‘I love Bollywood dance moves and I want each one of you to introduce yourself with one move’ was how Aaron Peterer from the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam began the three-day Free2Choose Create workshop. At the end of the introduction, the fourteen of us had outdone Farah Khan in creating the next magnum opus for…
28–29 November 2013 The Anne Frank exhibition had finally arrived in India with Calcutta hosting it for the first time—thank you Seagull. Before the exhibition opened for public viewing, 18 students from four schools—La Martinere for Boys, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Modern High School for Girls and Calcutta International School—came together for a two-day workshop at…
It is not everyday that teachers play icebreakers or are divided into groups or given classroom assignments or made to participate in discussions. However, attending a PeaceWorks workshop will make them do all of that and much more. PeaceWorks—an initiative of the Seagull Foundation of the Arts has been working on creating a module as…
9 November 2013 Colourful streamers fluttering ten feet above the ground. Bunches of colourful balloons rising above. A bright red and yellow poster inviting one and all inside Mohur Kunj. A special brightness around the park on a perfectly normal Saturday. Except defining the day as perfectly normal is a bit of an understatement, at…
A month back I had witnessed a session in Gariahat Centre and realized, for the umpteenth time, that the way children respond is unpredictable and it is this unpredictability that makes our work both challenging and interesting. Angana Mandal, who has been volunteering for our project since the time it began, has visited and been…
