Artist in Me series:

Zindagi ka Naksha is a reflective workshop that helps us build upon our lived experiences and shape the future we wish to create for ourselves. Through a deeply personal and creative process, participants engage in mapping their journeys, creating visual representations of their unique paths, and marking significant moments, struggles, triumphs, and aspirations. 

This workshop invites introspection, storytelling, and collective sharing and dreaming. Here personal narratives shape the desire for changes in social and cultural landscapes. Participants create a tangible roadmap – one that honours personal histories, acknowledges present realities, and dreams of a self-determined future.

Audience takeaways: 

An opportunity to connect with others and unhurried time for dreaming and self-reflecting. 

You will learn how to stitch personal narratives onto fabric, along with learning basic and advanced stitches and adding appliqué to your work. 

At the end of the day, you will get to take home your unique, handmade embroidered map on cloth along with some new friends and dreams for the future.

About the facilitators:

The workshop will be facilitated by Shivangi Singh along with the women of Rafooghar – The House that mends, a community space in New Delhi where women, who live on the margins and have faced discrimination and social exclusion for years, gather and find space and time for sukoon (peace) and fursat (leisure) through the medium of stitching and textiles.