Continuing PeaceWorks’ ‘Cross-border Initiative’, students from India and Pakistan were invited to submit original short stories which explore the theme of peace. A board of judges, comprising writers, academics and litterateurs selected the 20 best entries which have just been published in the Stories for Peace anthology by Seagull Books, Calcutta. On the occasion 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 Bengali Theatre Workshop The Bengali theatre workshop was held in the same place as the music workshop. It was spacious and airy. It provided a comfortable atmosphere in which to work. The students were energetic, but I got the sense that the kind of readiness that I had seen in the…
