The Learn Togetherness program by KCC celebrates Pride through art and cultural reflections of artists and performers from the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies in India.  

2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the Kolkata Friendship Walk of 1999 – the first pride-walk of India. Commemorating this event, KCC is hosting Learn Togetherness IV, which pays homage to the journey with a peek into the archives of different individuals and organisations of Kolkata and beyond, curated by Dr Debjyoti Ghosh. 

Through multimedia art, photographs, archival materials, and sarees, this exhibition explores how the saree, a six-yard fabric woven with both tradition and transformation, transcends its historical and societal associations to become a symbol of resistance, gender expression, and liberation for the marginalized. Curated by Dr Debjyoti Ghosh, this exhibition talks about stepping outside societal expectations. It is here to question and to think on different registers. Does the saree’s DNA have any gender of its own? How much of its gendering is enforced on it through societal norms?