Library: A Safe Space
In Taleigao, near St. Micheal’s Church, stands a red building or a red house, call it whatever you like. Personally, I like to call it home. I love books; and a place that shelters books is home for me. I came to Bookworm library for the first time for an interview. I’ve always wanted to […]
Step by Step
It was time for the summer vacations. The children in our Cacra community library looked happy as they would now have time to do things that they like doing. Like most days, we stopped to interact with the parents and shared with them about the session of the day. While we were talking, one of the parents […]
पालवी
Written by Sanjeevani Atre गोवा म्हटले की, डोळ्यासमोर येते ती मोज मज्जा पण गेले पाच दिवस मी वेगळ्याच विश्वात फिरून आले. इथे मोज मज्जा आहे,पण ती मुलांच्या भावविश्वाची या पाच दिवसात आम्हांला एकदाही कार्यक्रमाच्या हाँल बाहेर सोडण्यात आले नाही.आमचा बाहेरच्या जगाशी संबंधच संपला. आता आतल्या जगात डोकवायला सुरूवात झाली होती.खरेतर सकाळी ९ वाजता सुरू […]
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 […]
The Week following LEC Contact -1
As soon as I got back from the LEC contact, I tried to capture some of the highlights on that day itself. Although it did not shape up into a detailed report, with a gentle nudge from my mentor – Theju, I will attempt to share some of my learning and experiences here. Sujata was […]
When Learning is Handcrafted…
Written by Lakshmi Karunakaran – LEC English 2018 participant I saw Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s aphorism ‘God is in the detail’ come alive as I walked into the LEC 2018 classroom in the St Joseph Vaz Spiritual Centre in Goa. The classroom itself had been converted into a children’s library, with shelves neatly lined […]
Sharing the LEC experience
Written by Sanchari Ray Chowdhury Glimpses of LEC (1st Contact) It has been a week since I am back from LEC and I have thought to share a chunk of my experience I have gathered in my first contact. Before going into the course I had apprehensions in my mind regarding the course. I was […]
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 […]
Nayana Pai on Contact 1 of LEC English 2018
I experienced the ‘joy in reading out books’ first hand when I read them to my son in his early years. The curiosity that he displayed by seeing the pictures closely and posing questions as I read the text and turned the pages, made me realise what a special magic a picture book has, to […]
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 […]