As part of a recently concluded event series by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata in collaboration with Jadavpur University, Lessons from Germany’s Past: Fascism as a Historical Experience, PeaceWorks was invited to hold the Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibition. The exhibition, as per the project’s format, was preceded by a 2-day workshop (28–29 October 2022)…
18 youth and adults from across Kashmir have gathered for a 10-day Playback Theatre workshop on the outskirts of Srinagar as part of PeaceWorks’ Dialogue for Peace project. Facilitated by Ben Rivers, this by far has been one of the most intense and immersive workshops we have ever organised. Post the training we organised for…
Given that the pandemic has been raging in the country, we began the session with a brief chat, asking students about their wellbeing and their ways of coping with the circumstances. cccWe then did a brief recap from the last session where we had discussed about the linkages of art with propaganda, and on the…
Fascism and Art. In lieu of an ‘icebreaking activity’ in this session, we offered the students the above three words to respond to. This brought in a welcome variety of responses, leading to a free flowing discussion: from art as impossible to flourish in a fascist regime to art as resistance to fascism, the limitations…
We opened this session with a slightly tricky icebreaker: I’d offer the students one word (say ‘food’, or ‘colour’, or ‘religion’ or ‘language’) and they would have to quickly think of and share in brief a biased assumption they have held related to the word. Every three minutes the students were assigned a new word.…
