सहृदय SAHRIDAY
a study programme (online)
starting 7th February 2026 Every Saturday 7 pm - 8.30 pm
At NOMADS we feel the need for a Study programme rather strongly.
In the wake of the rapid crumbling of long standing structures viz. Nature, culture, language, family, state, society et al, aligning with enduring values of love, compassion, camaraderie and joy becomes an urgent creative business. The programme is especially for those seeking -a quiet, rigorous, guided, meditative space for serious study and reflection; who value a careful curation; who feel the need for an online weekly retreat, if you like, in the midst of the chaos n noise.
We are all a little too familiar with the peculiar weariness and dampening of spirits felt acutely after a day/s wasted in the endless texting, mindless scrolling and needless binging of image n information. We disconnect temporarily to ward off the weariness. But no amount of detox brings back what is taken away. The market only grows bigger, fashioning us in its own image, into an all too willing consumer, with the illusion of choice, having us navigate the senseless binaries, saying yes or no to available options.
May be it’s time to recognise what is at stake. Time to see that the weariness comes from having felt no real emotion or excitement, from having faced no real danger or difficulty, from having to exercise no real freedom or power, from having to take no real choices. To understand this would be to sense the unreality underlying all virtual experience, that which allows the spirits to dampen, to evaporate insensibly, leaving a chaos behind.
At NOMADS we believe that the state of mind after serious study is different in that it connects dots, makes possible an ‘Inter-being’ and brings rewards that go on to become part of who we are. Thereby bringing us a little more freedom and responsibility than checking boxes. If you resonate, it is time to study together.
SAHRIDAY locates itself in the paradigm of continuing education or life-long learning for a conscious collective. It does so by a careful curation of weekly readings for study & reflection. It looks at living & working in Indian Asia as an opportunity to study the time honoured question of- what constitutes be-ing 'human' in its many creative dimensions with its rewards, challenges and responsibilities.
Books/ Readings : in the interstice of Language, Art, Aesthetics, Philosophy,
Poetry, History, Magic, Story, Sociology, Mythology, Politics, Cinema et al.
Medium : English & Hindi
Date : 7th February onwards (every Saturday 14 sessions over 4 months)
Time : 7 pm to 8.30 pm
Fee : 10K (also enables your Annual Membership with its community access & privileges)
Requirement : Keeping the camera on :)
The first programme of the year is free for existing NOMADS members.
But since places are limited to help retain the intensity and focus of study,
we encourage everyone to apply.
To apply: kindly write briefly about yourself, your journey so far and the need to join SAHRIDAY@ nomadsfilmschool@gmail.com
For Annual subscription click here
Previous programmes
F(r)ICTION 2
AUGUST 30th to SEPTEMBER 9th 2025
F(r)ICTION 2 continued the creative apprenticeship programme.
through working on the archive of Images, Sounds, Texts, Music, Movement & Maps gathered in an Adivasi village Neelgarh
during NOMAD's previous cinema camp F(r)ICTION 1
Applications were invited for creative apprenticeship in
EDITING, DIRECTION, SOUND EDITING, CARTOGRAPHY
The camp called for a conscious slowing down to the pace of the Forest,
an aligning to the rhythm of an Adivasi Indian village
via a nuanced understanding of Time, Image, Movement in cinema
and a playful experimenting via cartography n game design
keeping in mind the Neelgarhs near and far.
F(r)ICTION 1
20th to 30th JANUARY 2025
In January 2025 a cinema camp happened in an Adivasi village within the forests of Central India. The village was/is in the process of being displaced from where they have lived for generations now, to make way for a 13th national park of MP.
It was a unique apprenticeship programme where a bunch of young and not so young participants from diverse disciplines and practices, viz. visual arts, animation, photography, cinematography, writing, sound recording, direction, sociology, education spent 10 Days in a forest village with no electricity n internet learning to research, script, image, map n audio-visually document the space-time.
A critical part of the camp was for each participant to live with a family,
eating, sleeping, walking, working, helping, listening to men, women, children
as also doing various other activities with them like mapping the village, documenting its diurnal rhythm via cameras n sound recorders, understanding its history, village, people, recording songs, stories n struggles,
asking questions, answering queries, wondering, absorbing, engaging,
reading, reflecting, screening films for the village...
It was an extremely worthwhile engagement on both sides,
Like it is when you carry a trace of something as you move on;
its a part of you, thence...
We have taken a while to let the experience stand, ripen, marinate.
Time now to move to the next level.
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