19
Sep 2024
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Uncovering Urban Legacies: Stories of Bombay's Precincts - Mazagon
Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Mumbai - 400001
Join us for an interactive virtual workshop – led by Children’s Book Illustrator Zainab Tambawalla – in which participants will learn about the fundamentals and basic creative processes of illustration and come together to create exciting and imaginative seascapes for an educational children’s book all about coral reefs. This workshop is part of a unique collaborative conservation project, Sustainability NOW: Coral Woman – which involves the creation of the book Coral Woman – written by Author, Curator and Founder, Peek A Book – Festival of Children's Literature Lubaina Bandukwala and conceptualised around Filmmaker Priya Thuvassery’s mesmerising and revealing short film of the same name.
Zainab Tambawalla is a children’s book illustrator, an urban sketcher and a nature lover. She has studied Animation Film Design at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and has illustrated several books for Pratham, Scholastic and other independent authors and publishers. Currently, she also teaches at the Ecole Intuit Lab, Mumbai. As a part of her personal practice, she sketches around the city documenting in her work the different aspects that interest her. From people, architecture, to various other elements and stories.
Read more
