Maraa - a media and arts collective

Name: Maraa - a media and arts collective
Address: dawn, Bangalore, IN
Telephone: +916366646052

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media and arts collective based in Bangalore and Delhi. maraa, means tree, death, woman, roots, rain, demon... We are registered as a public charitable trust.

Maraa is a media and arts collective, founded in 2008. Rather than a thematic focus on issues, our arts and media practices are located at the intersection of gender, labor, caste and religion. We highlight imaginations and histories that are systematically suppressed, censored and reductively framed. Our work involves research, writing and documentation ; curation, practice and production. We believe everyone has a right to access and use media, and work to democratize and diversify its use. Critical of the biases and gaps in mainstream media, our work highlights connections between media ownership, technology and social realities. In contrast to approaches that use arts and culture instrumentally to achieve other purposes (political or economic), we see cultural politics as a primary site of our work. We are attentive to differences in lived experience, worldviews and aspirations that can challenge the dominant frames within which knowledge is produced. Through creative practice,we highlight daily discrimination, violence, resistance and resilience. We imagine our work as a long continuous journey of learning and unlearning, breaking and forming. www.maraa.in

21/09/2026

CROSSOVER: An Immersive Workshop on Finding Flow, Gaze & Visual Design Facilitated by Jyotinisha

9th, 10th, 11th October

CROSSOVER is a three day immersive module designed to help participants return to their intuitive, creative selves by exploring the ideas of flow, gaze, and visual design. Rooted in cultural nuance and critical inquiry, this workshop encourages artists, storytellers, filmmakers, and practitioners to re-examine the politics of representation and the ethics of how we see and are seen.

Registration link in bio!

20/09/2026

AREYEE WORKSHOP!

October Jam presents a two-day workshop on Areyee, a percussion instrument rooted in the musical and cultural traditions of Karnataka’s Dalit communities.

Led by theatre actor and musician Narasimharaju BK, the workshop will explore the history of the instrument, the communities who play it, how it is made, how to hold and play it, rhythms, steps, dances, and the different contexts in which Areyee is played.

The workshop takes place on 1st and 2nd October 2026 at Samsa Bayalu Rangamandira, Bengaluru.

Workshop fee:₹2000\
Student concession available

To register, link in bio!

For any questions or more details, call 9980700034

18/09/2026

Calling all students, send us your films!

Jawani ka Josh
presents
FRESH BLOOD
fim festival featuring student films
Genre, language, style, region no bar!

Submit, share, and circulate across your networks!
📢 For those who sent in entries, please do resubmit as we experienced a glitch on the email id. In case you have any trouble, please DM us to confirm your submission!

16/09/2026

Crossover

Attention Bangalore! For folks keen on making cinema, and on questions of seeing, framing, and representation, this is an opportunity to unlearn ways of seeing in popular culture.

Do not miss it.

Venue: maraa, Geethanjali layout

9th, 10th and 11th Oct

Link in bio!

14/09/2026

Being part of the first group to attend the Areyee workshop opened our eyes and ears to a sound which carries memory, history, labor and skill. Narsimhraju sir made me think about what it means for this sound to travel to different kinds of people & what we owe it in return.

Read on to understand how Narsimhraju sir has journeyed with the areyee, and what you will learn and unlearn, during his workshop.

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Areyee is a percussion instrument central to the musical and cultural traditions of Karnataka's Dalit communities, particularly the Chalavadi community, who have preserved and transmitted this tradition across generations. Far beyond a musical instrument, Areyee is woven into the community's cultural life, rituals, beliefs, and worship of village deities.

Its most striking feature is the deep, continuous, drone-like sound from its left side — a sustained vibration that draws listeners into an almost mesmerising experience. Embedded within this sound is the community's memory, ritual, and knowledge passed down through generations.

This workshop introduces participants to Areyee's history, cultural significance, structure, sonic character, and playing techniques, through live demonstrations and hands-on practice.

To learn Areyee is not just to learn an instrument — it is to experience the sound, memory, and heritage of the Chalavadi community. So apply now!

Link in bio!

Venue: Samsa Bayalu Rangamandira

Date: 1 & 2 October

Fee: ₹2000

ಅರೆವಾದ್ಯದ ಮೊದಲ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿದ ನನ್ನ ಅನುಭವ ನನಗೆ ತುಂಬಾ ವಿಶೇಷವಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ನೆನಪು, ಕೌಶಲ್ಯ ಮತ್ತು ಶ್ರಮವನ್ನು ತನ್ನೊಳಗೆ ಹೊತ್ತಿರುವ ಒಂದು ನಾದಕ್ಕೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣು ಮತ್ತು ಕಿವಿಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ತೆರೆಯುವ ಅನುಭವ ಅದು. ನರಸಿಂಹರಾಜು ಸರ್ ಅವರೊಂದಿಗಿನ ಮಾತುಕತೆ, ಈ ನಾದವು ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಜನರನ್ನು ತಲುಪುವುದರ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲದೆ, ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಪರಂಪರೆಗೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುವ ಗೌರವದ ಬಗ್ಗೆಯೂ ಯೋಚಿಸುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡಿತು.

ನರಸಿಂಹರಾಜು ಸರ್ ಅವರು ಅರೆವಾದ್ಯದೊಂದಿಗೆ ನಡೆದುಬಂದಿರುವ ಪಯಣದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಅವರ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು ಏನನ್ನು ಕಲಿಯುತ್ತೀರಿ, ಏನನ್ನು ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಥಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತೀರಿ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ತಿಳಿಯಲು ಮುಂದೆ ಓದಿ.

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ಅರೆವಾದ್ಯವು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ದಲಿತ ಸಮುದಾಯಗಳ ವಾದ್ಯಪರಂಪರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಸ್ಥಾನ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ, ಸಮುದಾಯ ಕೇಂದ್ರಿತವಾದ ಒಂದು ಅಪರೂಪದ ಚರ್ಮವಾದ್ಯ. ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ಛಲವಾದಿ ಸಮುದಾಯವು ತಲೆತಲಾಂತರಗಳಿಂದ ಈ ವಾದ್ಯವನ್ನು ನು

11/09/2026

Maraa presents
OCTOBER JAM 2026
JAWANI KA JOSH

CROWDFUNDING APPEAL

October Jam presents
Jawani Ka Josh // जवानी का जोश

The Urdu word josh(جوش) means passion, enthusiasm, excitement, zeal. Youth is that stretch of life when you act on feeling before you weigh the consequences, and it's exactly that rebellion that makes things shift. There's a joy in being spontaneous, in not always calculating whether something will "work." That's how conviction is born. And josh isn't bound to an age. It can return to you at any point in your life.

Youth has always been called immoral, reckless, irreverent, shameless by the generations before it. But that's never stopped a young person from standing their ground. Disagreeing with your parents, doing the opposite of what's expected, unsettling the status quo, this has been true of youth across every era. We want to be unapologetically loud, colourful, daring, carefree. That's when we feel most alive.

Jawani was never about age. It's a feeling, a free-spiritedness that can be morally inconvenient and still shift the ground beneath a whole society.

This October, we want to move past the binary of old and new and simply celebrate youth. We'll be recounting and archiving the moments from this past year that built toward this tipping point: the suppression, the setbacks, the backlash from those in power, and the outburst that followed once it could no longer be contained.

This festival will bring together artists, students, writers, filmmakers and musicians who live up to Jawani Ka Josh. Maraa is thrilled to reclaim the public spaces young people across the country have already been occupying in their own creative ways. Organised as a college festival, we're inviting students from everywhere to join in and keep the humour alive.

We believe this josh lives in everyone, regardless of class, gender, caste, religion, or anything else. Stay irreverent. Stay youthful. Age no bar.

As always, we need your support to bring this festival to life. Head over to the link in our bio to know more about the featured artists and the jam, and to contribute!

Spread the word!

10/09/2026

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04/09/2026

Jawani Ka Josh

presents

CROSSOVER: a 3 day workshop on Bahujan Spectatorship in film practice

To make art is to return, to ourselves, to our artist child, to the ways we've been taught to see and be seen. Crossover is an invitation to unlearn that gaze. Across three days, practitioners will sit with the idea of gaze itself, Brahminical gaze, and how it has shaped the representation of caste, gender, race and class in cinema and art. It is a radical, practical unlearning, a space to build a more conscious, nuanced way of looking at ourselves, at culture, and at the stories we tell.

Conducted by Jyotinisha who is a filmmaker, producer, academician and writer, known for developing the theory of Bahujan Spectatorship, which examines how India's marginalized communities consume and are represented within popular cinema.

Venue: maraa, Geethanjali Layout,

9th, 10th & 11th October 2026

Workshop fees: ₹7000 Student concession available

Apply before 25th September, 2026

Link to apply in bio!

Address

Dawn
Bangalore

Opening Hours

Monday

10:30am - 6am

Telephone

+916366646052

Website

http://maraa.in/

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