Woodcut Printing|Khursheed Ahmad

This is an introductory workshop to woodcut and relief printmaking, one of the oldest and most enduring forms of relief printing. Participants will learn the fundamentals of design, carving, and printing from wooden blocks while exploring the expressive qualities of line, texture, and contrast unique to the medium. A guided demonstration and hands-on exercise will allow participants to gain experience in transferring images, using carving tools safely, applying ink, and producing prints by hand. The workshop will foster and encourage participants to experiment with image-making and develop their own visual language through the process of carving and printing.

Workshop Fees: 650 INR
Workshop Time and Date: 10:00 am, Sunday, 07 June 2026
Venue:- Near Cardiff School, Charar I Sharief, Budgam

LINK: https://forms.gle/14U7x1eBPm7tWJfY6

Cyanotype |Salman B Baba

Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic printing techniques. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the basics of cyanotype printing and create beautiful Prussian Blue photographic prints using natural botanicals and prepared light-sensitive paper.

The workshop aims to introduce participants to the basic history of cyanotype printing while gaining an understanding of the light-sensitive chemistry that makes the process possible. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice, attendees will prepare and coat paper with cyanotype solution, experiment with composing images using botanicals, negatives, or found objects. They will learn various exposure techniques using sunlight and UV light. The workshop will also cover the development and washing process, enabling participants to produce and preserve their own prints.

The workshop will encourage the participants to experiment beyond traditional methods.

Workshop Fees: 650 INR
Workshop Time and Date: 10:00 am, Saturday, 06 June 2026
Venue:- Near Cardiff School, Charar I Sharief, Budgam

LINK: https://forms.gle/14U7x1eBPm7tWJfY6

Seeing through stories |Gowhar Yaqoob and Huzaifa Pandit

The conversation as part of the THF Dialogues series with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) brings together Gowhar Yaqoob and Huzaifa Pandit, for a lecture-presentation and workshop with a particular focus on myths and folklore.

Gowhar’s presentation discusses narrative strategies with a focus on local and cultural forms. The session highlights the importance of oral and performative traditions, exemplifying how Kashmir’s origin myth has been reimagined and reinterpreted from time to time in Sanskrit, Persian and Kashmiri textual practices.

Huzaifa explores intertextuality through the work of three poets - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali and Mahmoud Darwish and how they create texture within their works, the kind of histories they draw upon and the affects they aim to evoke, interspersing writing exercises and language games to support his presentation.

Time: 10:00 AM IST
Date: Tuesday, 30 Sept 2023
Venue: At Kani House, Zakura, Srinagar

Portfolio Building Workshop |YCK Team

A comprehensive workshop on how to prepare a compelling art portfolio and learn the art of storytelling through your work and written narratives. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to present your work for constructive critique while gaining valuable insights from our team. We will share our knowledge in crafting compelling portfolios. Learn the art of storytelling through your work and narrative building, and engage with a dedicated community of fellow artists. With limited spots available, we encourage you to register promptly to enhance your portfolio development.

Time: 09:30 AM IST
Date: Saturday, 23 Sept 2023
Venue: Online

Reading the city : Memory & Dreams |Salman B Baba

The workshop explored the different perspectives of a city and how we can understand the idea of a city through our memory. Some questions that we will have for the discussions will be What is the city and how do we understand it? How can we perceive the city through our sensorial fields and What constitutes this sensorial matrix of the city? How does place-making takes place and to what extent does our perceptions shape the city? What are the interchanges, engagements, associations and memories, experiences of a city and what do we interpret of it? Can the city be read and what kind of readings do emerge out of it? We will focus on these multiple questions through different lenses and perspectives.

Time: 12:00 PM IST
Date: Saturday, 26 AUG 2023
Venue: Srinagar

Storytelling in comics |Khytul Abyad

A comprehensive workshop on storytelling in comics, designed to encourage participants to transform their ideas into engaging comic strips. This workshop will be conducted over two sessions, guiding participants through the stages of the creative process, from writing a compelling story to visualizing it, creating storyboards, and ultimately completing and colouring their own comics.

The workshop aims to enable participants to document their everyday stories using the unique visual language of comics; merging elements of art and narrative, participants will learn how to convey their experiences, emotions, and thoughts in a visually engaging and accessible manner. The workshop will foster the development of artistic skills while encouraging participants to explore their individual voices as storytellers.

Time: 11:00 AM IST
Date: Saturday, 17 & 24 June 2023
Venue: Online & Anantnag

Bodies in Action |Khursheed Ahmad

The workshop explored the means of articulating everyday encounters in regional and local expressions. It explored the possibilities of finding a language, an apparatus through which day to day acts, actions and movements could possibly be examined and a nuanced dialogue could be generated in/with our immediate social environment. The intention was to create a discursive sphere where participants coming from different artistic, social and practice backgrounds address the issue at hand through various means of creative and academic expressions. The workshop was not goal oriented and did not seek a finitude but tests some more permutations and combinations of student expressions which can be questioned, discussed, deliberated and performed further. Khursheed Ahmad brought anecdotes from his own practise.

Time: 11:00 AM IST
Date: Saturday, 03 June 2023 & Sunday, 18 June 2023
Venue: Srinagar