Dear Friends,
Bornfree Art School is now located in the Tamil Government School,
Austin Town, in the heart of the Bangalore city. We came to this
school to improve the condition of the school and attract children
to education through teaching dance, music, theater, sculpturing,
painting, photographying and sports. There are no aid from the
government to make the school condition better, for which we will
take up. Its school children are potentially child labourers and
street children because they all come from the very poor backgrounds.
Students of BAS now teach school children dance, theater etc and
they attend the regular classes at the school.
Since last week, we started the Shramadan" the contribution
of labor". We clean the toilets, scrape walls to paint freshly
and get all desks and chairs repaired. We are pleased to inform
you that Bornfree Art School made a plan of action of the year
of 2007. Here is a schedule that we planned with students.
Year 2007
January; BAS started to operate in Austin Town, every
Sunday; Shramdan
February; launching the street theater "Come back
to School" Workshop; 3rd-10th
March; 10th Spartacus Returns; 15th- 25th History Expedition
2 in Tamil Nadu
April-May; Camp for children{working, street, freed
bonded labour, school going children}
June; 3rd Sculpture / Painting Exhibition; 16th-17th
; Dance / Theater Performance @ Ranga Shankara
National Release of History Expedition in the Capital; The students
of the Bornfree Art School International met Shri Oscar Fernandez
honorable union Minister for labour after the release of the documentary
film History Expedition. More
details...
July; School Holidays
August; 15th : 3rd Academic Year starts
History Expedition submitted to the Indian Parliament on 30th
August~Children of the Bornfree flew first time to Delhi to submit
the film of History Expedition in the Parliament organized by
UNICEF India; http://www.unicef.org/india
More details with photographs
here ...
September
October
November;
~ 15 children are to be trained dance from 10th to 23rd of November
in Ahmedabad by the Mallika Sarabhai, the most prominent classical
dancer and actor of India. Reports are updated here; www.darpana.com
~ 12 children along with John
Devaraj conduct workshops for tribal children in Chattisgar
with the collaboration of UNICEF. Children who are affected by
local conflicts are residing in the forest to be educated. The
BAS will bring artistic aspects into their education.
December; The schedule is
changed
Childrenize the World CONFLUENCE
~ 1st to 13th December 2007
in Bangalore
The Liberation Parade will be on the 12th
of December in Bangalore. Artists from various places
come to work with children to create beatiful things out of waste
{Kasa innda Rasa}. Each child brings waste material they can find
everywhere they are. Then they create beautiful puppets, music
instruments etc. from the waste (garbage, broken glasses, steel,
fiber glasses, unused daily necessities, etc.). The parade called
Liberation Parade will be taking place with created puppets and
music instruments. For participation, please contact at bornfreeart@gmail.com.
Contact Ph; 9886306366, 9886011830
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