21 May saw yet another delightful storytelling workshop of the ‘Share Stories Open Minds’ project at the Seagull Foundation for the Arts. Despite the heavy shower in the morning, enthusiastic volunteers turned up for the workshop conducted by Mrs. Chitralekha Bhaskar, Resource Associate, Scholastic India. To mark the occasion of ‘Buddha Purnima’, a day of peace,…
I was meeting the Human Rights defenders at South City International School after a long break(thanks to final exams), and thought that some theatre would be a good way to get back into the swing of things. We started off with some warm up exercises led by one of the students who plays in the…
The Anne Frank Exhibition at The School KFI (Chennai) began its journey when two teachers from the School – Ms. G. Devika and Ms. Akhila Seshadri – attended the Teaching History workshop held by PeaceWorks, an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts in Kolkata in July-August, 2015. A casual conversation between Ms. Devika…
40! She said, when I asked Madhushree how many participants had signed up for the workshop. This was just before I was boarding the flight to Bangalore. Now, for somebody who is neither a historian, nor a history teacher, the prospect of conducting a Teaching Divided Histories workshop for 40 history teachers can be rather…
Trepidation. Curiosity. ‘Whose paintings are those?’ ‘Where do we sit?’ ‘ When do we start?’ The eighth session of the Dialogue for Peace program started off with shy smiles, handshakes, whispers. Eleven students from the Kashmir valley and eleven from Lakshmipat Singhania School gathered at The Seagull Foundation for the Arts bright and (relatively) early…
