Book-Making Workshop with Sarojini Lewis and Preeti Singh
Inviting participants to a book-making workshop with Sarojini Lewis and Preeti Singh that explores home, migration and separation through Bhojpuri women’s song and diasporic memory linking Bihar to the wider world of global migration. Responding to archival images, photographs from villages in Bihar, poetry and historical and literary texts, participants will reflect on home as something remembered, imagined, and carried across generations rather than fixed to a place.
Deadline for applications: 14 February 2026
Through guided writing prompts, listening exercises and simple book-making techniques, participants create small handmade books that hold fragments of memory, waiting, longing and belonging. Together, we explore how separation is experienced differently but remembered similarly, whether through migration across borders or emotional and cultural distance from home.
Date: Saturday 21 February 2026
Time: 11 AM - 6 PM
Venue: the FICA Reading Room, New Delhi
About the facilitators:
Sarojini Lewis (India/Sur/Netherlands) has a background in Fine Art (MFA Fine Art Edinburgh University) with a specialization in archival photography, video art and book arts. She is currently working as a curator, researcher and artist. Her PhD in visual studies in JNU examined the indentured labour archive through a feminine contemporary lens. In her artistic practice, she explores diaspora identity, landscape memory and cultural displacement.
Preeti Singh is a Delhi-based artist whose practice is shaped by close attention to lived experience and the social structures that frame it. Working across painting, installation, moving image, and participatory formats, she engages broader questions of creative process, situating emotional landscapes within the politics of memory, power, identity, and belonging.