The Enchanted Hour
The Enchanted Hour is a program we have only just begun to enter into with the Melwani Recreation Centre in Fontainhas, Panjim. But the feelings we are left with after a session appear to hold us into the month in a powerful way. As we sat down as a group to think about what we […]
The Late Flight
In our collective pursuit at Bookworm to extend our reach in Goa, we have finally ( after over 8 years of school outreach work) felt bold enough to invite teachers into our circle of learning. We feel ready to share what works and what is sustainable during a school calendar to bring reading joy. In […]
Book Talk with Young Adults
It began as a listing on our monthly calendar – Book Talk with Young Adults. For a library this must become a monthly offering but how do I gather these young adults ? Young adult reading is not often a social exercise and our reading culture is not always inclusive enough to welcome all readers […]
Magic in the Library
Empty entertainment in the library, kind of goes against the depth of how I feel about library work. Make no mistake, I strongly support fun and games, thrive on laughter and merriment and camaraderie enjoy music, chatter and banter but think it best fits around a collection, or a book, or some other literary themed […]
Series of Fortunate Events
2018 for Bookworm has been a year of many, many events. Some of which we engineer in our manic lets-make-a-difference kind of way and others have happened to us. In a conversation on our meeting-rug, there was a cloud of despondency around us. We had just experienced serious illness in one of our most loved […]
Representation in Music for Joshua
Only one in every 100 children’s books features a main character from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic background, a study commissioned by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK in 2017 revealed. The study reviewed 9,115 books published for children in the year and found the collection wanting. In 2017, Lee and […]
New Spaces
It was a Monday in the new Bookworm blue house. Deepali decided to forge a connection with our old library building by asking us to wear red. So at 9. 30 am the house was filled with women in shades of red all assembling together in our pretty meeting room. It was one of our […]
Space Walk
In the library a drama activity we use is called Space Walk. The objectives of this activity help actors to get to know their space as well as practice using their bodies in different ways. Our stage is changing. This week we move to a historic building in Mala Panjim built in 1908 as the […]
The Quilt
A quilt is often made up of remnant scraps stitched together and in that emerges a new object of beauty! It could not be more symbolic than this for me on the 20th day of July, 2018. I have been feeling like a scrap, dragging myself to complete tasks that should have been wrapped up […]
Being Fired, not hired!
At Bookworm Trust we make a concerted effort to keep our blog posts current and updated, even if this means wielding my mighty cursor and shaming and naming people to write down reflective pieces to share ! Yes, irony aside I am often determined to post as freshly as we can because everyday there is […]