Stone flowers//पत्थर के फूलl//ಕಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೂವು is an intergenerational multilingual conversation around the masculine feminine.  The struggle lies in observing how these two play out inside and outside of ourselves? If we were to look at gender as an expression, more than an identity, it pushes us to imagine ourselves quite differently. It is a response to our states of becoming.  It is to make space for  missing conversations, shared silences, and differences – within ourselves, with others, and the world as we experience it.  In the current political climate that manufactures suspicion and fear of the ‘other’ , our effort is to celebrate and empathize with the beauty and the beast, we wish to invite  unlikely pairings: the flower and the stone, beauty and decay, motion and stillness, masculine and feminine. To meet the monsters that lurk inside each of us, inside the families, communities and the societies we build. As we will see in Du Saraswati’s performance, to go in search of the lost birds that once sang inside our hearts, before we sent them into exile.