1. Women, Sexuality and Song: Shubha Mudgal
Women, Sexuality and Song is a special rooftop performance by Shubha Mudgal, built around her interpretations of Indian poetry and music that speak to women’s interior lives and social realities. Mudgal offers a musical reimagining of classic Indian poetry that centres women’s perspectives on desire, eroticism, beauty, and the hypocrisy of social norms.

The performance is on Saturday, 4 April 2026, at 7 PM at the Indian Music Experience Museum Rooftop in JP Nagar. Register here.

2. Sound of Women: Hip-hop-folk, Songs and stories of Kumaon

Sound of Women is a folk hip-hop act that brings together folk melodies and stories from the Kumaon region in Uttarakhand with contemporary hip‑hop. The group is led by rapper Krantinaari from India’s first all-female hip-hop crew Wild Wild Women, and musician Charu Hariharan. The group also features folk singer Hemanti Devi, daughter of the iconic Kabootari Devi, the first folk artist from Uttarakhand to be broadcast on All India Radio; folk singer Ganga Devi, percussionist and hudukka player Pushpa Devi Taiji, folk singer Khashti Devi, folk singer Chandrashekhar Tampta, and storyteller-director Neha Singh. The artists work with traditional tunes and local narratives, folding them into rap‑driven structures to speak about themes of ecology and working-class life.

Sound of Women performs at the Indian Music Experience Museum on Sunday, 5 April 2026, at 4 PM. Register here to attend.

3. Feminist Library Pop-Up by Sandbox Collective

Sandbox Collective is a Bangalore-based Arts Collective working at the intersection of arts & gender. Sandbox Collective’s Feminist Library pop‑up turns part of the museum into a reading and dialogue space. The travelling library gathers books, zines, and other printed material around feminism, gender, sexuality, art, and politics, and invites visitors to browse, read, and hang out alongside the performances and screenings.

The Feminist Library Pop-up by Sandbox Collective will be up April 4 and 5 from 11:00 AM to 07:00 PM on both days at IME.

4. Kho Ki Pa Lü: Songs of the rice cultivators of Nagaland
Kho Ki Pa Lü (Up, Down & Sideways) is a 2017 ethnographic documentary that moves through the village of Phek in Nagaland. It chronicles the traditional songs (Li) of the Chakhesang Naga rice cultivators. Their age-old songs about land, love, and everyday life, shaped by decades of political turmoil, will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Iswar Srikumar and Anushka Meenakshi.

The documentary is in Chokri and Nagamese with English subtitles. It will be screened on Saturday, April 4, at 4 PM. Register here.

5. Ma Faiza: A Curated Listening Party with the Mother of Electronica
Ma Faiza leads a curated listening session that traces her journey as one of the earliest and most influential DJs in India’s electronic music scene. The African-born, British-raised DJ, known for her high-energy, genre-blurring sets and outspoken queer presence, has reshaped how Indian dancefloors sound and feel over the past two decades. The format invites audiences to sit with tracks and mixes that have defined her sound across decades, with space to talk about identity, community, and the dancefloors she has helped build.

The listening party will be held on Sunday, April 5, at 5 PM at at the IME Rooftop 5 PM. Register here.

6. ‘Her Voice. Her Story.’: Women pioneers of early recording

This exhibition and listening experience show some of the earliest music recordings in India from the early 20th century. The exhibition displays some of the earliest recordings by women artists in the early 20th century, like Gauhar Jaan, Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Coimbatore Thayi, Jaddan Bai, and others. These songs were digitized from their original shellac disc format by the National Archives of India.

Their recordings capture virtuosic performances in forms like khayal, thumri, tappa, dadra, padams, javalis and more, while their careers show how women used music to shape royal courts, social reform, the freedom struggle, and early theatre and cinema. As these songs travelled from temples, courts and salons into homes across the country, they helped democratize music listening.

7. 6-A Akash Ganga: A documentary featuring Annapurna Devi

6-A Akash Ganga traces the life of Annapurna Devi, the reclusive surbahar (bass suitar) virtuoso who transformed Indian classical music from behind the scenes. The film moves through fragile archival memories, interviews, and rare recordings to sketch a portrait of an artist who chose retreat over visibility, even as her students and contemporaries went on to become major artists. The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Nirmal Chander, opening up questions of lineage, silence, and the ethics of telling someone else’s story on screen. The film is in English and Hindi, making space for both long-time classical listeners and newer audiences who may be encountering Annapurna Devi for the first time.

6-A Akash Ganga will be screened on Friday, 3 April 2026, at 5 PM at Venkatappa Art Gallery, Kasturba Road.

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