Eco-Ganesha
August 08, 2012
Eco-Ganesha Workshop
Half-Day Workshop on Basics Studio Pottery and making your own Eco Friendly Ganesha....
Let’s welcome our favourite God, Lord Ganesha, this year in an Eco-Friendly and Natural Way. Learn to make your own Ganesha Idol using basic techniques of Studio Pottery. We will be using natural clay. You can carry back the Idol of Lord Ganesha that you have made with your own hands.
What you will take back with you
An Eco-Friendly Idol of Lord Ganesha
A handout on basic of pottery and eco-friendly celebrations
Learn Skills on Studio Pottery
A handout on basic of pottery and eco-friendly celebrations
Learn Skills on Studio Pottery
Location:
Mahim Nature Park (Maharashtra Nature Park)
Bandra-Sion Road
Date: September 15, 2012
Batch 1: 9 am to 12:30 pm
Batch 2: 1:30 pm to 4:30 pmCamp Fee:
Rs.600 per head.
For 2 or more persons registering together Rs.500/- per head.Discounts available only to those who register in advance with full payment.
Camp Fee includes Introduction Workshop on Studio Pottery and Sculpting of Lord Ganesh Idol using Natural Clay
Tips on Creating Eco-Friendly Pandal and immersion of Idol in a eco-friendly manner
500 Grams Wet Clay for sculpting
Small Snack
Participants can buy Ready Wet Clay @60 Per KG. (We will make arrangement clay based on advanced order).
Carry your own water bottle and snacks.
Limited seats per batch..Carry your own water bottle and snacks.
Contact: M. Asif - 9619182010 or SMS - 9821081566
email: asif@natureknights.net / ashwini@natureknights.net
Background
All around us we see various pandals and house-holds celebrating the much loved festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. While the celebrations are a happy occasion, the aftermath of the celebrations are quite unhappy with non-bio-degradable material littered all around us.
As an effort to educate the people on the importance to use eco-friendly methods to celebrate festivals, we at Nature Knights have devised this workshop. Nature Knights is a group that promotes eco-friendly activities from nature walks, to workshops with over 20 year long experience in this field.
So to welcome our favourite God, Lord Ganesha, in a eco-friendly and natural way we are teaching participants to make their own Ganesha idols and how to reclaim and reuse the clay after the ‘Visarjan’. Besides this we will be educating them on using recycled, bio-degradable material for decorations.
Schedule
Batch 1 | Program Details | Batch 2 |
9:00am to 9:15 am | A short talk on the importance of eco-friendly celebrations; disadvantages/harmful effects of non-eco-friendly material; need to adapt natural and eco-friendly methods in celebrations and festivities | 1:30pm to 1:45pm |
9:15am to 10:15 am | Participants will learn the basic techniques of studio pottery like coiling, pinching, slab, etc | 1:45pm to 2:45pm |
10:15 am to 10:30am: | Break | 2:45pm to 3:00pm |
10:30am to 12:15pm | Making of the Ganesha idols from natural clay using studio pottery techniques. | 3:00pm to 4:15pm |
12:15pm to 12:30 pm | Tips and ideas for eco-friendly celebration and the visarjan of Lord Ganesha. Reclaiming the clay after the immersion to be used for idol making or gardening | 4:15pm to 4:30pm |
Note: If you have a batch of 15 to 20 participants we can do this workshop in Mumbai at a special cost on any week days as per mutual convenience.
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It was a gr8 workshop my 7 year old daughter just loved it .....
ReplyDeleteHi Sanket,
ReplyDeleteIt was a pleasure meeting you and your family.. at our Eco-Ganesha Workshop. It was a sheer delight to see your seven years old daughter show lots of creativity and enthusiasm at such young age. Hope to see more of you and your family in our future events.
Cheers..
Asif