Eminent artist, Arunima Choudhury conducted art workshops at the Nabadisha centers weeks before the Golpo Mela. She introduced the kids to various methods and techniques of creating art. Some made collages, some learnt how to make pictures with the use of only two or three colours, some used their fingertips to create an amazing image.…
The Seagull Foundation for the Arts thanks Scholastic India for introducing us to Michael Heyman. The author visited The Seagull Books on the 28 November 2012 and read out nonsense literature to a house full of students from various schools. Michael Heyman is a Professor of English at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches…
On 21st November 2012, children from the Nabadisha centres and six city schools came together and spent a day at Mohur Kunja—telling stories, playing games and painting, in short, having a gala time. And all this precipitated as a result of a wish— to celebrate Children’s Day with the underprivileged children who are supported by…
(What Grandpa Told the Children) The moon? It is a griffin’s egg, Hatching tomorrow night. And how the little boys will watch With shouting and delight To see him break the shell and stretch And creep across the sky… …Yet gentle will the griffin be Most decorous and fat, And walk up to…
Date: 3, 4 August 2012 Venue: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts 36C, S.P. Mukherjee Road Calcutta 700 025 Participating Schools: Akshar and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy The PeaceWorks School Curriculum Debate, was organized by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, to give young minds the opportunity to critically analyze concepts of identity and human rights,…
