Stitching in the park
Every summer, Bookworm privileges working with needle and thread as a way to keep the craft alive but also to collaborate around stitching. In the past, Bookworm has initiated ‘godri’ – quilts as a collaborative initiative as well as collaborative story panels – using motifs hand stitched by various people around memory and story. Bookworm […]
In and Out of the Library System
I have been on the margins of the Government system for all of my life – both personal and professional until the last decade. It is a comfortable, easy place to stand and watch and intersect when and if necessary, driven always by my own needs. My Professional intersections have begun to grow more robust […]
An Open House
Ruth Krauss in her book Open House for Butterflies illustrated with Maurice Sendak writes, Everybody should be quiet Near a little stream and listen Today, I had that joy, not near a stream but within the library – my idea of a stream and I listened to the excited voices of 45 school teachers and […]
A Rainforest in Chimbel
A weekend library session was scheduled into my day. I would be at our community library room in Chimbel and it would be weeks since I was there, so I was excited and curious to experience the sessions we do at the library through our library educators. The story chosen was The Great Kapok Tree, […]
Booktalking with technology
I met the students and faculty of Hongirana School for Excellence on a Library Audit visit late last year. Hongirana School is situated close to Sagar town and has the biodiversity of the Western Ghats with the school surrounded by nature. Within this school, rests a beautiful library building that our team had the joy […]
Special Delivery
Yes, we are a library and yes we receive boxes of books. Yes, this is the fund raising month and yes, boxes of stuff are being left at the library doorstep for the Jumble but a few days back a delivery van pulled up. Many eyes lifted from screen, pages of books and faces and […]
Partnering with teachers
In our LiS program, we realise that the impact and culture of reading can only be strengthened by the rich community of teachers who inhabit a school. We were honored to have two of our LiS school partners encourage their teachers to attend an interactive session at Bookworm. The morning was filled with exploring, reading, […]
When Bholu came Back
Every month, unfailingly we receive a pack of new books that are published by Tulika. Every month there is a scramble to get to the pack first and explore the new books. Every month these new books are discussed at our meetings; comparing, contrasting, commenting and considering on how we will use them, whom we […]
Act Out!
Act Out, a twelve week acting workshop by Director Rajyashree Dutt concluded yesterday at Bookworm with the group performing two plays; Narahari Das and Captain Bumble. As Bookworm brings the curtain down on Act Out for 2016, we are extremely grateful to Raj… or Aunty Raj as the children call her for bringing drama to […]
The Joy of Writing Well … ah well !
We began this June with a determination that we must provide opportunity within Bookworm for readers who are interested in the craft of writing. We know that this connection between reading and writing is not as automatic as we tend to believe and does not happen naturally. What is natural and must be celebrated is […]