Tender Roots Academy of Performing Arts

Tender Roots Academy of Performing Arts is a not-for-profit organization founded by Shri. Mahesh Babu and Smt. Nandini Mahesh (Founder-Directors of Banyan Tree Events) in the year 2014, with a goal to provide exposure, engagement, and educate children and young adults, from ages 5 to 18, with performing arts from India and the world.

In the past few years, we have reached out to nearly 15,000 students from over 80 schools in different cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Dehradun, Delhi, Gurugram and Varanasi through various modes including exclusive school programmes, festivals, productions, auditions, workshops, and so on. These programmes have featured a vast selection of both Indian and International Artists, presenting varying genres of the performing arts to children, including Indian Classical Music, Folk Arts, Jazz, to name a few.