Representing our creative selves
This school break, it seemed imperative that I enable the team to reflect on self, go inwards and strengthen their own personhoods. This need arises from the nature of our work. It makes very heavy demands on us as people and I feel in order to keep going and nurturing others we must on occasion […]
Theatre on the Beach
The sea shore is about 3 kms from Bookworm. We drive past everyday, sometimes more than twice a day and have not explored the space for what it can do to our spirit and body. Miramar Beach from Bookworm’s perspective has been left to the bus loads of tourists who make a bee line for […]
The Upside Down Bookworm
Perhaps, all library spaces get sectioned and organised into genres/ categories/ age groups/ quiet and active zones and what not. Bookworm has been no different, in that, through out time, given the space available we have played around with organisation and turned upside down, right side up and down again. We had another topsy turvy […]
New Books ! New Books !
I went book shopping in Delhi with my favourite group – Tibetan Librarians whom I mentor on a Library Empowerment Program for the Tibetan Board of Education ( Government in Exile ). My colleague and friend Usha Mukunda and I used a book shopping experience as a site for building discernment and gathering fine books […]
Actors speak out…
A theatrical production is only as good as it’s Director. The Bookworm team who are exploring theatre and poetry this year as part of our professional development goals had the opportunity to jump on stage amidst all other on-going work and put on a show for some of the most erudite and discerning of audiences. […]
Celebrating a Thousand Moons
Maxine Bernsten one of the finest teachers ever, celebrated her 80th with Bookworm in Goa. We were honored, delighted and excited to play a part in this journey. Maxine and only Maxine could have managed by her presence alone to bring together 60 + people from all parts of the country to Goa to celebrate […]
I speak of rivers on a 10th Anniversary
Bookworm is 10 years old this September. Like a river, I started at a source with my erstwhile partner Elaine, in 2005 in St. Inez, Panaji and now find I am flowing alone into multiple terrains, but through this journey, the source is the same. A place where children learn to love books ! The […]
Watching them watching themselves
Eight sessions later, Alia Sinha engineered a miracle with a group ( 42 to be precise) of boys who find themselves in Std. 4 in St. Thomas Boys Primary School and suddenly realise that they are the seniors in a tiny primary school building. Alia was assigned a production which she accomplished with characteristic passion, […]
Keeping Still with Poetry
Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still. Every outreach session with Bookworm now includes a poetry reading. We bring the same intensity of experience that we demand from story telling to poetry that also tells stories but more importantly demands of us to feel the stories that flow out of words. […]
The beef about Burger
“Burger”, our first Konkani story Read Aloud at Bookworm. A very private in-house reading session guided by Siddhi and Padma, Don Bosco College of Social Work interns. Unbeknownst to them, they are playing a wonderful role in immersing us with Konkani. As both of them sit together to figure out a session plan or read […]