After a year of introspection, scaled down activities, revisiting and re-imagining our company vision and values, and investing in capacity building our team, Pickle Factory is ready to step into our ninth year with new energy, new plans, new partners, new projects locating ourselves in a good as new, renovated space. And to help us realise all these wonderful ideas, we reach out to old and new Pals to support us once again. Become a Pickle Pal for 2026-27, and help us continue to create vibrant and varied homes for dance.
OUR GOAL: Rs. 26,00,000
GOAL TRACKER
Money Raised
13%
DONORS
0
PICKLE PULSE
Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 3,000
Support
the running and maintenance of our work and rehearsal space – Ranan – which is also a resource for the dance community
PICKLE PAL
Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 15,000
Support
costs of the PF team – 6 part time members with additional interns and apprentices – plus our bare-minimum administrative overheads
Click here to meet the current team
PICKLE PATRON
Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 50,000
Support
one of our many recurring projects that takes dance to different audiences, nurtures new practice, and generates animated discussion around all things dance
Click here for a list of planned projects
PICKLE PIONEER
Rs. 1,00,000 or more
Support
building our corpus fund towards a more sustainable future and a permanent home for dance in Calcutta – our big dream!
Click here to know more about our big dream
Here’s a snapshot of what your support will enable in 2026-27?
- Activating the Ranan Workspace as a community hub
Offering our renovated space as a resource to practitioners and presenting regular programmes ranging from works in progress to screenings to talks - Capacity building the PF team
Hosting regular workshops and participatory sessions facilitated by thought leaders from various fields to equip our team with both enhanced skills and rooted values to help the company develop professional, ethical practices that are grounded in the arts. - Our series of workshops for educational NGOs under our Arts4All initiative
Creates arts access and engagement opportunities in marginalised or NGO schools by curating workshops, programmes or shows for them by a range of local, national & international artists. - @Home – a sampling of art, dance, music and food hosted by and for Kolkata’s art lovers
Co-curated with our partner Ponder Alt, this series takes artists into the cosy comfort and hospitality of peoples’ homes, where small audiences can meet artists up close and delve into their processes and work. Here’s more on the @Home sessions so far. - Watch & Talk Dance
Curated in consultation with Preethi Athreya and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, this series of screenings with related lectures and discussions invites participants to view and engage with dance through multiple lenses to develop criticality, build discourse, create more informed practitioners and audiences, and nurture a culture of dialogue. - Scratch! – a showcase of works in progress
To support artists in sharing early versions of their work, and facilitate audience engagement and feedback, we present Scratch! using the robust Das Feedback Methodology to generate insightful, critical and constructive feedback for the artists to take back into their work - Pickle Factory Season 6
Scheduled for February-March 2027, Pickle Factory Season 6 will attempt to re-find, re-balance and re-make connections in a broken world by seeking and foregrounding alternative narratives and ways of being – ways humanity may have forgotten or may need to imagine and create towards a more sensitive and sustainable future.
Keep a lookout for the quarterly Pickle Pals Post emailer for regular updates. We hope to see you at some of these programmes.
Pickle Pulse 
- A quarterly email report on what your support enables in the Ranan Workspace, with a sneak peek into planned programmes
- Invitations to special programmes we host at the space
- An annual report and little gift at the end of the year
- Acknowledgements on our website and on the walls of the space itself
And specially for dancers and performing artists:
- Five free hours in the space for rehearsals, workshops, etc, subject to availability
- Collaborative posts and stories to promote any new work created and rehearsed in the Ranan Workspace
Pickle Pal
- A brief quarterly email report with specifics on what your support has allowed the team to achieve
- Invitations to attend some of the diverse capacity building sessions we regularly conduct for the PF team
- Invitations to special programmes we host at the Ranan Workspace
- Priority booking for all our public programmes (and the option of nominating someone if you are unable to make it)
- Invitations to special programmes with our visiting artists
- An annual report and little gift at the end of the year
- Acknowledgements on our website and all Pickle Pals related communication
Pickle Patron
- A brief quarterly email report with specifics on what your support has allowed the team to achieve
- Invitations to visit some of the project sites, communities and programmes to see your support in action
- Invitations to special programmes we host at the Ranan Workspace
- Priority booking for all our public programmes (and the option of nominating someone if you are unable to make it)
- Invitations to special programmes with our visiting artists
- A bi-annual projects report giving insights into our progress, impact and future plans
- An annual report and little gift at the end of the year
- Acknowledgements on our website and all Pickle Pals related communication
Pickle Pioneer
- A brief quarterly email report with specifics on what your support has allowed the team to achieve
- Invitations to visit some of the project sites, communities and programmes to see us in action
- Invitations to special programmes we host at the Ranan Workspace
- Priority booking for all our public programmes (and the option of nominating someone if you are unable to make it)
- Invitations to special programmes with our visiting artists
- A bi-annual projects report giving insights into our progress, impact and future plans
- An annual report and little gift at the end of the year
- A special Pioneers section on our website and individual acknowledgements on social media
A big thank you to our Pickle Pulse, Pals, Patrons and Pioneers for 2025-26.
You have sent in your contributions and expressions of solidarity from across India to help us keep going. This has enabled us to
- support a small part time team
- programme intimate and regular engagements with local and visiting artists in Calcutta
- consolidate company structure and systems
- refurbish our workspace into a resource for movement artists working in the city
- plan towards larger programmes in 2026-27, as we build back slowly but surely
And if you would like to contribute with anything else – time, resources, space, expertise… – please do drop us a line.
picklefactorycalcutta@gmail.com / @PickleFactoryIndia on Facebook and Instagram
Thank you to our Pickle Pulse for 2025-26 !
Debjani Banerjee, Aseng Borang, Choiti Ghosh, Kankana Singh, Shashwati Garai Ghosh, Pintu Das, Savitri Medhatul,
Aishika Chakraborty, Joshua Sailo, Priyadarshini Ghosh Shome, Amitabh Srivastav, Bishnupriya Basak, Nilanjana Gupta, Abrar Saqib, Debashree Bhattacharya
Thank you to our Pickle Pals for 2025-26 !
Kathakali Jana, Sameera Iyengar, Menaka Rodriguez, Urmimala Sarkar Munshi, Arundhati Sarkar Bose, Yashoda Thakore, Sumit and Katy Lai Roy, Sumona Chakarvarty, Abhimanyu Prakash, Sanjay Roy, Sharanya Chattopadhyay, Sandhya Apte, Neela Ghosh, Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee, Sangram Mukhopadhyay, Smita Misra, Nayana Gangooly
Thank you to our Pickle Patrons for 2025-26 !
Madhura Lohia
Thank you to our Pickle Pioneers for 2025-26 !
S. P. Sarathy, Anita Ratnam
Our supporters are from all over India – Calcutta, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Jamshedpur, Hyderabad, Chennai, Roing, Aizawl, Shantiniketan
– those listed above and those who wish to be anonymous. Many thanks to all of you!
Space Renovation
Internal Capacity-Building
Multi-Year Recurring Projects
Our Compliance Status
- Pickle Factory Dance Foundation, Calcutta is a not-for-profit company registered under Section 8 of The Companies Act, 2013 (CIN: U74999WB2017NPL221868).
- We are registered as an NGO with Unique NGO ID WB/2021/0292010and
