A workshop on observation, curation, and connection of ideas through writing,
Across April 26–27 and May 3–4, 2025, the workshop unfolded as a laboratory for observation, writing, and creative connection.
About The Workshop:
This 3-hour online session uses writing as the primary medium to explore practices of deep noticing that can be adapted to any creative discipline.
Through carefully designed exercises, participants:
Extract observations from a single external source.
Document the textures, objects, relationships, and habits that compose their personal world.
Merge unrelated elements from both these worlds to create something that felt distinctly theirs.
Develop practical systems of collecting and organizing creative material.
Everyone leaves with a completed written piece and a repeatable method for moving from observation to connection to creation.
Ideal for writers, artists, designers, photographers, and anyone seeking to transform observation into creation.
It was a very immersive session and I didn’t realise how quickly we were done with the 3 hour session. It was extremely useful for my practice as a ceramicist and writer.
This workshop, at its heart, is designed to help you feel the expansiveness of time. In a world that constantly rushes us from one thing to the next, Ankita held space for us to linger—to truly notice, observe, and be present. I walked away feeling not just more confident about engaging with art, but also more mindful of how the simple act of noticing can be a creative force—one that opens up entire worlds, both on the canvas and within yourself.
A good grounding workshop to look at the connection of things, process, and storytelling within and around us.
This was an unforgettable couple of hours, when the joy of playing with words came back and swayed. That was a very previous workshop and I'd love to attend more of them with Ankita:)
About the Facilitator:
Ankita Shah is an Indian-Nepali writer whose essays and poetry create an interplay between observation, memory, and culture. As co-founder of The Poetry Club (2013-2019), she led a 7,000-strong community of writers through curated reading sessions focused on style exploration and feedback exchange. Her published works include The Eye of the Needle (2019), documenting how a community of women in Rajasthan’s Thar desert transformed embroidery from cultural practice to economic lifeline, preserving heritage while reshaping their community’s future. Shah is also a performance poet, having taken her work across platforms like NCPA, Spoken Fest, Kala Ghoda Festival. As a curator, she has also produced over 50 inter-disciplinary shows at the G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture. She writes and publishes personal essays every fortnight on her Substack, Life, Annotated.
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