“Color is the place where our brain and the Universe meet“
Paul Klee, painter, printmaker, teacher.
Natural Color Festival in Bangalore, 2023
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Natural Color Festival in Bangalore, 2023 〰️
On : 20, 21 & 22 January, 2023
At Bangalore Creative Circus, 12/2, Yeshwanthpur Industrial Suburb, Estate, Bengaluru
Host: ColorAshram
A natural dye training studio in Ahmedabad, with R&D of two decades
Co-Host: Bangalore Creative Circus
An Urban Living Lab committed to inspiring and enabling sustainable systems, and a regenerative culture of living.
To help us make sense of a world awash in oil, plastics and toxic chemicals
To know the impacts of the spill, entanglement, and toxicity
To feel it in our bones, along with heart and mind
We need much more than statistics
More than dry, artificial intelligence
More than sympathy and apathy
This is a call for emotion and action..
This kind of knowing can only happen with the help of artists and poets
This can only make sense if we can integrate economics of making, buying and selling of natural dyed lifestyle products
‘Let us live and dye naturally’
An invitation to..
Natural Color Stations you will find at the Festival
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Natural Dye Fabric Painting Station
Moitry will help you paint with natural colors on an organic cotton napkin in a 20-minute session, that you can take with you. Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm
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Natural Dyeing Station
Rinki will help you learn how to tie and dye in yellow/red color on an organic cotton napkin, in a 20-minute session, that you can take with you. Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm
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Natural Water Color & Illustration Station
Pooja will assist you in applying natural water colors on paper, or paint on wood in a 20 minute session and open a new language of colors to you.Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm
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Natural Color Block Printing Station
Sanskar will help you learn and apply block printing on a cloth bag in a 20-minute session, that you can take with you. Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm
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Indigo & Shibori Station
Suharika will facilitate a 20-minute session with you to learn shibori tie on an organic cotton napkin or your garment, and then demonstrate indigo dye on your piece, which you can take home with you.Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm
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Natural color wood painting station
Registration on spot, open from 11am-6pm.
Meet the Brands exhibiting their natural dyed products
What do we mean by ‘Natural Color’?
By Natural Color or dye we mean that the color is sourced from a plant or mineral that is not toxic to our water or skin or soil and is applied with a natural or natural based mordant/ fixer/binder which is also easily bio-degradable and will not pollute or impact the environment in a harmful manner even if used in larger quantity.
If this is what you use, you are welcome to bring your product, work, to the festival. Our larger goal is to define how natural dyes can add color to our lives without creating waste or toxin for all living beings.
Meet the Organisations that support the festival:
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Our Community Partner for the festival
ADI is committed to promoting best practices in the profession of design in India by strengthening and promoting the capabilities of the Indian design profession, as well as amplifying and presenting a unified voice to influence public policy, shape the industry and benefit the people at large.
Being focussed on best practices, ADI finds greats resonance in bringing aspiring and practicing Design Professionals to a festival focussed on Natural Dyes and it’s application in the industry at large, simply because they are better for the environment and better for the people.
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Traveler’s University
Travellers' University facilitates immersive on-ground learning experiences to explore Alivelihoods, meaningful and regenerative livelihoods that are oriented towards social, ecological and personal wellbeing.
We believe that the organisations participating in the Natural Color festival are a step closer to creating a colourful world for all without having to disrupt the planet's natural functioning. Additionally, they are doing a fabulous job of building livelihoods that are socially and ecologically conscious. Such festivals will bring much-needed attention towards sustainable and slow fashion.
We wish to witness and be a part of more such festivals and awareness!
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Living Waters Museum
“Textiles are at the heart of our diverse crafts traditions and water is integral to the livelihoods of our artisans and to the production of textiles from farm to fashion. Being sensitive to our water footprint, both to how much water we use and to our wastewater discharge, is critical for a healthy environment and all that the planet supports.
Launched in 2017, the Living Water Museum, a digital repository visualizing India's rich water heritage through storytelling and digital media, is thrilled to have worked with the Color Ashram Foundation to produce the naturally dyed Aqua Stoles to celebrate our five years milestone," Sara Ahmed, Founder-Director, Living Waters Museum at IISER-Pune.
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Varun, founder
Hi, I am Varun from Greenlane. We recently collaborated with ColorAshram to hand-paint a tshirt using natural dyes for @MinistryOfNow. We absolutely loved the piece and look forward to learning more from them in this fascinating space.
They are hosting the Natural Color Festival on January 19-21, 2023 at BCC and we would highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in working with natural colors.
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TrueToneInk Pvt. Ltd.
Sponsor For Natural Colors used in the festival, Truetoneink is the leader in industrializing natural dye application to bring the much required change in fashion and textiles. They are also supporting ColorAshram in every step of its journey including sharing the same physical space in Ahmedabad.
“Seeds of future have to be sown today and that’s what this festival stands for me. I look forward to meeting anyone who would like to transition from synthetic to natural dyeing on any scale.” Founder, Arun Baid
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The Creative Arts Academy, Kolkata
Theatre is a powerful tool of expression, just like any other art form. Together with TCA, we believe we can give voice to the unrest and toxic evolution that we are experiencing with plastics and chemicals, as well as our mindless production and consumption cycle that disrupts the harmony we need with nature to be healthy.
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Fashion Show & Poetry reading
21st January, 6:30-8:30pm
Origin Studio will present a beautiful hand painted collection in conjunction with poetry reading, followed by all the brands displaying one of their star pieces.
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Panel Discussion
You are invited to the Panel Discussion on water issues in the context of ecological sustainability and human practices brought to you in collaboration with @LivingWatersMuseum, @Tula, and @TruetoneInk, founders of each of these are going to speak about water stories, relevance, issues, its pollution and solution
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Film Screening
21st and 22nd January, 2-3pm
Mayank Bhutoira, founder of Cloud Fondue Films is curating a special hour of relevant films to excite and satiate your curiosity for natural colors, why, what, how..
Featuring films, starting conversations with people involved in the industry and audience
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20th January Workshop, 11am-4pm
Are you a textile or design student who is interested to know more about natural dye applications? We have booked 20th January for you!
Email at colorashramfoundation@gmail.com to book a spot
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B2B session with founder of TrueToneInk
B2B session is only for people who have some experience in working with natural dyes and want to ask any kind of questions on scaling up, standardizing development of dyes, or any other business-related query. He has been working for two decades and is a pioneer in industrial application of natural dyes on machines from jigger dyeing to rotary for printing and so on. Currently lot of big industries like GHCL, Trident, Decathlon, are working with Truetone dyes.
Natural Color Festival, Pune, 1-2 July, 2023
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Join us at Zapurza, 11am-6pm, 1st & 2nd July
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Meet Natural Dye Brands
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Learn With Us: Workshops
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Paint, heal with Natural Colors
FAQs on Pune Festival:
What will happen?
There would be interactive sessions and immersive workshops, hands on dyeing, shopping with natural dyed brands and witnessing contemporary hand-painted textile art pieces.
Timings for both days are 11am-6pm.
Venue is Zapurza Museum - open space and Gallery 10.
How can you engage?
If you would like to participate in
-an immersive 2 hour workshop, along with hands on natural dyeing and painting all day long
-understand how to use natural colors for art therapy and other art practices
-or if you are a natural dye brand and want to sell at this festival
- And surely, if you are someone who practices sustainability and would like to know about conscious clothing
Fill out this form to register or engage with ColorAshram.
When and where?
It’s happening in Zapurza museum, Pune. Open space for workshops and hands-on activity and Gallery 10 for shopping with brands for a natural dye wardrobe!
Timings 11am-6pm
Hands on session will be on all day
Workshops are scheduled on July 1st at 3-5pm on eco printing and July 2nd at 11:30-1:30pm on learning to make your own natural dye from flowers &apply it.
Workshops at the Festival
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Eco-Printing by Leafage
1-7-2023 at 3-5pm, only 8 seats available
Experience Ecoprinting Unbundling Fun for free. Join us if you want to explore your hands on the unique Art therapy of _Eco Printing_ led by Shraddha Joshi Barde of Leafage Eco Prints!
Create your own printed silk piece using natural materials like onion skin waste, marigold petals & natural dyes and carry back our eco printed silk piece.
Fee:Rs.750
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Learn how to make natural dyes from flowers by Moitri
2-7-2023, 11:30-1:30am
Do you want to know how to make natural dye from flowers? How to mordant and apply it on an organic cotton napkin using tie and dye? if yes, Join our vibrant facilitator :)
Rs.750
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All-day activity: 30 min each
Both on 1st and 2nd
1. Play with indigo and Shibori
2.Bring your old tees and tie-dye them
3. Natural watercolor on Paper
4. Natural dye Fabric painting
Rs.250 each
Facilitator: ColorAshram
Meet the Brands
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ACES conscious clothing
The language of natural colors is not just fascinating, it is most alive, therapeutic and sustainable for both humanity and our planet. Let us speak, celebrate, and unravel the magic of natural colors in the first ever Natural Color Festival.
For we can only see the change we decide to make. Unleashing the power of natural colors is a hope for conscious consumerism and find balance with our ever-nurturing ecology.
This festival can only become a collective with your participation and we intend to create opportunities so you can plan your role in this. It is a significant step towards sustainability that we seek ‘today’ for a healthy ‘tomorrow’.
If you are an artist, illustrator, you can explore the new language of natural water colors
Guests were stamped with natural colors and wooden blocks to register them for a particular activity
Get together to share your thoughts and emotions on toxic evolution and need to embrace natural way of consuming
Artists have started using the language of natural colors and will carry the message of Color Re-evolution, let us look beyond synthetic colors.
Corporates who never picked up a brush in ages, painted to connect with nature and themselves
People expressed how they relate to water pollution and our planet, our life!
An artist's work on display using natural water colors from ColorAshram
Young children loved the possibility of the magical change of natural colors when painted
Shoppers enjoyed to find a natural dyed wardrobe
Designer learns about indigo and Shibori
Students paint with natural paints on fabric
Children learn how to make natural dyes from flowers
Book your spot:
You can be a visitor, corporate, parent, student, artist, designer, brand, sustainable enthusiast, curious evolver, teacher, performer, natural dyer. This festival is for you. Tell us more about your interest in this form.
Inviting you to apply:
You can attend, make something with natural dyes or sell your natural dyed product or bring your students or team for a hands on session with natural colors or perform at our open mic, sing, present a theatre piece..FAQ below for the same..