Feb 22 2026 to Feb 22 2026 4 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

The warmth in your palm. The bitterness on your tongue.

In Bengaluru, coffee is everywhere: filter coffee at dawn, café meetings at noon, the rhythms of work and rest poured into cups. Behind every sip: the land it came from, the hands that picked it, the ecologies it depends on.

Over 2.5 hours, Shubhra Chatterji guides you through her Body & Food Method. Movement, embodied writing, sensory exercises. Before the first sip, you’ll listen to the drip and pour. Feel the heat in your hands. Notice what surfaces when the taste hits.

What you thought was just routine turns into archive. The way you hold the cup. The wait before drinking. The memories which surface with the first taste. Your body has been keeping records.

Routine. Ritual. Archive.

Part of Pravāha 2026, The Body As Space: A Journey Through The Senses. This year’s festival is built around what we hear, smell, touch, taste, and see. Eight days of multisensory experiences through classical music, contemporary dance, installations, and conversations.

Facilitator

Shubhra Chatterji
Food Documentarian & Immersive Theatre-Maker
Shubhra Chatterji is a food documentarian and immersive theatre-maker working at the intersection of taste, memory, and embodiment. She is the creator of the Body & Food Method, an embodied storytelling practice that uses movement, writing, and performance to explore how food lives in the body as archive.

Her work moves fluidly between documentary and participatory art, reframing everyday rituals as sites of inquiry to ask urgent questions: Who grows our food? Whose labour remains invisible? What happens when climate shifts what we eat? She has created immersive food-theatre experiences including New India Lodge (currently showing in Bangalore), and Goa is a Bebinca, commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation.

Alongside her artistic practice, Shubhra has co-founded SAYB and Tons Valley Shop, agri start-ups supporting Himalayan apple-growing communities and regenerative food systems.