Culture Monks

20/08/2026

Delighted to announce the Open Call for ACT (Actor, Chorus, Text) International Voice & Performance Residency led by Anna - Helena McLean to be held at Adishakti, Pondicherry, India from Feb 19 - 26, 2027.

Designed for theatre and music theatre performers, directors, pedagogues, artist-researchers, and acting students, the intensive introduces McLean's Integrated Physiovocality® Toolkit: a six-stage compositional framework bringing together spinework, breath, voice, song, ensemble practice, embodied consent practices, and text.

To apply please visit this link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/08/19/25193//

11/08/2026

Of memories, rasa, the body and stories. Registration is open for the 2nd instance of the iLOGY storytelling & performance .

Drawing upon the Nāṭyaśāstra, Indian philosophical texts and contemporary performance practices, iLOGY offers a unique space of enquiry where performance becomes an act of becoming and creative evolution.

Information link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/06/26/ilogy-story-performance-summer-workshop-at-zorbha-the-buddha-new-delhi/

06/08/2026

Coverage of our performance titled "Memory Baazar & the Jazz of Silence" by India's official television channel -Doordarshan.

06/08/2026

A clip from our recent iLOGY praxis field research work at Naihar, Shantiniketan, Bolpur.

Bibhas & Bulada deepening their connection with the ancient self, the ecology through that old tree, the architecture of the surroundings with its build human spacings, the memories related to monsoon and what it evokes to the recorded chants by

The chant itself is an old Chakhesang folk chant from Nagaland which is a conversation with the ecology and cosmos.

for more about the iLOGY praxis visit this link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/07/27/ilogy-quantum-story-performance-workshop/

05/08/2026

Adda after our performance titled "Ways of Witnessing with Rathin Mitra", at Indian museum as part of the centenary celebration of Rathin Mitra.

This intervention was part of an ongoing research project of iLOGY praxis.

For more about the iLOGY praxis workshop please click on this link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/07/27/ilogy-quantum-story-performance-workshop/

05/08/2026

Noa, Urvashi & Bibhas performs as part of "Ways of Witnessing with Rathin Mitra", at Indian museum as part of the centenary celebration of Rathin Mitra. The soundscape in this clip is by Sharob, Shrimayee, Arnab and Bulada.

This intervention was part of an ongoing research project of iLOGY praxis.

For more about the iLOGY praxis workshop please click on this link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/07/27/ilogy-quantum-story-performance-workshop/

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

Noa performs as part of "Ways of Witnessing with Rathin Mitra", at Indian museum as part of the centenary celebration of Rathin Mitra. The soundscape in this clip is by Sharob, Shrimayee, Urvashi & Bulada.

This intervention was part of an ongoing research project of iLOGY praxis.

For more about the iLOGY praxis workshop please click on this link: https://culturemonks.in/2026/07/27/ilogy-quantum-story-performance-workshop/