Nine nights of garba.
One gallery for all of them.
You are one of the volunteers running Navratri for your samaj, temple or Indian association: booking the hall for nine nights, finding the singers and the dhol, selling passes and setting up the Mataji's image at the centre of the floor. Each night begins with the aarti and then the circles start turning, garba first, dandiya raas later, chaniya cholis and kediyus spinning until well past midnight. By the eighth and ninth nights the hall is packed. Thousands of photos are taken across the season and almost none of them reach the association. One QR code, used every night, changes that.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Navratri garba nights
Why Navratri garba nights work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
One night per sub-event, one code for the season
Navratri is nine nights, often with a different colour or theme each night and a separate Dussehra programme afterwards. List each night as a sub-event with its start time and the colour of the day as the dress code, all under one QR code. The association prints the code once on the passes and banners, and every family has one link for the programme and one gallery for the whole season.
The circles, on the hall screen
Most halls already have a projector for the song lyrics or the sponsors. Put the live slideshow on it between sets and the photos from earlier in the evening come back as people catch their breath with a chai. Dancers love seeing their circle from above, and the families watching from the chairs at the edge finally see the whole floor.
Garba is movement, so keep the videos
A still photo of a garba circle loses the thing that makes it beautiful. Guests can upload short videos of the steps, the dandiya sticks meeting, the dhol player taking the tempo up for the last round, and the moment the singer switches to a fast raas. They sit in the same gallery as the photos for every member to replay.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
Several days, one gallery
Multi-day celebrations get sub-events under one code: the rehearsal, the ceremony and the brunch each have their own time and RSVP, every photo lands in one shared gallery, and one link covers the lot.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Door check-in from your phone
See who has arrived, who is still expected, and how many are in each party — without a clipboard at the entrance.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event before passes go on sale and add a sub-event for each of the nine nights, plus Dussehra if you host it.
Print the QR code on the passes, the entrance banner and a card at the snacks counter, and turn on door check-in if you are tracking registrations.
Families scan and upload through each night. Put the slideshow on the hall screen between sets, never during the aarti.
After Dussehra, download the originals for the association's archive and send the gallery link to every member family.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Navratri garba nights
Treat the aarti as the one time the screen and the phones rest. Most associations begin each night with the aarti to the Mataji, and many families would rather it be watched than filmed. Pause the slideshow during it, and say so once from the stage: photos before and after are welcome, but this is a moment of worship. Once the first garba song starts, invite everyone to share. The volunteers making that announcement each night is what turns a scattered set of phones into one gallery the community actually uses.
Plan for the crowd on the eighth and ninth nights. Those are the busiest evenings, the hall is full and the Wi-Fi is under strain, so tell guests they can upload on the way home or the next morning and the photos still reach the same gallery. Put a second QR code near the shoe area and the exit, not just the entrance, because that is where people pause. If your nights have colour themes, the colours make it easy for everyone to spot which night a photo came from when they scroll back through the season.
Ask a couple of young volunteers to be the official circle photographers for the season, standing on a chair or a balcony for the overhead shots that ordinary guests cannot get. Their uploads anchor the gallery. For the guestbook, ask a question that grandparents and teenagers can both answer, such as ‘Where did you first play garba?’ You will get answers from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Nairobi and New Jersey, and together they read like the history of your community.
Common questions about Navratri garba nights
Can we use one QR code for all nine nights?
Yes. Create one event for the festival and add a sub-event for each night, plus one for Dussehra if your association hosts it. Each sub-event can carry its start time and that night's colour, so families see the programme on the event page. The same printed code works every evening, and every upload goes into one gallery for the season, so the volunteers who were there every night and the parents who came only on the Saturday look in the same place.
How do we handle photos during the aarti?
That is your community's call, and most associations ask for phones to be put away during it. Pause the slideshow on the hall screen during the aarti, mention the request from the stage, and put a line on the QR card. If something uploaded during the aarti would make your elders uncomfortable, host review lets the volunteers approve each photo before it appears in the gallery or on the screen.
Can we check in pass holders at the door?
Yes. Import your registered families, and volunteers at the entrance check people in from a phone and see who has arrived and how many are in each party. It is the same event as the gallery, so you are not running a separate spreadsheet. If you sell passes elsewhere, you can still use the gallery and the slideshow without the check-in feature at all.
Who can see photos from our garba?
Only people who have your link or code. The gallery is private by default, is not listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines. Associations often share the link in the member WhatsApp group and nowhere else. If you want a volunteer to look over photos before the wider membership sees them, turn on host review and each upload waits in a queue until approved.
What does it cost for the whole Navratri season?
One Event Pass at $39, paid once, covers all nine nights and Dussehra as sub-events, with unlimited uploads up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. There is no subscription and no charge per family. If you want to try it on the first night, the Free Preview shows the first 60 uploads and keeps the gallery open for 7 days after the event.
Every photo from Navratri garba nights, in one place
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