India, Oct. 31 -- Echoes of Earth gave Delhi an evening of printmaking, plastic turtles and live music shaped by India's rivers

Printmakers were practising reuse long before the word became fashionable, since a single carved block can be inked and pressed again and again, and that idea sat at the heart of a preview evening by Echoes of Earth, the eco-minded music festival, at Delhi's Dirty Good.

The Delhi Art Centre ran linocut and screenprinting sessions, where guests inked carved blocks, laid paper over them and pressed down to pull their own prints, and in a city where so much is bought, used once and thrown out, there was something satisfying about one block giving print after print.

At the Art for Nature workshop nearby, artist Ma...