The Seagull Foundation for the Arts thanks Scholastic India for introducing us to Michael Heyman. The author visited The Seagull Books on the 28 November 2012 and read out nonsense literature to a house full of students from various schools. Michael Heyman is a Professor of English at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches…
(What Grandpa Told the Children) The moon? It is a griffin’s egg, Hatching tomorrow night. And how the little boys will watch With shouting and delight To see him break the shell and stretch And creep across the sky… …Yet gentle will the griffin be Most decorous and fat, And walk up to…
On the eve of 6th August, PeaceWorks in collaboration with Scholastic hosted children’s author Anushka Ravishankar. She read out her newly published books to a group of children from Nabadisha and Disha Foundation and the volunteers of our story telling project— Share Stories Open Minds. ‘Rumour’ and ‘A Boy Who Drew Cats’ were read out…
“I know a thousand ways of telling a story,” remarked Probir Guha, veteran theatre person who is known for his path breaking Alternative Living Theatre. PeaceWorks invited Probir Guha to conduct a workshop for our ‘Share Stories Open Minds’ volunteers. Our volunteers described the two-hour long workshop as a ‘deeply satisfying and educative’ experience. Reading…
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” — Neil Gaiman Stories transport, stories amuse, they teach, question, and they heal. They shape the way a generation grows, help mould minds and they are essentially the way…
