That the PeaceWorks Kashmir project was happening hadn’t still sunk in when I walked into the classroom. The students were in the midst of an ice breaking session with the Play for Peace facilitators. I sat in a corner, watching them carefully. Earlier in the week, I had briefly met the Chowringhee High school students…
“Share Stories Open Minds”, is one of those unique projects, that has brought together a diverse variety of people who have nothing in common but an urge to tell stories. This project has helped them to direct their energies towards a positive direction. We believe a collective effort on the part of all these storytellers…
On 25 October 2010, a group of young emerging photographers and photography enthusiasts were invited by the Seagull Foundation for the Arts to participate in a little workshop on street photography to be held at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre. Neil Kelly, a well-known artist from the UK would conduct the workshop, interacting…
Way back in early 2011, PeaceWorks — An Initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, started it’s new project, ‘Share Stories Open Minds’. Chandana Hore, the artist, conducted an art workshop for the children at The Child Care Centre, Salt Lake.
I went into the workshop in the slightly paradoxical state of trying to communicate something that is at once very familiar and very alien. On the one hand, the concept of oral poetry is intrinsic to the Bengali language—from folk and fabulist roots to the articulation of various mystical schools, and even contemporary literary poetry,…
