[Reader-list] Damroo: Workshop for Creating Content for Children

[Chintan Girish Modi]

 From www.damroo.in

Workshop for Creating Content for Children
3rd - 10th November 2010
*IDC, IIT Bombay
*Supported by Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust
For details contact rajam at iitb.ac.in

Concept Note
*Bridging the Worlds of the Marginalized and the Privileged*
The rich and diverse visual cultures and the vibrant storytelling traditions
of South Asia, make up the foundations for this workshop.
The workshop brings together creative minds from near and distant lands to
create relevant and imaginative content for children.

As the twentyfirst century unfolds into its second decade, the world appears
as engulfed as before, by conflicts and violences
and by the struggle for water, energy, food and other resources that appear
scarce and limited in the face of insatiable human greed.

The meeting in November attempts to bring together practitioners of
traditional arts as well as contemporary voices from South Asia to create
content that provokes thought as well as delights, entertains and enlightens
the young and the very young.

*Format for the Workshop*
To initiate the journey, a suggested focus is "Bridging the Worlds of the
Marginalized and the Privileged".
One hopes that such bridges shall lead to harmonies greater than those we
know so far.
It is well known however, that more than anything else, a creative mind
longs for space and open-endedness.
It may well happen, that the November Workshop throws up directions that are
altogether new.

*Workshop Schedule*
*3 November '10:*
Arrival at IDC. Introductions
*4 November '10: *
Discussion on possibilities, formation of groups
*5, 6, November '10:*
Creation of Content by groups
*7 November '10: *
Visit to Galleries / Theatre / Sightseeing trip
*8, 9 November '10:*
Creation of Content by groups
*10 November '10: *
Summarizing and Charting Out A Future Meet