Pomegranate's Summer Workshops

[Deepa Shahi]

Hi Moms !

Just thought I'd share the summer workshops schedule that Pomegranate is organising for the schools that have holidays in April/May, to give you an idea of what kind of workshops they do. For our holiday period - June/July - they have had workshops in the past for IB school kids, but need a minimum quorum of at least 10 kids for the duration of the workshop(s). So if any of you moms are interested and can organize a minimum of 10 kids (dont have to all be from our class/school) you can reach out to Pomegranate and they may be able to come up with something good.....

Regards
Deepa

P.S. They have an evening batch of of 'Shakes Peers In The Park' in the April- May schedule for which some IB schools children have started signing up incase you are interested...


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POMEGRANATES IN SUMMER!

 2013

 
Come April, and we bring to you our very own Pomegranate Summer: A month full of revolutionary new workshops for children that promise to impel your imagination, compel your curiosity and propel your personality to pull off a creative coup!

Pomegranate will lead the children of Mumbai up the garden path, down a walk in the park, and through the patli gullies of the city’s history. Together, children will try their hand at designing and sculpting art for public spaces, rouse poor Shakespeare from his midsummer dreams and storm the ancient bylanes of Mumbai armed with determination and a camera.  

Look below and no further for The Pomegranate Summer Manifesto:

 
Help, It’s Alive!

A workshop in story, sculpture and public space

Something that was never there is missing. Something that was never found is lost. Something that never lived is now alive. And it is here that it shall be made. Help, It’s Alive! is a workshop where children will conceptualise, sculpt and construct those quirky objects and creatures that lurk about in our urban spaces.

Using their imagination and led into the process with exciting stories, children will sculpt a variety of materials ranging from papier mache to clay to scrap to soft wire. Participants will create sculptures, installations and 3-D artworks under the guidance of artist Saumya Ananthakrishna. They will then visit a public place close by and populate this space with their wacky works and lead us on a merry treasure hunt with clues they leave behind for us to find.

The module focuses on a variety of sculptural materials, gets children to ideate and visualize and finally see their works in a public space where passersby actually react to their works.

 

Ages: 7-10 yrs

Dates: 2-10 May (excluding Sunday. 8 day module)

Timings: 10 30 am - 12 30 noon

Fees: Rs 3500 (including all materials)

Venue : P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi



For any specific queries on 'Help, Its Alive!' please call Saumya on 9819543774

 
Radio Ga Ga

At a time when Radio is experiencing a revival comes a fabulous new workshop at The Pomegranate Workshop that takes you beyond the noise and chatter of RJing and Radio talk shows. Radio Gaga! is a unique, first-of-its-kind workshop where children are introduced to a variety of dramatic processes and techniques on their way to recording a Radio Play. Radio Gaga! is a powerhouse of fun where children will participate in a host of theatre activities and learn Voice Culture, Diction, Dialogue delivery and Storytelling under the guidance of professionals and finally record their own Radio Play in a Studio! Our faculty for the program is theatre actor-director and voice Artist Rohit Tiwari.

 
Ages : 7-10 yrs

Dates : 2nd May - 8th May(excluding Sunday. 6 day module)

Timings : 10 30 am - 12 30 noon

Fees: Rs 4200 (including final recording and DVD for each child)

Venue : P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi

 
For specific details on Radio Ga Ga please call Priya on 9892210539

 

Mumbai.Doc

Confronted with its sprawling skyline, traffic snarls and ‘happening’ parties, it is hard to imagine Mumbai beyond its main roads: a serene sisterhood of islands, a quiet fishing village, a bustling port, a happy hunting ground for Malabar pirates, a simmering cauldron of nationalistic activism. The face of Mumbai conceals more than it reveals.
Not anymore. Mumbai.Doc is a documentary filmmaking workshop where the children show us what Mumbai means to them. At this workshop, children select and explore an area of Mumbai – absorbing its charm, meeting its residents, investigating its history, uncovering its secrets – and learning the art of film making in the process.
 
From start to finish, the children will conceptualise their documentary, conduct their own research, shoot their film and edit their footage. The end result will be a film that not only expresses their love for their city, but their creative experiments in cinema. The workshop will be conducted by Ragini Singh Khushwaha and Zahra Gabuji, Pomegranate film facilitators who work through the year teaching film making and hosting film clubs at some of Mumbai’s leading international schools.
 
In November 2011 Pomegranate’s films by children (one live action and one animation) were selected and screened in the Little Directors International competition category at the 17thInternational Childrens Film Festival of India, Hyderabad, where the makers of these films were all invited as child delegates.
 
 
Ages : 12-16 yrs
 
Dates : 2nd May – 10 May (excluding Sundays - 8 day module)
 
Timings : 10am – 1pm
 
Fees : Rs 5697 including all materials plus 12.36 percent service tax (Rs 803)
Total amount payable = Rs 6500 (this includes all taxes, editing and all materials). The children will each have a fully edited film on a DVD at the end of the workshop
 
Venue : Bandra East and West (on shooting days at gaothans/communities of Bandra West and editing at Pomegranate office, MIG Colony, Bandra East - participants will be informed of the schedule in advance)
 
 
 
For any specific queries on MUMBAI.DOC please call Ragini on 9004334977
 
 

Shakes’ Peers in the Park!

Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ meets Megamind (or Kung Fu Panda or The Wimpy Kid or...) in this crazy workshop. Led by theatre director, scriptwriter and artist Irawati Karnik and creative writing facilitator Kruti Suba, Shake’s Peers in The Park will see children invade one of the bard’s most playful works with creative ideas of their own – be it incorporating their favourite characters from movies or books right from Harry Potter to Percy Jackson and Captain Underpants, or weaving their own plots into the story to create “confusion worse confounded”!

All the world’s a stage at this workshop, where children will rescript Shakespeare’s plays and recast them with their own favourite characters, build their own props, assemble their own costumes and “strut and fret their hour upon the stage” – not in a theatre, no – but in a park, for all to see. Besieged by Harry Potters, Bone and Captain Underpants, poor Will Shakes will be left clutching his hair, crying “Hell is empty and all the devils are here!”

The workshop module includes theatre activities, ideation, scripting, creating props and costumes and finally enacting the play at a park nearby.

The enactment will be documented on video and the children each will have a video documentation and their very own rewritten Shakespeare script to add to their portfolio of redefining work that they create mid summer!

Ages : 9-13yrs

Dates : 22 April – 2 May (excluding Sundays - 10 day module)

Timings: 4 30 pm - 6 30 pm

Fees: Rs 5500 including all materials

Venue : P L Deshpande Academy, Prabhadevi and park near Sidhi Vinayak temple

 
For any specific queries on Shake's Peers in the Park, please call Zahra on 9820521940

 
To register for any of the Pomegranate Summer Programs, please reply to this email with the name of the parent, name of the child, age of the child, mobile number of parent, postal address and the program for which the child is being registered. Please specify your preferred mode of payment in the email (payment options are stated below)

 
 
Faculty details for Pomegranates in Summer:
 
 
Saumya Ananthakrishna heads all visual art programs at Pomegranate, Mumbai. Saumya received her Masters in Visual Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda. She was recently awarded the Lalit Kala Scholarship. Saumya has been a part of several group shows including Beyond Credos, Birla Academy, Calcutta and New Directions, Alliance Francaise, Delhi . She has been a part of several Art Camps and Workshops including "Urban Typhoon" organised by KHOJ and URBZ where she collaborated in working on the "Khirkee Cookbook". Saumya has been a Lecturer at Amity University and Delhi College of Art. Apart from her art practice, she has been deeply involved in art education and remains interested in bridging the gap between the artist community and the public. She worked on illustrations for the project Different Tales conducted by Anveshi, Hyderabad, which involved collecting and illustrating stories dealing with lives of minority groups, written by minority groups, and introducing them into school syllabi and libraries. She has also written and illustrated for the children’s magazine Chakmak published by Eklavya, Bhopal.


Irawati Karnik is a writer, theatre director and actor. Her play 'Sex, Morality and Censorship' co-written with Shanta Gokhale and directed by Sunil Shanbag has been performed over the last years all across the country. She has also recently co-written a play (with Ajay Krishnan) 'A casting', (English)a satire on the role racial prejudices play in the world of casting. It has been directed by Sophia Stepf and opened in Berlin in 2011. Her most recent work, 'Satellite City' (English), was part of the Writers' Bloc festival 2012, organized by The Royal Court, London and Rage, Mumbai. Irawati was a member of the 2012 group of writers at the Sangam House international writers' residency, at Nrittyagram, Bangalore. She is currently in the process of writing a monologue on the imagined relationship between the Kashmiri Pandit and the Kashmiri Muslim in the context of the exodus and the issue of the nation state, to be produced by The Indian Ensemble, Bangalore.


Kruti Suba is a literature graduate with a diploma in Early Childhood Education, Kruti acquired her Master’s Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at The New York University (NYU). She has worked as an education research assistant at NYU and an ESL instructor at the Long Island Business Institute, New York. Kruti currently works as head for all language based programs at The Pomegranate Workshop, Mumbai, where she devises syllabi for educational programs, develops curriculum for various language programs and conducts her own workshops for both adults, children and corporate.
 

Rohit Tiwari is an Actor, Writer & Voiceover Artist with a combined Media and theatre experience of over 12 years. He has acted in the feature film ‘Dhobhighat’, Directed by Kiran Rao and has two more movies under production. Rohit has been a Radio Jockey with Radio Mirchi and Big 92.7fm and has done voiceovers for several television commercials, radio spots and animation series. He has written 3 plays and a movie. His most recent appearances on television have been on Crime Patrol on Sony and Chidiyaghar on SAB TV. Rohit has conducted several workshops for various organizations including Pomegranate and has generated a series of radio plays with children at Pomegranate in addition to conducting several facilitator training modules at Pomegranate.
 
Ragini Sigh Khushwaha and Zahra Gabuji have both completed their post graduation in media communications from the Social Communications Media course at the Sophia Polytechnic. Ragini and Zahra conduct film making workshops at leading IB and ICSE schools right through the academic year in addition to working with both junior and senior school in areas like creative writing and reading. Ragini has been assistant director for advertising and corporate films and Zahra has been a writer with the Hindustan Times before taking to full time facilitation at The Pomegranate Workshop.


As always, registrations are on a first-come-first-served basis, so sign your kids up for a revolutionary Pomegranate Summer!

Registrations are confirmed on payment
  
Note: In case of cheque payments, cheques to be issued in the name of Pomegranate Eduworkshop Pvt. Ltd. Cheques can also be couriered to us at the following address and in case of cash payments, the timings are 11 am – 4 pm, Monday – Saturday. In case of bank transfers, please mail us and we will get back with the account details. In case of a bank transfer please ensure that you mail us your name and bank account number once you make the transfer so we can confirm receipt of your payment.

Address for payments and courier of cheques:

The Pomegranate Workshop,

D-83/848, MIG Colony,

Near Guru Nanak Hospital,

Gandhinagar,

Bandra (E)

Mumbai - 400051

Tel: 32159952
 
 www.tpw.in