The Yaksha Showcase: An Immersive Exhibit

Dates: June 26 – July 5, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Session Duration: 25 minutes

Location: EarthLab Club, 119 Shivam Vihar, Jakhan, Dehradun

Step Into a Living Myth

Something has been stirring all summer… and now, the Yaksha awakens.

The Yaksha Showcase is the culminating exhibit of EarthLab Club’s 21-day Young Creators Summer Programme — YAKSHA. Over three weeks, children aged 7–16 have collaborated with visionary mentors to co-create an immersive storyworld inspired by the myth of the Yaksha of Bandarpunch and the threatened river Tons.

This isn’t just an exhibition. It’s a multi-sensory experience where projection, interactive tech, sound, story, and sculpture come alive — imagined by young creators, and built with their hands, voices, and ideas.

A Myth Reborn — In Light, Sound, and Movement

Guided by a team of artists, technologists, and educators —

Ansh Kumar (Installations & Lead Artist),

Pratiksha Chauhan (Creative Design & Set Building),

Sai K. Mulpuru (Technology),

Yash Nath Jha (Sound),

Prashant Nawani (Words),

and curated by Naved Farooqui —the Yaksha showcase brings together the disciplines of art, ecology, and imagination.

Visitors will witness:

Interactive Tech Installations inspired by environmental themes — from poaching to pollution
Immersive Set Designs made from scrap and recycled materials with the support of Waste Warriors
Sonic Storytelling where the myth is retold through the voices, beats, and soundscapes created by children
Projection Mapping & Visual Design animating myths and memories
Poetry, Riddles & Myth Cards — ways to think, reflect, and play inside the story

Why Visit?

Because this is what the future of learning looks like:

Hands-on. Imaginative. Ecological. Technological.

The Yaksha Showcase is:

A living museum built by young creators, for the community
A sensory journey into storytelling through art, tech, and sound
A call to reimagine education through collaboration, play, and purpose

It’s a story of myth and memory, nature and noise, creativity and care.

Join Us

Come walk through forests made of scrap, touch rivers made of light, and listen to songs made of soil, wind, and voice at the Yaksha Showcase.

This summer, step into a story that belongs to all of us.

Limited slots per session. RSVP recommended.

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Young Creators Programme – Yaksha 2025

At EarthLab Club this June, waste turned into wonder and creativity took shape — quite literally. The Set Building Workshop & Exhibit Production Lab is one of Yaksha 2025’s most hands-on experiences, a raw, real, and joyful journey where children built an immersive forest exhibit from scratch.

Over the course of the set building workshop, children rolled up their sleeves to work with paper, paint, masking tape, wires, cardboard, plastic bottles, old electronics, even bicycle pedals — transforming everyday materials into a forest-world fit for myth. Led by multidisciplinary designer and curator Pratiksha Chauhan, this exhibit production lab brought together art, sustainability, and spatial storytelling in the most tangible way. This is where hands get dirty, ideas take form, and set design becomes a celebration of resourcefulness, imagination, and teamwork.

What Participants Will Explore:
Creative Set-Building

Build forest-inspired mountains, leaves, rivers, and props using cardboard, cloth, and POP in the Exhibit Production lab.

Paint, tear, glue, mask, and layer recycled materials into immersive environmental elements

Construct exhibit features like sculptural trees, bulldozers, and keepers’ elements in the Set Building workshop.

Waste-to-Art Installations

Discover how to reuse objects like old cameras and mobiles, cans, paper scraps, broken suitcases and other plastics.

Learn how improvisation and constraint can spark creativity in the set building workshop.

Discuss environmental impact and the power of upcycled art in the exhibit production lab.

Designing for Exhibition

Understand how spatial layout, light, and form work in creating immersive exhibits

Collaborate in building story-driven installation zones across Yaksha’s narrative

Contribute to the final transformation of EarthLab Club into the Yaksha world

Why It Matters:
In a world of fast consumption, building with our hands and our hearts is revolutionary. The Exhibit Production Lab teaches children how to think through materials, work in teams, and embrace the unpredictability of making. It’s a space where mess is part of the process, where failure is welcome, and where anything, even an old suitcase can become a story. By the end of the workshop, every participant will have shaped a physical part of the Yaksha Exhibit be it leaves or the mountains and they will learn that creativity doesn’t need perfection, only their presence.

Your Mentor:
Pratiksha Chauhan – Set & Exhibit Mentor
A NIFT graduate and Creative Director by profession, Pratiksha Chauhan is a curator of curiosities and immersive experiences. With over 11 years of experience working with Myntra, VICE Media, and Culture Machine, she specializes in building worlds — across music, culture, and lifestyle. At EarthLab, she brings her playful design philosophy to life, showing children how imagination and improvisation can turn even waste into wonder.

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