Highlights 25/08/2012 Event Magazine: June, July & August Future & Ongoing Programs The mountain heard when the bird spoke, the tree Guru Gram Public felt happy when Raju School, asked for fruits and in Juvenile home, Story Time at Teen Murti Bhavan ,

Kahani Time at Chanter found his way to or-ganized by Children Stupa 18 Art Gallery, Bremen Town .The mental Resource centre, Teen Sector 18, images come alive when Murti Bhavan to cele- Story Ghar told stories at Buzz- brate the 66th Independ Teen Murti Bhavan, New ing Books Library, -ence day. Delhi on the 16th, 17th Noida and 18th August 2012. Children watched mov-

ies like Dosti, Jagriti and Affiliated to Kathalaya Haqeeqat followed by Bangalore, Story Ghar the story workshop. successfully enthralled The theme of the event the diverse audiences. was patriotism. There were young

adults from Chetna Vivid imagery and NGO, who beautifully sound pictures by story- drew story images. Girls teller Jaishree made the from Nav Jyoti Founda- listeners reflect and tion came up with ideate. Inside this issue: witty answers to critical story plots. Stu-dents from Story Session at Inside Story 2 Great Montessori Teen Murti Bhavan, school sang along. Story Ghar’s perfor 2 -mance was a part of Jashn– E– Azadi, Inside Story 2 Kathakari at Habitat Centre Inside Story 3 Story Ghar suc- out of 300 people at amphithe- 4 cessfully orga- atre. Despite the hot weather, Inside Story nized Kathakari Children enjoyed the whole at India Habitat show .Jaishree Sethi, Seema Inside Story 5 Centre on 21st Verma and Arti Wahi floored June to mark the audience with their fun-ny, World Storytell- odd and musical stories. Inside Story 6 ing Day. The event saw a turn-

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Story Program at Juvenile Home, Lajpat Nagar 23/08/2012 signed to help the children become more participants to be- expressive, communi- Kastoorba Ni- come aware of cate better and develop ketan, Lajpat their thoughts and their creativity and val- Nagar saw feelings. The pro- ues. smiles and pic- cess enables them This specific program tures with to become more module for Juvenile moustaches as expressive and ar- Homes has stories spe- they heard the ticulate. cially created and com- story, “ The Ra- piled to cater to incul- ja’s Mous- We supplement our cate a sense of respect, tache” . Story storytelling with in- care and sensitivity to- Ghar’s weekly class activities like wards society story sessions craft work, mask and life. for children in Story of Raja making, origami Delhi Juvenile Mochcho and puppet making. Singh homes are de- These have helped

We supplement Children at Kastoorba niketan our storytelling

with in-class activities like The language of telling craft work, is primarily Hindi and session goes from tell- mask making, ing to reading out ex- origami and cerpts from books. puppet making.

During the session

There was a group of ferent perspectives young adults too. They towards life. were asked to imagine Stories then fo- 7 days of a week as cused on positivity balloons of different and problem solv- colors. Each participant ing attitude. Caption describing picture or graph- had a different color for ic. each day. There were some , who did not see any color except white. The idea of this activity was to emphasis on dif- Highlights Page 3

The Giving Tree at Buzzing Books 11/08/2012 Idea was to The session make children ““Buzzing Books” was was cou- understand how abuzz with queries pled with a each of us im- about trees and prod- follow up ucts that we derive activity of pacts the habi- from them. Children pinning tats of plants aged between 5-10 products and animals. learned about preserv- slips to a The lesson was ing trees and realized beautifully how to be envi- how humans have been drawn Tree exploiting natural re- on a card ronment friend- sources through the board. ly . Follow-up Tree Activity story “The Giving Tree”.

Idea was to And the tress was HAPPY make ““You feel happy when played along till they children you give something stood up and swung understand dear to someone who from side to side like a how each needs it more than you full grown tree. of us do”. Children learned the impacts the value of giving by act- habitats of ing and feeling like a plants and tree. They animals. started with being seeds and then

19, Kamayani Kunj, 69 I.P. Extension, Patparganj, Delhi-110092 Story Ghar , a house of stories , advocates learning through story- telling.

Story Ghar is run by Jaishree Sethi, who is a media professional Phone: 7838243022 with 14 years of experience in Radio ,television and theatre. As a email: [email protected] passionate media and communication trainer with her experience in website : www.storyghar.com institutions like Amity University and , has ven- tured in children education by setting up Story Ghar. Learning Through Storytelling Initiatives:

 Story telling in schools

 Story Performances

 Workshops /Story Ghar  Teachers Training

 Corporate Training

 NGO’s