Date: Saturday, 9th February
Time: 14:30 – 16:30
Venue: Elphinstone College, Seminar Room 2
Conducted by: Arka Mukhopadhyay

This workshop is intended to serve as an introduction to poetry in performance for young children. It will encourage them to look at poetry as a performance medium, by playing around with the oral and aural aspects of poetry. It will also explore ways of using the body in poetry performance - stamping, stomping,clapping, clucking, moving, dancing and anything in-between! Through all this, the workshop will also explore a number of themes that are of importance to the immediate surroundings of the children, including (but not limited to): countries of the imagination (the title of the workshops is from a Walter de la Mare poem about an imaginary land called Tartary), sights and sounds of the city, heroes and heroines, etc.

(More about the workshop leader and details on how to register below the fold.)

Arka Mukhopadhyay is a Bangalore based performer, actor, director and theatre educator. He teaches theatre at an international school there, and has performed and given workshops all over the country. As part of the SpeechMagic initiative, launched by him to popularize Spoken Word in all its forms amongst children and young people, he has been working extensively on storytelling and performance poetry for children. He is the joint winner of the Toto Funds the Arts award for creative writing, 2008.

To register
Please mail kalaghoda DOT workshops AT gmail DOT com with the subject line ‘Tartary.’
In your mail, please include:
1. Your child’s name, your name, an email address and a phone number (preferably cellular)
2. A line or two about your child’s previous experience in this area.
3. A line or two about what you’re looking for from this workshop.

There are only 16 seats available. Please register early!

Please inform us well in time if your child need to drop out, so we can free the seat for someone else.

Please make sure your child is at the workshop venue 15 minutes before the posted start time. Please ensure that your child is carrying a pen or pencil and writing paper or a notebook. S/he can also bring in any favourite poem, and any musical instrument s/he knows to play. The last two are optional.

We will inform all registered participants about any changes in schedules. But please keep an eye on this post as well for any changes.