“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…
Saturday morning, we had the privilege of having Ken Spillman , an Australian author who writes books for children,with us to meet some of the kids from the Nabadisha Centres and The Child Care Home, to whom he narrated some of his stories in a manner that totally mesmerized them. We were delighted to see…
“Share Stories Open Minds”, is one of those unique projects, that has brought together a diverse variety of people who have nothing in common but an urge to tell stories. This project has helped them to direct their energies towards a positive direction. We believe a collective effort on the part of all these storytellers…
A workshop organized by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, to enhance the art of storytelling using puppetry. Participants were taken through the process of selecting stories, creating storyboards, creating puppets and manipulating them.The puppets were made with newspaper. The puppet movements were loosely based on the Japanese Bunraku technique. Anurupa Roy is founder and…
PeaceWorks in collaboration with the American Centre organized a workshop for developing play scripts, which could later be used to develop PeaceWorks performances. It was also thought that PeaceWorks could then take these performances to different schools of the city. With this aim in mind the New York-based playwright and performer, Ruth Margraff was invited…
