The KHOL PITARA stall was set up in the city centre forum, on the 10th of December, 2011 with the belief that narratives can bind us together opening up moments of communion in our silent lives. Peace Works put up the stall at an event organized by SWAYAM, an NGO working for the rights of…
Gender Shadow: A Chance to Interrupt Injustice, a shadow theatre performance, was put up by a group of second-year students from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology at the Women’s Study Cell at Women’s Christian College, Calcutta, on 15 December, 2010. The group—accompanied by course coordinators Arzu Mistry and Evan Hastings—was visiting Calcutta…
Film Workshop The film workshop involved giving groups of school students (from classes IX through XII) handheld cameras and asking them to go out and make short films of 1-minute about gender issues, human rights and identity. Since most of the students were first timers, they were first taken through an exercise of learning how…
Music Workshop The ‘Thoda Pyaar Thoda Peace’ music workshop was conducted by two well-known names in the Kolkata music scene, tabla player Bikram Ghosh and blues singer Anjum Katyal. This interesting coupling was reflected in the music, with instruments from the tabla to the violin contributing to the creation of the final piece. At the…
A Report on the Hindi Theatre Workshop From the open space of the English theatre workshop it was quite a change to attend the Hindi theatre workshop in the closed space of the Padatik theatre hall. Though small, it was not cramped. It was rather comfortable. It being an actual theatre space, I got to…
