Special Events
These are large-scale events, like conferences, lectures, and spectacles like the pop-up Museum of Memories that we organize, sometimes collaboratively. Join us for our events and tell your friends about them as well. Most of our events are open to the public with RSVP.
Mangrove Magic I
On the lovely sunny Saturday morning of 5th October 2013 a select group of GILAC employees and their families visited the beautiful Godrej mangroves in Vikhroli. The trip was organized by the Godrej India Culture Lab, on the occasion of World Wildlife Week, in co-ordination with Mr Hemant Karkhanis from the Soonabai Pirojsha Godrej Marine Ecology Centre. It was a splendid experience which started with a bird trail organized by ornithologists Vinit Rau and Sachin Rane.5 October 2013
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This Independence weekend, on August 17th, the Godrej India Culture Lab and The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) collaborated to celebrate the spirit of Indian independent cinema. Going the unconventional route, we screened four indie films (non–mainstream) from NFDC’s collection in a movie marathon of sorts at the verdant and vibrant Godrej Vikhroli campus. The films screened were from four different regions in India. Kamal Swaroop, the eminent film director and author of the book Tracing Phalke graced the occasion and gifted signed copies of...17 August 2013
Continue to EventAamir Khan's Godrej visit
Popular Bollywood superstar, producer, TV phenomenon, change agent and Godrej brand ambassador Aamir Khan visited the Godrej Vikhroli campus on 5 August 2013. During this visit he had a freewheeling conversation with Parmesh Shahani, head of Godrej India Culture Lab about innovation, sustainability and creating a better tomorrow.5 August 2013
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The INK Conference (in association with TED), is India's leading platform for spreading innovative ideas. The annual event attracts a few hundred of the world's most influential thinkers and doers, such as James Cameron (Director of Avatar, Titanic and other Hollywood blockbusters), Joi Ito (Director of the MIT Media Lab), Matt Groening (Creator of The Simpsons comic strip), spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan, philanthropist Anu Aga, performers like the Raghu Dixit Project and many others.5 July 2013
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The Godrej India Culture Lab was proud to present the launch of the special issue of 100%LOCAL on June 14, 2013. This special event had a preview exhibition of some of the artworks from the issue featuring some great talent and minds from India. This was followed by a talk and slide-show by the award-winning photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri.14 June 2013
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In his new book, best-selling author, leadership coach and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik showed how, despite its veneer of objectivity, modern management is rooted in Western beliefs and obsessed with accomplishing rigid objectives and increasing shareholder value. By contrast, the Indian way of doing business—as apparent in Indian mythology, but no longer seen in practice— accommodates subjectivity and diversity, and offers an inclusive, more empathetic way of achieving success.12 April 2013
Continue to EventMuseum of Memories
The Godrej India Culture Lab collaborated with Brown Paper Bag, Visual Disobedience, Junoon Theatre and RIIDL to organize The Pop Up Museum of Memories, a one-day only extraordinary event that was held in Vikhroli. This special event had live art, robots, alternate reality games, fashion shows, opera singing, rock music, dance performances, food, theatre, and much, much more, including a user-generated museum of memories, all located within a 60,000 square feet empty Godrej factory that was scheduled to be demolished the next day. 15 December 2012
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Godrej India Culture Lab organised a lecture by the celebrated Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Tadao Ando was born in Osaka in 1941. He first worked as a truck driver and boxer before deciding to become an architect, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He travelled widely, visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Vander Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis I Khan before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and...2 May 2012
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