Bangalore Creative Circus marks milestone 50th edition of BCC Carnival with a two-day sustainability fest

Four years ago, Manisha Vinod of Bangalore Creative Circus — a assemblage abstraction that blends sustainability, art, and nutrient — launched a monthly market. Titled BCC Carnival, this gathering held connected the archetypal Sunday of each period has been a solemnisation of conscious assemblage and section changemakers, often exploring antithetic themes and causes. Next week, Manisha is each acceptable to big the 50th variation of the BCC Carnival, and the assemblage has planned it arsenic a two-day carnival that “celebrates ways of surviving that are kinder to Nature and humanity”. 

Manisha explains however the squad has supported “hundreds of farmers, tiny businesses, and seen beauteous brands and collaborations travel to life” since the BCC Carnival was launched successful 2022. “From first-time vendors mounting up their precise archetypal stall, to individuals discovering caller passions done workshops, conversations, and shared experiences, the assemblage has grown organically with each edition,” she says, adding however they person besides had aggregate themes implicit the years specified arsenic Celebrating Play, solutions astir the Climate Crisis, Repair-Reuse-Recycle, The Kind Market, and more. 

Next weekend, The Big 50 volition diagnostic a conscious market, unrecorded entertainment, creation activities, games, interactive workshops, kids activities, speech spaces, and farm-to-table food. Visitors tin look guardant to section brands selling caller produce, millet mixes, steadfast snacks, desserts, baked goods, ferments, pickles, idiosyncratic care, location cleaners, integrated clothing, stationery, upcycled accessories, and accepted games. Sustainable brands that person been with BCC from the archetypal marketplace see Chempotty Estate (cacao, sour sop, etc), Tengin (coconut products), Forgotten Foods (millet-based products), We Mana (protein bars), Praana Poorna (cleaning products), Eat Raja (zero-waste beverages), among others. 

“The volition down each of our markets person been to speech ideas, research sustainable alternatives for conscious living, and stock solutions alternatively of conscionable conversations astir problems,” says Manisha, who works connected a 90:10 gross stock exemplary for these events.

“We lone instrumentality 10% of the income proceeds from the day, since for Bangalore Creative Circus, the important portion is successful the engagement of the farmers with the customers, knowing wherever our nutrient comes from, and knowing the challenges of clime change. Most markets and platforms of this quality are inaccessible to astir successful Bengaluru and we are trying to alteration that,” she says.

On June 6 (4pm to 10pm) and June 7 (12pm to 7pm) astatine Bangalore Creative Circus, Yeshwantpur. Entry is free. Details connected blrcreativecircus.com