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Tech, Games & Music. Day 10 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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Day 10 of EarthLab’s Yaksha Summer Programme was all about curiosity, creativity, and going bananas with tech! From designing 2D arcade games about poachers and ocean clean-ups to experimenting with AI hand motion detection, children explored how technology can tell powerful stories. The highlight? Using Playtronica to make music with bananas, plants, and spoons — discovering the sound of nature through playful innovation.

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Game Design, Creativity & Controllers. Day 9 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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Day 9 of EarthLab’s Yaksha Summer Programme was a thrilling dive into the world of game design, coding, and creative controllers. With Sai K. Mulpuru guiding the Interactive Tech Lab, children explored Python basics, built their own game controllers using Arduino and everyday objects like twigs, and designed 2D arcade games about saving forests and oceans. From crafting game plots based on the Yaksha story to helping build mountain sets for the exhibit, it was a day filled with fun, learning, and curiosity — leaving everyone excited for what comes next.

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Diving Into the World of Interactive Tech. Day 8 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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Day 8 of EarthLab’s Summer Programme, The Yaksha, kicked off the Interactive Tech Lab with energy and excitement! Guided by innovator and educator Sai K. Mulpuru, children explored sensors, circuits, and microcontrollers, bringing their ideas to life through hands-on technology.

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Wrapping Up the Immersive Design Lab. Day 7 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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On the last day of the immersive design lab, the children revisited everything they had created so far—animations, drawings, flip books—and explored fun tools like Tagtool to bring their ideas to life. They wrapped up with a lively discussion, sharing their favourite moments and showing their parents what they had learned, all set to start the tech workshop with fresh excitement.

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The Yaksha Showcase: An Immersive Exhibit

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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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📍 EarthLab Club, Shivam Vihar, Dehradun

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Animating the Forest. Day 6 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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On Day 6 of the Immersive Design Lab, students stepped into the world of projection mapping, animation, and live-triggered visuals

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EarthLab’s Exhibit Production Lab With Pratiksha Chauhan. Young Creators Programme : The Yaksha

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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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📍 EarthLab Club, Shivam Vihar, Dehradun

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EarthLab’s Sonic Storytelling Workshop with Yash Jha and Prashant Nawani. Young Creators Programme : The Yaksha

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Welcome to EarthLab Club’s Young Creators Summer Programme 2025

 

At EarthLab Club this June, sound becomes myth, and story takes root in rhythm. The Sonic Storytelling Lab is one of Yaksha 2025’s most immersive creative spaces — a collaborative journey into the emotional and imaginative power of music, sound design, voice, and narrative.

Over four days of the sonic storytelling lab, participants will craft the sonic identity of the Yaksha universe — composing original tracks, writing poetic chants, shaping atmospheric soundscapes, and building story arcs drawn from nature, memory, and imagination.

This is where stories breathe, sing, and resonate — led by acclaimed mentors Prashant Nawani and Yash Nath Jha, who together guide children in building the emotional backbone of EarthLab’s Yaksha world.

What Participants Will Explore:

Sonic World-Building

  • Compose original soundtracks, chants, and ambient textures
  • Use digital tools to build mood, tension, and character themes
  • Explore how rhythm and tone create emotion and narrative

Story & Lyric Writing

  • Develop myth-inspired poems, chants, and lyrical narratives
  • Use journaling and guided storytelling prompts to shape characters and arcs
  • Work with metaphor, memory, and voice to tell meaningful stories

Collaborative Sound Design

  • Layer field recordings, beats, and group sounds into immersive experiences
  • Design sonic transitions for moments of conflict, transformation, and hope
  • Contribute to the final Yaksha soundscape — an audio world built with peers and mentors

Why It Matters:

In a fast, screen-saturated world, listening is radical.

The Sonic Storytelling Lab teaches children to hear with intention — to shape their emotions, ideas, and worldviews through rhythm and voice. It fosters deep collaboration and nurtures the future skills of empathy, creativity, and expressive communication.

By the end of the sonic storytelling lab, each participant will become a part of something larger — a mythos told in sound, formed in community, and presented as part of the Yaksha Exhibit.

Your Mentors:

Yash Nath Jha – Music & Sound Mentor

Yash is a composer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist who creates immersive soundscapes blending nature, ambient textures, and experimental rhythms. With a background in working with young learners and exploring the emotional possibilities of music, Yash brings sensitivity, curiosity, and imagination into every sonic session — from composing elemental sound environments to co-creating original songs with children.

Prashant Nawani – Voice, Lyrics & Story Mentor

Prashant is a poet, performer, and theatre-maker whose work bridges storytelling, lyrical expression, and participatory education. He brings years of experience guiding young people through music, movement, and metaphor — helping them discover their voices and shape meaningful stories. From chants and collaborative poems to sound-based narrative puzzles, Prashant makes storytelling joyful, expressive, and deeply personal.

Together, Yash and Prashant will co-create with the students the living, breathing sonic experience of Yaksha.

For More Information & Registration:

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EarthLab Studio, Shivam Vihar, Dehradun

Programming: Summer:
Full Day-Full Program
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Earth, Forests & Us. Day 4 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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From forest conversations to animated projections, Day 4 of the Yaksha Summer Programme immersed students in the heart of environmental storytelling. With design expert Ansh Kumar, children engaged in meaningful discussions, visual narratives, and creative technology to explore what protects and harms the forest.

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Motion, Myth & Making. Day 5 of The Yaksha, Summer Programme 2025

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Motion met meaning on Day 5 as students explored gesture-controlled tech, flipbook animation, and projection mapping. With myth as their guide and waste as their material, they began shaping a story world that’s creative, sustainable, and deeply theirs.

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