On the 25th of March, twenty four kids from 'Kilkari' Bihar Bal Bhawan [Bihar's House of Children : a government initiative to promote creativity among kids] got together to experience their first 'video film making workshop'.
These childen, between the ages of nine and sixteen will spend ten days handlig cameras, writing scripts, learning composition, and finally, coming up with short projects of their own.
It's a joy working with these kids from working class families.
It's my first experience working with a government organistaion, and it's amazing how well run Kilkari is. The staff went especially out of their way to ensure that the 'red tape' was kept at a minimum.
There are two very helpful ladies at the workshop site who ensure that even the minor details and requirements are taken care of, and that my team is supplied with lots of tea!
The kids are wonderfully refreshing. The reason why I do these workshops is that they leave me greatly enriched, and absolutely, excruciatingly, exhausted at the end of the day!
3 comments:
Excellent work you're doing very specially as a corrective to most institutions that discourage creative/critical/lateral thinking. The ability to express oneself is one of the most valued gifts that can be shared because it is a very precious resource for our civilisation and the lives of our children. Great work Frank.
This is simply "WOW"!!!
It's nice to see you finally taking my advice and putting some of the great things you do with kids on the blog. This isn't the first time you've had kids making videos, in fact you did this with 24 girls who were rescued 'child labourers' way back in the year 2000, if I remember correctly.
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