The Anne Frank Exhibition at The School KFI (Chennai) began its journey when two teachers from the School – Ms. G. Devika and Ms. Akhila Seshadri – attended the Teaching History workshop held by PeaceWorks, an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts in Kolkata in July-August, 2015. A casual conversation between Ms. Devika…
The second week of February saw a flurry of activity in Bangalore, with the Bangalore International School hosting the traveling exhibition ‘Anne Frank-A History for Today’. Ever After Learning and PeaceWorks, together with the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, set up the exhibition and also organized a teacher-training workshop. The exhibition was attended by eleven schools in…
‘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…
The Boxing Ladies – David Trattles The girl boxers always trained at dusk. They’d come trickling in from slum-crowded Eckbalpore and Khidderpore. To transit, they had a few rupees and a few options. To start with, the girls face the same kinds of challenges that women would have to face as boxers in any community,…
