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…
a tie up between PeaceWorks and Vikramshila, Women’s Interlinked Foundation and Kolkata Police project Nabadisha October 2010 we sent out a call for volunteers, to help us implement a project that uses the age old art of Storytelling.The response has been tremendous. Homemaker, teacher, student, senior citizen, journalist, naval architect, illustrator—profiles of just some of…
