RE:Community Vadodara

Date: 05-Apr-2026, Sunday

Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

In this 24th Edition of RE:Community, facilitator from Vadodara Innovation Council (VIC) will take us through the workings of an electric iron (clothes press/iron).

Learn about its main parts, how to diagnose and identify issues with the electric iron and what can be repaired at home. Feel free to bring your own electric iron from home and open it during the repair community.

Later, you can repair things that you have brought from home – clothes, broken items, electricals or electronics – together with the community.

Clean-up Drive

Date: 11-Apr-2026, Saturday

Time: 7:30 am to 9:30 am

Get a bird’s eye view of the problem that plastic and other waste is causing in our cities and villages and how it impacts our water bodies.

Engage in discussion to understand the scope of the waste problem and then get your hands (or gloves) dirty as we clean the area around this pond.

Join us for the Clean-up Drive and play your part in awareness and action.

Nadi Mitra

Date: 12-Apr-2026, Sunday

Time: 8:30 am to 11:30 am

What does a river mean to you? Specifically how do you relate to Vishwamitri River. Is it the floods or the crocodiles that bring you closer to Vishwamitri?

Come together for this 3-hour course by the banks of River Vishwamitri to get an increased awareness about the history, culture and relationship of city with the river. Learn about Vishwamitri River as an ecosystem and understand about its health. Raise your awareness about the current issues that the urban stretches of Vishwamitri faces.

Know the river better to be its steward.

Love Your ‘Nature‘

(A 2-day intensive mobile filmmaking workshop with Award Winning Documentary Maker Janantik Shukla (in pic))

Date: 18-Apr-2026 & 19-Apr-2026 (Sat/Sun)

Time: Sat: 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm; Sun: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

Nature can be understood in multiple ways — as landscape, ecology, urban life, memory, rhythm, decay, growth, or coexistence. Each perspective is valid. This two-day workshop invites participants to question, observe, and reinterpret nature through cinema, discussion, and mobile photography.

Rather than treating nature as something distant or purely scenic, the workshop explores it as an everyday presence — within the city, within architecture, within human relationships, and within ourselves.

Participants will engage with global visual references and then document Vadodara through their own eyes, using mobile cameras as creative tools.

About the Mentor:

Janantik Shukla is a filmmaker, director, producer, and cyclist whose work spans short films, documentaries, travelogues, and cycle journeys. Through these mediums, he explores human stories with empathy and curiosity.

Janantik is a recipient of Masters in Film and TV direction from SCAD, Savannah, US. His debut mobile short film was nominated at Interfilm Short Film Festival, Berlin. His documentary films have run in film festival circuit.

He began his journey as a filmmaker in New York and later continued growing creatively in Mumbai. Currently, he works in the Indian film industry as a script writer and second unit director on web series and feature films, while working on documentaries and developing his own debut feature film.

Being an amateur cyclist, when he reached Tang la pass peak (5,328 metres – 17,480 ft) in Ladakh on cycle, he felt that nothing is impossible. That feeling is still flowing in his veins and he brings that to every project.

Nature Connect

Date: 19-Apr-2026, Sunday

Time: 8:30 am to 10:30 am

Disconnection with nature leads to disharmony between our head and hearts while a connection with nature helps bring harmony between them.

Curated activities designed for nature exploration spark mindfulness, boost observation, heighten curiosity, spike creativity and reinforce interconnections.  Through the Nature Connect- Exploration Programme, the participants are able to spend time in connecting back with the natural world while also reflecting on what they observe and be in awe and wonder of the natural world.

UNLESS – Certificate Course in Nature & Sustainability

Date: 21-Apr-2026 to 25-Apr-2026 (5-days)

Time: 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Daily for 5 days)

This course on nature & sustainability will allow the participants to connect with nature and understand the challenges that we face, and hopefully, they will care and bring about change.

This course allows participants to understand and observe the biodiversity around them, understand the ecosystems and what happens when habitats are lost, they understand natural sytems and interconnections in nature, the need for conservation, global warming and climate change and our role in sustainability.

Sashiko for Sustainability – 25-Apr-26

Sashiko for Sustainability

Date: 25-Apr-2026

Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Learn the Japanese textile repair style-Sashikothis Saturday, 25-Apr-2026.

Meditative in nature and artistic in effect, Sashiko not only helps repair textiles but make them more loved.

Limited seats – Pre-book your slot now at https://forms.gle/wpzyEYn3GgNUDuWp7
Venue Partner: Sorai Cafe (https://maps.app.goo.gl/kCJDC8G5XoGK6kvj9)
Facilitated by : Drishti Panchal – a sustainability champion paying it forward to the community

Offered by Paper Ball Educational Innovation as part of Knowledge Community Programme

Environmental Film Screening – “Keeper Of The Last Herd“

Date: 26-Apr-2026, Sunday

Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Screening time 40 minutes + Discussion / Reflection 40 minutes

About the Film: In the buffer areas of Dhawa Doli Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan, farmlands increasingly encroach on wild spaces. The wild residents of these regions- the blackbucks and the chinkaras are going through a rapid decline in numbers, succumbing to injuries to fences and falling prey to attacks by feral dogs. In the face of this bleak reality, Sharvan Patel emerges as a guardian of the wild neighbours of his village.

With unwavering resolve, he mobilizes his community, raises awareness, and champions ecotourism, inspiring the youth to embrace birdwatching and environmental conservation. Alongside his friends and family as a supportive network, Sharvan builds water holes for the animals and tirelessly rescues injured blackbucks and chinkaras. Despite his efforts, the fight to protect is set on skewed scales and the deer continue to die. Can he sustain the fight against an invisible but ever-powerful force?

Brought to you in collaboration with “RoundGlass Sustain“