Schools Resource and Workshops Programme, Milton Keynes Art Centre, project curation and coordination, 2024-2025
In March 2024, 45 year 5 pupils
from Falconhurst School in Eaglestone worked with the artists Kajal Nisha
Patel, Vasundhara Sellamuthu and Mansi Shouche over a series of workshops
designed to increase understanding and awareness of South Asia’s rich and
diverse cultures through contemporary art; as well as to celebrate reuse,
repurposing and regeneration in art’s making. In June 2024, I led workshops at Eaglestone Activity Centre, local to Falconhurst School for students and their families to related to a mythological story behind a deity trying to eat the sun and a Continuing Professional
Development session for Milton Keynes teachers on the Art of Kantha.
The project was followed by a launch event of the travelling suitcase that I owned and that bears the marks of the places its been. Inside are three artist-designed information packs and a selection of objects to inspire activities relating to South Asian culture and heritage. It is available for home educators and schools to borrow for one month up until Autumn 2025. For the launch event of the resource I led a rangoli-inspired collective workshop in collaboration with Bharatnatyam dancer Debbie Ganguli-Patel who interacted with the rangoli installations during the workshop for families.
Supported by funding from MK Community Foundation.
