Lights! Camera! Action! … Drumroll … Theatrical Trailer!!!
Written by Meghna | I knew something dramatic was cooking for the launch of Maxine’s “Threading Texts within Contexts” and I was quite excited to watch Team Bookworm embark on a story telling journey of a new sort. I had imagined it to be a dramatic reading of excerpts from the book or monologues on…I […]
Our first sale on flight
Written by Ajaa | Some of the most unexpected and pleasant things happen at the most unexpected places. This time in the blue autumn sky! After ‘Threading texts within contexts’ by our revered and so dear Maxine Berntsen, was released at Goa, Maxine and I took a flight back to Hyderabad; a bit tired, elated […]
The Bookworm Film club screening ‘Trikal’
The Bookworm Film club is thrilled to invite you to our screening of ‘Trikal’ (Past, Present, Future), on Monday, the 12th of October, at 4:00 pm, at the Bookworm Library.Written and directed by Shyam Benegal, ‘Trikal’ (1985) explores the trials of an aristocratic family in Goa, as they struggle with social and political transformation at […]
My Sweet Home at Chimbel
Written by Prerana The Chimbel community library was buzzing with static energy though last Saturday session was attended by around twelve children. The Words ” My Sweet Home” stuck out in a delightful shade of pink against the dark backdrop of the blackboard. The curiosity of the children seemed to take the form of a […]
Bookworm Events Calendar–October 2015
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My experience in Libraries in School
Written by Melcom It’s been almost four months, since I have joined Bookworm full time and so far up till now, it has been an enriching journey working in this organization. Being a part of Libraries in School (LiS) is one among the enriching journey I have ever come across. The reason I am saying […]
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Written by Shraddha Joining Bookworm was more than what I’d wanted to do. At the start I was very scared as the Bookworm library was new to me, as were its people. Being an introvert, i was finding it very difficult to cope with the environment… as time passed by, I got to know people […]
The Library Lives!
Written by Alia As the country accelerates towards an unquestioning plunge into Development, as books and book-shops are driven to extinction by their glossy digital counterparts, as “things fall apart” we find ourselves afraid. Waiting to see the storm of the digital era through- and hoping we’ll still be relevant on the other side. Library […]
Writing and Reading Fiction
Goa University’s VRPP program under the Kavivarya Bakibaab Borkar Chair in Comparative Literature provided me a most wonderful opportunity to participate in Githa Hariharan’s Course , ‘Compressing the world: Reading and Writing Short Fiction‘. So many threads of learning and memory were evoked and my responsibility to write better, share more powerfully and use the […]
My stitching story
Written by Deepali One fine summer evening as we wrapped up our stitching in the park in Panjim garden day, I met Eleanor Veigas, a textile artist who is now based in South Goa. Eleanor shared the Banyan Tree Stitching project which was begun with Bookworm around 1. 5 years ago and now led by […]