EDUCATION THROUGH INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE
Building a community of lifelong learners!
Building a community of lifelong learners!
Akṣarā's mission is to promote Indian cultural literacy through the arts. Akṣarā will help bring to the fore-front traditional and contemporary ideas and thoughts about Indian culture in creative and meaningful ways. It’s carefully curated events and education programs are designed to create deep cultural learning. Akṣarā is an initiative by Yellospot Designs, a New York City based company that helps foster the habit of creative thinking.
In many countries both tangible and intangible aspects of cultures are being lost because they are not valued in the education system or are not being transmitted to future generations. There is therefore a clear need for education systems to incorporate and transmit cultural knowledge and expressions. Akṣarā tries to achieve this through it's arts education initiatives.
Akṣarā identifies cultural traditions and using artistic methods and design-led strategies it builds programs around it. Akṣarā brings community together through events and educational programs that are online and/or in-person. These events and programs are either participatory, performative, exhibitory or experiential.
We emphasize learning in both breadth and depth with focus on learning that can be applied to contemporary living.
Poetry Sangam
Sun, June 6, 2021
"I can say that Poetry Sangam was one of the best language and literature seminars I have heard this year. The planning was thorough and well-researched. I greatly enjoyed learning new things. Thank you Akṣarā and everyone for a very good session."
-Rosemary C from US
Contemporary Expressions Through Indian Culture (for kids 5-13 yrs)
Summer series (Jul-Aug), 2021
"The class was a very good introduction to Warli tribes for my 12 yr old. The slides were very well designed as it slowly brought the audience from living culture to art."
-Pradeesh B from Germany
Art Through Mindfulness (for adults 25+)
Summer series (Jul-Aug), 2021
"I loved the fact that it was a brilliant perspective on the true essence of art. I am not an artist but I am certainly an art lover. Our facilitator Jay opened my eyes to how if we are mindful, any preconceived boundaries we have in defining art can vanish away. This way art and its possibilities become limitless."
-Sheba E from Abu Dhabi
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