The PeaceWorks Festival titled, Thoda Pyar Thoda Peace, was held using theatre, photography, music and film workshops to stimulate creative expressions of social concern. These workshops were held through September and October 2008 and culminated in performances, exhibitions, and public service advertising campaigns that ran throughout the city from November 7 – 9, 2008. For…
Film Workshop The film workshop involved giving groups of school students (from classes IX through XII) handheld cameras and asking them to go out and make short films of 1-minute about gender issues, human rights and identity. Since most of the students were first timers, they were first taken through an exercise of learning how…
Music Workshop The ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Peace’ music workshop was conducted by two well-known names in the Kolkata music scene, tabla player Bikram Ghosh and blues singer Anjum Katyal. This interesting coupling was reflected in the music, with instruments from the tabla to the violin contributing to the creation of the final piece. At the…
A Report on the Bengali Theatre Workshop The Bengali theatre workshop was held in the same place as the music workshop. It was spacious and airy. It provided a comfortable atmosphere in which to work. The students were energetic, but I got the sense that the kind of readiness that I had seen in the…
A Report on the Hindi Theatre Workshop From the open space of the English theatre workshop it was quite a change to attend the Hindi theatre workshop in the closed space of the Padatik theatre hall. Though small, it was not cramped. It was rather comfortable. It being an actual theatre space, I got to…
