RE:Community Vadodara

Date: 03-May-2026, Sunday

Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

In this 25th Edition of RE:Community, we focus on textile / cloth repairs.

Let’s repair clothes together even if you haven’t ever. Learn to thread the needle and use it for basic stitches. If you haven’t ever used a sewing machine, you might just get a chance to do that too. And Sashiko continues too 🙂

Did You Know : Textiles is one of the biggest contributors to the global waste problem. Be a part of the solution by repairing your textiles.

Clean-up Drive

Date: 3-May-2026, Saturday

Time: 6:30 am to 8:00 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: 10-May-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: 16-May-2026 & 17-May-2026 (Sat/Sun)

Time: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm (Both Days)

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.

Environmental Film Screening – “Catapults to Camera“

Date: 17-May-2026, Sunday

Time: 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm

Screening time 40 minutes + Discussion / Reflection 40 minutes

About the Film: Kolkata-born wildlife filmmaker Ashwika Kapur, sets out on a deeply personal quest to uncover the roots of an illegal wildlife hunting festival in the forests of her home in Bengal. Here, each year, thousands of protected animals are massacred in an illegal blood sport. She finds a heart-breaking truth: children as young as three are handed catapults as weapons in an assault against wildlife. In a defiant act of hope, Ashwika teams up with conservationist Suvra Chatterjee, to inspire change where it matters most – in the hearts of children within these hunting communities.

Brought to you in collaboration with “RoundGlass Sustain“

UNLESS – Certificate Course in Nature & Sustainability

Date: 22-May-2026 to 23-May-2026 (Fri/Sat)

Time: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm (Daily for 2 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.

Nature Connect

Date: 24-May-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.

Composting For Future – 30-May-26

Composting For Future

Date: 30-May-2026, Saturday

Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Learn the art and science of compopstingthis Saturday, 30-May-2026.

The what, the why and the how of composting answered. Demonstration of the method and questions answered to make you a composting champion 🙂

Limited seats. Register here: https://forms.gle/wpzyEYn3GgNUDuWp7

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