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Visual Arts Program (VAP)
Providing diverse communities, the opportunity to engage in the arts through direct programming, teacher education, and art project participation.
Visual Arts is an integral part of the reading paradigm at Bookworm. Collaborating with the other programs to conduct new, regular library-based visual arts activities with children across Bookworm’s Library and Resource Centres, various community sites, government and other primary schools, and other community libraries, arts festivals, and public spaces.
VAP also conducts professional development modules with facilitators from libraries, schools, NGOs, etc from all over the country as well as opens out its library-based visual arts resources and lesson plans through online professional development modules.
Workshops exploring visual arts and library sessions are opened out to take them to communities and children they work with. The Visual Arts Program also conducts workshops with the team at Bookworm and curate spaces for children to read and create across various arts festivals in Goa.
Flagship Projects of the Visual Arts Program
Nhoi (2018-present)
Nhoi, a project to document the river through drawing and stories resulted in a set of 13 mural panels on paper, the Nhoi storyboard and audio visual documentation that recorded personal statements on the histories, culture and reflections on the river and its many influences on the lives of its people. Upwards of 500 people, aged 3 to 93, from 12 communities participated in this project.
Beginning in January 2018 with the final drawing completed in December following a succession of open access workshop drawing sessions based in riverside villages. The project is currently in its second phase in collaboration with Foundation for Rivers and Ecology, and Earth Matters Foundation, where we seek to document riparian ecosystems and people’s connections to them.
The Tree Book Project (2022-2023)
Through the Mehlli Gobhai Visual Arts Program, we took the artist’s work and intent to children in Goa and beyond, and provided them with inspiration and resources to explore their own artistic potentials. The Tree Book Project enabled children to explore a deep connection with themselves and nature, and create art and books, documenting the same.
The project also enabled the creation of a collaborative mural by children led by artist Isa Hinojosa at the Vinay and Jean Kalgutkar Community Centre. The work of the children was showcased through an exhibition in September 2022.
Enchanted Grove (2022)
The ‘Enchanted Grove’ at Serendipity Arts Festival 2022 was an interactive creative space imagined and created by Bookworm for children to come and see, smell, feel and taste our forests and to revive their relationship with the nature.
