World Literacy Day every day!
Bookworm is a very small grounded organisation. This means a small team doing big things. Having this closely knit small team works in our favour because we are very agile. We are very quick to work on ideas, create a working model, try it out in the field, collect feedback and revise and finalize the […]
September 2016 events calendar
Act Out!
Act Out, a twelve week acting workshop by Director Rajyashree Dutt concluded yesterday at Bookworm with the group performing two plays; Narahari Das and Captain Bumble. As Bookworm brings the curtain down on Act Out for 2016, we are extremely grateful to Raj… or Aunty Raj as the children call her for bringing drama to […]
Eid Mubarak Book Release at Chimbel
One of the reasons I like the work at Bookworm is that I get to work on creating books. Recently we just released a book about Eid. The book is written and illustrated by the children of our Chimbel community library. This year at our Mobile Outreach Program (MOP) we are bringing different activities to […]
The Joy of Writing Well … ah well !
We began this June with a determination that we must provide opportunity within Bookworm for readers who are interested in the craft of writing. We know that this connection between reading and writing is not as automatic as we tend to believe and does not happen naturally. What is natural and must be celebrated is […]
The Joy of Writing Well: PART 2
The Joy of Writing Well: PART 2 With a special focus on short-story writing, this two-session workshop is a follow- up to the previous Joy of Writing Well workshops held in April and June 2016. The aim of the workshop will be, once again, strengthening student writing skills through the sharing and practice of the […]
Celebrating National Library Day with Krishnadas Shama Goa State Central Library
In celebration of National Library Day, Bookworm was invited by the Krishnadas Shama Goa State Central Library to organize a session on activities that can be done in libraries. In the presence of almost a hundred and fifty librarians from all over the state, the team from Bookworm presented various interactive activities ranging from physical […]
Reflections from participants
As we concluded Bookworm’s first Seminar with Benedito Ferrao, ‘Reading the Remanants of Portuguese India’ we realised we were better readers than when we began. Thanks in no small measure to the selection of texts, the dialogue, the conversations and the discussions left many of us thinking, reflecting and even wondering – as all good […]
Play Reading
Dear Friends September 1st, 2016 we invite you to Bookworm to read the script of … The characters are interesting The dialogue in the first act of the play has been hailed by some critics as some of the greatest in all of the American theatre. The play examines the breakdown of the marriage […]
A Librarian Speaks
I Joined Bookworm five months back. Before Joining I had mainly heard about the Mobile Outreach Programme of Bookworm, but I never visited Bookworm. I did not feel like visiting Bookworm because I did not realise that Bookworm has a good library and all their activities are in fact putting in practice in an active […]