Porgai Sharing Pride: An Event to Celebrate Lambadi Hand Embroidery
Porgai Sharing Pride: An Event to Celebrate Lambadi Hand Embroidery
Mumbai, October 14: Porgai Sharing Pride is a two-day event on, the 15th and 16th of October at the Nehru Centre in Worli, Mumbai. The event consists of the screening of the award-winning documentary film Porgai: A Film on the Revival of Tamil Nadu Lambadi Embroidery, an enrapturing visual narrative that discusses craft, trials of rural economies and gender prejudice.
Porgai Artisans Association is a society of women artisans from the Lambadi community of Sittilingi Valley–a lush landscape in the interiors of Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu. Porgai meaning Pride in the Lambadi dialect was formed as a society in the year 2006 to revive the traditional hand-embroidery of the Lambadis and earn an independent livelihood for th...