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Council for Arts and Social Practice (CASP) is a platform for transdisciplinary artistic research and practice to facilitate critical dialogues on cultural sustainability.

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What We Do

CASP provides a platform for arts-based research, process-oriented practices, affective learning and participatory education. Our objective is to employ the arts as a catalyst to formulate ideas on mutualism and cultural sustainability.

Who We Work With

CASP engages with artists, curators, educators, architects, designers, performers, filmmakers, community organizers, social researchers, students and children. We collaborate with people in informal urban settlements, peri-urban spaces and villages.

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ConversationsDancing and Stumbling Rivers
21st March 2026

Dancing and Stumbling Rivers

A healthy river, in modern understanding, is a "dangerous" river, which floods and moves with no respect to cartographic boundaries defined by men. Yet it is the river's dance that…
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ConversationsCity Building Through Care And Creative Expression
16th January 2026

City Building Through Care And Creative Expression

CASP and Mindscape Festival are delighted to co-host a conversation on the evolution of the Govandi Arts Festival, a community-led arts and culture movement that reclaims, transforms, and celebrates the…
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ConversationsShared Ground: Alternate Art Ecosystems
20th December 2025

Shared Ground: Alternate Art Ecosystems

The Hidden Artist Initiative (HAI) is an evolving platform in Santiniketan dedicated to supporting individuals - particularly students and emerging creators - whose talents may fall outside traditional academic systems.…
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ConversationsGathering in the Green
29th November 2025

Gathering in the Green

Poetry in Parks began in January 2024 as a gesture of solidarity with the people of Gaza, when Peter Griffin invited a few friends to gather in a park and…
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BlogMindscape Festival: Conversation
18th January 2026

Mindscape Festival: Conversation

We are thrilled that CASP joined as a collaborator at the 9th edition of the Mindscape Festival, where we co-hosted a lively conversation on the evolution of the Govandi Arts…
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BlogRiverse: Citizen’s Workshop
28th September 2024

Riverse: Citizen’s Workshop

Riverse, an initiative of the Water Environs Collective, Mumbai, brought together a range of citizens' in Navi Mumbai at the School of Architecture, D.Y. Patil University, Nerul, in the form…
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BlogFeatured Project: Publications
9th February 2024

Featured Project: Publications

CASP is delighted to share that our collaborative arts project "From Up There They Were Just Numbers" (2019-Ongoing) with artist-filmmaker, Kush Badhwar, on the politics of land, people's protests, displacement,…
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BlogCommunity Arts Network: Member
30th September 2023

Community Arts Network: Member

CASP has been featured in the newsletter of the Community Arts Network, Vienna, in September 2023. Please visit their website and social media platforms to engage with the diversity of…
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