Peaceworks – an initiative of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts organized a two day workshop in two schools which was conducted by the well known Polish Storyteller Michal Milanowski. Michal Milanowski is a writer, storyteller and a computer graphic artist.He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lausanne and began his career as…
We took immense pleasure in having a wonderful story telling workshop with Kusumika Chatterjee yet again early this year. Kusumika Chatterjee’s sessions with our volunteers have been an inspiring guide and has helped our volunteers hone their story telling techniques. She has demonstrated the power of simple hand gestures and facial gesticulation. Some of our…
Kashmir-December2012 An ache, A fire, My desire… A need I feed Gorging on the matter Matter-of-factly on another Precipitous cannibal Eats himself inside out, Outside in Din, dry noise This rising hunger Feeds, even when fed On its own irrepressible need The fifth session of the Dialogue for Peace: the Kashmir Project was a platform for young…
Neither a free period nor an English class When I began my sessions on the PeaceWorks School Curriculum at Vidyanjali School, the students had asked if they should consider my sessions as free periods where they could have fun or as a ‘regular English class’. Neither, I told them, trying hard not to…
Eminent artist, Arunima Choudhury conducted art workshops at the Nabadisha centers weeks before the Golpo Mela. She introduced the kids to various methods and techniques of creating art. Some made collages, some learnt how to make pictures with the use of only two or three colours, some used their fingertips to create an amazing image.…
