A Celebration of
Children’s Inner Joy
Detail of 2 days activities
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23rd & 24th October, 2013
Time:
9:30 A.M. To 12:30 P.M
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Photography
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02
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Pottery Work -Shop
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23rd October, 2013
Time:
9:30 A.M. To 12:30 P.M
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04
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Book Launching
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Robotics Work -
shop
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06
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Creative Writing
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24th October, 2013
Time:
9:30 A.M. To 12:30 P.M
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07
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Scientific explanations of
so called miracles
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08
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Painting
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Aahlad
A Celebration of Children’s Inner
Joy
In
the everyday learning experience of a child, there is great emphasis placed on
structured and regimented learning. There is usually a fixed time for a
specific activity or lesson and all children are expected to learn at the same
pace as the rest of their class. While this system has many benefits, we at Bal
Bhavan Jaipur feel that there is also a need to allow for a conducive
atmosphere, where every once in a while, a child is free to pursue an activity
of their own choosing and where a child can learn at her or his own pace and
thereby get the most out of the learning process.
It
is with this in mind that we decided to make Aahlad a permanent event in our
annual calendar. It is a festival that brings together the creative trinity of
Literature, Science and Art. The entire 3 day event is designed as a ‘Mela’ or
fete with complete emphasis on the enjoyment of children. The idea is to
involve them completely through a myriad of activities including story-telling,
painting, pottery making, photography, star gazing, toy making, book exhibition
and even a scientific explanation and self experimentation of so called
‘miracles’. Moreover, the interaction between the participating children and
various resource persons and experts is based on a participative model rather
than an instructive one. For example, during banner making and painting,
instead of lecturing children on what to make and how to make it, our resource
persons introduced the theme and then allowed each child to interpret it in
their own way. The experts sat amongst the children working on their own pieces
as the children explored their own methodology and then the resource persons
guided and advised the children in a manner suitable to their individual level
of ability and their choice of medium. Aahlad not only introduces children to
various eminent experts, it allows them to explore and find the spark that
fires their creative minds.
In its first year Aahlad covered
children from all over Jaipur and Sikar, hailing from across the socio-economic
strata. This Aahlad 2013 is also the same but in the future, we hope to expand
this ‘Mela’ to cover children from the surrounding districts and cities, one
day perhaps encompassing the entire state of Rajasthan.
Parasmani ( Resource persons)
1 ) . Dr.
Madhu Pant .
2 ) . Mr .
Rajkumar Chauhan
3 ) . Dr
Durgaprasad Agarwal
4 ) . Kalawid
Kanahayalal Verma
5 ) . Dr Hetu Bhardwaj
6 ) . Dr. H.C. Bhartiya
7 ) Mr.
Satish Gupta
8 ) Mr. Bhuvanesh Kumar (Club First)
