Indian Power Girls will Save Us All – but first we must save them!

Indian Power Girls is a project by Axel Brockmann (professor and head of the honey-bee lab at NCBS Bangalore), Rajani Mani (film maker and eco activist, Bangalore) and Sebastian Marokko Walter (artist, Berlin). 
  

In collaboration with Aurobindo School and Parikrama School, Bangalore, as well as the Entomological Collection at NCBS, NCBS communications, and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore.


Wild honeybees are India’s prime pollinators. These bees work literally day and night to secure India’s food production. They can do this because of some extraordinary superpowers. Yet, since we humans destroy their homes, pollute their environment, and actively kill them, their numbers continually decline. There is urgent need to change this. The “Indian Power Girls” project aims at improving human-bee relationships and interaction.
In two workshops, high-school students from Aurobindo and Parikrama school in Bangalore learned more about bees and their superpowers. With bee experts of the National Centre for Biological Research, they visited and observed different kinds of bees, before creating artworks on bees and their superpowers.
In a two-days exhibition on the NCBS/InStem campus, the results of these workshops are presented together with Rajani Mani’s film “Colonies in Conflict” and artworks by artists from India and Germany. The interdisciplinary, collaborative works of about 70 students, scientists and artists on display combine artistic creativity with scientific knowledge on the superpowers of bees and human-bee relationships.

Venue:
InStem Museum on NCBS campus, Kodigehalli, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065

Opening event:
Sunday, May 7th, 11.30 am to 2 pm

Closing event:
Monday, May 8th, 5.30 pm to 7 pm