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Learn a craft: Aquire a team spirit
Summer is here and so is the vacation, long-awaited by the kids. And they don’t have to while away their time glued to the idiot-box. Or even stay home reading their favourite comic strips or story books.Rather, it can be fun time or time to learn a skill or develop a hobby through extra-curricular activities. From short duration workshops of five days to a month-and-a-half long ones, various organisations have lined up programmes for kids even as you
ng as five.
Dancing days
Danceworx, run by the dance choreographer Ashley Lobo hosts a seven-week summer workshop, and teaching the jazz, social dance and contemporary and Western dance forms are well-trained instructors. Says Samir Malhotra, executive director, “Kids as young as five can enrol. At the end of the workshop, all students will get to perform at an event put up at Siri Fort auditorium, as it has been for the last nine years.”
The National School of Drama’s month-long programme for the 8-16 age group, on the other hand, will not culminate with a stage production. Abdul Latif Khatana, chief of TIE (Theatre in Education) company, points out, “The workshop is through theatre and is not theatre for a production. It seeks the self-exploration and social integration of children by sensitizing them to themselves and their surroundings in a play- way method.”
Theatre with a topical message: care for Nature and conservation of natural resources. That is what WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)-India will aim at in its first-ever five-day workshop, a precursor to a musical production that is in the offing. “Theatre involves a person’s mental, emotional and physical selves and thus enhances the quality of receptivity of any values conveyed through this medium. The workshop is structured in an engaging way to sensitise and create responsiveness in children to the cause of Nature conservation,” explains Mita N. Goswami, director, environment education.
To enable children live close to Nature, Youreka, the outdoor education division of idiscoveri, is offering children, eight day adventure programmes at places like Tirthan, Sitlakhet or Tons in Uttarakhand. Rock climbing, white water rafting and hiking, wilderness backpacking and outdoor survival skills comprise the activities.
The cost of these Youreka programs is on the higher side, hovering around Rs. 12,000 plus, that includes, of course, the costs of travel, boarding and food. The fees of most other workshops are somewhat moderate, starting with NSD’s at Rs. 500.
New Delhi YMCA also offers swimming and coaching for other sports, besides dance for fitness, music and art and craft. Says Sarvjeet Singh, assistant general secretary, “The group activities conducted here seek to inculcate team spirit in the kids.” The YMCA also offers special instrumental music classes.
Art and crafts offer scope for kids to let their creative juices flow.
Says Sunita Bhasin of the Craft and Social Development Organisation, “Kids can join in the quilling art classes being held for the first time. It is a paper rolling technique that can be used innovatively to make different items.”
From palette to palate. Yes. “Children do come in for chocolate and dessert classes, to learn the fancy dishes,” says Aditi Sharma, instructor at Nita Mehta Culinary Academy.
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