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The 1000 CRANE PROJECT, is a creative effort by Tara Trust to sensitize children in areas of environmental and social concerns. We envision conducting art exchange workshops across India amongst deprived children and youngsters from marginalized and underprivileged sections of society with the symbol of a 1000 Cranes.
The format of the project is to enable the children from our trust to travel to new cities across India and participate in art workshops conducted by us along with our partner organization in that city.
The long term objective is that through these exchange workshops the children, coming from extremely deprived sections of society, such as slums and orphanages, are exposed to new environments and people, and are motivated to set new goals and ambitions for themselves.
Juhi Pandey is in charge of conducting the 10-day-arts camps of the 1000 Crane project, that we are conceptualizing every three to four months. The project was started after the Fukushima disaster in Japan in March 2011 with a camp dealing with Fukushima and the dangers of nuclear power. It was held deprived with children from Goa and Delhi, living and working together with local artists, at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi from October 12th to 22nd 2011.
The second camp on the same subject was held from 25th of February to 4th March, 2012, at The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in collaboration with Khulla Asaman, an arts initiative of TISS, formed to promote art as a form of development tool.
Please follow the current news of the 1000-Crane-Project here and look into the blog “archive” to see the documentation of the camps: www.the1000craneproject.blogspot.com |
The 1000 Crane Project, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi
The art exchange workshop was held between 12th of October to the 21st of October, 2011, at Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi. There were 5 children from the Don Bosco Mobile School, Zuari Nagar, Goa, who had travelled for the first time to New Delhi. There they were joined with 5 children from Dile Se Campaign, a part of Center for Equity Studies, New Delhi, in collaboration with Music Basti, New Delhi.
Through the nine days of workshop, they learnt techniques of painting, pottery, recycling, theater, music and dance. All these activities were aimed at helping them grow in confidence, and also learn how to work and live in a team, and adapt to new environments.
The most unique exercise was Working with the Expert, where each child partnered with a professional painter or designer, and they painted a canvas collectively.
We also painted T-shirts for the Fukushima children, and on that day we invited another 40 children from Udayan Care, an NGO for street & orphan children, and SHRISTI, a school for the underprivileged.
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The 1000 Crane Project, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
This camp was held from the 25th of February to 4th March, 2012, at The Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in collaboration with Khulla Asaman, an arts initiative of TISS, formed to promote art as a form of development tool.
For this workshop we had 5 children from the orphanage Care and Compassion, Panjim, Goa travel to Mumbai, once again for the very first time in their lives, and 5 children from VOICE, a non-profit for street and slum children in North Mumbai.
The children went thru different art activities, but, with a change that they were living in an university environment, and moved around the space being motivated and understanding that life after school can also be interesting and fun. They also spent a day out sight-seeing Mumbai with the children of a The Cathedral & John Conon School, Mumbai.
One of the biggest achievement was that they made some extraordinary art pieces as group, in the form of a large fabric canopy, a 15 ft tall mural and also an interesting puppet play based on the story of Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 paper cranes.
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The 1000 Crane Project at Auxilim High School, Benaulim, Goa
On the 10th of March, 2012, as a tribute to the children and people of Japan who suffered in the tsunami and specifically in Fukushima due to the leakage caused in the Nuclear Power Plant a year earlier, we conducted the workshop at the local village school in Benaulim, where our trust office in located. Laura and Lotta, volunteers from Germany, conducted this workshop.
There were about 70 students of the 6th and 7th grade who heard the story of Sadako Sasaki and The 1000 Paper Cranes, as well as were informed about the issues of global warming and natural disasters like the tsunami and also dangers of a Nuclear Power Plant in case of an accident. We informed them about our mission to paint a 1000 T-shirts for the children of Fukushima, and asked them if they wanted to paint one as well, and all of them very enthusiastically painted their own peace messages.
There are always beautiful moments: one of the students walked up to a volunteer, and thanked us for giving her the opportunity to connect with these children from another country. |
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