tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67063644329654360622024-02-08T06:53:19.284+05:30The 1000 Crane ProjectAn Art Exchange Workshop by Tara Trust, Goa, India
This is an initiative of our non profit organisation to give children from poor, underprivileged backgrounds the opportunity to travel to new places, meet new people, learn to make new friends, and have new experiences that helps them build higher goals for their life by getting motivation through the 10 day experience of the camp.Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-89332116969910881152015-01-29T22:04:00.000+05:302015-01-29T22:04:13.840+05:30The project has just begun ..... for the girls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today being the last full day of the camp, it was time to show
them around the campus of Rukumini Devi College of Fine Arts. We could not take
photographs of the space, as it is prohibited, but the children were taken for
a tour starting from their music room, to the dance classrooms, and the visual
arts section. They were also given a tour of the natural worship space of the
campus which is maintained and looked after by the community in their own way.
One of the most striking features of the campus which the children liked very
much was the open classrooms and the colourful dresses rather than the boring
uniforms they are used to in their schools. There were one or two after seeing
the campus who showed interest in wanting to study at Kalakshetra Foundation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was also one of the girls from the Goa group who now
is happy to stay on and never return to Goa, as she is so happy with the space and
all the activities happening here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The day was spent by the girls finishing their fabric
prints, rehearsing their dance, making cards for all the facilitators and
organisers etc. The day just went by and it was 4.30pm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were graced by the guru of Mrs.Priya Murali,
Prof.Sudharani Raghupathy (Padmashree Awardee) who usually does not go out much
anymore, but she made it all the way to be the guest of honour. Also,
Ms.Priyadarshini, Director of Kalakshetra Foundation and one of India’s most
famous dancers of the current generation was also present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We also had invited all the parents of the girls from the
Chennai school and the representatives of Nalamdana.</div>
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Before we started the presentation, with the help of the Nalamdana
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explain to them the purpose of the camp, why we were doing what we were doing
and why we were also a little strict on discipline and behaviour. We let them
ask us questions if they had any, cause we also believe that along with
changing the education pattern for the children, the parents need to be
educated as well in the same way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We then started off with each group coming up to introduce
themselves and also show the work they have done at the photography workshop.
They all looked great with their colourful painted veils. In their own way they
told their story of the camp.</div>
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We then had them present their dance, alongwith Mrs.Priya Murali,
adding on a little introduction for the parents about the purpose behind the
dance workshop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The evening ended in just excited euphoric activity amongst
the girls and visitors, and a big sense of achievement and freedom for them
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Prof.Sudharani Raghupathi, also handed over a book which is
the first volume of the basics of Bharatnatyam, along with a copy of her CDs of
a performance and book on the same to all the children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The parents we highly grateful at the end of the
presentation, and really felt joyous about it all, with one mother asking us to
take her along with us to Goa.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What came out of this evening basically was the simplicity
of a community, simplicity of life coming together, simplicity in creating a joyous
moment and the simplicity in sharing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“If we have come together then we need to learn from each
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Today was the last class of the dance workshop by Ms.Priya
Murli, so the girls worked on understanding the dance completely, revised their
mudras and stances, and then had an interaction session of what they learnt out
of the entire workshop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since from day one, she had been emphasising on posture,
stance, body language, these were points that the girls brought out about their
learning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Miss.Preethi Ramprasad, is a student of Prof. Sudharani
Raghupathy. Preethi Akka (sister) has been a great inspiration for the girls,
as she has mingled with the girls, been a teacher and friend. Preethi is a
committed artiste, who was born and brought up in USA but has now spent 3 years
in India and is a part of Teach for America Programme. It’s her ambition to
study at Harvard, and work on developing the area of arts for education. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Preethi took the morning session. The girls enjoy her company as well since she
not only teaches them but becomes one of them during the workshops. Preethi’s
expressions, stance and posture encourage the girls further to better
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Prior to the dance workshop in the morning, we all assembled
at the terrace of the hostel to learn some natural dyeing. We had been sponsored
white basic fabric from a friend for the girls to do some printing on it but
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The most easily available natural dye is haldi or turmeric. Making two
dye-baths, the girls were given options of either dyeing their fabrics
completely yellow or working on a resist dyeing technique. They enjoyed the
process and were amazed at the results.</div>
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Post lunch we got the dyed fabric, and began painting the
motifs from our paper inspirations on to the fabric. This piece of fabric will
act as the angavastram which is a part of the costume for their dance. It was
important then for them to know how the same shall be draped by them all for a
performance because based on the way the drape would be they would have to
figure out the placement of the motif before painting their fabrics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An interesting exercise, as once again the girls had to
focus on their piece of work, try to make it as precise as possible to look
like a print especially because it had to now become a part of their costume.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of things that all the girls have been eager for was a
visit to the beach. Even though both groups are living in beach towns, there
has been a demand for the beach for the past 3 days and we have been putting it
off as it should be a trip earned. But, today, even our hearts melted to their
demands. What a burst of energy and enthusiasm! But the sad part is that most
of the beach stretch is so dirty and there is a lingering foul smell that
almost wants you to run as far away from the ocean as possible. But the girls
had a blast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Somehow they are also feeling that the camp days are getting
over so we suddenly see a greater interest to finish the work started. So post
dinner all were back in the studio completing their fabrics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There may be loads of disconnect, dissimilarity, language
barriers, unfamiliarity when a camp of this sort starts off but as we start
winding up its amazing how the children start slowly warming up to each other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the dance workshop Ms.Priya Murli continued to teach them
the dance on the poem, Bharata Samodayam Valgavay, but a bigger learning today
was understanding the importance of “discipline”. Somehow because everything
comes easy and no one questions a growing individual regardless of caste, class
or background, time, punctuality, respect and responsibility are human factors
missing in most of our systems of learning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In our age old guru-shishya (teacher-disciple) education
system, there was immense respect, trust and faith in a teacher and hence a
pupil always maintained discipline and respect for the teacher but we see in
most young groups today these traits are dwindling, and this was brought to the
notice of the group of girls softly but in a straightforward manner by Ms.Priya
Murli by making the girls understand that true success only comes to
disciplines people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a tough morning to get through and some of them
struggled with the new steps but once again it was brought to their notice that
by concentration and understanding no problem is too difficult.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Post lunch, once again, we had the girls stroll into the
afternoon session nearly 20 minutes late and demanded that they go to the beach
as a break but since the beginning of the camp somehow we have been giving into
every demand we decided that they need to earn their beach day. So we once
again emphasised the need to be punctual and if we can get that from them in the
next two days we would consider their request.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We started adding colour to our paper prints as this would
at the next dimension to the work, also since it is a print exercise the girls
had to use patience and concentration to try and make it an even pattern. For some the pattern started emerging only
when they began filling colour. But we clearly observed that many like to play
it safe and are smart to find ways of cutting corners to hasten their work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The evening photography session was working with each group
and taking a look at all the photographs shot by them in the past 4 days and
guiding them to finding their stories to compile forward. While Kaushik Jay was
working with one group, we played trivia with the rest of the group, asking
questions that we know they all should know as they were questions framed from
their geography, history, biology, basic science subjects, and we were quite
shocked at them not knowing some simple answers to questions like “which are
the 5 metro cities of India?” “what are metals?” or “name the current president
of India?”….for most basic questions their answer was we know it because we
learnt it but don’t remember it for which we asked them that if they had
understood why they had studied it in the first case? Some of the girls in the
group are from class 9, and did not know why they study a subject like
geography or history? … but somehow it not their fault, it just goes to show
how rote learning has become the order of the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We called it a day by having a small chat to make them
understand the importance of questioning what they are learning, understand why
they are learning what they are learning, not to be afraid to give their
opinions and always know that there are always multiple answers to life’s
questions and it is not good to just follow a system blindly but learn to
question and then make individual and independent choices.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lastly, we made a time table for tomorrow to get
confirmation on their seriousness about time and punctuality, and also informed
them that they have to be responsible not only for themselves but for the
entire group to be on time. Now we have to see if they will “respect” our
request.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Republic Day was celebrated across our country today. Today
we are supposed to be proud Indians living in a democratic, free environment
having the choice to elect our leaders and exercise our rights. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was with this thought that the day begun with Mrs.Priya Murli
starting her workshop today not to continue to just teach more mudras and steps
of the dance but by introducing the importance of working and learning
together, emphasising that it was even more important today being Republic Day
and made each one realise that before they are Chennaites or Goans, they are
all Indians, and it is the beauty of this variety that makes India so special. <o:p></o:p></div>
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herself, and hold her posture and mudra with confidence because good posture
makes for good body language which helps in building oneself holistically.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once the rhythm was set, she then taught started working on
a small dance piece with them using a tamil patriotic peom written by
Subramanya Bharati called Bharata Samoodayam Valgaway. The poen is really simple but beautiful piece
talking about the diversity of India being the beauty and pride of the country.
Priya made the steps and sequence seems so effortless for the girls that they
learnt the first half of the dance in no time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Priya then spent some time giving them a little theoretical
knowledge about the dance, ending the session with stretches and silent
meditation, to help them understand the need for physical exercise to keep our
bodies agile and healthy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since, we had observed that the two groups of girls were just
not warming up with each other, we changed our workshop plan from print
development to working on trust exercises and team-exercises to imbibe more
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the fun they all had it really helped in making them communicate with each
other to complete a task and work further and find solutions.</div>
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We then once again put them with their partners and worked
on an outdoor sculpting exercise where they pairs had to collect materials from
the surroundings and build an structure together.</div>
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It was challenging for many
who had not worked together before but once again since the task compelled them
to work together they found a way. Many of them were very proud of their
creation once done.</div>
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We ended the day with an interaction with two friends of
Tara Trust from Chennai, Anjali Krishnan and Karpagam Maya coming to
participate in the activities and then interacting with the girls but telling
them their stories of growing up as girls and finding a path to fulfil their
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Anjali Krishnan, advertising and styling
professional actually got to explain her work first hand, as Kaushik Jay
brought along a model to teach subject based photography. Anjali took a short
session of how space, lighting is chosen and how one helps a model to fit into
a particular mood etc with Kaushik guiding them to work on a subject and see it
from all angles. Of course, the most interesting part for most of the girls was
to meet a model.</div>
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The day was really good and all of us facilitators could
start seeing some more interaction and communication between the girls, and all
of it was lost in no time because there were families of 4 of the girls from
Chennai who came to visit them. These girls have been let out of their homes
for the first time, so the anxiety of the parents in understandable but somehow
they are so protective that they are coming to check on them every day and it
just breaks the momentum built in the group. We have, our partner organisation
Nalamdana has and so has the principal of the Chennai school explained to the
parents the importance of letting them be alone for the camp days but they don’t
want to respect the rules at all. It is quite upsetting because somehow all
what one works for is washed off in a moment but we don’t give up but also realise
through these experiences that it is not the children but the parents need
education. This is a story prevalent in every part of India … and we call
ourselves a “REPUBLIC”</div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-65531382608892947512015-01-26T00:07:00.000+05:302015-01-26T00:07:01.014+05:30A rhythm in the chaos <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today the girls got introduced to the classical dance form
of Tamil Nadu – Bharatnatyam. Having come to Chennai, for an art camp and
living at Kalakshetra Foundation only meant that the girls get a taste of this
dance form.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mrs.Priya Murli, with nearly 43 years of experience in this
dance form, who now works in the arts and education sector, has obliged us with
her time for the next 5 days, where she is going to try and introduce them to
the dance but also help them connect it with their daily life and skills. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The discipline that dance brings into an individual’s life
is immence. It helps with concentration and building self-confidence. The
stance, the movement help in building better posture and presentation of one’s
self. These are traditional forms of
education that helped a person not only to grow but also discover life in a
more interesting manner, which is somehow lost in our formal education system.
That is why even though we are trying to work with these children it is a
challenge to make them understand the opportunity of growth that they have
through this experience because the schools and our society have inbred into
them that only high marks and rote learning can help them succeed in life. It
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The 2 hour dance workshop helped in trying to open the girls
to the idea of understanding themselves through a fun exercise. Mrs.Priya Murli
was truly amazing, making such a difficult art form seem so simple, easy and
understandable to all. For the first class where not one of the girls have had
any formal training in dance, she appreciated their interest and
dedication. It will be wonderful how
this workshop develops.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The excitement of the dance workshop lasted through lunch
and post lunch session; where instead of relaxing most of them were trying to
practise in their groups.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, the “groups” became a concern, because somehow the two
circles have not been mingling much, any free time, any break, they just go back
to each other even though they have been paired. We are not able to figure out
why? And we have not been imposing them to work with their partners but this
afternoon we had to remind them again about the purpose of this entire camp. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Somehow, we suddenly seemed like running a scout camp making
the rules very clear but then sometimes discipline has to be imposed and
forced. A lot many faces were not happy about it but life is always not fun and
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The post lunch session was to bring out the deeper inspiration
of the character sketches they girls had made the day before of their partners
to be able to find a motif and pattern from it. The purpose was to get them to
relate nature to creation, be able to find the simplicity in the all the
objects around them through basic shapes they learn in geometry and then to
bring out a pattern from their own sketches.
It was an exercise to help them find answers within themselves rather
than always seek it outside, and find connection in every story, and relate it
to the rhythm and patterns they learnt in their dance, to understand
simplicity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We ended the day once again with a photography session with
Kaushik Jay, who reviewed the pictures taken by them through the day helping
them move forward towards their picture story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were welcomed by brilliant weather this morning. Usually
it is said that Chennai’s climate is Hot, Hotter, Hottest, but today was a
pleasant cool morning with a bit of thunder showers that started our day fresh
and energetic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having the entire campus to ourselves, we took the
opportunity to work on our pathway exercises outdoors in the sand and shade of
the trees all around us. The pathways is mainly an activity to get the children
moving and also start perceiving and working with each other in a space without
having to ask for space or feel insecure about their space. It is also a great
way of accepting everyone around oneself and also the space you are in. We
added a little bit more of a challenge taking the wet sand after the rain, to
try and mark our pathways and also count our steps to really understand each
one’s way. As usual, it does no matter what age, sand is a playful material for
everyone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While being holed up in a little room waiting for the rain
to subside, the girls worked on a few more rhythm exercises, trying to make as
many sounds as possible using their limbs and sounds. It was challenging as
none of them have been ever exposed to thinking of such sort. They were shy
initially to do more than clapping, but over time they started innovating on
the sounds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After about 2 hours of warm up, we settled down to knowing
more about each other. Everyone was divided into pairs and given the task of
drawing portraits of each other and also finding out each other’s stories to
exchange with the rest of the group. Some very interesting faces were perceived
through the exercise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Post lunch we went deeper into the subject of getting to
know each other by making them now look at one distinctive feature of their
partner and draw that feature in more detail. Once again many were just not
happy but the idea that we were trying to work on was that usually if we leave
our perception to our eyes only we do not get to understanding a subject
better. We also asked them this time to
try and find out a little bit about each other’s cities and towns, so once
again a little more information can be exchanged of where they come from.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The stories and information we got from all was amazing,
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The evening session had Kaushik Jay, come in to introduce
them to photography. Initially the group was shy, as suddenly after an entire
day and a half of being amongst girls and ladies, a male member amongst their midst
saw them close down. So when he started the workshop by asking how many like
photography there were only 6 hands, but once he began showing them a few
photos to give them a little bit what photography is about, and suddenly every
hand was up after looking at pictures he showed them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We just had time to introduce the girls to the basics of a
camera. Divided into 5 groups, each of them have a different make and style of
camera but there was a lot of excitement in them all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The evening ended with all of us watching a brilliant
production by the students of a local dance school – Chettinad Shree Hari
Vidyalayam. It was a two and a half our production but each of the girls sat
mesmerised and amazed at the production, the quality of dance and mainly
because it was completely performed by children of similar age group. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Today was a day that captured them all, through their
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-51315623269910107762015-01-23T22:12:00.000+05:302015-01-23T22:12:24.841+05:30A welcome change....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Vasco-Chennai Express reached Chennai Central station
bringing along 7 curious and shy faces into probably the most crowded city any
of these young girls have ever been too. When asked how the train journey was,
they said “very nice, except the last hour when we had to bear the stink of the
city”. We really did not have an answer to that but only reassured them that
they will soon be back in a green paradise that they are used to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bundled up in 2 large cars which was graciously sent to us
by a friend and long-time supporter, Chennai city welcomed these curious eyes
with excitement now, as they rode down the Marina Beach promenade that shows
off its opulent statues and arches on one side, and all the colonial building
of the University and Government buildings on the other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Landing in Kalakshetra, leaving the traffic, noise and crowd
behind, and entering a place which will make any loud, aggressive person to
become silent and peaceful, they once again started feeling at home. Still a
little curious as to what’s in store for them but glad to be in a quiet and
clean environment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After settling them in their rooms, we waited for the girls
from Chennai who were going to join them at the camp. They arrived in a bus, 10
of them accompanied by their anxious and protective parents along. Here the
story was different – the parents of these girls have never ever let them out
of their sight, and to let them go away for seven days! Even though the girls
are in the same city and actually not far away from their homes and schools,
they still did not seem convinced about leaving their daughters behind. We
assured them that they will be fine and it is also learning for them towards
making their girls independent human beings. After being promised that they
could come and visit the girls once in these 7 days, they felt better, said
their good-byes and left.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was tea time and so both the groups met at the common
mess of the institute but obviously in the chaos amongst the other students of Kalakshetra they formed two distinct groups of Goa and Chennai. We let them be only
informing both groups that they will not be so for long.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Being the first day, we just worked on some group and rhythm
exercises, with a fun name game, as we realised the first comfort factor to be
formed within the group has to be familiar with all by their names. We made it challenging
by adding movement and co-ordination as a part of them to get to know each
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Every Friday, the student fraternity of Kalakshetra has a
bhajan (Indian devotional songs) evening, which we were all invited to. A first
time again for all the girls, they sat with curious faces looking at all the
future artists of our country all gracefully dressed for the session. After the
session, we were all formally welcomed by the community and served dinner in
the traditional way by being served by the students.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the days to follow, apart from all the creative activity
in store, we are looking forward to the two circles merging into one, and then
not wanting to let go by the time we have to go back to our daily lives. But,
for sure for both the groups today was a “welcome” change!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-18331415217353109482015-01-21T16:28:00.000+05:302015-01-21T16:28:20.753+05:30What better place to be but at Kalakshetra, Chennai ! (23rd Jan - 30th Jan 2015)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
23rd of January to 30th of January 2015 - The 1000 Crane Project will be conducted at Kalakshetra in Chennai. One of the most prestigious institutes for arts and education in India.<br />
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The 5th camp is also going to be unique, as it is an all girls camp - we have 7 girls from St.Anthony's Girls Home, in Verna travelling with us for the camp. St.Anthony's Girls Home, is a home for girls from low-income group backgrounds, managed by the sisters of St.Anthony's congregation. Tara Trust has been working with them since July 2013, on a weekly basis. This is the first time that some of them shall be travelling out of Goa.<br />
There are 10 girls from Sri Shankara Matriculation School in Chennai, where Nalamdana, our partner organisation offers scholarships to the students for higher studies.<br />
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The camp will have 3 main workshops through the week - dance,printing and photography. The dance workshop shall be conducted by Ms.Priya Murli, a renowned and experienced dancer from Chennai. Printing shall be a part of the Tara Trust team workshop, alongwith photography conducted by professional photographer Mr.Kaushik Jay. The idea is to culminate these workshops into a performance and presentation on the last day for the children.<br />
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Dance, Printing, Photography, Interaction, Arts, are all mediums for us to get the children to think for themselves, their spaces, their actions, their views, and take back new perspectives.</div>
Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-74007684851006804612013-10-15T12:27:00.003+05:302013-10-15T12:27:56.557+05:30 The grand finale!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 4th 1000 Crane Camp ended last Friday. All children are back at home and we are back in the office. As all the other camps before, also this one was special.<br />
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We started the last day of the camp with a self- reflection and feedback round, where we asked the children to draw their daily highlights. We saw that every activity was the favorite of one or the other child. Of course the children have different interests but we realized that we had satisfied each of them.<br />
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The feedback was followed by a collective artwork. We divided them into 2 groups, prepared 2 canvases with an underwater scene for the children and asked them to design them using colors, fabrics, buttons and waste material.<br />
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In the second half of the day the children had to prepare their exhibition for the same afternoon. The excitement and happiness was great! One group of the kids prepared a small program with songs and dances. The other group prepared the room for the exhibition and made sure that all artworks are shown in the right way. At 4 o´clock the first people came in to see the art of our children.<br />
The exhibition is a very important part of the camp, especially to see what the children finally learned. Most of the children come to the camp with a lack of confidence. So it´s always amazing to see this kids, who were 7 days before too shy to speak in front of the group of children, now speaking, singing and dancing in front of a group of adults. All together the exhibition was a total success! The children showed all the visitors around and explained each and every little piece of art- and the visitors were obviously impressed by so much passion and talent.<br />
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After this long and very exhausting day we all just fell into bed, because the next morning we planned to see the sunrise at the beach- which meant: waking up at 5 in the morning! So the next morning started early at 5 a.m., but all the difficulties to wake up were worth seeing the sunrise, the beach and the children enjoying to play in the water.<br />
After we came back, the saddest part of each camp started: saying goodbye.<br />
The children from Chennai and Goa became very good friends, so it was hard for them to let go each other. They exchanged their phone numbers, addresses, self made cards and small gifts- and it made us very proud to see this honest love for each other.<br />
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In the end we would like to quote some of the children´s feedback to the camp:<br />
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<b>“When I came to Chennai I was very shy, but now I feel more confident.” </b>(Vasanth)<br />
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<b>“I didn´t like to speak English before, but with my new friends it was easy to learn more English” </b>(Magdalene)<br />
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<b>“I´m very happy that we did so many different artworks, I feel more free in expressing myself now.”</b><br />
(Ganesh)<br />
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After all the fun and excitement from Day 5, Day 6 started
on a much calmer note with meditation followed by painting color based
associations. The children finger painted the first thing that came to
their mind when a certain color was called out and wrote down the feeling or thought that the color brought in them.</div>
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Out of all the motorbikes in India, no other bike receives
more respect for its elegance, power and rhythmic beat as the great Royal
Enfiled. So a factory visit to their new assembly plant in Oragadam, was a unbelievable
opportunity for most of us, which was clear from the big smiles we had on our
faces when we reached there. The Oragadam plant came into service earlier
this year, currently produces more than 200 bikes a day and has the capacity to
produce up to 1200 bikes a day. We were greeted there by factory in-charge Raja
Ratnam and his crew, who spoke about the history of Royal Enfield and about the
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Next we were taken through the Assembly Line, where we were
shown how the bike starts out, step by step from just a chassis, to a fully
functional motor bike that goes straight into testing and is then prepped for shipment. Here we also got to see their
newest model, the Café Racer, which is already launched in Europe and is set to
be launched in India in the next few months. We were then taken to the highly advanced
paint shop to see how each part of the motorbike goes through a four stage process
and comes out stronger and with a beautiful sheen. The children were completely
fired up throughout the 1 hour factory tour and bombarded our two guides with
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message on water conservation, which will be displayed in their exhibition at Dakshina
Chitra tomorrow. If you are in town, please drop by between 4PM to 6PM to see
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-69330642796785455802013-10-08T23:33:00.003+05:302013-10-08T23:34:28.942+05:30Day 5 - Crocs, Gators and that slight dizzy feeling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The volunteers were up to mischief after 4 days of the camp
here in Chennai. We convinced the kids that the plan for the day was to go to a
library and research on either ‘Fashion Technology in Czech Republic from the
18th Century’ (a little difficult considering Czech Republic wasn't even a
country until 1993) or ‘Chinese Diplomacy in Trade Relations’ (an equally mind
boggling topic). So, after a half an hour morning yoga routine, when we headed
out to The Madras Crocodile Bank, the kids had absolutely no clue what was coming
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The Madras Crocodile Bank is India’s leading institution for
herpetology research and conservation. The center hosts more than 5000 Crocodiles
and Alligators, covering 18 out of the 23 known species in the entire world, along with many different types of snakes, lizards, turtles and tortoises.
Kaveri Bharath who conducted the ceramic workshop on Day 3, is a volunteer at
the center and along with 2 of her colleagues, gave the kids a super deluxe tour
of the center. Kaveri told the kids about each species’ characteristics, their
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of the park, Jaws III, a salt water Crocodile who is almost close to 6 meters
in length and around 700 Kilograms, unfortunately decided to stay underwater
and not give the children a viewing. But instead they got to see a rock python
up close (a couple of them almost touched it) and also a demonstration of how
venom is extracted from the extremely poisonous Krait. The Madras Crocodile
Bank definitely changed the perspective of most children on how they view
snakes and reptiles and they came away understanding, why the mission to conserve
these magnificent creatures is so very important in this day and age.</div>
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After an exciting and educational tour of The Madras
Crocodile Bank, the kids had another surprise in store for them. Prit Kumar, a
good friend and supporter, had lined out a brilliant fun filled afternoon for
the children and at local theme park called MGM Dizzee World. Although the
adults were exhausted after the first couple of hours, the kids did not seem to
be even slightly affected by fatigue after hours of getting on spinny, jumpy,
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The day was extremely far off from what
the kids had imagined it would be, especially when they were (reluctantly)
prepared to spend the day writing about Chinese Trade Matters. But through
experience based learning, they now know so much more about reptiles,
conservation and on a lighter note, the stimulants of projectile vomiting. </div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-29907678168195914192013-10-07T22:22:00.000+05:302013-10-07T22:22:04.552+05:30A Fashionable Day 4 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The exhaustion of Day 3 with all the drama and activity had
the children stay in bed till a little later than usual, but, once ready they
all looked bright and colourful dressed for their day out.</div>
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As always they were only informed the previous day that we
shall be going out of campus but where we were going was to be a surprise. </div>
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The National Institute of Fashion Technology, Chennai, was
established in 1995. It has since become a center for fashion and fashion
studies in South India. Dr.Anitha Manohar, Director, NIFT, Chennai was gracious
to accept our request to visit the institute with the children and also to organize
a day long fashion workshop for the kids.</div>
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The NIFT bus was at Dakshin Chitra promptly at 9 and we set
out for a day at the college. During the bus journey when the children were
asked what they knew about NIFT, we got answers like – “it is about modeling of
clothes” since their exposure to fashion is FTV.</div>
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On reaching NIFT, we were welcomed by Kartikeyan, faculty of
Textile Design and Sridhar Amanchy, faculty of Knitwear Design, and four smiling
young students of Textile Design. The kids alighted the bus like VIPs and were
welcomed as VVIPs to NIFT.</div>
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A quick introduction to NIFT, and a tour got them settled
down for their first class with Geetha Ranjini, faculty of fashion, who helped
them classify the clothes we wear on a daily basis and helped them understand
how basic shapes actually make clothes. Most of the children were amazed that
one has to actually study so much to make clothes, they thought of it only as a
tailor’s job and some people who work for FTV.</div>
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The excitement grew when Geetha told them that now in pairs
they would make their own garment. </div>
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Probably for the first time kids below the age of 16 entered
the state of the art pattern making and draping labs of NIFT to try their hand
at draping with a muslin.</div>
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Again Geetha after introducing them to the basic tools of
draping and the dress form left them to figure out what garment they would like
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The draped garments that were created had the NIFT students,
faculty all shocked at the creativity. Without any knowledge, we had a draped
gown, a cowl neck top, a lapel jacket and a clean bodice.</div>
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The children were also invited by Professor Mathews Abraham
of the Fashion Design faculty to participate in his Costume and Theater
class. In this session the children
actually heard the story of CANDYLAND and saw some of the costumes being worked
on using chocolate and candy by the students of the class. Mathews also showed
a couple of videos of famous characters like Spiderman and Lion King explaining
the need for creativity and ideas to create garments for theater.</div>
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Lunch was quick because there were many more activities
planned but was entertaining as the NIFT students showed them some films made
by them during class projects. </div>
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Post lunch, we began with a basic print design class with
Kartikeyan, who using a simple square and basic shapes helped the kids to
create a complete surface design, which then the Textile Design students used
to create a repeat pattern which was applied to the photographs of their draped
garments to create a complete CAD of their garment.</div>
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Finally when asked by her how many want to study fashion,
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The third day started
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mentioned in the last post, we made a quiz with all the pairs, about knowing
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After a theoretical introduction by Kaveri it was time to try
things out. We started with simple pots, we continued with making stamps on the
topic of water- in the end everybody went out to find different textures to get
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<b>But it was time for
lunch and what happened there was amazing: After our introduction of water and
water conservation yesterday our kids went out to check water taps all over the
place. When they met the manager of Dakshin Chitra they informed him that they
found 5 leaking taps and requested him to repair the same.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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connected with all the kids. His choice of warm-up games was brilliant and so
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other and also with speaking in front of a group- its always a kickstarter for
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The final workshop on
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organized a fantastic mask- making workshop. Everybody could become whatever he
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Our activity hall changed promptly to a fantasy
world inhabited by princesses, superheros, butterflies, fairies, a blue moon,
flowers and pigs. After we all enjoyed the freedom and magic of this fantasy
world, Kaustav divided the kids into groups with the task to create a short
story in their new identities. The outcome was brilliant and the creativity of
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tasty dinner. Not even 15 minutes after we reached the hostel- we can´t hear
any voice on the corridor. It was a long but completely fun day! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Around noon on the 4th of October, a tired Vasco Chennai Express screeched to a halt at its final stop, a gigantic station called Chennai Central. The Goa
crew, 6 children from Care and Compassion home (Panjim) along with 4 Volunteers
accompanying them, have finally arrived in the land of Masala Dosas, Filter
Coffee and Bharata Natyam, after a 20 hour train journey from Margao. The first
impressions of Namma (Our) Chennai are the huge buildings, the iconic statues,
bustling streets and the obvious, the Heat!</div>
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We quickly get into the cars waiting to take us to the venue
of the 4th installment of the 1000 Crane Project, Dakshina Chitra. We were
blown away by the sheer size and beauty of this museum and center for South
Indian Architecture, Art and Culture. In a couple of hours, the 6 children from
the Nalamdana project based in Chennai arrived and after a quick round of
introductions, we left for our guided tour of Dakshina Chitra. The entire
center is split into 4 main parts, named after the 4 South Indian States -
Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. In each section, our guide
Prabhu walked us through the different types of traditional houses of that region and
the rationale behind its structure and design. After the hour long tour, we
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Back in our work-space, a pentagon shaped hall, the 12
children received their Art Bags with all the art and craft materials they would require for
the camp. Then in usual 1000 Crane style, we put the 12 children into mixed
pairs and for the first activity of the day, the partners got to know a little bit
more about each other and then painted a beautiful picture as a gift on their
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of us went back to our rooms to get some shut eye and prepare ourselves for a mammoth
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The second day of the camp started with a fun activity where the children had to
come up with one way how we use water and the sound associated with it. Some of
these included jumping into a puddle with a loud ‘Pichak!’, watering plants
with a ‘shhhhhisshhh’ and drinking water with a ‘glug glug glug’. After this we
learnt a cool new version of the old classic ‘Rock, Paper, Scissor’ called ‘Giant,
Magician, Princess’, where we have to act out the character with our entire
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project and the main topic of our program – 'Water'. We learnt that out of all the water that covers 75% of the surface of the earth, only 1% is potable water, which has to be
shared among the population of the whole world. We learnt how this limited
resource is getting depleted day by day due to wastage and pollution and considering
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Which child does not like cartoons? So our first collaborator
of the camp, Mr Swami, a renowned animator and art teacher based in Chennai was
a crowd favorite from the moment he stepped into the hall. The way Swami interacted with the children
and how he surprised them with his toon voices, was an absolute treat to watch.
He explained how cartoons or animation is all about bringing life to a drawing
of a character by making it move. To give the children hands on experience of
animating or bringing to life their own drawings, Swami taught the children how
to create Thaumatropes, where a part of the picture is drawn on one side and another
part is drawn on the reverse side of the paper. When the Thaumatrope is rotated
at a fast pace, the two images merge and a moving image is created. Through
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created moving images of a blinking eye, a flower growing out of a bud, a bee
flying among others. As the children got a taste of animation, Swami spoke to
the children of how each of them could make their own cartoon if they come up with
1. An Idea 2. Story 3. The Characters 4.
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The 1000 Crane Project in Chennai starts 4th of October at Dakshin Chitra (<a href="http://dakshinachitra.net/" style="text-align: left;">http://dakshinachitra.net/</a>) </div>
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6 of the children from Care and Compassion-Goa shall be travelling with Sophie Morbe and Abhishegh Menon to Chennai from Goa, to meet 6 children who are a part of the youth empowerment program of Nalamdana (<a href="http://www.nalamdana.org/" style="text-align: left;">http://www.nalamdana.org/</a>) </div>
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This time we have been able to work on a 8 day program because there is only one weekly train from Goa to Chennai and back, but it is still filled with some really exciting workshops.</div>
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Keep reading the blog for the daily updates. Come and visit us if you are in Chennai.</div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-29070306915717049272013-07-18T10:31:00.000+05:302013-07-18T10:31:27.514+05:30Discovering the city of Chennai...a beach town like Goa but a metro like Mumbai <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 4<sup>th</sup>
1000 Crane Project is in its planning stages and if all goes as per plan, we
shall be taking our children to Chennai.</div>
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Chennai is one of
the oldest cities of India, it is also counted amongst the five metros of
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Chennai as most of
us know is also referred to as Madras, and typically for most of North India,
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Chennai as a city
is a flourishing port as well as is now a huge industrial hub for automobile
and the IT industry, as well as a garment manufacturing hub.</div>
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Chennai also has a
huge migrant population from Punjab who have now lived there for atleast 3
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Chennai also has a
huge history of culture especially in the music and theater. Kollywood, the
film industry of Chennai is a famous and flourishing entertainment industry of
South India.</div>
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The thought behind
taking the 1000 Crane Project to Chennai is for the children to see cities that
they have heard of but do not know much also because though Chennai is a metro
of India, it is not that famous amongst youngsters as a city they would prefer
to work or live in, as it does not offer the glamour like Delhi or Mumbai. We
want the children to be able to know more about the different cities of India
and the immense possibilities that our enormous country has to offer.</div>
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The camp should
take place between end September and beginning of October in Chennai. We have
not yet identified the group of children who will travel to Chennai, but they
will come from the Government Primary School of Colva, in South Goa. </div>
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The agenda will be
similar to our other camps, with Water once again being the binding theme for
the camp.</div>
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At this point, we
are seeking out help from institutions, artists, art groups, corporate,
interested individuals to support this camp. We already have National Institute
of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in Chennai who have technically agreed to host the
camp at the institute, but, they are pressed for residential space on campus,
so we are working this out but we are definitely going to Chennai.</div>
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Please keep
following this blog for updates, and any feedback, information that you can
impart in this direction will be very helpful.</div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-35121608782431780772013-05-07T10:33:00.000+05:302013-05-07T10:33:27.949+05:30Water - Its Important and Its a Global Concern<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Our camp in Bangalore that just concluded made the Bangalore press aware about the importance of the topic. We also feel that this is a global concern and shall be working more on this issue through the year and will also try to address it at the global forums.<br />
Its true, and we all need to think about it - If we do not have access to water will we really survive, be it India or anywhere in the world ???</div>
Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-85102561627522266972013-04-27T06:57:00.000+05:302013-04-27T06:57:31.076+05:30We Are All One Family.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">The above sentence has been used as the
topic of the last day for the last 2 camps in New Delhi and Mumbai, and there
is no better way of summing up the camp.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sparsha Trust, Bangalore , Mark Fernandes
High School, Goa, Jaaga, IIITB, Revanna & Manjunatha from Dream A Dream,
Shabari Rao & Maitri Ramakrishnan, Sairam & Meghraj from Infosys, Digu
from Infosys, Samuel Raj, Kumaran School, Bangalore, Fields of View, Shaona
Sen, Magic Bus, VASP, Vibha Ramaswami and team, DrumCircle, Siddharth Gaikwad
from GaikyGrills, Prof.Sadagopan from IIITB, Prof.Rajagopalan from IIITB,
Prof.Prasanna from IIITB, Prof.Jyotsna from IIITB, Mr.Ramachandran from IIITB,
Sridhar – Shruti – and students of IIITB, Srinivasa from IIITB, the
administration staff, the security…… It is all of us coming together that have
made this possible and at the end of it the 12 children have become a family
and we are all a part of this family now ! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was a great Day 10, starting with the
team of DrumCircle coming in to work on some music exercises using the drums.
It was great fun for the children, just that there was a delay in the starting
the workshop but all went smoothly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second half was when the kids and
students of IIITB painted a mural together. It was a fun exercise, because it
involved students who usually only think, talk, walk, sleep, eat, dream
computers had to hold a brush and play with colors along with the children, who
guided them through the topic of Water and also had fun with them through the
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really nice results and amazing memory the kids have. It also helps us measure
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around the common foyer area of the main institute block. Since there were
still activities, Sophie and Lina worked on the display to help the children
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The retrospect painting from Kumar an Aruna</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The collective posters from the kids</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The recycled aquarium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The student community keenly admiring the works exhibited</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The kids had invited the student community
for their presentation and put up a little cultural program, showing them the
kathak and movement pieces learn by them through the workshop days.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumar & Manjunatha performing a sog for the group</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The children at the start of their Kathak performance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The children all set for the movement dance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally they broke into the free style dance mode !</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">At night we organized for a little Barbeque
Party with the help of a good friend and fellow NIDian, Siddharth Gaikwad
(GaikyGrills) as a finale to the camp. The kids enjoyed a change from the mess
food and it was a totally new experience for them. They also got to make their
own pizzas </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> We ended the evening being a little silly, singing, dancing and
laughing a lot ! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaiky showing the tricks of grilling to Ragavendra</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaiky showing the kids how to assemble a pizza</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young chefs at work</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was the "if you love me bite ?" for abhi from everywhere </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was a mini henna party also that happened at the BBQ</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally it was all of us going crazy </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">We shall miss each one of these children –
Ramzan, Mahesh, Andrea, Jyoti, Darshan, Ragavendra, Kumar, Manjunatha, Pooja,
Deepa, Aruna, Kanaka – we wish them love and luck till the next time we meet
atleast the Bangalore group, the Goa group we shall continue the weekly
workshops at their school so will see them in June but we know we will see a
new person in them. </span></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-74670203782930231352013-04-25T23:30:00.000+05:302013-04-25T23:30:00.182+05:30Actions Speak Louder than Words…..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The day begun with us wanting to find out how much the group knew about each other. So, we did a quick "which animal do you think your friend is ? exercise" The challenge was a little tough cause all they got was their paint brushed and paint so that the drawing is more spontaneous. </div>
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Initially after a few giggles we had some interesting outcomes of the exercise, which also helped us know if the kids had really spent time with each other.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahesh with his drawing of Darshan, in Darshan's trademark orange T-shirt and then comparing him to a tiger as he believes that Darshan talks loudly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manjunath with his drawing of Jyoti, in her polka-dotted skirt, with a representation of a monkey on a tree because Jyoti keeps jumping around the studio</td></tr>
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We were then joined by VASP a young theater group of Bangalore comprising of young
professionals who are following their passion in theater while trying to keep
up with a corporate job and a demanding lifestyle came in to spend an entire
day with the children to teach them a little bit of theater.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire group in smiles after a good day !</td></tr>
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Parthasarthi, Sandeep, Deepika and Harish put in all their
energies using various theater exercises to touch upon life topics like
importance team-work, need for concentration and good listening skills.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandeep working on a concentration exercise through movement</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahesh and Ramzan using their paper sticks to find each other in the dark only by making a sound with their sticks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A group ready for action with their water theme</td></tr>
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They also through just keeping to actions brought out every
aspect of water.</div>
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If WATER was a person, how would it feel when cold, hot,
dropped, splashed, poured, drunk etc, and finally through a story making
process of why we need water to exist in our lives today and for all the years
to come for the human race and planet earth at large.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darshan and Pooja enacting their play</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pooja acting as a person lost without Water</td></tr>
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The spirits of the children was really elevated, the
excitement continued when Vibha Ramaswami, a Kathak artist and a teacher, came
in for a Kathak 101 workshop with 3 of her students Nishant, Merzia and Shivani
accompanied by her young son Mehul.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vibha Ramaawami with ther students Merzia, Shivan and Nishant starting with the basics</td></tr>
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Vibha began the workshop with a lovely quiz cum presentation
of the different classical Indian dance forms and how they are all
inter-related. Then starting with the basics Kathak steps, they went on to
create a short but beautifully put Katha piece on Water. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The group learning their first steps with the young dancers and Vibha Ramaswami</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The children learning the show lightening using a Kathak move</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The energetic and very loving Vibha Ramaswami and not to forget graceful</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The young dancers - Nishant, Merzia and Shivani put up a short performance for the children</td></tr>
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The children loved it! We were concerned that the boys may
not enjoy it that much as classical Indian dance is associated more with girls,
but, having Nishant as one of their guides they were really interested and also
the smiles of Merzia and Shivani blew them away.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The excited dancers !</td></tr>
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At the end of the day they also promised to start working on
their English skills because it is now becoming more clear to them that most
people like and would like to know more are people who know a common language –
English. So, they have all promised us to start attempting to talk more English
with us, but we also made them realise that the entire day they have spoken about Water as a topic without using words and only actions, so they should first realise that communication can never be a barrier if they know how to explain themselves using actions.</div>
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Day 9 ended in a happy note of “Ta Dhin Dhin Ta, Aa Dhin
Dhin Ta”</div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-62669134404378568522013-04-24T23:09:00.000+05:302013-04-24T23:09:49.385+05:30The Magic of Recycling...Creating Games and Playing Games...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We started the day welcoming Shaona once again. She joined us with some of the children from the Magic Bus project that she works for on campus. The cutest bunch of children - Amuda, Lidya, Nivedita, Shweta, Salman, Akash & Robin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaona, Ragavendra and Robin doing the introduction drill </td></tr>
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The day had been planned by Shaona who got the children to understand the usage of colour to provoke feelings and desires, and explained to them why if one goes to see all mineral water bottles have Blue as a common colour.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaona explaining the usage of color to the group</td></tr>
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They then played a game of segregation of the bottles into shapes and sizes and in a very interesting manner she divided the children into 3 groups, gave them 15 bottles each and asked them to come up with their own games using the Footballs she had brought along for a later session of the game.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abhi being his guiding and organising nice self to the kids</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lina thinking about the concept with the next group of children for the game</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A game similar to 9 Pins being played</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amuda of Magic Bus trying to tackle the ball through bottles</td></tr>
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The groups came up with some interesting ideas and Abhishegh was a great guide into the games.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaona and the kids working on the concept for the recycled tree</td></tr>
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Post that they began conceptualising and working on a tree made of the discarded mineral water bottles that had been collected. It was a simple process of cutting and moulding the bottles to make them feel like plam leaves which were eventually mounted on a bamboo stick and pitched in a bottle pot full of pebbles. The kids created 2 of the same and a third one in parts for us to carry to Goa.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everyone is at work with the bottles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumar being helped by Abhi to add color to the palm leaves</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Magic Bus girl group </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Assembling the tree together</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shaona Adding the little details for the groups </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A proud group with their plam tree </td></tr>
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Post lunch they gave the finishing touches and moved on to a solid 2 hour football training.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abhishegh and the kids warming up, while one of the Magic Bus kids getting ready for action</td></tr>
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The children of Magic Bus came onto the field like professional football player wearing their football gear and mingled with our children for a simple practice session and then a short game.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The group learning a bit of tackling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahesh trying some head shots </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids got the experience of a mini football game as well</td></tr>
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When they returned to the temporary art studio we have now on campus, the excitement levels and energy of the game filled the room.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire gang ! </td></tr>
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Through all this time, Sophie and Lina tirelessly worked on finishing the aquarium for the children. It was our first time of making an aquarium with recycled materials so we had some technical glitches but in the end it looked absolutely fabulous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The aquarium built with all the aquatic life made by the kids using recycled material</td></tr>
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The day ended in a slightly stricter note by Sophie sitting the our children down for a short discipline talk because they had left the art studio in a mess including their own art bags and art materials strewn all over the place, so in a very patient manner she got them all to sit down do an inventory check for their things and then we disperesed for dinner. Where, they were treated with Ice Cream once again by a student on campus.<br />
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It is amazing the amount of attention and pampering they are getting from all and that is why we need to also be a little strict at times with them. Its really like getting all your Disneyland rides for free ......</div>
Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-9797062391578742082013-04-23T22:52:00.000+05:302013-04-23T22:52:35.716+05:30Empowerment…Enjoyment…Entertainment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Kids and volunteers with the AOL teachers - Kiran, Sanchita & Manu</td></tr>
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Today was
the last workshop day of the YES program by AOL. It was a very nice ending to the
program, as the children prepared like a short cultural program for which they
literally ran from one class to another class of the institute inviting the
teachers and students alike for the same. It was a part of their task for
preparing the program.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The students from IIITB were the guests for the cultural program</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manjunath reciting a poem to the audience</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gangam Style performed by the boys</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiran and the boys enjoying the after party</td></tr>
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The good
aspect of this program was that through life experiences an basic exercises the
children actually learnt a little about how to overcome their fears and insecurity,
the importance of expressing oneself, the importance of being oneself, respect
for time and discipline and many more short life sessions.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">After an exciting
party, we were joined by Digu, an environmental professional working with the
sustainable development consulting arm of Infosys, who brought 2 movies on what
is happening to the climate of our planet and why and what can we do to save
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Digu talking to the children about his experiences</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
highlight of his one hour session was the fascination the children had when
they got to know he works at Infosys, cause ever since they have visited the
Infosys campus, even the boys who aspired to be in the IPS, are now saying they
want to work at Infosys, so to meet and spend time with an Infosys employee was
a dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Post lunch
we began work on a collective exercise of building an Aquarium from recycled
materials, this is an exercise we are doing to help children understand the
importance of aquatic life and the need to keep our water bodies clean so they
can survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie and group 1 thinking of ideas for their aquarium</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie helping Andrea and Pooja out with some doubts by looking it up on the internet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The concept drawing of the aquarium as a part of the project planning</td></tr>
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Sophie’s plan
for the aquarium was really taken with interest by the children and she was
Queen of the Aquarium world for the afternoon.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The
children also had an experience of what it is to be in front of a video camera.
The IIITB media center in-charge, Swati and Subha came to our workplace and
interviewed each child trying to capture all their amazing moments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swati and Subha capturing the experiences of the children on camera</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">Its Day 7,
and there are already mixed feelings setting, in one way we have become very
comfortable here at IIITB and feel we have always been here, and in another way
it seems like all the days are gone and we wanted to do so many more things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-66648501341341995472013-04-23T07:30:00.000+05:302013-04-23T16:18:49.995+05:30The picture of a well planned city should be for everyone…<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">Today was
the start of the second half of the camp. This means that we are now ready to
get deeper into the awareness program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the posters showing the menace that can be created if we dont save water today!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">WATER –
Conservation, Protection and Preservation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The morning
began with the penultimate day of the YES program. The children have also
gotten into the rhythm of doing yoga in the mornings now and so we shall
continue to do it even after the program is over. But, more than that they were
excited about finding the task for the day, cause now they all want a prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile,
we were invited by Professor Sadagopan, the director of IIITB, to interact and
work together with children from a school close to the campus called Kumaran
School, as they were coming in for a Science Workshop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, we had
a large audience for the presentation of Water and its importance, which was
beautifully and in a very interactive way taken by Sophie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">children from the Kumaran school and the 1000 crane children all sitting for the presentation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie giving her presentation, with Lina ad Abhishegh standing by as support staff :) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a screen short of the presentation on how water is wasted !</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">She
stressed on points of How IMPORTANT it is that we all realize the need to
protect and conserve Water, as it was learnt yesterday that in metros like
Bangalore, the scarcity of water is going to get so bad that by 2023, half of
Bangalore shall have to be eradicated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abhihegh assisting one of the groups to understand the topic better</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahesh at work with his group</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manjunath and the girls from Kumaran School adding colour to their poster</td></tr>
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children of the Kumaran School were high school students and hence our project
children worked with them in groups to help them understand the topic better
and then they collectively painted a poster on the theme “Save Water”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we had a photopgraphy workshop with Samuel Raj (<a href="http://www.samuelraj.com/">www.samuelraj.com</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We had some
of the older boys wondering why they needed a photography workshop? Because they
said that there is nothing to understand photography…but then Samuel had
planned an entire afternoon where he went into the details of photography but still
not technical and by the end of the workshop, the children were really amazed
with concept of photography and the possibilities with a camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Samuel
brought along with him some old antique cameras as well for the children to
understand how cameras have evolved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking for the that perfect picture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What do you see Pooja?</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">We then
went outdoors to try and work on practical exercise, where each child understanding
the aperture ad shutter speed technique tried to do some motion photography. It
was so much fun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We came
back to our studio and then saw our work on a large screen. It was really nice
to see how proud the children felt about themselves when they saw their images
on the screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We had a
fun evening session, which also really helped us sum up the day very well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fields of
View is a company working from the incubation center of IIITB. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They are a group
of young IT professionals who are using their skills to work on sustainable
living models. They have created a game which in a very simple and direct
manner helps one understand each individuals needs and aspirations from the
city they live in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beautifully developed as a game which can be played by people of all ages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">We got our
children from Goa and Bangalore to work together on building a city of their
dreams. It was really interesting to see how they built every structure and
thought of every structure. This also brought out the difference in demography between
Goa and Bangalore completely, but in a very simple fashion it also taught us
that may be we need to start building ideal cities by bringing cultures
together. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">We can
blame the kids, they will aspire for what they see, so if a child from
Bangalore aspires to build a mall its only because there are only malls across
the city, and if a child from Goa needs a well in his city, it’s because it is
the first source of water for them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">We are extremely
proud of this group of children as they have come a long way from Day 1…they
have a great imagination and tons and tons of enthusiasm to keep learning ad
keep absorbing. We have had some behavior issues but that is obvious because it
takes time to get yourself out from the space you have always been. </span></span></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-15944344177639664102013-04-22T07:24:00.000+05:302013-04-23T16:15:06.564+05:30Bangalore City is beautiful....but has major water issues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">We went for a short Bangalore city tour –
actually, if one goes to see Bangalore its easy . Especially from a children’s
point of view. As an IT hub the kids were happy to see Infosys and we cant
obviously show them the pub culture of the city as they are underage </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In our city tour, the first stop was NGMA
on Cunnigham Road. A beautiful structure converted into a gallery with works of
many Indian artists. We went through each gallery trying to help the children understand
the method of seeing a picture and the importance of museums in our lives.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was amazing the stories children can
tell seeing just one picture.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We then just drove through the city. Since
there is construction of the metro happening everywhere and anyway Bangalore is
full of one ways, drove through structures like Vidhan Soudha, High Court and
Cubbon Park to land up at Jaaga Studio.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Jaaga Studio has been set up by a fellow
NIDian – Archana Prasad. An artist and
animation film designer believes that good design and art comes out by
collaboration and is very keen to support art based work especially amongst
underprivileged and also craft communities. Jaaga is officially our resource
partner for The 1000 Crane Project’s Bangalore chapter. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Jaaga Cafe - enjoying the ambience and structure around them</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The children also had an opportunity to meet my (Juhi Pandey) family who live in Bangalore too. They were all very excited to meet them as they have never met their teacher's family or felt so invited anywhere before.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, the second half of the day was spent by
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<span lang="EN-GB">Their first session was with Anders. A toy
designer and a story-teller who has developed this very interactive story for
children which basically instills environmental consciousness.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anders showing his work to the children, with Archana acting as interpreter.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumar was completely hooked to the touch device and the colours on the screen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entire Jaaga group helping with the stroy - Shaona and Shaun were drawing the stroy out, Madhavi was the Kannada interpreter, Archana was speaking in Hindi and Anders in English</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The story of the Jorgites</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The children were fascinated more by the
tool used to tell the story which was an IPAD, and were really excited that the
story develops as you touch the screen.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We then went for a short tour of the Jaaga
studio where Archana pointed out how the entire 2 floor structure if made out
of all recycled material and is also a structure that can be dismantled and
assembled wherever they like.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Archana showing the children the walls of the studio made from recylced material like coir to grown plants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The upper level of the studio where the lighting is all recycled metal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moving one level up but the floor is recycled materials too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Introducing them to Speaker Man !</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We then began the Screen-Printing workshop
with Shaona Sen. A designer and a huge fan of children. She works with another non profit in Bangalore called Magic Bus as well.</span></div>
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took them through the entire process till the final developed screen but the
lack of time did not allow us to print, but The kids all had to draw a imagery representing
water, which we put into one screen to create a print. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is a screen? How is it used? Archana & Shaona </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kids drawing their story of Water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ramzan is very proud of his Merman :) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each child made is 4 X 4 artwork </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how the print was put together with each artwork</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Washing of the screen after exposing it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying their hand out at printing</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Shaona shall bring the printed T-shirts on
24th April 2013-Wednesday when she comes in for another workshop with us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From today the kids would also be given A
Task for the Day. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For day 5 it was to show responsibility
towards your partner. We had put them in pairs and the only task was to stay
with the partner and look out for their partner. It was pretty successful as we
used the bribing tool of rewarding. But, the children also learnt a little more
about being responsible.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a long day, we collected rcycled material from Jaaga to work with. Thank you SIEMENS for sponsoring the bus for the day. Thank you Bassavaraja, our driver for the day !! </td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In all it was a day of fun, because the
kids had a joy ride around town, they loved the Jaaga space and a change in environment
always helps. </span></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-27045264207292731742013-04-21T07:09:00.000+05:302013-04-21T07:09:13.985+05:30INFY-ormation Day !!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Today was a day in the life of ALICE IN
WONDERLAND...Since, we are in Bangalore, it only made sense that the children
get exposure to the IT industry that makes what Bangalore is today...It is not
all good because most of us old Bangaloreans would prefer it to be still known
as “the garden city” but progress and change and growth is required and so now
Bangalore is the IT Capital of India.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was probably the only Infosys sign we could take a photo of as there is not too much branding around, and we were not allowed to click photos inside any building that we visited.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The famous INFOSYS campus or INFY CITY is
right opposite the gates of IIITB, so it only made sense for us to take the
children for a tour to this city within a city.
The children and we volunteers alike were just stunned and in awe of its
opulence and grandeur. The facilities and the infrastructure makes you think
you are in the most developed country of this world ! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Security Gate - you have to have a very very good reason to want to enter this property else you are not allowed in, so the children were very important personalities coming today.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meghraj explaining the plan for the tour to us</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking through a landscaped property with water fountains, ponds and fish in the pond as well. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The excited group on their cart ready to roll through the campus </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meghraj with the kids walking to one of the many entertainment zones for the employees of Infosys</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Pyramid - it is the symbol of pride and simplicity of the campus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Washing Machine - at the backdrop is a building when built was to represent a plane but looks more like a washing machine.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">driving through the massive, impressive and highly modern buildings of the Infosys campus</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The children had a blast. They were amazed
by the architecture and most excited about the golf cart ride they had during
the tour.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">They also attended an “interesting”
presentation on DREAMS by an employee of Infosys. Our ain escorts for the
morning were Meghraj and Sairam, who were very hospitable and very friendly
with the kids. We had time constraints else we were sure to have been allowed
to spend more time on the campus.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But, just visiting this space which is the
headquarters of one of the largest IT companies in the world was a DREAM come
true anyway.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We continued with the YES program in the
morning – today’s lesson was mainly to teach the children to have their own
personality and be responsible for their own actions. This was taught using a
very fun dancing exercise which the children thoroughly loved because it was
all on their favourite Bollywood and Tollywood songs.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sanchita dancing along with the kids who really went all out to shake a leg not knowing there was a lesson to be learnt.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiran moving along with the boys to encourage them to move and shake.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Shabari and Maitri came in for their last
session, which was actually planned for 4 hours, but they cut it short as we
got delayed returning from Infosys and they had time constraints. But, once
again it was an energetic way to spend the afternoon because this is the time
when lethargy sets in the most.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">moving with a purpose</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">its all about expressing the emotion </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with easy exercises Shabari & Maitri were able to instill a consciousness towards Water & its importance</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The story of the 1000 Boats began today ! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie's recycled boat - Tara Trust sailing all the way </td></tr>
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After an action packed 4 days with the
children going through experiences which are new to them but also getting to
understand that they are not only here at IIITB to have fun and games, but to
learn something and stand for a purpose, which is to Conserve, Protect and
Preserve Water.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darshan working with all his tools to built his SUPER boat !</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumar was very proud of his pirate boat !</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The National Boat of Wheels by Ramzan</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Fairy Boat by Deepa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jyoti happy with her green boat !</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahesh needs shelter in water, so a House Boat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For Aruna, her aim was to build a GOOD Boat.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first of 17 boats were made today, even
Sophie, Lina and Abhishegh made their own boats.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So, 17 down....983 more to go..........</span></div>
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Juhi Pandeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918327317663994891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6706364432965436062.post-38091143484698835992013-04-20T07:14:00.000+05:302013-04-20T07:14:41.686+05:30An Act of kindness every day.... a Rhythm in every action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The highlight of the day was WALL-E ! We
filmed the movie in one of the most modern classrooms even for some of us
mentors to the program. We have had a very open response to the camp by all the
students of IIITB.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students of IIITB and the kids playing a getting to know game</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the IITB campus, there are 2 classroom which have 5 screens to enable people in every corner of the large space to be able to see the screen, so we watched the film WALL-E in the 5 screen make shift theater.</td></tr>
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The Student Activity
Council, The Movie Club, enthusiastic student volunteers, an employee, all
together to make the screening happen, which the children enjoyed thoroughly. It
was also a great way for them to be reminded of Lego Robot of IIITB which they
had seen the previous day.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The students of the institute also spent
time playing some games with the children. We had a birthday celebration and an
impromptu short dance performance in the mess after dinner. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiran started the day with some exercises to wake the kids up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using the simple game of Chinese Whispers, the children learn the importance of hearing correctly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its all about listening - Aruna to Manjunath</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manu observing the reactions of the children</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiran and Manu with the group trying to find out what went wrong?</td></tr>
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The day for the children began with the YES
program. The exercises got a little more challenging and deeper but also more
physical and energy driven. This session
started moving into the area of self-realisation through a special meditation
process. It was pretty intense because
when we met the kids at lunch time they were pretty tired and quite as well.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The second half of the day was another 2
hour session with Shabari Rao and Maitri. Today, all the actions the children
had come up with in the first day’s exercises had been worked on by Shabari who
created a simple dance routine which she taught the children. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Shabari and Maitri also worked on emotional
feelings and their expression. The children were always happy to jump and act
funny in front of the remaining group.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shabari & Maitri </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The enactment of feelings and emotions by the group. Lina out volunteer also enjoying the exercise immensely</td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The early evening session was taken by
Deepti Chatti, a researcher with TERI (The Energy and Research Institute) she
has been extensively working and researching on issues related to water and its
policy, and was happy to come in to interact with the children at short notice.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deepti talking to the children about the exercises</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumar drawing the earth and water ratio </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How is water contaminated? Manjunath trying to learn from Deepti</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Through a very simple exercise she actually
explained to the children at we actually have only 1% of all the water in the
world which is usable water by all mankind so it is important to save water.
The children also identified by themselves through a slide the various ways in
which water is contaminated today.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the end of the day, we had the children
following their homework giving by the YES program – do make 2 new friends and
2 acts of kindness which the children took seriously. They were more open to
each other and not shy of the students of the institute either – they were
freely demonstrating the movements they had learnt at the workshop, and that
too with a SMILE!</span><br />
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