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MEMORY BOX OF

PAST WORK

Explore this collection of our past work, which delves into everyday themes through storytelling, food, craft, performance, and collaborative art. While most sessions take place at Kauri, some have found their way into schools, collaborative spaces, and parks - each shaped by the people and contexts around it.

 

This body of work continues to grow, shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and the joy of making things together.

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Skit: Kabir & Ganga

A journey where the river’s endangered friends shared lessons of wisdom, kindness, and courage—through storytelling inspired by the verses of Kabir.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Script: Kauri 

Dramatics & props: Kidzee Elementary School, Nadesar

Location: Rudraksh Convention Centre

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Poetry Skit: Jal Saheli

Inspired by the Jal Sahelis - real water warriors of Madhya Pradesh - children explored how women empower villages by practising rainwater harvesting, saving water, and restoring life.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Script & stage props: Kauri

Dramatics: Kidzee Elementary School, Nadesar

Location: Rudraksh Convention Centre

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Performance: Birds of Ganga

Children embodied migratory birds along the river Ganga, expressing movement inspired by a north-eastern folk dance.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Curation: Kauri

Costumes & practices: Kidzee Elementary School, Nadesar

Location: Rudraksh Convention Centre

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Kauri's Kart on the move

Kauri's Kart spent an afternoon at Kutumb Village, creating colourful self-portraits, playing story-building games and reading books under the sun.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kutumb Village

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Kauri's Kart on the move

Kauri's Kart spent the morning at Kidzee Elementary Nadesar (Kenzen School) reading books on the themes of hope and joy and creating Kolam designs.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kidzee Elementary School, Nadesar

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Become a birder

A field trip to birding hotspots in Varanasi with birding enthusiast, Saksham Nijhawan, where participants learned to use binocs, spot and record birds.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Various birding hotspots in Varanasi

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Look Ma! There are animals in the sky!

A storytelling and science session that introduced children to constellations and the stories that make the night sky magical!

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Bedtime story blankets

A playful dive into stories and fabric, where children explored folk tales and added their imagination into textiles.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Passport to the world

A summer program curated for children aged 2-12, in which they "visited" seven continents through immersive art, cultural and storytelling activities. 

 

Age: Pre-primary & Primary Grades

Location: Kidzee Elementary School, Nadesar

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Focaccia making (with Little Barbet)

A bake-and-picnic afternoon where families came together to knead, top, and share their own warm creations.

Age: Kids & Families

Location: Kauri

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Marmalade & apron painting (with Little Barbet)

A Sunday of orange-tinted cooking and wearable art, celebrating slow creativity.

 

Age: Kids & Families

Location: Armatuer

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Mural art: warli

Collective art-making with traditional and contemporary Warli forms to reflect on water bodies across shared surroundings.

 

Age: Kids & Families

Location: Kauri

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Immersive storytelling (with Armatuer)

Fragrances, memories, and light—stories found new life through journalling and candle-making.

Age: Kids & Families

Location: Kauri

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SuperME for Earth

An afternoon about self-expression, conservation, zine-making and impromptu skits.

Age: Middle Grades

Location: Maker's Asylum, Goa

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Emotions & skits (with MAP Bangalore)

Young voices turned feelings into performances, creating little acts to share with an audience.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Storytelling quilts (with MAP Bangalore)

Young voices turned feelings into performances, creating little acts to share with an audience.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Stop-motion animation (with Anushree Joshi)

Frames, paper, and play—kids brought stories to life with their own stop-motion shorts.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Short story writing

Prompt-led storytelling that led to surprising twists, turns, and tales by young authors.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Poetry workshop (with Rohini Kejriwal)

A dive into verses and voices, ending with a pocket-sized poetry collection.

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Art with surroundings (with Rohini Kejriwal)

Nature and light became tools for art in this fun workshop.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Zine making (with Rohini Kejriwal)

Folded, cut, and collaged—young hands shaped mini publications in their own style.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Comics making (with Ita Mehrotra)

Fundamentals of storyboarding, character development, and crafting humour with a meaningful message.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kauri

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Memories on a terrace (with Armatuer)

Fragrances, memories, and light—stories found new life through journalling and candle-making.

 

Age: Adults

Location: Greenr, Delhi

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Slogan impact

From creative poster-making to turning their own creations into a fun card game, children explored interactive ways to learn about energy conservation.

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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A little girl named India

A collection of short stories, poems, and reflections from a creative exercise imagining India as a friend — compiled into a webpage and podcast series.

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Foraging for art

Memory and nature came together as children foraged and created evocative, personal art.

 

Age: Primary & Middle Grades

Location: Kutumb Village

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Skits: India’s challenges

Tackling real issues like poverty and inequality, children performed their own solutions on a make-shift stage.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Book launch: Finding Me

An activity book with prompts for readers to engage in journalling exercises, featuring guided facilitation by young friends and their creations.

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Space of our own

Children wrote and doodled stories of quiet corners and spaces that feel like home.

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Cloud comic

Looking up and drawing down—children turned clouds into comic characters and tales.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Designs for our city's future

Using imagination and local insight, children envisioned new products to address city challenges.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Puppet show

An adaptation of a South American folk tale about monkeys and their love for bananas.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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Rabbit's Gift

An adaptation of the popular folk story, Rabbit's Gift. Performed by children aged 10-12 at Kauri.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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Musical Skit

A musical skit about the African jungle with a message of valuing inclusion and individual uniqueness. Performed by children aged 6-8.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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Customised creatives

Creatives and mascots designed for Kenzen School's annual fest, Creatures and Colours.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Indian art forms & animals

Exploring folk arts like Gond, Bhil and more, culminating in a published book and group gallery.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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Global artists & art forms

From Frida to Raza—an exploration of global artists through children’s interpretations, culminating in a published book and group gallery.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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Regions and us

A creative exploration of Indian states through worksheets, stories, and maps.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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Diorama of safe spaces

Children sculpted and storied their dream sanctuaries using everyday and found objects.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School

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The Little Shop

An online store showcasing curated creations by over 200 children, turned into custom merchandise.

 

Age: Primary Grades

Location: Kenzen School, Kauri

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