Join Us For An Intimate Evening Of Art, Music And Poetry In Memory Of People You've Lost

Do not mourn the dead, they say, but rather celebrate the lives they have lived. Celebrate the people they loved, the friends they left behind, their legacy, their achievements—the tangible ones and the ones more subtle. Celebrate who they were, what they did, how they lived. Celebrate how they were a stickler for manners, how they never let a friend down, how they could never reach anywhere on time, or how much they loved dogs. Celebrate the little and the big. Let death teach you. Let it teach you the value of life, of all lives, the millions of lives that we interact with on a daily basis. Let death teach you to value your own life and others’; let it teach you what a gift living truly is.

The real loss occurs when we don’t remember the people who are no longer with us. But sometimes, even when we forget, a breadcrumb-trail of memories can lead us back to them again. In remembering the ones we have loved and lost, there is a solace to be found in the objects they leave behind. Bits and pieces of memories can find themselves in old photographs, t-shirts, collections of keys, shaving kits, beaten-up suitcases, and knick-knacks otherwise mundane.

In honor of those who are no longer with us, we have put together a home of memories expressed in poetry, art, and music for The Memory Project, powered by HDFC Life. Homegrown warmly invites you and your family members for a very special evening on April 28th at G5A, 5PM onwards. Encapsulated as an immersive artistic experience, the event will see performances from spoken word artists like Simar Singh, and Mehak Mirza Prabhu. It will display photo exhibits and installations by artists Anubhav Syal, Mad Paule, and Karan Khosla. There will be a special live set by Sandunes (Sanaya Ardeshir), and music performances by Mali, Alif, and Barbie Rajput.

Date: April 28th

Time: 5PM onwards

Location: G-5/A, Laxmi Mills Estate, Shakti Mills Lane, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai

RSVP: https://goo.gl/forms/BxRcf2xFzMYoNjVC3

We encourage you to bring along memories of your own, as well as any thoughts, stories, and messages you’d like to share with the community—in physical form or via our RSVP link. The idea is to create a safe space where memories of our loved ones lost can be celebrated in a collective community-style environment. Through different artistic mediums, the abstract and often difficult conversations about loss, death, grief, and longing can be explored. If you are one of the people that has already written to us with photographs, voice notes, and videos, you will find your story at the event, represented as one of the pieces in the various physical installations or projections.

We look forward to having you with us.