It is always interesting meeting educators from different schools and across subjects and it becomes even more so when one is meeting them to talk about human rights and the Anne Frank story. The teacher-training workshop on the Peaceworks Human Rights Defenders Module was held for 20 educators from the Delhi-NCR region on Tuesday, 28…
Anne Frank—A History for Today, a travelling exhibition for schools was set up at the Shiv Nadar School, Noida on Monday 27 November 2017. We began the peer guide training with a brief round of introductions followed by a discussion on Anne Frank, the Diary and the Holocaust. Most of the students—from grades 8 and…
Jana Natya Manch (Janam) spent an eventful few days in Calcutta. After two performances in schools, the group spent some time on 26 August with volunteers from the Share Stories Open Minds project and educators from the centres that the volunteers go to. They first performed Yeh Bhi Hinsa Hai—a play done in typical street…
Jana Natya Manch—Janam—a New Delhi based theatre group was in Calcutta after more than a decade with three of their new plays, each different in style and topic. The group visited Modern High School for Girls and South City International School—two schools that have actively been a part of the activities that PeaceWorks conducts—with their…
Bright and early on a Sunday morning, eighteen students of Delhi Public School were bustling about their multipurpose hall, unpacking trunks, fishing out dismantled structures and carefully unrolling panels all over the floor. In a matter of hours, these students, from classes X and XI and XII, inspected, prepared and set up an entire exhibition…
