St Joseph’s College, Bowbazar, is a boys’ higher secondary school where we went for a workshop on Identity conducted by Sumeet Thakur as a part of the PeaceWorks School curriculum with boys from Class IX on the first day (4 February 2008) and Class XI on the second day (5 February 2008). We met the…
Debolina Dutta conducted the first of its four-part series workshop, on issues of human rights, at Chowringhee High School on 15 January 2008. 18 students, both girls and boys, from standard VIII and IX participated in the one and a half hour session. The session started by screening two clippings from Anand Patwardhan’s Ribbons…
The possibility of developing theatre into a medium that the Human Rights Defenders could use to protest and raise awareness was suggested by Oishik Sarkar at our first post workshop meeting. October was narrowed down on as a feasible time to hold the one week workshop that was to be conducted by noted theatre-person and…
The Seagull Foundation for the Arts and ‘Write Here Write Now’ organized two short story-writing workshops for school students on 21-22 and 27-28 August, 2006 at the Seagull Bookstore. Conducted by Liz Wimberly and Darcy Courteau, graduates in Fictional Writing from the Arizona State University, about 35-40 students from different city schools, including Calcutta International…
A two day workshop on Identity was held at The Seagull Foundation for the Arts. The facilitators of the workshop were Sister Cyril (Loreto Sealdah), Swati Lal (Bridge International School), Kingshuk Chatterjee (Scottish Church College) and Anjum Katyal (Seagull Foundation for the Arts). Teachers from the following schools participated in the workshop: St. James, Mahadevi…
