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Padma Shree Prof. Anvita Abbi Janal Talks/Feb24 2026

Adil Jussawalla Exhibition – Curator’s Walk-through with Deeptha Achar

Dr. Sajitha Madathil- Janal Talks/Feb13 2026

Crochet Circle – Willow Square

Collaborative Storytelling

Janal Talks: Prof. Dilip Menon

Janal Talks / Taravād, Status and Muslim Social Life in Kerala

Xmas Crochet Circle

Janal Talks: Ayana Krishna / Response and Resistance: Understanding Alappad from Within

ALTEFF FILM FESTIVAL 5 & 6 December 2025

JANAL TALKS: NS Madhavan

THINK IN CYAN – Cyanotype Art Workshop

WATERCOLOUR MASTERCLASS / monthly with artist Suresh

Crochet Circle Special – BY Kids FOR Kids

October 2025 at the Kerala Museum

Janal Talks: Structures of Power, Spaces of Memory- Agrarian Houses of Southern Travancore

JANAL TALKS: House as Ritual- Gender, Caste, and Space in Kerala’s Tharavads

Onam Special Crochet Circle

Janal Talks: Building Memory- Philosophies of Conservation and Craft in Kerala by Vinod Kumar

20 July Decoupage Workshop by Leena Abhraham

Janal Talks: Walls that Speak by Rakhi Mariam Johnson

12 July Crochet Circle Meet & Greet

Janal Talks: Sketching as a Practice by Ar. Jacob Cherian

15 June Origami Workshop

Janal Talks: Pepper, Landscape & Memory

23 March Crochet Circle

16 March Watercolour Workshop

Janal Talk-Unearthing the Treasures of Oral History – Riches Drawn from Kutch

Janal Talk- Vrishchikapokkam and a Rising Indian Ocean: The sea silently making its way into coastal lives

Coastal History Conference | KM x OHAI – Schedule Day 3

Coastal History Conference | KM x OHAI – Schedule Day 2

Coastal History Conference | KM x OHAI – Schedule Day 1

🎨🪄 Colour Play: Soft Pastels and Watercolour Workshop 🪄🎨

Coastal History Conference | KM x OHAI 24, 25, 26 January 2025

Janal Talk- Kerala 2040 – The History We Can Choose

🪞✨ Event Alert: ചമയം (Chamayam) ✨🪞

Janal Talk- Kerala Temples: A Unique Symbiosis of Architecture and Sculptural Art

🧵Workshop Alert: Crochet Basics: A Beginner’s Workshop 🧵

Janal Calendar December 2024

Janal Talks : Panel discussion with Director Shawn Sebastian & T. P. Murukesan, The Mangrove Man.

Janal Talks : കടലിന്‍റെ കഥപറയുന്നോര്‍ : മത്സ്യത്തൊഴിലാളികളുടെ പരമ്പരാഗത അറിവുകള്‍ അന്വേഷിച്ചുള്ള യാത്ര

December 2024

Event Alert: ഞങ്ങളെ വെറുതെ വിടൂ (Leave Us Kids Alone)

ഭൂതകാലത്തിന്‍റെ ഗന്ധം (ക്രമം?): ഘ്രാണ ചരിത്രവും ഓർമ്മയും തിരയുമ്പോൾ (Odour (Order?) of the Past: Exploring Olfactory History and Memory)

All Living Things Environmental Film Festival

Changing Cochin – History of Cochin Chamber – M. K. Das (Author & Journalist) in conversation with V. Venugopal

Janal Calendar for November 2024

സത്യദേവന്‍റെ കലാനിധി-KADHAPRASANGAM Performance

Explore Oil Painting

November 2024

Art Classes for Early Learners

Event Alert: നവമൊഴി (Nava Mozhi)

MUSEUM TALKIES Film Screening

പാരമ്പര്യം, ആധുനികത, നിർവാഹകത്വം: കേരളത്തിലെ മുസ്ലിം സ്ത്രീ ഇടപെടലുകൾ

🎊Workshop Alert: Watercolour Workshop🎊

കാലത്തിലൂടെ ഒരു യാത്ര: നമ്മെ നാമാക്കിയ കഥകൾ

പമ്പ മുതൽ പെരിയാർ വരെ – സംസ്കാരം നദീതടങ്ങളിലൂടെ

October 2024

Recording a Women’s History in Cinema: Necessity and Challenges

The Evolution of Neo-Feudal Elements in the Agriculture of Kerala

🎊Workshop Alert: Tie & Dye Workshop🎊

JANAL Talks: “മന്നാൻ മത്താള താളത്തിൽ കന്നകൈ കഥ ആടുമ്പോൾ…” (…as the Mannan Perform the Story of Kannakai to the Rhythm of Mathalam) by Dr. Veena R. Nair

September 2024

Pencil Sketching Workshop

Janal Film Screening & Panel Discussion on “Ginger Biscuit”, a film exploring baking culture in north Kerala

“Real Men Real Thoughts”

JANAL Talks: Between Yemen and Kochi: Tracing Jewish Connections on the Malabar Coast

JANAL Talks: Asokan Kerala: Buddhist Foundations in Kerala’s Cosmopolitan Cultural Tapestry

JANAL Talks: “സ്നേഹത്തിൽ നിന്നുദിക്കുന്നു-ലോകം…” ചണ്ഡാലഭിക്ഷുകി: പാഠവും സൗന്ദര്യവും(“The world rises from love…” Chandalabhikshuki: Text and Beauty)

JANAL Talks: അടിമത്ത സങ്കല്പവും കേരളചരിത്ര രചനകളും (Concept of Slavery and Kerala Historical Writings)

JANAL Talks: ആധുനിക കേരളവും ഗ്രന്ഥശാലാ പ്രസ്ഥാനവും (Modern Kerala and the Library Movement)

JANAL Calendar July 2024

JANAL Talks: കേരളത്തിന്‍റെ കീഴാള നവോത്ഥാനം: പൊയ്കയിൽ ശ്രീ കുമാരഗുരു ദേവന്‍റെ ചെറുത്തുനില്‍പ്പുകള്‍ (Kerala’s Subaltern Renaissance: The Resistance of Poykayil Sri Kumaraguru Devan)

Three Day Oral History Workshop

JANAL Talks: സർവ്വമത സമ്മേളനത്തിന്‍റെ ദൂരക്കാഴ്ചകൾ or Perspectives of the All-Religion Conference

Janal Talks Season 2

‘Engendered Cities’ – Fair Sharing What We Build!

Talk & Workshop

JANAL Calendar May 2024

Know Your Rights – Gfest

KM Summer Camp 2024

Kaali – In Conversation

The Body, My Canvas

JANAL Talks : Kerala- An arc of contact

Joyful Journeys- Navigating female pleasure

Oru Thee – Poetry Reading

Own the Pause- Panel Discussion

Demystifying Toxic Relationships

Women & Work

Janal Talks – Panel Discussion

Film Screening

Live Performance

Guided walks through Exhibition

Gender & The Politics of Art – Rekha Raj

Opening Day Events – gfest

Gender Fest Kochi

Play Time at the Kerala Museum

Janal Talks: India’s Environmental Pasts: History as if Ecology Mattered 1750 to 2000

Janal Talks: The Use and Abuse of History

Play Time at the Kerala Museum

INTACH: FILMIT Workshop

Dragon’s Den; Reading Room Inauguration

INTACH India Heritage Quiz 2023

ALTEFF @KeralaMuseum

Mazhavillu Launch Event

Janal Talks: Moving Past the Common Ground: Looks and Frictions in the Artwork of K.P. Reji

Janal Talks: The Affiliations of Malayali Migrant Photographs

Janal Talks: Recovering lost voices: Women’s writing in Kerala

Janal Talks: Towards a Cosmopolitanism of Things? Reflections on Migration and Modernity in Twentieth Century Kerala

Janal Talks: From the Past to the Present: Mapping the Continuity with Folk Art

Janal Talks: The Rail and The Tree : A Cochin Hi/Story

Janal Talks: Skin: A surface history of caste in early Malayalam cinema

Janal Talks: What is the chemical formula of forests tears?

Janal Talks: In the Land of Ratsnake Eaters, Eat the Middle Piece! Malabar to Malaya through the Eyes of S.K. Pottekkat

Janal Talks: Kerala’s Wetlands and the Holocene Climate

Janal Talks: Evergreen Histories: Malayalees Cinematic Museums

Janal Talks: Kodungallur Bharani: An Intimate Event of Resistance and Revival

Janal Talks: Therapeutics to Cosmetics: Attempts to Preserve a Knowledge Tradition

Janal Talks: ഭാവുകത്വപരിവർത്തനത്തിന്‍റെ സാരഥി – എ. ആർ. രാജരാജവർമ്മ

Jayakodi – Chavittunadakam

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