Fwd: Invitation to Exhibition on Garment Work in Bengaluru

[Manavi Atri]

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From: Swathi Shivanand <swathi.s...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 13:16
Subject: Invitation to Exhibition on Garment Work in Bengaluru
To: Manavi Atri <man...@altlawforum.org>

Join us for "Stitching Lives: Garment Work and Activism in Bengaluru", an exhibition based on the archival collection of Garment Mahila Karmikara Munnade and Garment and Textile Workers Union (GATWU).

Venue: Devaraj Urs Gallery. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat
Date/Time:
30 August, Saturday, 3 pm to 6 pm
31 August, Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm.

On Sunday at 12.30 p.m. at the gallery, please join us for the launch of the archival website Stitching Lives, Organising Workers: An Archive on Garment Workers.

About the exhibition
Bengaluru is host to over five lakh garment workers. Most of them are women. Yet they find little to no space in public imagination or in narratives about the city. The remarkable efforts to organise and mobilise these workers and to advocate with the state for dignified forms of work have also remained in the shadows.

Stitching Lives: Garment Workers and Activism in Bengaluru seeks to challenge this dominant representation of Bengaluru as a middle-class IT city and the IT employee as the ubiquitous worker. It does so by showcasing garment work, its political economy and the collectivisation and unionisation work undertaken by Garment Mahila Karmikara Munnade and Garment and Textile Workers Union (GATWU) over the last 20 years.

This exhibition is part of a larger project on archiving the work of Munnade and GATWU. This is a Foundation Project implemented by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under the Project 560 programme, made possible with support from BNP Paribas India. Swathi Shivanand is the Project Coordinator and Prathibha R is collaborator.

Best,

Swathi

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Dr. Swathi Shivanand

Bengaluru, India