Summer School 2013

No, That's not for you,

Soon you'll find the bright places,

Where Boombands are playing' 

- Oh! the places you'll go - Dr. Seuss

For brighter and greener patches - We are flagging off the centre with Summer School 2013

This year, summer school was designed with the intent to explore various art forms and material. We combined disciplines to observe the lines blur between them and have lotsa fun while we're at it. The facilitators are given a flexible structure with their various groups to play with the content according the their level and response to the material and form.  

Well, to make sense of what that actually means, this is what we came up with...

(image: facilitator's workshop for summer school 2013 - Music and Sculpture)

Movement and Mosaic

The twirl of a skirt, ribbons in a wave, a photograph in motion, a jump, skip, hop and stillness! Consider that stillness to assemble fragmented pieces to create movement on a static form. Children will be exposed to a wide range of activities with music and props to explore movement and patterns through repetition.

Music and Sculpture

These art forms may appear to have very little in common, but they share the same vocabulary -   scale, form, structure and shape all have similar meanings and functions in both art forms. Both are constructed, built and shaped. Many artists have attempted to combine these elements to create a new form. Most often when we listen a good piece of music we forget ourselves to it, it has its mysterious relationship with time, while sculpture defies time and might outlive us. Our dynamic engagement with a static piece of work goes beyond the relevance of time itself.

Our children will be exposed to the basic elements of these two art forms in-tandem to each other. 

Cooking and Weaving 

The various processes that make a pickle just tangy enough or a jam not too sweet is the balance between attention to the finer detail and of course practice, with a dash of love. The warmth of a shawl or a mat comes from the many stories it has heard from artisans who painstakingly spend months to weave them. Attending to every thread that makes a whole mat and owing to summer memories of grandmothers across India making goodies for their little ones,  to finer elements and minute influences. Our children will experience the art of weaving and cooking at its basic level.

Terrace gardening and Painting

Just as there so many specialisations for all the special things around us, there exists horticulture therapy for children and adults with special needs as well. We will merely be touching through this concept in these three weeks. We will be looking at simple people-plant relationship – plants purifying our air and supply our food; plants meet our demands by providing nourishment to all our senses. Painting works with all our senses as well – this summer we would be exploring Eric Carle’s style of painting and mural making. His works also are centred around nature as a theme. 

Structured Play/ Theatre and Making Toys

Unfurl those colourful cloaks and put on those magic lenses, get on the flying carpet for a ride into the unknown. 

Playing comes very naturally to every child, as adults we need to learn to loosen up to play. Play therapy works on many levels for both children and adults involved in the process. Children identify and associate to objects around in a very inhibited  This series will look at opening out these possibilities into actual spaces and try and enter these uninhibited streams within the child and ourselves.