The Champaca Reading Retreat: 27 - 30 SEPTEMBER 2024

Champaca Bookstore is offering a reading retreat in Goa. Together we will discover, read and discuss Indian translations. This will be facilitated by our curator Thejaswi Shivanand.

At Champaca, we understand that everyone has a unique approach to reading. Some immerse themselves for hours, while others enjoy shorter, interrupted sessions. In our busy lives, finding the time and energy to read can be challenging. Many of us end up with piles of unread books, despite our love for reading.

In our many ways of enabling our community's desire to reconnect with reading, we’ve created the Champaca Book Club and the Champaca Reading Challenge. Now, we’re excited to introduce a new initiative: the Champaca Reading Retreat.

This three-day retreat takes you to a  non-urban location, and provides an environment to focus on reading. Whether you prefer reading alone or with others, you'll have the freedom to choose your pace and books from our curated selection of books.

Twice-daily discussions with our curator Thejaswi Shivanand, will anchor the program, offering support and enhancing the shared reading experience. This retreat is designed to help you reconnect with the joy of reading, free from daily responsibilities and distractions.

What will you be reading?

The theme for the retreat is “India in Translation”, with a focus on translations from across the subcontinent. The common set of books will include six titles, including novels, novellas and short story collections translated from multiple Indian languages into English (All reading will be in English). 

About the facilitator 

After working for over a decade and a half at Centre for Learning school, Thejaswi Shivanand is currently a library educator and curator of books at Champaca Bookstore and Children’s Library, Bengaluru. At Champaca, he has been a regular part of the book club discussions and hosted several events with authors over the past five years. He also currently works with schools and library-focussed organisations across India in the professional development space to nurture and support the growth of communities of readers, and has been part of initiating and sustaining book-related communities for the past eighteen years.

The Reading Retreat includes:

1. Stay for three days and three nights in Goa

2. A box of six curated books of Indian translations (and a surprise seventh book)

3. Guided reading sessions

4. Individual and group reading

5. Meals for all three days

6. A 10% discount on all purchases at Champaca Bookstore for 6 months.

Early Bird Special:

1. Discounted price of INR 32,999 inclusive of tax
   

2. A personalised reading list from our curator Thejaswi Shivanand

3. A 10% discount on all purchases at Champaca Bookstore for 12 months. 

Retreat Dates:  11 am, 27th September 2024 to 10am, 30th September 2024

Once you make the payment, please fill out this Google form for your application to be accepted.

Please fill in this disclaimer form so that you are aware of the conditions of the retreat.

Final installments for part payments to be made by 15th September 2024.

DETAILS

When: 27 September 2024 to 30 September 2024

Where: Olaulim, Goa 

How much: The retreat will cost INR 34,999 (regular price) and INR 32,999 (early bird booking before 8th August) inclusive of tax. To make it easier, we have the option of paying in two instalments. First instalment to be paid for at the time of booking, and final instalment to be paid by September 15th. 

You can download this PDF to read more about The Champaca Reading Retreat in detail. 

For further queries, you can write to hello@champaca.in.