January–February 2014 When Apeejay School, Park Street, signed up for the PeaceWorks literature curriculum, not once did I imagine that I would be the one addressing forty class niners. As the day finally arrived, I was set with multiple copies of Elias Canetti’s vignettes and a very nervous mind with random words tumbling around. The…
It is not everyday that teachers play icebreakers or are divided into groups or given classroom assignments or made to participate in discussions. However, attending a PeaceWorks workshop will make them do all of that and much more. PeaceWorks—an initiative of the Seagull Foundation of the Arts has been working on creating a module as…
Neither a free period nor an English class When I began my sessions on the PeaceWorks School Curriculum at Vidyanjali School, the students had asked if they should consider my sessions as free periods where they could have fun or as a ‘regular English class’. Neither, I told them, trying hard not to…
Being a student of literature for the longest period of time, the idea of facilitating the PeaceWorks Literature Curriculum (PWSC) in National High School was thrilling. Could I initiate a series of discussions on identity, gender and human rights with the help of literary pieces? I wondered. I was nervous as I hadn’t done this…
Date: 3, 4 August 2012 Venue: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts 36C, S.P. Mukherjee Road Calcutta 700 025 Participating Schools: Akshar and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy The PeaceWorks School Curriculum Debate, was organized by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts, to give young minds the opportunity to critically analyze concepts of identity and human rights,…
