Dearest Gentle Traveller,
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Here is a guide for you to this week in my beloved Fort Kochi | Feb 9–15, 2026. 10 things to do, curated by catsofkochi.com
1. Arka Kinari — A Floating Concert on the Sea 🚢 A couple sold their home, bought a 70-ton sailing ship, and now perform from it. Solar-powered, psychedelic, Javanese folk meets electronic beats — right off the Kochi waterfront. Feb 9–10, 10 AM
2. Marina Abramović — Live in Fort Kochi 🎤 The grandmother of performance art speaks about five decades of pushing the limits of body and presence. This is a once-in-a-lifetime evening. Feb 10, 6 PM | Samudrika
3. Wall Murals from Neighbourhood Sounds 🎨 Listen to Fort Kochi — vendors, waves, birds — then paint it on walls. A community mural project led by artist Hariprasad R. Feb 9–12, 10 AM–5 PM
4. Mathroo Basha — Hetain Patel's Mother Tongue 🎭 His TED talk has 50M views. He declined a British Empire Medal. Now he performs a 45-minute piece responding physically to recorded voices of immigrant women from his Gujarati family. Feb 11, 12, 14 | Anand Warehouse
5. Ruhail Qaisar — Sound Performance 🔊 A self-taught artist from Leh, Ladakh, working at the edge of noise, hauntology, and power electronics. Expect something intense and unlike anything else this week. Feb 11, 5:30 PM | Aspinwall
6. How to Sit With Conflict, Not Solve It 🧩 A free workshop where disagreement is the point. No forced consensus — just sensing, listening, and a "Patchwork of Differences." Feb 12, 10 AM–12 PM
7. Under the Mangosteen Tree — Basheer on Stage 📖 Ten short stories by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer woven into one seamless English-language performance. Love, absurdity, pathos — on Valentine's Day. Feb 14, 7 PM | Bastion Bungalow
8. Mattancherry Food Walk 🍛 A 10–12 stop crawl through lanes where Gujarati samosas, Malabar biryani, and Punjab-thick lassi share the same street. Layers of communities, layers of flavour. Feb 13 | Book now
9. The Little Prince — Interactive Workshop 👑 A children's book that hits harder as an adult. Cinema, movement, psychoanalytic thinking — all starting from Saint-Exupéry's tiny planet. For young people and adults. Feb 13, 10 AM–4 PM
10. Laut Loud — A Sonic Journey Across Archipelagos 🎧 Close your eyes and travel through disappearing musical traditions of Indonesia's coastal communities — curated by actual crew members of the Arka Kinari ship. Feb 13, 3–5 PM
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