Jun 27 2025 to Jun 27 2025 6 p.m.

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

Queerness, Chai and Chit Chat is a combination of conversations around living as a queer person and combines it with texts written by queer poets and authors. The session is guided by the personal experience of the speaker and facilitator (Talin Subbaraya) but combines it with pieces that shaped his own ideas and thoughts on queerness. The pieces we will be reading together include personal essays, poetry, reports and articles. The aim is to bring the queer experience not as an exotic entity but as a conversation filled with warmth over chai. 

This session is free and open to individuals above the age of 16.

RSVP your availability here.

About Talin Subbaraya

Talin Subbaraya is an artist based in Bangalore. His artistic practice is based in movement, writing and theatre. His current practice of the arts is an attempt to find ways to tell stories from his personal lens, thus leading to experiments with the forms he practices. He is currently learning Bharatanatyam and exploring performance making with Priyanka Chandrasekhar at Nirali, a dance school and collective based in Bangalore. He is also part of the performing ensemble at the Nirali Collective. 

He was a part of G5A Foundation and Soho Theatre's collaborative script writing program, "Writer's Lab Mumbai" in 2021. During the same year, he was also a resident artist at Smarter Digital Realities, a residency curated by Padmini Ray Murray and produced by Sandbox Collective and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore that led to the making of “An Alarippu”, a dance film created in collaboration with Priyanka Chandrasekhar and Armaan Mishra, that brought together his experiences of homosexuality across public spaces in Bangalore, and the alarippu, a piece from the Bharatanatyam repertoire. 

He was a part of the Unrehearsed Artist (Virtual) Residency curated by Nava Dance Theatre, San Francisco in 2022. He was also one of the recipients of the Prince Claus Seed Awards, Amsterdam and Genderealities, a grant by reFrame institute of art and design, Delhi, in 2023. His most recent work is, “This is the Male Washroom”, a dance theatre solo.

Age 16+