Thiruvananthapuram-based art community, Live by ONC, aims to boost the city’s art culture

For the founding members of Live by ONC (short for Oru New Culture), a radical of friends from Christ Nagar College, Maranalloor, successful Thiruvananthapuram, the thought for launching a assemblage successful the metropolis that organises creation and taste events originated from a travel they took to Bengaluru a fewer months ago. The group, incapable to determine however to walk their evenings successful the metro city, searched online platforms, wherever they recovered a plethora of options from taste events to parties, yet choosing the latter.

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Once they returned, the friends decided to commencement a assemblage successful the Kerala superior successful October 2025 erstwhile they organised their archetypal lawsuit and person since past conducted euphony nights, crochet workshops, and different programmes. The latest is simply a biomimicry workshop, Wildmarks, touted to beryllium the archetypal successful Thiruvananthapuram, to beryllium held connected February 22. “The immersive league volition necessitate participants to research their surroundings, prime an entity successful quality that catches their attraction and make an artwork retired of impressions made by it,” says Adwaith S, 1 of the founding members of Live by ONC.

The corporate began with a treatment connected however dormant Thiruvananthapuram’s creation and lawsuit country was. “With a batch of radical coming to the city, our extremity is to boost the city’s creation and taste country by creating a abstraction for artists to showcase their works and springiness them exposure,” says Adwaith. “A batch of radical are besides moving to the city. So, we are gathering thing for them to walk prime time, beryllium it unsocial oregon with their friends, oregon adjacent to conscionable caller people.”

Live by ONC focuses connected 2 types of events — hosting intimate gatherings wherever radical tin socialise and mainstream events, specified arsenic concerts, with a larger crowd. We besides program connected curating events for firm companies and adjacent destination weddings.”

Humble beginnings

Adwaith says, “When we started, I retrieve a batch of radical telling maine that radical present does not person that civilization of spending clip extracurricular their households yet. They said, ‘If you’re doing events, there’s nary warrant that it tin magnitude to anything.’ We realised however radical are mostly utilized to having conscionable a speedy repast extracurricular connected weekends, without being progressive successful immoderate different activities.”

So far, the effect has been great, accidental the organisers. The radical present are precise societal and person the caput to experimentation arsenic well. But determination isn’t overmuch offered to them, says Adwaith. “We are besides trying to get radical to research their hobbies and contiguous their talents.”

Live by ONC’s caller crochet store was a hit. “We posted an after-movie connected our societal media handle, which went viral. Since then, our assemblage has been increasing organically and quickly.”

Follow the Instagram grip @livebyonc for much updates connected their events.