Backyard

Weaving Data into Stories: Creative Writing Workshop

The session, ‘Weaving Data into Stories’, is hosted by Rajeshwari and Stuthi, who bring together their distinct experience in education and economics. What brings them together is a shared passion for nurturing children’s curiosity and critical thinking by encouraging them to observe, reflect, and creatively express their ideas about the world.

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For the write-up, we often imagine data and storytelling as worlds apart. Data belongs in Math class, writing in English class! Yet, real learning spills beyond neat boundaries. A journalist scans numbers before crafting a headline. A scientist transforms results into a story. A sports commentator spins a scorecard into suspense. When children learn to interpret data thoughtfully and share it vividly, they gain a lifelong gift for understanding the world and for making their voices heard.

🕰️When: May 30, Saturday | 11 am - 1 pm
📍Where: Backyard, Adyar

🎟️Entry Charge: INR 500
🔗 Registration Link in bio!

Contact number for more details - 9538370156 - Rajeshwari

Age: 10 - 13 years
Language: English

📲 Meet the host: |

Maybe in Another Universe 🪐 | An Open Mic Evening at Backyard

If you had another chance to rewrite the story, would you pick up the pen?

Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a version of you still waiting to be written.
Maybe they have wings. Maybe they have the degree you always wanted. Maybe they live in a house with a lawn, or maybe they are chasing adrenaline on a mountain trail.

This open mic is for all the versions of you - the almosts, the maybes, the what-ifs, and the dreams that still linger. The maybes in another universe.

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🕰️ When: May 30, Saturday | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 Where: Backyard, Adyar

🎟️ Entry: ₹236 for performers & audience
🔗 Ticket links in bio!

Languages: English & Tamil
🎤 Genres: Open Mic, Storytelling, Spoken Word

📲Meet the host:

✍️ About the host:
Akshara is a poet, a med student, and a dancer. She is trying to figure out the things she’d do differently in another reality.

Somewhere in another universe, your unwritten story waits!

On our walls this month: works by .j ✍️

She is a lawyer by Profession, a traveller/trekker by Passion, a writer by enthusiasm, and above all, someone who loves to bring a change in People’s lives.

📍At Backyard, we’ve always believed walls should do more than decorate a room. They should hold conversations. Memories. Questions. Stories people were once told to shrink.

These poems sit across our space like fragments of lived experience: Subtle first. Sharp later.

As you walk through Backyard this week, pause for the details. Read the words closely. Sit with the feelings they leave behind. 🎞️🖋️

Because sometimes art does not ask to be understood immediately.
Sometimes it simply asks to be witnessed

The Samosa Society: Big Ideas, Spicy Takes & Conversations 🌶️

Chennai’s newest food-tech gathering is bringing together founders, professionals, students, and curious minds for an evening of conversations, learning, and meaningful networking. From food systems and hygiene to innovation, automation, and operational excellence, this is a space to connect with people shaping the future of food.

Expect icebreakers, insightful discussions, a keynote session, and high tea networking with the community.

Event By: .space

🕰️When: May 24, Sunday | 4 - 7 PM
📍Where: Backyard, Adyar, Chennai

🎟️RSVP now via link in bio!

👥Who is this for?
Food-tech enthusiasts, hospitality professionals, founders, students, innovators, and anyone curious about the future of food & hospitality.

🎤Keynote Speaker
Tamilselvan R
Hygiene Manager, The Den Bengaluru (LXR Hotels & Resorts)

✨What to Expect
• Icebreaking & networking activities
• Keynote session on hygiene & operational excellence
• Industry conversations & practical insights
• High tea & community networking

🥟About The Samosa Society
The Samosa Society is a growing food-tech & F&B community focused on bringing together people passionate about food, technology, innovation, hygiene, and automation. Their vision is to create a trusted platform for learning, collaboration, and meaningful industry conversations in Chennai and beyond.

On our walls this month: works by .taken.aback 🖤

Featuring an artist from Hyderabad whose work quietly lingers with you long after you’ve looked away. Through oil, acrylic, pen, and pencil, she captures faces, gestures, emotions, and fragments of people as they are: raw, layered, human.

At Backyard, we’ve always believed art should feel lived in, not distant. Something you accidentally pause for while walking to coffee. Something that starts conversations between strangers. Something that inspires ideas before words even arrive.

So this month, our walls are filled with expressions, memories, tension, softness, music, loneliness, humour, rebellion, and the strange beauty of being human 🎞️🖋️

Come walk through the space.
Work with art in the background.
Sit beside a piece that makes you feel something. Meet people. View the work of artists. Exchange stories. Be inspired, and maybe inspire someone back.

Because sometimes the best connections begin quietly,
between a person and a wall they couldn’t stop looking at ✨

📍Now exhibiting at Backyard, Adyar

Some events don’t need giant banquet halls or overly formal venues.

They just need the right people, the right energy, and a space that feels warm enough for people to actually connect ✨

Host your workshops, open mics, screenings, team meetings, community gatherings, book clubs, art sessions, photoshoots, pop-ups, intimate celebrations, and creative events at Backyard 🫶

A cozy, air conditioned, community-driven space in Adyar, Chennai, India designed for conversations, creativity, collaboration, and meaningful experiences.

Whether you’re planning something quiet and intimate or lively and community-focused, Backyard transforms to fit the kind of gathering you want to create ✨

📍 Flexible event spaces
🎥 Projector & screen available
☕ Food & beverages available on pre-order
✨ Warm, aesthetic, informal atmosphere

If you’ve been looking for a venue in Chennai that feels less like a “hall” and more like a space people genuinely enjoy spending time in, this is your sign!

DM us to book your slot or enquire about hosting your next event at Backyard ✨

Spill the tea? Never.
At backyard we take sips while some chug as the steam rises to fog up the spectacles. Each drink has Kavitha Akka’s smile as a dash of love like a cherry on top.
So why should we ever spill the tea when we could have every last bit of it.

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Marundeeswarar Temple: Stories & Reflections

What if temple stories are not about the past, but about you? Come explore the sthala-puranam (legends) of Marundeeswarar Temple, and see how they quietly reflect your inner world. Along the way, we’ll also take in the art, history, and atmosphere of this beautiful space.

Event By: Parthasarathy

🕰️When: May 24, Sunday | 4 - 6 pm
📍Where: Backyard, Adyar

🎟️Entry Charge: INR 500
🔗DM 9840601550 to register!

Age: 18+
Language: English & Tamil

🛕About the host
Parthasarathy is a Chennai-based tech architect and yoga therapist. Deeply interested in Indic arts and traditions, he has explored yoga in depth along with related areas such as ayurveda, kalari, languages, and temple traditions. His current work focuses on couples coaching, reconnecting with temples, and rural yoga teacher training.

On our walls this month: works by .art 🖼️🖌️

A self-taught abstract artist based in Chennai. Her painting process involves the application of layered colours, marks, and textures. Through the layers of process, the paintings slowly emerge, and she sees herself not as their creator but as a witness to their unfolding.

📍At Backyard, we’ve always believed walls should do more than decorate a room. They should hold conversations. Memories. Questions. Stories people were once told to shrink.

These paintings sat across our space like fragments of lived experience.