Bangalore Events — book discussion

We are delighted to host the launch of India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture by typeface designer and lettering artist Pooja Saxena, in conversation with design historian and graphic designer Nia Thandapani, at Champaca Vasanthnagar. Drawing from over a decade of documentation and research, India Street Lettering is a 200-page hardcover, full-colour book that showcases striking public lettering from across Indian cities in paint, relief, mosaic, neon, wood and more. It brings together photographs, essays and interviews that trace how shopfronts, hand-painted signs and vernacular letterforms tell stories about language, labour, design and everyday life in India’s streets. At Champaca, Pooja and...

Champaca is excited to host Book Screenings, a workshop that brings together books and films to think about how stories build the places we inhabit. Three cities, one afternoon of watching, reading and talking about how medium shapes meaning. About the workshop Book Screenings pairs three books with three films to explore the same place through different lenses. Over the course of the session, we will move between page and screen to ask how writers and filmmakers choose to show a city, a neighbourhood, a life.We will screen clips, read short excerpts and discuss how narrative choices, framing, sound and silence...

Champaca is delighted to host an evening with Satoshi Yagisawa, the author of the much-loved novel Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, in conversation with writer and festival director Shinie Antony.  Set in a second-hand bookshop in Tokyo’s Jinbocho district, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop has found readers all over the world who recognise the comfort of shelves, regular customers, and a room above the store where life can begin again.At Champaca, Satoshi Yagisawa will speak about writing these worlds of cosy bookshops and deeply felt relationships, the sequel More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, and the ways in which stories about ordinary days can carry great...

Marked Pages is an in-person book club at Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar. It will be held once every three weeks between January and March, and will follow a single theme across three books: bookshops, and the communities that grow around them. This series is a direct response to something we’ve been hearing often at Champaca, that readers want to spend more time with a book and to talk about it with others. Marked Pages offers a simple structure to do exactly that: read, meet, and discuss. How the sessions work Three in-person sessions, once every three weeks Each session focuses on...

We are delighted to host the launch of The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories at Champaca Bookstore, Indiranagar. Edited by writer and journalist Anindita Ghose, this new anthology collects eighteen short stories that capture Bombay through many lives and vantage points. Join us for an evening of readings and conversation with Jeet Thayil, Dharini Bhaskar and Anindita Ghose as they talk about writing the city, its memories and its myths. The event will be followed by a book signing, and you can pick up your copy of The Only City at the store. Here are the details for the event: Date: Saturday, 20 DecemberTime: 7...