Clay Doll-Making with Sunderbans Doll Artists

Image Credits: Tram Theatre Trust

Dig your hands into clay, and craft your own clay dolls! Come over to MAP, spend time exchanging stories and experiences with professional clay doll artists from the Sunderbans, and learn more about this indigenous craft form.

Handmade dolls, particularly clay doll-making, have a deep relevance in human life. They strengthen connections with the natural and social environment, reinforce relationships, impart values and skills, fire the creative gene, and build a kinship between the mundane, the mythical and the spiritual. This practice is a deeply relaxing and therapeutic process.

Explore this historic craft form in this guided clay-doll making workshop with Dinesh Mondal and Ranajeet Sarkar from Manmathanagar. Generational and first-generation artists here create dolls that depict everything from fierce man-eating creatures of the Sunderbans, everyday lives of their people, to episodes from local folk-legends like Bonbibi and DokkhinRai. Become a part of this rich world, and take home your own Sunderbans clay doll!

Please note: There are two sessions of this workshop. Please choose the session you want to attend on the registration link at the top of the page. Here are the dates and timings of the sessions:

– Saturday, July 5 (10:00 am – 1:00pm)

– Sunday, July 6 (10:00 am – 1:00pm)