Projects

The Centre for Creative Expressions is dedicated to empowerment through creative expression of all kinds and using all mediums.

Children figure very high on our priority list.

One, because they have not lost the skill of creative visualization, and

Two, we would like to equip them with tools to lead a productive, responsible and empowered life.

We at the Centre believe very strongly that an empowered society can only become a reality if the individuals are empowered themselves. Therefore, though our vision might be universal, our focus is always the individual.

Children have responded very beautifully to our exercises, and have shown the potential of a progressive, impressive and empowered future to us. We love to tap the potential that children have.

One of our very ambitious projects was the launch of a monthly newspaper in 2005, managed, reported by and designed by the students of Delhi schools. The aim was to make the children of Delhi the eyes and ears of Delhi society.

The Centre supervised this project as also trained students for effective and alert reportage, responsible writing and creative expression. The paper was distributed free to the students of Delhi schools. We also distributed the newspaper free in all colonies in all parts of Delhi ourselves, on our own steam!

Obviously, the numbers were monumental. We persisted from July 2005 till December 2005. However, due to lack of funds and no corporate support coming forth at the time, we had to close the printing of the newspaper at that time.

Perhaps it’s an idea worth keeping alive – perhaps for children to make their presence felt online.

We would like to see this project become a truly community project by all adults taking their children seriously.

From 2006 till 2010, we hosted a Saturday afternoon activity called Deewanon ki Mehfil – a weekly meeting of our theatre club.

We welcomed all theatre lovers – actors, directors, writers, technicians, artistes, musicians – budding or blossoming to peaking; from all walks of life and various strata – to come and workshop, share, create, present! We believe a lot of talent found its spark, and many projects inspired in those sessions. We learnt and were enriched by the experiences. Entry was free! We had school going and street children mingling with college students, IT professionals, journalists, teachers, budding activists, politicians, home makers, bureaucrats, retired people, security guards, drivers, cooks – everyone! We explored breath, theatre exercises, emotions, singing, voice work, tai chi, martial arts, body posture work, play readings, creative writing, sense and imagination work, poetry – the works!

A performance, a workshop and food to top it all!

Food for Thought is a space created where we workshop, witness a performance and create some magic with food!

For all those who would like an evening of enrichment and joy, of learning and creativity, this is the place to be in!

Food for Thought is an idea we have been bringing alive at the Centre.

It could be cinema, music, or Kerala cuisine, it could also be dance, theatre, or just fun!

Contact us for more information.

Over the years, as we recycle, and express ourselves creatively, we have been inviting people to unique exhibition experiences. The exhibition is not just a gallery or showroom to look at objects. It is where you interact with the artist at work, possibly even learn from there. It is also a space to feed all your senses – your taste buds for we always have delicious food fare to offer. We always like to bring in a performance, a reading, a concert, a meditation, a workshop into the exhibition space.

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Our theatre work and discoveries in sensory, emotional and creative expression seems subtle and esoteric. However, whenever we have been invited to lead and facilitate in the world of showbiz, we find our processes appeal to all!

At Kingdom of Dreams, Mrinalini and Dilip were invited to be the Show Running Directors for ‘Zangoora – the Gypsy Prince’ from its launch in 2010 till 2012, and for ‘Jhumroo’ in its first year. We found we could inspire and carry the cast and crews of both the shows using our humble tools with a great degree of success. We grew a lot, as we were dealing with top, senior, middle  management, as well as the workers at ground level. To knit feelings of well being and joy was our task, and we contributed to our hearts’ delight!

Puneeta and her team at Yuva Ekta Foundation create similar love vibrations every year even at a busy hub like the Jaipur Literature Festival. Year after year, they bring together children from Jaipur schools and NGOs from the neighbouring areas, where workshops lead to performances.

Our participation in cinema projects see us expressing ourselves as co writers, associate directors, Casting directors, Acting trainers, Design consultants. We have found that our training at the Centre has helped us negotiate the big bad world film world with as much ease.

Some of the projects cast at the centre have included Shadows of Time, Valley of Flowers, Darjeeling Limited, Life of Pi, Angry Indian Goddesses.

We envision one or several spaces of well being, where on offer to the visitor is peace, aesthetics and sublime food for the senses. This is not a dream for those that already have access to such facilities. This is more a dream towards creating a space where anyone and everyone from all walks of life can come – a labourer, a rickshaw puller, a house help, a mason or an electrician, along with children, young adults and people from all strata and walks of life. Utopian you may ask?  Not really. Much needed? Indeed. We also would like in the same space a hospice for care to the sick, a medical advice centre, a counselling centre, a library, a studio space, a performance space, rehearsal rooms and studios for various expressive arts classes and workshops, a studio, community radio. Ambitious? Yes. We are working on it!

We are doing our bit:
– We have been on call, and open for in person sessions when possible for those going through grief, anxiety and other issues.
– Organised relief for migrant workers on their tough journeys back home in 2020. Supplied food, water, medicines, slippers, sanitisers to those on foot on the Delhi-UP border over several weeks.
– During the second wave in 2021, helped and supported the efforts of Shekhar Singh in organising relief for a cluster of 29 villages in the Niti Valley, Uttarakhand. Relief sent was in the form of basic medicines, sanitisers, oxymeters, thermometers, face masks, oxygen masks and cylinders, accompanied by volunteers who also raised awareness and shared information with remote villages with less or no access to medical attention.