Our annual art competition returned in January at Rangeela 2024 on 20th January. Sanskruti students showcased their talent with colour and zeal by creating thought-provoking artwork on the topic of environment conservation. The artwork was displayed at The Clay Farm Centre and judged by Cambridge-based artist Diya Majumder. One winner and runner-up were announced for [...]
Magical Honey reaches out to the stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read BritishTheatre.com's review of Magical Honey: Magical Honey Mercury Theatre and on tour. 25 December 2023 4 Stars Sanskruti Dance have created this beautiful, graceful, and fun piece, which introduces South Asian dance to children and families alike. It’s the story of Maya who discovers she can [...]
We are delighted to announce that Apple ‘N’ Spice has been shortlisted for a Fantastic for Families Award in the Best Family Arts Activity category. Fantastic For Families Awards are given by Family Arts Campaign, the national Investment Principles Support Organisation for arts engagement and families, funded by Arts Council England. Now in its tenth [...]
This lockdown, we at Sanskruti decided to do an online drawing and colouring competition for all our students. Rachel Riley, Cambridge-based author and illustrator, with her daughter Elin was our judge and we are very proud to announce all our winners and runner-up of this online competition. The competition was done entirely online and Rachel [...]
Our Bollywood beginners from The Bellbird Primary after-school club, aged 6-9, have been spending their lockdown time dancing to "Morni Banke" in their homes. Every Friday, 3:30pm, we all get together on Zoom to try out different Indian-folk based Bollywood moves! For this one, we tried out some Bhangra steps and the children have their [...]
An abhinaya piece, which Sia and I explored together at home these last few weeks of Covid-19 lockdown for NavSanskruti. Sia's first attempt at abhinaya especially learning the use of different hand gestures/mudras. A family affair with Sia's grandmother from Mumbai translating the Malayalam lyrics for us, Sia's Dad doing the video shoot at home [...]
In these strange and uncertain times, we at Sanskruti are very fortunate to use our resources productively to create a digital platform for all our students, teachers and visiting artists. We initiate Nav Sanskruti on April 29th, 3pm GMT with a dance performance by Sanskruti students. This dance piece was learnt entirely through our online [...]
Once upon a time, my three-year old stood outside the kitchen safety gate and asked me, ‘Mummy, is Ram’s stepmother queen the same as Snow White’s stepmother queen?’ My immediate answer was ‘Yes’, they are the same! This was enough to make my daughter happy and off she went back to her Snow White story [...]
