Category Archives: Share Stories Open Minds

Up-to-the-Minute—Storytelling Training by Purbani Das

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(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…

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An Evening with Anushka Ravishankar

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On the eve of 6th August, PeaceWorks in collaboration with Scholastic hosted children’s author Anushka Ravishankar. She read out her newly published books to a group of children from Nabadisha and Disha Foundation and the volunteers of our story telling project— Share Stories Open Minds. ‘Rumour’ and ‘A Boy Who Drew Cats’ were read out…

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Workshop with Probir Guha

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“I know a thousand ways of telling a story,” remarked Probir Guha, veteran theatre person who is known for his path breaking Alternative Living Theatre. PeaceWorks invited Probir Guha to conduct a workshop for our ‘Share Stories Open Minds’ volunteers. Our volunteers described the two-hour long workshop as a ‘deeply satisfying and educative’ experience. Reading…

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Storytelling Workshop with Kusumika Chatterjee

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“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” — Neil Gaiman Stories transport, stories amuse, they teach, question, and they heal. They shape the way a generation grows, help mould minds and they are essentially the way…

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