PeaceWorks—An initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts and the Nerve Centre in Northern Ireland conducted the Teaching Divided Histories Teacher Training Workshop from the 18th to the 21st of June at Calcutta International School. It consisted of two workshops of two days each, in which instructors Emma McDermott and Matthew McAleer worked with…
It was in the winter of 2012 that Priya Machado and Loes Singels from the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam arrived in Calcutta at the Seagull Foundation for the Arts. The outcome of the visit was a teachers’ workshop and the decision to bring the project Anne Frank—A History for Today, consisting of an international travelling…
We have moments of letting go, honesty, positivity and simplicity. Or sometimes, we have them altogether. This was only made possible by an incredible personality with so much of life and energy into him—Ben. We were in a room of twenty people we hardly knew. Clueless about what the next four hours would do to…
7 January 2014 It was that time. A new beginning. End of holidays, end of a year. Where, by force of habit, one mentions the year bygone while writing the date. For those involved in the Share Stories Open Minds project, it also meant one more thing. Kusumika-di would be in town! For our new…
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven’s part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but…
