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What's On and Upcoming:
Young Hands and Voices Shaping Old Legacies
LAMO is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Young Hands and Voices Shaping Old Legacies.
The exhibition takes place at the Lonpo House in Wanla village, and marks the end of the project LAMO started in January this year. Since then, LAMO has held workshops with master artisans and students of the Government High School Wanla, in wood and stone carving, printing prayer flags, Ladakhi music and dance. The students also went with elders on village walks and foraged in the wild for edible plants, and listened to storytellers telling them tales from their rich oral heritage. Alongside, a film was made by Tsering Wangdus Lonpo and Tashi Dawa on Wanla, and the project as it unfolded.
The project began with a simple premise - to create a space for the youth of Wanla to reconnect with the richness of their own culture. The exhibition is a brief recounting of their learning, largely through a visual representation covering the various activities held with the students and showcasing their work. It also looks at heritage sites in the village and maps out a walk covering these places. Since many artistic practices continue to thrive in Wanla, the exhibition showcases living heritage in the village by demonstrations of woodcarving, storytelling, weaving and spinning amongst others. And finally, there is the screening of the film.
As the project comes to an end, it allows us to reflect on its merit and long-term aspirations of the youth of Wanla.
Will it be a source of inspiration if youth today are given opportunities to learn the rich artistic practices of their forefathers and listen to the local knowledge imparted by their elders. Empowered by their learning in these fields of art and literature, will they now ensure the future of Wanla's legacy of tangible and intangible heritage survives for future generations to come?
The project was supported by the Nirmala Bakubhai Foundation.
Opening
Saturday 5th September 2026 | 11 am to 5 pm
Exhibition continues at Wanla Lonpo House, Wanla
30th September | 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday Closed
The exhibition takes place at the Lonpo House in Wanla village, and marks the end of the project LAMO started in January this year. Since then, LAMO has held workshops with master artisans and students of the Government High School Wanla, in wood and stone carving, printing prayer flags, Ladakhi music and dance. The students also went with elders on village walks and foraged in the wild for edible plants, and listened to storytellers telling them tales from their rich oral heritage. Alongside, a film was made by Tsering Wangdus Lonpo and Tashi Dawa on Wanla, and the project as it unfolded.
The project began with a simple premise - to create a space for the youth of Wanla to reconnect with the richness of their own culture. The exhibition is a brief recounting of their learning, largely through a visual representation covering the various activities held with the students and showcasing their work. It also looks at heritage sites in the village and maps out a walk covering these places. Since many artistic practices continue to thrive in Wanla, the exhibition showcases living heritage in the village by demonstrations of woodcarving, storytelling, weaving and spinning amongst others. And finally, there is the screening of the film.
As the project comes to an end, it allows us to reflect on its merit and long-term aspirations of the youth of Wanla.
Will it be a source of inspiration if youth today are given opportunities to learn the rich artistic practices of their forefathers and listen to the local knowledge imparted by their elders. Empowered by their learning in these fields of art and literature, will they now ensure the future of Wanla's legacy of tangible and intangible heritage survives for future generations to come?
The project was supported by the Nirmala Bakubhai Foundation.
Opening
Saturday 5th September 2026 | 11 am to 5 pm
Exhibition continues at Wanla Lonpo House, Wanla
30th September | 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday Closed
Nyantak
Hear, Here
Nyantag: Hear, Here brings together projects and processes by recipients of The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners across the 2023-24 and 2024-25 editions. A solo project featuring Kunga Tashi Lepcha is also on view at Pit Stop Kharu.
This geographically-spanning exhibition, sited in two venues across Ladakh, cites the Himalayan region as a locus of thought. It explores questions of identity, home, language, and resilience, asking for deeper forms of listening to the urgencies being articulated in the region.
Borrowing from the Ladakhi word Nyantag which invites us to listen carefully, the exhibition is a call to tune in. One that impels us to gather around a hearth, under a dera, at land's edge, and in mayel Iyang. Working across documentary, film, drawing, music, installation, immersive and multimedia formats, it is an ensemble of many acts of listening. The projects harness intuitions and premonitions as states of attunement, as well as modes of sensing and reading. They illuminate fields of experience and embodied knowledge, producing critical perspectives that align land, people and histories.
At LAMO, the works consider the abundance present in landscapes the artists are rooted in, alongside addressing the precarities they are facing. Together, they envision listening as an active engagement, as a way of remembering and becoming stories, as capable of generating new congregations and hence, potentially propelling new sets of relations. The exhibition creates conditions for a shared listening and resonance, bringing contexts and landscapes from across the Himalayan region into conversation with Ladakh. We warmly invite you to be part of this collective listening.
NyantagHear, Here
Projects and processes from The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners
With Arieno Kera, BERE Collective, Community Radio Henvalvani, Millo Ankha, Kesang Thakur, Shikargah Collective, Shyam Lal and Soujanyaa Boruah, Tsering Motup Siddho, Tsetan Angmo, Veecheet Dhakal, Wasim Ashoor and Zainab
4 - 30 September 2026
LAMO Centre, Leh
11AM - 5PM
Monday - Saturday
This geographically-spanning exhibition, sited in two venues across Ladakh, cites the Himalayan region as a locus of thought. It explores questions of identity, home, language, and resilience, asking for deeper forms of listening to the urgencies being articulated in the region.
Borrowing from the Ladakhi word Nyantag which invites us to listen carefully, the exhibition is a call to tune in. One that impels us to gather around a hearth, under a dera, at land's edge, and in mayel Iyang. Working across documentary, film, drawing, music, installation, immersive and multimedia formats, it is an ensemble of many acts of listening. The projects harness intuitions and premonitions as states of attunement, as well as modes of sensing and reading. They illuminate fields of experience and embodied knowledge, producing critical perspectives that align land, people and histories.
At LAMO, the works consider the abundance present in landscapes the artists are rooted in, alongside addressing the precarities they are facing. Together, they envision listening as an active engagement, as a way of remembering and becoming stories, as capable of generating new congregations and hence, potentially propelling new sets of relations. The exhibition creates conditions for a shared listening and resonance, bringing contexts and landscapes from across the Himalayan region into conversation with Ladakh. We warmly invite you to be part of this collective listening.
NyantagHear, Here
Projects and processes from The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners
With Arieno Kera, BERE Collective, Community Radio Henvalvani, Millo Ankha, Kesang Thakur, Shikargah Collective, Shyam Lal and Soujanyaa Boruah, Tsering Motup Siddho, Tsetan Angmo, Veecheet Dhakal, Wasim Ashoor and Zainab
4 - 30 September 2026
LAMO Centre, Leh
11AM - 5PM
Monday - Saturday
On Ties that Bind Ecological and Cultural Practices of Care:
A Symposium in Ladakh
FICA, Royal Enfield and Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO) present On Ties that Bind, a symposium gathering practitioners to converse about their enquiries and practices within the shifting environmental context of the Himalayas. It is an opportunity to build a dialogue between the participating artists who have been part of the Himalayan Fellowship over three editions and a committed group of water conservationists, artists, herders and scholars from Ladakh, to think through the prism of care and relationalities.
PANEL 1 : Embodying Memory: Place, Materiality and Forms of Knowing
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Arieno Kera, Tsering Motup Siddho, and Wasim Ashoor Moderated by Latika Gupta
PANEL 2 : Rhungs: The stories we tell
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Millo Ankha, Tsetan Angmo, and Zainab Moderated by Eva Arambam
All are welcome at LAMO
PANEL 1 : Embodying Memory: Place, Materiality and Forms of Knowing
2:00 - 3:30 PM
Arieno Kera, Tsering Motup Siddho, and Wasim Ashoor Moderated by Latika Gupta
PANEL 2 : Rhungs: The stories we tell
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Millo Ankha, Tsetan Angmo, and Zainab Moderated by Eva Arambam
All are welcome at LAMO
On Ties that Bind Ecological and Cultural Practices of Care:
A Symposium in Ladakh
FICA, Royal Enfield and Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO) present On Ties that Bind, a symposium gathering practitioners to converse about their enquiries and practices within the shifting environmental context of the Himalayas. It is an opportunity to build a dialogue between the participating artists who have been part of the Himalayan Fellowship over three editions and a committed group of water conservationists, artists, herders and scholars from Ladakh, to think through the prism of care and relationalities.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Rhungs: The stories we tell
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Pit Stop, Kharu
Millo Ankha, Tsetan Angmo, and Zainab Moderated by Eva Arambam
PANEL DISCUSSION: Rhungs: The stories we tell
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Pit Stop, Kharu
Millo Ankha, Tsetan Angmo, and Zainab Moderated by Eva Arambam
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