A gathering at Kalpana — guests around the long table on a warm evening
Kalpana · New Alipore · Kolkata · est. 2024

Some evenings
stay with you.

Music, art, movement and conversation — hosted in a 1970s family bungalow in New Alipore, Kolkata.

Niharika and Aditya at Kalpana
Who we are

Not an events brand.
A feeling.

The Courtyard Project began with a simple conviction — that the best evenings happen when people feel genuinely invited, not just ticketed.

We host intimate music, art, movement and conversation evenings at Kalpana, a 1970s family bungalow in New Alipore. Every event is shaped by our own taste and curiosity. There is no formula. There is just care — for the music we choose, the people we gather, and the feeling we leave you with.

TCP is run by Niharika and Aditya. Kalpana is our home. You are our guests.

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At Kalpana

What's happening.

Upcoming

25 July 2025 · Two sessions: 3–5 PM & 6–8 PM

Aerial Restorative Workshop

Let go, lift off, find stillness in suspension. An intimate aerial workshop at Kalpana — small groups, expert facilitation, beautiful space.

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15 August 2025

Monsoon
Jamming

4–7 PM Poster coming soon
Independence Day

15 August 2025 · 4–7 PM

Monsoon Jamming

Three hours of open jamming in the rains. Bring your instrument, your voice, or just your ears. The monsoon sets the mood. Kalpana sets the stage.

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30 August 2025

Janmashtami
Celebration

4–7 PM Poster coming soon
30 August

30 August 2025 · 4–7 PM

Janmashtami Celebration

An evening rooted in devotion — music, rituals, and the warmth of Janmashtami celebrated together at Kalpana. The kind of evening Kolkata does like nowhere else.

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Baul Berandah — folk music evening at Kalpana, June 2025 21 June 2025

21 June 2025 · World Music Day

Baul Berandah

An evening of Baul music with The Baul Bari Collective. Folk devotion, on the verandah of Kalpana, under the open sky, up close.

Baithak — our kind of musical evening, May 2025 10 May 2025

10 May 2025

Baithak

Our version of a musical gathering — genres dissolved in one room. Devotional, classical, ghazal, rock, Bollywood. One evening, one mood.

Poila Baisakh Experience Dinner at Kalpana, April 2025 14 April 2025

14 April 2025

Poila Baisakh Experience Dinner

Alpana, rituals at dusk, a homemade Bengali meal, and musical adda that went late. A full Bengali new year, done properly.

Aerial workshops at Kalpana every weekend Every weekend

Every Saturday & Sunday

Aerial Workshops

Our ongoing aerial workshop series — silk, suspension, and a room full of light. Running every weekend at Kalpana.

Surya Namaskar circles at Kalpana on winter Sunday mornings Winter 2024–25

Winter Sundays · 2024–2025

Surya Namaskar Circles

Sunday mornings in the courtyard as the sun came up — a circle of people moving together. We'd do it again.

Gaming nights at The Courtyard Project — monthly Monthly

Every month-end

Gaming Evenings

Every month-end, Kalpana becomes a board game den. Competitive, chaotic, completely worth it. The playfully competitive ones know.

Nostalgia Bollywood Movie Night screening — Love Aaj Kal 1 Feb 2025

1 February 2025

Nostalgia Bollywood Movie Night

The people voted — Love Aaj Kal won. We set up the screen, the popcorn, and the nostalgia. A sold-out evening nobody wanted to end.

Cyanotype and Yoga with Mukulita at TCP Dec 24 & Feb 25

December 2024 & February 2025

Cyanotype & Yoga

A morning of cyanotype printing followed by yoga with Mukulita — craft, movement, and the quiet magic of combining the two.

Work with us

Bring your work
into our courtyard.

TCP is built on genuine partnerships — not sponsorships, not venue rentals. If you make music, art, food, or ideas that belong in a room like ours, we want to hear from you.

We work with artists, musicians, chefs, practitioners, and brands who share our belief that the right room changes everything.

Musicians & Performers
Visual Artists & Photographers
Chefs, Bakers & F&B Brands
Wellness Practitioners
Brands & Cultural Partners
TCP Retreats — a tranquil bungalow surrounded by flowering gardens
New · Coming Soon

TCP Retreats.
Somewhere quiet,
for a few days.

Residential workshop series that take the TCP spirit out of the city. A few days, the right people, and the kind of work you can only do when you've slowed down enough to do it well.

Register interest

Residential format

Two to three nights, away from the city. You arrive, you unplug, you work at the pace things actually want to move at.

Intimate groups

Small by design. Every retreat is built for a group that can sit around one table and have a real conversation.

Curated workshops

Each retreat is built around a specific practice — art, movement, writing, music. The same curatorial instinct as every TCP evening, just longer.