieu of different voices and versions of a universally shared experience adds another layer of intimacy and engagement to the proceedings.