• Building a Resilient Bengaluru: One Year Culmination Event

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    STORMWATER & THE CITY Building a Resilient Bengaluru A year of research, citizen action and collective learning. Join us as we reflect on the first phase of the Building a […]

  • Journeys with Koitso: PnZa Circle

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    This is a closed event. Invite Only. This is to welcome you to an exclusive evening of PnZa Circle based on the ongoing spoken story series, The Yak and the Woman. Join me for an in-person session where we can finally meet and connect beyond our online story circles. This session takes you to the beginning […]

  • Author of the Month – Indu Antony

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    The Author of the Month Series is envisioned as a year-long curatorial initiative at BLR Reads – Library and Archive, strengthening its role as a shared cultural and civic space. Building on BLR […]

  • Under the Lamp Book Club – August Meet

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Under The Lamp (UTL) is a read-along book club, where we pick a book of the month for everyone to read, and come together to discuss it once a month. This month’s meeting will be a discussion on the novel ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier. This is a closed meeting for members only. Anyone interested to join this […]

  • Sketchbook Saturday

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    About Sketchbook Saturday Sketchbooks are private, and intimate space for artists to think, experiment, and try new ways of designing or creating art. Sketchbook Saturday is a bi-monthly event that sees artists from the Penciljam group sharing their Sketchbooks and creative process with the broader creative community. About the artist | George Supreeth George Supreeth has been sketch journaling for […]

  • What Sells in the Present World: Decoding Modern Buyer Behaviour

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    In a market driven by AI-powered search, social proof, and shifting consumer values, standard cost-benefit messaging no longer drives conversions. This hands-on, activity-based workshop unpacks the psychological and sociological drivers behind modern buying behaviour to help creators and founders build high-value, resonant products. Participants will explore four key shifts in consumer choice: Resourceful Buying: How […]

  • 꿈 – What do you dream? by Anya Shankar

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    꿈, stands for dream. Have your dreams ever scared you? Surprised you? Bared your ambitions, or gave you a sense of deja vu? Do you think all of us dream […]

  • 100ಕು100 by Dakhnistan Studios

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Inspired by the intimacy of J. Cole’s Dollar and a Dream shows and the immersive nature of iconic listening experiences, this event reimagines the modern live-event format by putting accessibility and community at its centre. Rooted in Bangalore’s Dakhni Hip-Hop culture, the event creates a space for original language, storytelling, music, and lived experiences. Audiences […]

  • Reel Duniya Real Duniya – Book Launch

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Reel Duniya, Real Duniya: Cinema, Memory, and Leisure in Laggere is a photo-illustrated essay book that explores how cinema is experienced by those for whom it is at once a place of leisure, livelihood, and community. Emerging from six months of place-based research in Laggere, a predominantly working-class neighbourhood in Bengaluru with rich cinema culture […]

  • Multispecies Hackathon by Elephant Academy – A Socratus Initiative

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    The Multispecies Hackathon brings together students, researchers, designers, technologists, and storytellers to reimagine our relationship with the natural world by centering the perspectives, needs, and agency of non-human life. By […]

  • Author of the Month – Pratima Chabbi

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    The Author of the Month Series is envisioned as a year-long curatorial initiative at BLR Reads – Library and Archive, strengthening its role as a shared cultural and civic space. Building on BLR Reads’ ethos of reading beyond books, the series will invite one author each month for an in-depth book discussion, situating literature within wider conversations on […]

  • Cluster Fig Poetry Reading Session – Louise Glück

    BLR Design Centre BLR Design Centre, 6th Floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Cluster Fig began during the slow days of the pandemic lockdown as an intimate monthly gathering of friends reading English poetry that had moved, unsettled or delighted us through the month. Named after a poem by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, whose work many of us cherish, the series has always been an open, unthemed space for […]