Phase I November 20-21, 2023 Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata Winter in Calcutta was ushered in by a training of the trainers for the traveling exhibition on Anne Frank, an integral part of the Anne Frank—A History for Today project. This project is part of the educational activities run by the Anne…
Given that the pandemic has been raging in the country, we began the session with a brief chat, asking students about their wellbeing and their ways of coping with the circumstances. cccWe then did a brief recap from the last session where we had discussed about the linkages of art with propaganda, and on the…
Fascism and Art. In lieu of an ‘icebreaking activity’ in this session, we offered the students the above three words to respond to. This brought in a welcome variety of responses, leading to a free flowing discussion: from art as impossible to flourish in a fascist regime to art as resistance to fascism, the limitations…
We opened this session with a slightly tricky icebreaker: I’d offer the students one word (say ‘food’, or ‘colour’, or ‘religion’ or ‘language’) and they would have to quickly think of and share in brief a biased assumption they have held related to the word. Every three minutes the students were assigned a new word.…
We began this session with the screening of a short clip from the movie The Reader (from the video shared below), depicting a dramatic scene wherein former SS guards have been taken to trial over their decision to not unlock the doors of a church that had caught fire, resulting in the deaths of many…
