Guided Walk
Putul Katha
Putul Katha is a special showcase that invites audiences to explore the practice of doll-making in West Bengal and the cultural heritage of this unique art form. Known as putul in Bengali, these dolls not only serve as objects of play, worship and decoration, but also as bearers of stories. They carry their makers’ beliefs, histories, cultural knowledge and reflections of their everyday lives.
In this guided walk, Choiti Ghosh, one of the founders of Tram Arts Trust, will narrate the stories she encountered during her travels and her experiences meeting the artists.
This showcase is based on ongoing research by the Tram Arts Trust on the stories surrounding the doll arts of West Bengal.
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Choiti Ghosh
Choiti Ghosh is an Object Theatre practitioner and the artistic director of Tram Arts Trust, a Delhi-Mumbai based object theatre company. Born into a family of generational theatre artists, her theatre career began early with some of India’s best-known theatre artists & puppeteers including Anil Krishna Ghosh, Habib Tanvir, Sunil Shanbag, Jana Natya Manch, Anurupa Roy, Ashish Ghosh. She has also spent a number of formative years working with renowned Indian educationist Prof. AK Jalaluddin in the field of alternative curriculum development and academic research with special focus on arts, history and social sciences. This remains one of her areas of interest.
Following a masterclass under the renowned Belgian Object Theatre artiste Agnés Limbos at the Institut International de la Marionnette, France (2010), Choiti has since been dedicated to the study, practice & dissemination of Object Theatre in India. She is deeply interested in cultural studies and artistic possibilities through and with objects. She directs & performs, facilitates trainings & mentorships for young people and adults, designs festivals & museum-based experiences and occasionally writes on object theatre. Choiti has been a researcher-in-residence at the Institut International de la Marionnette, Charleville Mezieres, France and at the Deutsches Forum fur Figurentheatre & Puppenspeikunst in Bochum, Germany. She has been invited to share her directorial practices at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe UK, ASSITEJ Germany TYA Directors’ Gathering GERMANY & Theatre Gerard Phillipe, Paris FRANCE. Her plays have travelled all over India and the world. She was awarded the Sahitya Rangabhoomi Vinod Doshi Fellowship, 2011 and the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for Puppetry, an award granted by Sangeet Nataka Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, 2016.
