A big thank you to our 2024-25 Pickle Pals and Patrons from all over India.
Your contributions enabled us to survive through a very precarious year, plan and deliver a range of programmes for different artists and audiences. We took artists into peoples homes, into NGO schools, into intensive workshop spaces and exclusive clubs to interact with students, local practitioners, lay audiences and our ever-growing circle of supporters. All these encounters created magical experiences, and fed into our flagship event: Holding Space: Pickle Factory Season 5 (see adjacent video).
Thank you for joining the Pickle Factory movement, and being such a supportive part of our expanding dance-curious community! As we go into our birthday month of July, this is the perfect time to ask you to renew your pledge and support. And if you are a first-time supporter, a very warm welcome to the Pickle Factory Family! Help us imagine and implement more and more ways to bring the arts and communities together, and support our dance ecologies into the future.
Introducing our Pickle Pal Programme for 2025-26!
donate anything between Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 3,000
– each heartbeat counts! –
help us create and run a laboratory space for dance in Calcutta
Click here for full details of Pickle Pulse
donate anything between Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 10,000
– the cost of a dinner with friends –
help cover our administrative & personnel costs for a year
Click here for full details of Pickle Pals
donate anything between Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 50,000
– the cost of a quick weekend getaway –
support our programmes for the year
Click here for full details of Pickle Patrons
Would you like to invest in our big dream of creating a permanent dance and community venue in a repurposed space in Calcutta?
Click here to know more about this exciting vision,
and join us on the journey.
Thank you to those who have already contributed for 2025 – 26
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
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 eligible for donations with the Indian government with Unique NGO ID WB/2021/0292010and
- We are registered with the Ministry for Corporate Affairs for undertaking CSR activities with registration number CSR00062236.
Here’s a snapshot of what you would support in 2025-26?
- Our series of workshops for educational NGOs under our Arts4All initiative
Facilitated by Indian and international artists and educators, these 4-5 day workshops open up the world of the arts to young students as well as build bridges between practicing artists and teachers working on art integration practices. - @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 bimonthly 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. - Spaces for Practice – opportunities for performers to keep growing
These intensive and self-reflective residencies mentored by established artists from India and abroad introduce and encourage new ways of doing, making and thinking about movement. These unique experiences are aimed at building capacity for practising dancers and dance teachers to help them think through questions and develop their own critical and choreographic voices. The 2024 Spaces for Practice programme brought Dr. Yashoda Thakore to Calcutta. - Dance Appreciation Workshops
Designed and facilitated by dance critic Kathakali Jana, these workshops open up the world of dance to diverse dance-curious demographics in enjoyable and accessible ways. We plan to offer this a a regular Pickle Factory service. - 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! – a model we tried only in 2019, and that intend to now present regularly. - Finding Ground – a platform for emerging artists
Co-presented with Artsforward, Finding Ground offers a place of belonging for young artists and new choreographic voices. The 2024-25 edition presented work from Bangalore, Imphal, Raipur and Roing.
Our full programme for 2025-26 will be released at the end of July 2025
What do we offer you?
- Acknowledgments on our website and Pickle Pal related communication during projects like the Season, and during particular programmes you choose to support
- A brief quarterly email report with specifics on what your support has allowed us to do
- Priority booking for all our public programmes (and the option of nominating someone if you are unable to make it)
- An annual report and little gift at the end of the year
- Opportunities to attend special programmes with our visiting artists
- Our heartfelt thanks for being a stakeholder in this journey of sharing the joy, energy and sensorial experience of dance with everyone
Thank you to our Pickle Pulse for 2025-26 !
Debjani Banerjee, Aseng Borang
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
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
– those listed above and those who wish to be anonymous. Many thanks to all of you!
