Presented as part of Indian Summer Festival’s Tiffin Talks series
How can art hold grief? How can ritual create space for healing, and death deepen our connection to life?
As part of Indian Summer’s 2025 Artist As Healer residency, Varsha Gill and Shahir Krishna led a series of community workshops rooted in slowness, somatic care and ceremony. Blending natural dyeing, mindful movement, slow-textile arts, and ritual, they explored how creative practice can support inner transformation, particularly in relationship to grief, mortality, and dying.
This Tiffin Talk brings their inquiry to the table:
What happens when we sit with death not as an end, but as a mirror?
How might facing impermanence sharpen our sense of meaning, purpose, and love?
Joined by project director Pawan Deol as the moderator and residency mentor Farheen Haq, Varsha and Shahir will share their collective learnings and reflect on the meditative and communal power of art-making, and how re-envisioning death can transform our communities from within.
Following the conversation enjoy a warm meal served in Indian-style tiffins around a long table at Ocean Artworks Pavilion surrounded by ocean, cedar, and sky.
Come to listen, reflect, and be nourished—literally and metaphorically.
Date: Sunday, July 6th, 2025
Event Time: 6:00 p.m
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Accessibility Info
Ocean Artworks is an outdoor, covered pavilion at street level, with no ramps or steps to enter. There are no bathrooms onsite.For more comprehensive accessibility information see: Ocean Artworks Accessibility Page.