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…
Report prepared by Deeptha Vivekanand. The Anne Frank Project was launched in Chandigarh on 11th October, 2018, at St. Kabir Public School. The project involved the display of the international traveling exhibition ‘Anne Frank – A History for Today’, the screening of the documentary A Short Life of Anne Frank and related educational activities such…
Storytelling is an art that can be adapted to whichever medium the storyteller chooses. Music, art, theatre, film. And so many more. This year, for Golpo Mela—The PeaceWorks Storytelling Festival, we chose to depart from the format that we had used in the last few years and showcase film as a medium of storytelling. After some…
As Martin Scorsese once said, ‘Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out’. Movies are an important part of an audio-visual experience and education. They are full of impact and stir emotions unlike some textbooks, which fail to do so. PeaceWorks takes pride in the fact that it has amassed a plethora…
PeaceWorks has a large collection of films from all over the world, ranging from documentaries to animated shorts, which are available for viewing on the premises, and as a resource for students and teachers. Over the years these films have been taken to over sixty schools, screened for the students and then followed up with…
