Today you'll see the full buck moon. Named after a buck's antlers — which merge from their foreheads at this time of the year — it's an occasion when the moon completely hides behind the earth, letting the sun illuminate it. This might not be a fact that gets you to do something other than stay in, sleep, and wake up the next day to see the sun and forget about the night. But for 24-year-old Illesha Khandelwal at Ikattha Studio, the lunar cycle is a good enough reason to organise gatherings at her arts space in Colaba, which she will also do today. Summing it up, she says, "It's about forgetting the frantic city and simply gazing at the sky."

Unlike meditation and spirituality events traditionally held on a full-moon day to amplify consciousness, this gathering, Khandelwal shares, is more casual. It will have participants engage in live figure drawing for two hours with Laxmi, an art model from JJ School of Art. "I thought that this was the most beautiful way to organise a recurring event. We've had two such events in the past. And considering that full -moon events are like rituals, the first gathering was actually a discussion on rituals, while in the second session we had artists critiquing each others works," she shares.