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Age Group: 9 to 16 years
Faculty Anju
Description Life Skills – Fixing a meal – The Fun and Health Foods Workshop
Date May 1st to May 3rd (Fri to Sun)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 9 to 16 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1992 and before 31st March 1999
Timings 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Fees Rs. 750
Workshop Contents:
Aimed at equipping children to fix a quick meal, this workshop shows them how cooking is fun too. “Junk” food need not be bad for you after all! This workshop teaches you to make your favourite dishes using healthy ingredients.
With going away to far off lands to study or work being common in today’s world, the participants of this workshop will gratefully remember Anju Aunty for imparting skills that will help them fix a meal instead of going hungry after a long day’s work somewhere in the world!
Anju Sudarshan – The warm café lady at Ranga Shankara, Anju is famous for her culinary skills that range from making mouth-watering Akki Rotti to delicious pastas and Greek Salad. She experiments with food all the time and loves to cook and feed people.
March 5th, 2009
Age Group: 7 – 9 years
Faculty Arvind Gupta
Description Science toys
Date May 4th to 7th (Mon to Thu)
Timings B1 – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
B2 – 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group B1- 7 to 9 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1999 and before 31st March 2002
B2 – 10 to 16 years as on 1st April 2009.
Fees Rs. 1000
Workshop Contents
Children love to make dynamic toys which spin, jump, fly, twirl, and make sound. Science is best understood if a child can see the science principle in a toy. Using simple throwaway materials children will make close to 25 science toys – a cricket cap, a protractor, a spinner, sprinkler, an electric motor and many more.
About Arvind Gupta
Arvind Gupta graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1975. He won the first National Award for Science Popularisation with Children (1988). For close to 30 years, he has been making science fun for children through low-cost activities. His website, www.arvindguptatoys.com is a veritable treasure on this subject. Currently, he is working on a unique children’s science centre at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pane. He tours extensively all over India with his Science Toys workshops.
March 5th, 2009
Age Group: 13 – 16 years
Faculty Neeraj Kabi, Mumbai
Description The Power of Expression — A Theatre Workshop with emphasis on Speech
Date April 13th to April 23rd (no classes on Sun, 19th April)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 13 to 16 years as on 1st April 2009 To be born on or after 1st april 1992 and before 31st march 1997
Timings 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Fees Rs. 3000
Workshop Contents
This is a workshop on self-expression that explores breathing skills, belief, emotions, clarity, projection, sound and techniques of approaching classic text pieces from literature, poetry and drama. The workshop attempts to remove the fear of speaking and inculcates a strong self-belief. It makes children realize that speech is a very powerful tool to reach out and connect to the world regardless of who you are speaking to. The workshop ultimately opens the entire vocal system and teaches the child to be one (in body and mind) with what she/he speaks, to be herself/ himself and not put on an act of speech.
About Neeraj Kabi
An actor, director and human resource trainer, Neeraj Kabi’s workshops at Ranga Shankara are much sought after. His systematic approach to workshopping, the pleasant manner in which he works with children and the individual attention he gives to every participant make his workshops an unforgettable experience. Neeraj has designed this brand new workshop for Summer Express ’09.
Neeraj Kabi is also the Founder and Director of Pravah Theatre, a group that has several productions to its credit and performs regularly all over India.
March 5th, 2009
Age Group — 13 – 16 years
Faculty Jaimini Pathak and Nayantara Roy, Mumbai
Description The Truth in Fantasy — Playwriting and Acting Workshop
Date April 27th to 2nd may. (Mon to Sat)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 13 to 16 years as on 1st April 2009 To be born on or after 1st april 1992 and before 31st march 1997
Timings 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Fees Rs. 2000
Workshop Contents
Writers and Actors will be exposed to various kinds of theatrical scripts and genres. This will be facilitated by theatre games and exercises on the workshop floor. Writers will be encouraged to develop short scripts of their own and Actors will be closely involved in the process of breathing life into these scripts, in addition to the other texts chosen for the workshop.
About Jaimini Pathak
Actor, Director and Writer, Jaimini Pathak is a well-reckoned name in the Indian English Theatre circuit today. As an actor, Jaimini has delivered some remarkable performances, recent amongst which has been his solo performance in the play Mahadevbhai.
Nayantara Roy
Nayantara Roy is a young theatre actor with immense potential. Her recent work in Tukra’s Dream was much appreciated. She loves engaging with children through workshops as she feels, “Children come without any baggage – they are not bound by the complexities and principles of theatrical traditions and always ask questions!”
March 5th, 2009
Age Group: 12 – 16 years
Faculty Dr. Mamta Sagar
Description The Beauty of Poetry
Date April 10th to 14th (Fri to Tue)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 12 to 16 years as of 1st April 2009. To be born on or 1st April 1992 and before 31st March 1997
Timings 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Fees Rs. 1000
Workshop Contents:
Participants play with words, meanings and musicality of the language to get an insight into the making of poetry in this workshop. The art of reading metaphors, putting a visual to words, and the relationship between theatre and poetry will be explored through examples of popular poems from all genres.
Well-known poets will be invited during the course to perform their poetry. Finally, the poems penned by the participants will be exhibited in the Ranga Shankara foyer in an evening of celebration. The kids will read/ perform their own poetry too.
About Dr. Mamta Sagar
Dr. Mamta Sagar is a well established young poet of India. She represented India at the 9th Poetry Africa Festival held in October 2005 at Durban, South Africa and in Bogota, Columbia in 2008. She has conducted poetry workshops for schools in Durban and India. Mamta is a playwright and translator too.
March 5th, 2009
Age Group: 7 – 9 years
Faculty Padmavati Rao
Description Theatre Nature and I
Puppetry Workshop
Date April 6th to 11th (Mon to Sat)
Timings Batch 1 – 8:00 am to 10:00 am (Theatre, Nature and I)
Batch 2 – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm (Puppetry Workshop)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 7 to 9 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1999 and before 31st March 2002
Fees Rs. 2000
Workshop Contents
Theatre, Nature and I
This workshop takes children on a journey that sensitizes them to Nature. They will be exposed to true environmental stories of triumph. The workshop endeavours to enable children to translate environmental awareness into theatrical expressions.
Puppetry Workshop
As David Logan said, “The marvellous thrill of puppetry is that puppets by their very nature do things that are not humanly possible. This allows for the imagination to explore countless different possibilities.”
This workshop takes children through the process of creating a puppet, a character, giving a voice and a personality too. Children would be exposed to a cultural experience of telling a story through puppet theatre.
About Padmavati Rao
Padmavati Rao has anchored Ranga Shankara’s Summer Express since its inception. Extremely popular (and hence sold out within a couple of days!), Pinty Akka as she is known, works with children to help them discover themselves and their creative sides in the most fond manner. She has designed these two brand new workshops for children between 7 and 9 years of age for Summer Express 2009.
Padmavati is very actively involved with Theatre in Education and works for an educational institution in Bangalore. She is very well known for her translations (Girish Karnad’s “Bikhre Bimb” and others), and plays for children that she has directed (“Gumma Banda Gumma” and “The First Leaf”). She was Shankar Nag’s Assistant Director for Malgudi Days and has acted in several movies in Hindi and Kannada.
Age Group: 10 – 12 years
Faculty Kirtana Kumar
Description Theatre Lab
Date April 13th to 18th (Mon to Sat)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 10 to 12 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1997 and before 31 March 1999
Timings 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Fees Rs. 2000
Workshop Contents
This workshop will approach theatre in the fashion of a laboratory by working on participants’ bodies and voices, exploring their minds and ideas and experiment with devising scenes.
For body, voice and mind, three specific skills will be brought to the workshop:
Kalari payattu (the martial art form from Kerala)
Konokol (for rhythm)
Shakespeare and Iambic Pentameter
One of the principle objectives of this workshop is to make classic texts, such as Shakespeare, accessible and comprehensible for children. Using the framework of Shakespeare, the workshop will work on a variety of scenes that children will enjoy, including soliloquy, dialogue and chorus.
Some examples of text we will use include:
- Puck’s last soliloquy in tetrameter from Mid Summer Night’s Dream
- The Bee duet between Katherina and Petrucchio from Taming of the Shrew
- “Friends, Romans & Countrymen” from Julius Caesar
- “Speak the speech” from Hamlet
- “These are the forgeries” – Titania’s pentametric soliloquy from Mid Summer Night’s Dream
About Kirtana Kumar
Actor and film-maker, Karana Kumar has a Master’s Degree in European Classics and American Literature. She trained and performed for six years as an actor with The Asian-American Theatre Project at The Los Angeles Theatre Centre (LATC). To support her performance, she has variously trained in Suzuki Theatre & Booth, Thang-ta, Kalaripayattu, Carnatic vocals and choral singing. She is currently studying Bharathnatayam from Shraddha Kumar, a senior student of Dr. Padma Subramaniam.
She is a trustee of Women Artists’ Group, that runs the year long Theatre Lab for children and is also the proprietor of Little Jasmine Films, Bangalore. Her dream come true is a rural Artist’s Retreat and training Centre that she has developed outside Bangalore.
Age Group: 10 – 12 years
Faculty Ram Ganesh Kamatham
Description Activity Based Theatre Workshop
Date April 6th to April 11th (Mon to Sat)
Venue Ranga Shankara
Age Group 10 to 12 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1997 and before 31 March 1999
Timings 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Fees Rs. 2000
Workshop Contents
The participants of the workshop will explore the world of theatre through the use of movement and game-based exercises. The workshop process has a strong emphasis on creativity, co-operation, teamwork and ‘learning by doing’, with an aim to foster a sense of mutual respect in an environment that is challenging yet fun.
About Ram Ganesh Kamatham
Ram Ganesh Kamatham is among the best young playwrights of India today. A recipient of several awards and scholarships for training abroad, Ram Ganesh has created work for stage, film, radio, and video games. With a heady mix of dark humour and biting satire, his plays entertain, provoke and challenge audiences, confronting them with the problems of next generation, young urban India. His most famous works include “Dancing on Glass”, “Creeper”, and “Crab”, that he has written and directed.
March 5th, 2009
Age Group: 7 – 9 years
Faculty Padmavati Rao
Description Theatre Nature and I
Puppetry Workshop
Date April 22nd to 27th (Wed to Tue)
Timings Batch 1 – 8:00 am to 10:00 am (Theatre, Nature and I)
Batch 2 – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm (Puppetry Workshop)
Venue MES Kishore Kendra, Malleshwaram
Age Group 7 to 9 years as on 1st April 2009. To be born on or after 1st April 1999 and before 31st March 2002
Fees Rs. 2000
Workshop Contents
Theatre, Nature and I
This workshop takes children on a journey that sensitizes them to Nature. They will be exposed to true environmental stories of triumph. The workshop endeavours to enable children to translate environmental awareness into theatrical expressions.
Puppetry Workshop
As David Logan said, “The marvellous thrill of puppetry is that puppets by their very nature do things that are not humanly possible. This allows for the imagination to explore countless different possibilities.”
This workshop takes children through the process of creating a puppet, a character, giving a voice and a personality too. Children would be exposed to a cultural experience of telling a story through puppet theatre.
About Padmavati Rao
Padmavati Rao has anchored Ranga Shankara’s Summer Express since its inception. Extremely popular (and hence sold out within a couple of days!), Pinty Akka as she is known, works with children to help them discover themselves and their creative sides in the most fond manner. She has designed these two brand new workshops for children between 7 and 9 years of age for Summer Express 2009.
Padmavati is very actively involved with Theatre in Education and works for an educational institution in Bangalore. She is very well known for her translations (Girish Karnad’s “Bikhre Bimb” and others), and plays for children that she has directed (“Gumma Banda Gumma” and “The First Leaf”). She was Shankar Nag’s Assistant Director for Malgudi Days and has acted in several movies in Hindi and Kannada.
March 5th, 2009
The Bangalore Astronomical Society plans to kickstart it’s new year (and the International Year of Astronomy too (IYA 2009)) with a star party under the skies @ Coorg (koDagu) this January.
While Jan 24th and 25th also happen to be closest to the new moon, Coorg as a place holds value of interest for things well beyond astronomy (For the adventure crazy, nature crazy amongst you).
The routine sky gazing, constellation tracing, deep sky observing apart, we also intend that this session be a productive brainstorming session for us, as to take astronomy to all the bangaloreans, with much spirit and enthusiasm in this year of astronomy, than ever before.
Logistics
* We intend to arrange a Tempo Traveller or a Swaraj Mazda for those amongst us who are looking to travel together, depending on the number of total registrants.
* We expect charges: For transport and stay (mandatory) to account to Rs 1000 + 500 = Rs 1500 approximately. Please note that this is approximate and might vary either way depending upon the final signup count)
* Please feel free to inform your friends, et al
* Please feel free to join our event broadcast list: Click here
* Please sign up first (Click the link below), and subsequently get in touch with us ASAP to render your payments to your closest BAS representative
Savvy? Please sign up asap!
When January 23rd, 2009 10:30 PM through January 25th, 2009 9:15 PM
Location
Guest House Dorms
Bagamandala, Coorg, KA
India
Contact Mobile: 09448451121
Mobile: 09980505003
Email: info@bas.org.in
REGISTER HERE
January 20th, 2009
Geniekids is commencing its next batch of Training in Early Childhood from 16th jan08. A Program for parents of young (0-8yrs children) children or people desirous of working with young children or starting a preschool.
Program offers a comprehensive understanding of early childhood learning and development and empowers you to work effectively with one or many children or even start your own pre-school or child care center. visit www.geniekids.com/tec or call 25202510
Warm Regards
Aditi & Ratnesh
Geniekids Learning Resources Pvt. Ltd
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There is genie inside every child
come lets discover the magic
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Phones: 2520-2510, 411-61-575, 98450-45833
Website: www.geniekids.com
Geniekids Learning Center:
No 3023, 8th Cross, 13th Main (NPS road), HAL 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560008
January 7th, 2009
active canvas is happy to announce new courses for children and adults. Listed below are the names and details. We allot seats on a first come first serve basis, and since only limited seats are available, we urge you to register quickly.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing you at active canvas!
Team @ active canvas
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Upcoming courses – Aug 2008
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Creative Drawing & Painting
Age: 6 to 8 yrs
Duration: 10 sessions
Dates: 9th Aug to 11th Oct 2008
Days: Saturdays
Time: 3.30 to 5 pm
Children discover the world of texture, line, shape, and color as they create original artwork. A wide range of basic media skills are developed including painting, drawing & collage. They get to work on pencil, pastels, crayons and watercolour paints.
Each term expands the artistic horizon of the children, whether they are new to art or repeating the class. A fun activity will be organized every last Saturday of the month.
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Fun with Watercolors
Age: 9yrs and above
Dates: On-going; Join anytime
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 5pm to 6.30 pm
Students will learn concepts such as composition, brush techniques, washes, light and dark applications and much more while working on landscapes, still life and portraits.
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Drawing & Sketching
Age: 9yrs and above
Dates: On-going;Join anytime
Days: Tuesdays
Time: 5pm to 6.30 pm
Students get to work on various elements of sketch work with advice on techniques and drawing mediums. They are introduced to principles of line drawing, shading techniques, perspectives, coloring, light effects and object definition. In this course students get to work on pencil, charcoal, pastels and crayons. Students will work from live models, samples and displayed objects.
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Theatre for children
Age Group: 7 yrs to 9 yrs
Start date: All year; Join anytime classes Days & Time: Saturdays 3 p.m to 5 p.m
Theatre with kids is a programme that will take your child through an array of exciting exercises and games. Your child will learn the basics of theatre like expression, movement, performance, and skills such as collaboration, listening, visualizing and designing. Students get to participate in an annual performance.
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Guitar with Alan
for children and adults
Age: 10 yrs and above
Dates: On-going; Join anytime
Days: Thursdays
Time: 5 pm to 8 pm (1 hour slots)
Always played pretend guitar while listening to your favorite music? Come learn to play it for real! You will learn the alphabet of music, chord patterns and sets & various strumming techniques.
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Ikebana for adults
Start date: 16th August 2008
Days: Saturdays
Time: 4 p.m to 6 p.m
Sign-ups called for Certified Introductory Course in Ikebana.
This 10 session course is to introduce basic concepts and methodology of the traditional Japanese art of Ikebana.
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German language for adults(Beginner’s)
Age: 15 yrs and above
Duration: 20 sessions
Start Date: Aug 16th 2008
Days: Saturday and Sunday
Times: 3.30 p.m to 5.30 p.m (sat); 10 a.m to 12 p.m (sun)
The Beginners course provides participants with the tools required for a wide range of basic interactions like (Introducing oneself, talking about weather, hobbies, families & family members, shopping, making appointments, expressing state of health). Participants acquire a solid structural and lexical base that serves as a foundation for future language acquisition. Attention is given to the four principle skill areas – Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing – with a particular emphasis on Speaking and Listening.
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Introducing happy hour classes in our pottery studio…
Sign up for our morning (11 a.m to 1 p.m) and afternoon sessions (3 p.m to 5 p.m) on weekdays and get Rs.1000/- off on our pottery classes. Call 41609122 for more details.
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active canvas
343, 10th A Main, 3rd Cross, Near Ashoka Pillar, Jayanagar I Block, Bangalore, Karnataka
560011
ph: (080) 41609122 . email: info@activecanvas.in [mailto:info@activecanvas.in].
web: www.activecanvas.in
August 7th, 2008
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