Thematic Workshops

Discover your Living Heritage – Endangered Art and Craft Workshops – 2022 – 2023

The Endangered Skill Workshop was envisaged with the similar aim, the project seeks to spread awareness of an endangered art and craft of a particular region/ city by conducting workshops with middle school children, so that children became not only aware of their legacy but also develop means to take it forward.

This is a series of workshops that HECS has pioneered previously too. The programme has been conducted with chapters across the country. The workshop(s) were organised online and offline and saw an enthusiastic participation of various students across many schools. For the workshop(s), the chapters across the country took up unique cultural aspects belonging to their region and held innovative and engaging workshops for school students and teachers. Some of the chapters that participated were Ambala Chapter, Ayodhya Chapter, Varanasi Chapter, Nagpur Chapter, Jamshedpur Chapter, Solapur Chapter, Udaipur Chapter, Jodhpur Chapter, Khandwa Chapter, Durg Bhilai, Bhagalpur, Hisar, Vijaypur, Raipur, Jammu, Thanjavur, Mahbubnagar, Jamnagar, Kasargod, Jalandhar, Dhar, Gwalior etc. These chapters showed a great interest and zeal in the idea and took up myriad varieties of art and craft workshop in different parts of the country. The crafts and art forms covered were Tie and Dye Workshop, Crafts made using Sarpat Grass Mridang Making, Banaras Mural Painting, Ramlila Mask Mask making, Crafts made using Cow-Dung, Pyatkar Painting, Bharud and Gavalan Oral Performing Folk Art, Halwiechi Jewellery making (sesame sugar bead jewellery), Art of Dhurrie, Folk musical instruments, Chitera folk painting, etc. The chapters showed a great interest and zeal in the idea and took up myriad varieties of art and craft workshop in different parts of the country. Students from different rural/urban areas were engaged with these awareness workshops.