Ritika Ganguly is a transdisciplinary artist and entrepreneur who works across the sciences, arts, and philanthropy to create sustainable practices in humans’ relationships with nature and culture.
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Artistry
Ritika’s artistic practice engages with orally transmitted genres of music, poetry, and narration. She trains in the field with Baul poet-practitioners on what it means to develop aural skills in community. Her body of work explores power and hierarchy while creating a space for the stories of ordinary citizens.
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Vocal Coaching
Ritika offers Voice Yoga, a repertoire of techniques and practices that use breath, voice vibration, and resonance to stabilize and settle our nervous systems, as well as Lessons in Voice Culture, which uses the continuous loop cycle of the Tanpura and ‘mirror-singing’ as a format of interaction.
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Organizational Consulting
Through her LLC WeCollab, Ritika offers services tailored to empower individuals and organizations in their mission to create lasting impact, secure funding, and effectively communicate their stories. She supports organizations with grants, agile storytelling, program development, and much more.
Coming Up:
Science of Sound
Saturday, January 18, 2025: 10am-2pm
Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Ritika is partnering with the Bell Museum for a public engagement event ‘Spotlight Science: The Science of Sound’. Museum visitors will get to explore Ritika’s ongoing work on how sound can be experienced through the other four senses of smell, touch, taste, and sight. Kids and grownups can interact with some very cool light and sound tricks!
Film Score Fest 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025: Two screenings (AM & PM)
History Theatre (30 10th St E, St Paul, MN 55101)
Ritika will be composing a score for a new short film to be screened at the Film Score Fest in St. Paul in the Spring! And, who knows, the score may even be performed live by the Film Score Fest orchestra! Please sign up through the ‘Learn More’ link to be notified when tickets become available.
‘Sound Stories’ Public Composition Score
2025 Website launch date TBA soon!
If you participated in the public composition experiment workshops to explore individual and communal resonance through sound-making, Ritika will be composing your explorations into a score that will be released in Spring 2025! Thanks to the Liberal Arts Engagement Hub at the University of Minnesota for the two-year residency Sound Stories: Activating Community Voices in a Collaboratory.