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WORKSHOPS
Unlock new perspectives and spark your imagination at Kholeydai!
Our vibrant lineup of workshops tailored for kids, adults, and everyone in between—invites you to dive deep into creativity, culture, and connection.
Experience hands-on sessions in local crafts, flavorful food traditions, captivating storytelling, expressive arts, rich biodiversity, and so much more. Each workshop is designed to awaken your senses, expand your horizons, and help you experience the festival’s surroundings with newfound depth and awareness.
Come explore, learn, and be inspired—Kholeydai awaits!
Pottery and Dorodango -
Studio Zelma
As part of Kholey Dai Festival, this workshop invites participants to explore creativity through pottery and Dorodango.
Over three days, participants will engage in hands-on pottery sessions, experimenting with hand-building and the pottery wheel to create personal clay pieces. Parallelly, the Dorodango workshops introduce the Japanese art of crafting shiny mud spheres, inviting meditative focus, patience, and playful experimentation.
Together, participants can come together and contribute to a collaborative earth-based installation, a shared work of art that celebrates transformation, connection, and creativity through natural materials.
These sessions nurture calm, mindfulness, and community, reflecting Kholey Dai’s ethos of grassroots engagement and artistic collaboration.
Over three days, participants will engage in hands-on pottery sessions, experimenting with hand-building and the pottery wheel to create personal clay pieces. Parallelly, the Dorodango workshops introduce the Japanese art of crafting shiny mud spheres, inviting meditative focus, patience, and playful experimentation.
Together, participants can come together and contribute to a collaborative earth-based installation, a shared work of art that celebrates transformation, connection, and creativity through natural materials.
These sessions nurture calm, mindfulness, and community, reflecting Kholey Dai’s ethos of grassroots engagement and artistic collaboration.
Soap & Candle Making -
Ushimi Linggi
Join Ushimi Linggi once again at the Kholey Dai Festival 2025 for a hands-on Soap & Candle Making Workshop where creativity meets community and mindful living.
Learn to make natural, eco-friendly soaps and candles while exploring how simple skills can inspire sustainable livelihoods and strengthen local economies. These workshops are rooted in Kholey Dai’s spirit of grassroots empowerment, encouraging learning, sharing, and growth within our communities.
We’re deeply grateful to Ushimi for returning to Kholey Dai and continuing to share her knowledge with the people of Parengtar and beyond.
Parengtar Community: Free | Others: ₹300 per session
Learn to make natural, eco-friendly soaps and candles while exploring how simple skills can inspire sustainable livelihoods and strengthen local economies. These workshops are rooted in Kholey Dai’s spirit of grassroots empowerment, encouraging learning, sharing, and growth within our communities.
We’re deeply grateful to Ushimi for returning to Kholey Dai and continuing to share her knowledge with the people of Parengtar and beyond.
Parengtar Community: Free | Others: ₹300 per session
Birding - Gaurab & Arghadeep
Immerse yourself in the whispers of birds at Parengtar, where forests breathe and the hills hum with life.
Join Gaurab & Arghadeep of Broadleaf Productions for mindful birding walks at the Kholey Dai!
Come listen, not just to the birds, but to the rhythm of the wild.
Join Gaurab & Arghadeep of Broadleaf Productions for mindful birding walks at the Kholey Dai!
Come listen, not just to the birds, but to the rhythm of the wild.
Art workshop - DeHi Art Foundation
DeHi Art Foundation (Jhapa, Nepal)
Rooted in the spirit of learning, sharing, and creating together, these workshops invite everyone, young and old, to reconnect with nature and imagination through slow, tactile art-making.
At Kholey Dai, workshops are more than activities, they are spaces for dialogue, discovery, and expression. They reflect what the festival stands for: community, creativity, and learning.
Rooted in the spirit of learning, sharing, and creating together, these workshops invite everyone, young and old, to reconnect with nature and imagination through slow, tactile art-making.
At Kholey Dai, workshops are more than activities, they are spaces for dialogue, discovery, and expression. They reflect what the festival stands for: community, creativity, and learning.
Bee Keeping - Suman Lama
After last year’s super successful workshop where participants from across India enjoyed an unforgettable hands-on experience we’re bringing it back to the Kholey Dai Festival!
Join us for a fun and interactive Apiculture Workshop, where you’ll learn the fascinating art of beekeeping from setting up a hive to harvesting your own honey!
Did you know a single honeybee visits over 50,000 flowers a day to make just one teaspoon of honey? Beyond honey, bees are essential to agriculture helping pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat, from fruits to grains. Come explore their incredible world, understand their vital role in farming and biodiversity, and taste the sweetness of sustainable living.
Let’s make it a buzzing good time at Kholeydai!
Join us for a fun and interactive Apiculture Workshop, where you’ll learn the fascinating art of beekeeping from setting up a hive to harvesting your own honey!
Did you know a single honeybee visits over 50,000 flowers a day to make just one teaspoon of honey? Beyond honey, bees are essential to agriculture helping pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat, from fruits to grains. Come explore their incredible world, understand their vital role in farming and biodiversity, and taste the sweetness of sustainable living.
Let’s make it a buzzing good time at Kholeydai!
Yoga & flow arts - Zami A Rokhum
As part of the Kholey Dai Festival, Zami A Rokhum invites festival participants to step into practices that ground and reconnect — through movement, breath, and presence.
Zami will guide gentle yoga flows accessible to all levels, and a partnered yoga workshop designed to foster trust and connection through collaborative movement. Whether with friends, family, or new connections made at the festival, these sessions celebrate moving and breathing together.
Beyond the mat, Zami brings the art of LED poi spinning — a flow practice rooted in Maori tradition that merges dance, rhythm, and light into mesmerizing performance.
Rooted in Kholey Dai’s spirit of community and connection, these offerings create space to slow down, feel present, and move with intention.
All levels welcome. Yoga mats provided.
Zami will guide gentle yoga flows accessible to all levels, and a partnered yoga workshop designed to foster trust and connection through collaborative movement. Whether with friends, family, or new connections made at the festival, these sessions celebrate moving and breathing together.
Beyond the mat, Zami brings the art of LED poi spinning — a flow practice rooted in Maori tradition that merges dance, rhythm, and light into mesmerizing performance.
Rooted in Kholey Dai’s spirit of community and connection, these offerings create space to slow down, feel present, and move with intention.
All levels welcome. Yoga mats provided.
Thangka Painting - Mingma Dorjee Bhutia
The creation of a Thangka is both a spiritual practice and a disciplined art. In this workshop, participants will go through the key stages of the process, from preparing the canvas to sketching sacred forms and learning colour application.
All sessions will be guided and materials will be provided.
All sessions will be guided and materials will be provided.
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