Representation in Music for Joshua
Only one in every 100 children’s books features a main character from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic background, a study commissioned by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK in 2017 revealed. The study reviewed 9,115 books published for children in the year and found the collection wanting. In 2017, Lee and […]
New Spaces
It was a Monday in the new Bookworm blue house. Deepali decided to forge a connection with our old library building by asking us to wear red. So at 9. 30 am the house was filled with women in shades of red all assembling together in our pretty meeting room. It was one of our […]
Space Walk
In the library a drama activity we use is called Space Walk. The objectives of this activity help actors to get to know their space as well as practice using their bodies in different ways. Our stage is changing. This week we move to a historic building in Mala Panjim built in 1908 as the […]
The Quilt
A quilt is often made up of remnant scraps stitched together and in that emerges a new object of beauty! It could not be more symbolic than this for me on the 20th day of July, 2018. I have been feeling like a scrap, dragging myself to complete tasks that should have been wrapped up […]
Being Fired, not hired!
At Bookworm Trust we make a concerted effort to keep our blog posts current and updated, even if this means wielding my mighty cursor and shaming and naming people to write down reflective pieces to share ! Yes, irony aside I am often determined to post as freshly as we can because everyday there is […]
Evidence in our community library
“You were selling clothes at the sale, I saw you! “ “ No bags, no miss? I saw you selling bags. “ “ Nazmeen miss was selling bags, Sujata miss was selling clothes “ These are the comments that greeted me today at our Chimbel community library as I walked in on a wet rainy […]
Retreating into Books
Like many ideas, the Book Retreat emerged from a frustration. I was frustrated that a group of Editors at Pratham Books, one in particular whom I have followed from the side lines and whom I know to be intelligent, thoughtful, charming and determined could not see what I was pointing out about books in general […]
LiS Showcase 2017-18
LiS Showcase – this phrase popped into my head as we all sat down one day in March, planning for a ritualistic ending to the academic year of the Libraries in School ( LiS) program. Early in August we had Gouthami an NGO Consultant join our team. It was a matter of weeks before Gouthami […]
MOP at Sandipani Library in Sattari
Sandipani Library is a tucked away in Sattari taluka, at the edge of a village, near the river. It is a little library, neat as a pin and waiting. We met Mr Suresh Zarekar , the librarian at the Goa River Draw workshop and he welcomed us to his community library. We decided that we […]
Poetry Summer School
As I drive towards Bookworm this season beginning with the yellow blossoms in my car park to the ones along the Goa University road to the almost perennial Laburnum at the Taleigao park, I am reminded that summer is upon us and that I must help the team at Bookworm blooming. My summer school is […]