10th Birthday Party
Written by Deepali It is the 10th year of this wonderfully bookish place called Bookworm and its going to be a year long celebration to commemorate the birth and growing up years of this baby. We have kicked off the celebrations with our Birthday Blast Party for the Preschoolers last week. And what a blast […]
A New LiS School – Mae-de-Deus, Corjuem
Written by Flavia LiS has been in Aldona since June 2012, but June 2015 brought some shocks. We were not able to continue our sessions in the first LiS school to dedicate a room to the library program, Auxilium Carona, due to circumstances beyond our control. Soon after that, another school in Aldona, STGPS informed […]
Bookworm Events Calendar – September 2015
My first month with Bookworm
Written by Prerana It’s been one month since I’ve been a part of Bookworm, and honestly it’s one of the most remarkable experiences I’ve had so far. I remember the afternoons I used to spend procrastinating and lazing around, whiling away my time like the lazy log I sometimes am, but Bookworm changed all of […]
A Workshop on Compressing the World: Reading and Writing Short Fiction
September 4, 2015: “Reading the Nation through Short Fiction”, talk at the International Centre, Donapaula – 4:30 to 5:30 PM September 11, 2015: “Making Dreams Travel — Writing Women’s Lives, Re-writing the Nation”, talk at Institute Menezes Braganza, Panaji – 4:30 to 5:30 PM September 12, 2015: “Reading the Nation through Fiction”, talk at […]
Wish comes true…
Written by Melcom I still remember that day when one of the St. Inez boys asked me “Sir! When are you going to take us to your library …we had been there once so now we wish to go again”. In my mind I was so happy to know that the children had an urge […]
Review of Dear Mrs. Naidu by Mathangi Subramaniam
Written by Aishwarya When it comes to attaining a quality education, so many of us are privileged to even be a part of the race, crouched and ready for the whistle to blow. Hitherto, there are far too many who don’t have the same privilege. They may have the grit and maybe even the capacity […]
Workshop on Puppetry
Written by Deepali The D day had arrived. It was the day when Alia and I were scheduled to present a workshop on Puppetry in the Dada Vaidya College of Teaching in Ponda. We prepared ourselves and set off on a cloudy afternoon with butterflies in our stomachs and reached our destination in no time. […]
Mukand and Riaz- Play at St. Thomas Boys Primary School, Aldona
Written by Alia Ever since the CLCE conference, Nina Sabnani’s words and images had permeated the Bookworm Library like friendly spirits, popping up from the shelves at odd moments. So when St. Thomas Boys Primary School said they wanted us to contribute to their “Independence Day” program with something, Nina’s book ‘Mukund and Riaz‘ seemed […]
Pre-School Morning Rain Walk
Written by Shirly The weather was, not too co-operative with our plans to take the Pre-School Morning (PSM) group out for a Nature Walk. This being August in Goa we should not be surprised. But thanks to Deepali’s warrior-discipline and the helping hands of the team—Vandana, Barkha, Jewel, Nidhi’s mother, Ria’s father and Tapasya, we […]