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 have taken 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 have created magical experiences, and fed into our ongoing annual 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! And 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. 500 to Rs. 1,000
– each heartbeat counts! –
specially for young dancers – help us create a strong future ecology for you
donate anything between Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 5,000
– the cost of a dinner with friends –
help cover our administrative overheads for a year
donate anything between Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 50,000
– the cost of a quick weekend getaway –
support one of our programmes for the year
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.
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.
What Patrons supported in 2024-25?
- Our series of workshops for educational NGOs such as Dakshini Prayash
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 partners Hamdasti and 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. - Spaces for Practice – opportunities for dancers 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. - 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. - Pickle Factory Season 5
Our annual flagship Season in early 2025 offering a host of exciting performances, workshops, and engagements. This time we are working to host artists and guests from India (of course), Scotland, Luxembourg, and Germany.
A similarly rich programme for 2025-26 will be released in Summer 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
- Invitations to 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 Pals and Patrons, 2024-25 from Calcutta, Mumbai, Bangalore, Santiniketan, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur and Chennai!
Lata Bajoria, Aishika Chakraborty, Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee, Ayan Sen, Sameera Iyengar, T. V. Srinivasan, Sujata Srinivasan, Neela Ghose, Sanjay Roy, Anoushka Kurien,
Katy and Sumit Lai Roy, Urmimala Sarkar Munshi, Katie Dalal. Nayana Gangooly, Toral Shah, Sarika Misra, Mukulita Ganguly, Yashoda Thakore, Minoo Daryanani,
Mukul Agarwal, Nilanjana Gupta, Ranjana Dave, Aaron Fernandes, Arundhati Ghosh, Preethi Athreya, Rashmi Dhanwani, Sharanya Chattopadhyay, Sandhya Apte,
Sharmila Biswas, Chandrika Grover, Trina Nileena Banerjee, Arundhati Sarkar Bose, Debashree Bhattacharya, Madan Mohanka,
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt, Abhimanyu Prakash, Jayant Kripalani, Mandeep Raikhy, Menaka Rodriguez, Paula Sengupta, Sukalyani Paul, Abrar Saqib, Bishnupriya Basak
– and others who wish to remain anonymous
