CHILDREN
ROCKING HORSE
4TH FEB SATURDAY
Opera of Puppets by Magical
Whispers
Museum
Gardens
11:00 am 12:00 pm
Epics & Folk tales are brought alive through an
interactive performance using recycled art.
A perfect recipe to create magic for every child
followed by a puppet making workshop from
recycled material. (4 to 10 yrs)
Literary Dogs to Real Life
Super Dogs by Abodh Aras
from Welfare of Stray Dogs
Museum
Gardens
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
Meet Kali, the super dog from the WSD kennels
and go on a journey to meet dogs in literary
history through stories of real life Super Dogs.
(6 to 15 yrs)
Pepe Jeans PresentsDoodles on Denim with
Jaideep Mehrotra
Museum
Gardens
1:00 pm 2:00 pm
Reknowned artist Jaideep Mehrotra will guide
children to create a dynamic denim book.
(8 to 15 yrs)
Mummy and Me
Museum
Gardens
2:00 pm 3:00 pm
Founder of Kahani Takbak (Kataba) author and
freelance writer Shyamala Shanmugasundaram
brings an afternoon of fun through story creation,
craft and writing. (3 to 6 yrs)
Monginis Be a Baker!
Museum
Gardens
2.30 pm 3.00 pm
A cake decoration activity for kids. (4 to 10 yrs)
Fantastic Ingredients and
How to Use Them
Museum
Gardens
3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Bored with Beans? Peeved with peas? Think
Baigans are bizarre? Come to the 'Fantastic
Ingredients and how to use them workshop' with
Rushina, the Newt Scamander of the food world!
A “Naturally Nerdy” Affair
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
A fun-filled session putting your nature quotient to
test, presented by Saevus Magazine. (6 to 12 yrs)
Read-y Stead-y Go! A story
writing and Illustration
workshop
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6:30 pm
Open Bracket presents- A magical time of
imagination building and story-writing for your
kids with Vinitha Ramchandani, Samidha Gunjal,
Amirkhan Pathan. (8 to 14 yrs)
CHILDREN
ROCKING HORSE
5TH FEB SUNDAY
Pepe Jeans PresentsDenim Designs with Arzan
Khambatta
Museum
Gardens
11:00 am 12:00 pm
Hey kids! Come and join renowned artist Arzan
Khambatta as he creates a dynamic denim
installation. (8+yrs)
Bird stories for children
conducted by Deepak Dalal
and Bittu Sahgal
Museum
Gardens
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
A Mumbai flamingo disappears one day. Has he
been bird-napped? Is it the crows or the seagulls
who have taken him away? (6 to 9 yrs)
Kathak Meets Ballet, A
Classical Fusion
Museum
Gardens
1:30 pm 2:30 pm
Explore steps in classical Ballet and Kathak
ending with a short dance, presented by Neha and
Ashifa. (6+yrs)
Yogi Kids
Museum
Gardens
2:30 pm 3:30 pm
Come and enjoy the many benefits of yoga with
fun filled activities in a natural environment.
(4 to 12 yrs)
Monginis Be a Baker!
Museum
Gardens
3.00 pm 3.30 pm
A cake decoration activity for kids. (4 to 10 yrs)
You Got Magic with Neel
Madhav
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
An interactive session on magic with renowned
illusionist and author, Neel Madhav. (9+yrs)
Bandar Ki Baraat
(Children's Play in English/
Hindi)
MC Ghia
4:00 pm 5:10 pm
"Bandar ki Barat" is a love story which portrays a
bitter dispute between "The Red" and "The Black"
monkey clans.
Small Hand Big Art
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6:30 pm
A time for the ‘Small Hand’ to get inspired by our
festival and create their ‘big art’ on the theme ‘The
Rocking Horse’. (5 to 17 yrs)
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
This interactive & fun-filled workshop will make
children learn the art of identifying story ideas
through their own observation of themselves and
their surroundings. (7 to 13 yrs)
6TH FEB MONDAY
Story Ideation Through
Observation by Wordloom
Workshops
Henri Matisse by
'Knowyourart'
Museum
Gardens
5:30 pm 6:30 pm
Learn about Henri Matisse through a fun craft
session based on his technique ‘Drawing with
Scissors’ presented by Know Your Art. (6 to 12 yrs)
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Run a riot with colours and imagination; An
illustration workshop by Soniya Bhase. (8 to 12 yrs)
Science is everywhere!
Museum
presented by Instituto Italiano Gardens
di Cultura Mumbai
5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Science and art talk together from the kitchen to a
painter's atelier. Let's move and try! by Emanuele
Bargelli.
7TH FEB TUESDAY
Story on Postcards
The Magic of Origami
The Atelier, 5.30 pm
Rampart
onwards
House
Learn the magic of origami with Sophie Ahmed,
Asma Shaikh and Annette D'souza. All ages.
8TH FEB WEDNESDAY
'Revive Indian Folk Art' for the Museum
Gardens
underprivileged kids of the
NGO Salaam Baalak
11:00 am 1:30 pm
Students of the Aditya Birla World Academy will teach
a dying art of India, 'Gond Art' to the underprivileged
kids of the NGO Salaam Baalak Trust.
Fascinating World of Puppets
Museum
Gardens
3:30 pm 5:00 pm
Make flying stick puppets using scrap material,
including parrots, peacock, horses. Presented by
MMC (Mumbai Mobile Creches). (10 to 14 yrs)
Zentangle Inspired Art by
Shraddha D. Vora
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Design creative and therapeutic designs through
zentangle art. (8 to 14 yrs)
The Magic of Origami
The Atelier, 5.30 pm
Rampart
onwards
House
Learn the magic of origami with Sophie Ahmed,
Asma Shaikh and Annette D'souza. All ages.
Poems Come Alive by Richa
Gupta
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
A workshop aimed at introducing kids to the
magic and joy of writing poetry. (6 to 13 yrs)
S.A.M Presents
Tangram Creative Design
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6.00 pm
Explore Shapes & understand tangrams through
Design.
The Magic of Origami
The Atelier, 5.30 pm
Rampart
onwards
House
9TH FEB THURSDAY
Learn the magic of origami with Sophie Ahmed,
Asma Shaikh and Annette D'souza. All ages.
CHILDREN
ROCKING HORSE
10TH FEB FRIDAY
The Little Entrepreneurs
Museum
Gardens
3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Build products out of colourful crops to learn the
building blocks of business. A creative workshop
by Ichchha Foundation. (8+yrs)
The Art of Calligraphy
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
A creative calligraphy session, expressing feelings
through stylized words by 'Artistic Impressions,
The Art Academy'. (7 to 16 yrs)
Wild Nature
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6:00 pm
A short nature trail followed by a talk about our
planet’s intriguing wildlife by Katie Bagli. (8 to 12yrs)
The Magic of Origami
The Atelier, 5.30 pm
Rampart
onwards
House
Learn the magic of origami with Sophie Ahmed,
Asma Shaikh and Annette D'souza. All ages.
Colourful Shadow Stories
Museum
Gardens
6:00 pm 7:00 pm
Let’s create our own magical world of shadows.
Learn shadow art.
Swaach Bharat Abhiyan/
LA's got talent presented by
Human Development Trust
(Little Angels School)
David
Sassoon
Library
11:00 am 11:30 am
Little Angels offers courses for differentally abled
kids. Kids with autisium, learning deficiency, slow
learners and down syndrome have come together
for this musical performance.
Story Hunt
Museum
Gardens
11:00 am 12:00 pm
A fun activity for children where they have to find
the pages of the story, and read the whole story
with a quiz at the end. (6 to 10 yrs)
Doodle Art and Quiz,
presented by 'My Paper'
Museum
Gardens
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
Workshop on unconventional art & craft (Doodle
Art) with a fun quiz contest.around the theme of
“The Rocking Horse”. (5 to 15 yrs)
Monginis Be a Baker!
Museum
Gardens
12.30 pm 1.00 pm
A cake decoration activity for kids. (4 to 10 yrs)
11TH FEB SATURDAY
Tinkle Children WorkshopTopsy Turvy
Museum
Gardens
1:30 pm 2:30 pm
Discover how our eyes can play tricks on us
and reveal wonders in the simplest things, in
our Topsy Turvy art workshop. Would you like a
superhero for a friend or even a monster from the
deep? (7 to 12 yrs)
Find your Folktale!
Museum
Gardens
3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Storytelling in India goes back thousands of
years. Visit the vibrant world of Indian folklore
with Amar Chitra Katha in this fun-filled activity!
(7 to 12 yrs)
Bajaj Presents - Are you a
'fan' of traditional Gond art?
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
'Curiocity' brings to you, The beauty of traditional
Gond Art of Madhya Pradesh! Learn how to
createyour own 'Gond inspired' designs and
become a 'fan' of this folk art!
Tenalirama Ka Ludo
(Children's Play - Hindi/
English)
NGMA
4:30 pm 5:40 pm
A story about a blind boy, his superhero
Tenalirama and a game of Ludo. Presented by
Dhakkan Theatre.
Iris Creative Education:
Fun With Puppets
Museum
Gardens
5:00 pm 6:30 pm
Iris Creative Education brings puppet making
workshop and an Opera Style Puppet Play: The
Magic Flute. (6+yrs)
1:00 pm 4:00 pm
Australia’s Paper Pilots, Dylan and James will give
a crash course in paper plane making and flying.
The workshop will take place after the screening
of the film “Paper Planes.”
Paper Pilots presented by The BNHS
Australian Consulate-General,
Mumbai
12TH FEB SUNDAY
Telling Untold Stories
presented by Catharsis
David
Sassoon
11:00 am 11:40 am
What happens when a group of children go out
in search of the truth? A group of Teach for India
and Akanksha students who will present stories
that have touched their hearts the most.
Incredible Kids and their
Flying Machines with Arzan
Khambatta & Sunil Padwal
Museum
Gardens
11:00 am 12:00 pm
These famous artists will pilot the workshop by
encouraging kids to envision and create their
own fantastic flying machines by using simple
cardboard and straw materials.
(8 to 14 yrs)
Cartooning with Neha Parikh
Museum
Gardens
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
Got an urge to doodle goofy faces? Loads of
unadulterated fun ahead! (6+yrs)
CHILDREN
ROCKING HORSE
12TH FEB SUNDAY
Play with Clay
conducted by ART CRAFT and I
Museum
Gardens
1:30 pm 2:30 pm
This clay workshop will include building 3D clay
forms using basic hand building techniques of
forming clay. (6+yrs)
MOB: Music Of Objects
Museum
Gardens
2:30 pm 3.30 pm
An Interactive Musical session to Create Sound
& Rhythm out of various Objects, Food & Body.
Presented by 'Bombay Hatss'. (9 to 16 yrs)
Tik Tak Tales (Childrens Play)
(Hindi/English) presented by
Story Circus
NGMA
3:00 pm 4:00 pm
Set in a fair, Tik Tak Tales revolves around a band
of local musicians, an antsy fair organizer and two
adorable bumpkins.
Snapdeal Presents- The Little
Entrepreneur conducted by
Ichchha Foundation
Museum
Gardens
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Unbox Zindagi! Build products out of colorful
props to learn the building blocks of business.
A creative workshop (8+yrs)
HDFC Home Loans PresentsHomes in Indian Tribal Art by
PotliArts
Museum
Gardens
5:30 pm 6:30 pm
Get to learn about the amazing characteristics of
India's tribal homes and their environment through
folk art and create your own tribal home using
these designs. (8 to 14 yrs)
Being Indian
conducted by Swar Kranti
BNHS
1:00 pm 2:00 pm
A fun workshop on attitudes and values, to explore
what’s cool and what’s not with sustainability and
pluralism as cornerstones. ( 8 to 14 yrs)
All registrations for Children's events will begin half an hour before each workshop time at the CSMVS,
The Museum Lawns. Entry on a first come first serve basis.
For all installations (under 18), please refer to our Visual Arts section.
Curators : Nuriya Rao and Tasneem Rajkotwala
Team : Poorvaja Sundar, Shagufta Khan, Nidhi Panday Jain and Aarti Gambhir
Acknowledgements : Instituto Italiano di Cultura Mumbai, The Australian Consulate General, Arzan
Khambatta, Jaideep Mehrotra, Sunil Padwal, Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal, Deepak Dalal, Bittu
Sahgal, Neel Madhav and Katie Bagli.
Note: All Programs are subject to change.
CHILDREN (LITERATURE)
PONY TALES
8TH FEB WEDNESDAY
Diary of a Soccer Star
Kitab
Khana
4.30 pm 5.30 pm
Marcus Atkinson is a Soccer Star (NOT!) But his
Dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his feet.
Popular Singapore author Shamini Flint tells you
about the hilarious diary of a reluctant soccer star.
(8+yrs) [Session courtesy Singapore International
Foundation and Dreams for Progress].
Kitab
Khana
4.30 pm 5.30 pm
Author Bijal Vachharajani answers some very
important questions about the world around us
and what we need to do to take care of it. (9+yrs)
Guessing Games
BNHS
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
A riddle is a mystery concealed in words, each a
clue you must unravel. Celebrated story-teller Ankit
Chadha keeps you guessing as he cracks the riddles
of the great poet Amir Khusrau. (10+yrs)
Yip aur Yanka, Holland ke Do
Bacche
BNHS
5:00 pm 6:30 pm
Meet Jip and Jjenke, perhaps the best known
and much loved characters in Dutch children's
Literature. Their stories retold in Hindi by Loveleen
Misra in association with the Consulate of
Netherlands. (4+yrs)
We Make Images
BNHS
10:30 am - An illustration workshop in the style of Bhil art
11:30 am
based on the MAMI award-winning film by Nina
Sabnani. (10+yrs)
Fun With Ravana!
BNHS
11:30 am - Rustom Dadachanji introduces you to the
12:30 pm Babubari gang, discusses BIG words like
‘Epic’,'Myth!', ‘Protagonist’ and ‘Antagonist!’ and
characters of the hilarious Ravana Refuses to Die.
(10+yrs)
9TH FEB THURSDAY
So You Want to Know about
Environment
10TH FEB FRIDAY
11TH FEB SATURDAY
CHILDREN (LITERATURE)
PONY TALES
11TH FEB SATURDAY
Water Water!
Horniman
Circle
Gardens
12:00 pm 1:00 pm
Story heritage walk exploring the newly restored
Pyau and other heritage structures around
Horniman Gardens. (8+yrs)
Dhanak
BNHS
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
Best-selling Anushka Ravishankar explores sibling
bonds from her book Dhanak, based
on Nagesh Kukunoor's movie of the same
name. (9+yrs)
Not Yet!
Kitab
Khana
4:30 pm 5:30 pm
Author Nandana Sen launches her charming new
book. (4+yrs)
Chumki's Magic Rings
BNHS
5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Meet Chumki and the feisty wellness fairy, Aunty
Gudgudi in an interactive storytelling and activity
session from Chumki and Aunty Gudgudi's Magic
Mirror by Purnota Dutta Bahl. (5+yrs)
Mumbai All Ways
BNHS
10:30 am - A sneak peek of a most fantastic book on our city
11:30 am
by Miel Saghal and Pereena Singh. How well
do you know it? Jump right into the games and
quizzes to find out. (8+yrs)
Myths and Magic
Kitab
Khana
11:00 am - Enter the wondrous world of stories with Sangita
Jindal (Chairman JSW Foundation). (5+yrs)
11:45 am
12TH FEB SUNDAY
KALA GHODA FOR SCHOOLS
7TH FEB TUESDAY
You've Got Magic
BNHS
10:15 am - Illusionist Neel Madhav gives you an insiders view
11:00 pm of magic and magicians. (9+yrs)
8TH FEB WEDNESDAY
The Plotting of Murder
BNHS
10:15 am - Singapore-based best selling author Shamini Flint
11:00 pm on how she writes her popular Inspector Singh
series. [Session courtesy Singapore International
Foundation and Dreams for Progress]. (13+yrs)
9TH FEB THURSDAY
Fun with Ravana
BNHS
10:15 am - Sample the hilarious collection of stories in Ravana
11:00 pm Refuses to Die with author Rustom Dadachandji.
(8+yrs)
Author Rupali Bhave on the fabulous life of Dada
Saheb Phalke. (8+yrs)
9TH FEB THURSDAY
Lights Camera Action!
10TH FEB FRIDAY
Dhanak
10TH FEB FRIDAY
So You Want to Know about
Environment
BNHS
10:15 am - Best-selling Anushka Ravishankar explores a special
11:00 pm relationship of a brother and sister from her book
Dhanak, based on Nagesh Kukunoor's movie of the
same name. (9+yrs)
10:15 am - Author Bijal Vachharajani answers some very
11:00 pm important questions about the world around us and
what we need to do to take care of it. (9+yrs)
Please register for all children's literature events by emailing [email protected] with “Register”
and the name of the session in the subject line. No Registration for other Children Workshops.
Curators : Lubaina Bandukwala
Team : Yashasvi Vachhani, Poyani Mehta and Rukhsar Lokhandwala
Acknowledgements : Puffin India, Duckbill Books, Kitab Khana, Consulate General of the Kingdom of
Netherlands, Singapore International Foundation and Dreams for Progress.
Note: All Programs are subject to change.