Although the term workshop usually conjures images of a hotel reception teeming with attentive corporate employees, a remote village in West Bengal is about to reimagine the meaning of the word. In a four-day workshop, beginning on Saturday, residents will learn an aboriginal method of mural art from two rural women coming from neighbouring Jharkhand.
The workshop will take place in Konedoba, a village near Jhargram dominated by the Santhal tribe, where members of an artists’ initiative from Kolkata, called Chalchitra Academy, have been camping since August last year and which is organising this event for the teaching of ancient Sohrai art.
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