Happy Holi!

Hi everyone,

Here's wishing you all a wonderful Holi!

As Nature celebrates spring and marks the advent of summer, a special reminder to all my young friends who are part of Gulmohar Days: please be careful with colour and be judicious in the use of water.

The Library will remain closed on Moday on account of Holi celebrations. However, the Trinity Speech and Communication Classes will be conducted as per schedule in the evening.

Wishing you much merriment and joy as the bright colours and water wash away all that is impure and fill our hearts with love and laughter!

Phonics sessions for kids ages 3-5 years

 
Our phonics workshop in the beginning of January received a particularly favourable response. Based on the feedback, we are happy to announce regular phonics sessions every week at the library. Please find the details below:

PHONICS CLUB
AGES: 3 TO 5 YEARS
DAYS: EVERY FRIDAY
TIME; 5.30 TO 6.30
STARTS: FROM FRIDAY, THE 5TH OF MARCH
VENUE: GULMOHAR DAYS

Please feel free to email for further details on the programme.

Art Workshop for Adults

Gulmohar days is pleased to bring you a 2 day Art workshop for adults. Some of you may recall that this workshop was slated for December, but the Christmas weekend played spoil sport and in an attempt to balance everybody's travel plans, we were unable to conduct it. Please find the details of the 2 day workshop below. I am sure you will immensely enjoy being part of this experience.
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Feeling Blue? Seeing Red? Planning to Go Green?

Gulmohar Days is pleased to host "COLOURED VIEWS" : a 2-day art workshop for adults where participants can discover how colours help create evocative art, reveal character and enable a deeper understanding of personality.

The workshop promises exciting experiments with different materials, painting and collage-making exercises – and technique and self-expression combine to transform the way you view art – and yourself.

This workshop is open to all, irrespective of skill level or experience. Don’t be yellow!

WORKSHOP DATES AND TIMINGS;

DAY 1: Saturday, March 6th (2.00 PM TO 5.30 PM)

DAY 2: Sunday, March 7th (2.00 PM TO 5.30 PM)

Workshops fee: Rs. 850/ (This includes all material that shall be provided at the venue)

Venue: Gulmohar Days, Kalyani Nagar

Please feel free to call or email for further queries on the workshop.

Have a great week ahead!!

Experience Art!

"Experience Art": the 2 day art workshop at Gulmohar days was an absolute success. Thanks Renu, for giving the kids a broader and more meaningful insight into art and for introducing them to the works of so many artists! I must admit that post the sessions you had with them, we have quite a few Paul Klee wanna-bees walking around! Sharing a couple of pictures that capture all the concentration, practice, fun and excitement that went into the workshop. Enjoy them!

 

  

Gulmohar Days is in the News!!

Happy to share an article featuring Gulmohar Days in the Sakaal Times. Please click on the link below to read the feature:

http://epaper.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimes/30Jan2010/Normal/Cityscape/page4.htm

Speech & Communication classes based on Trinity Guildhall Syllabus

We are happy to announce that Speech and Communication classes based on the Trinity Guildhall speech and communication syllabus ( U.K.) will be conducted at Gulmohar Days from the month of February 2010.

The classes at Gulmohar Days will be as follows:

Mondays: 5.30 to 6.30 : Ages 6 to 8 years
Wednesdays: 5.30 to 6.30: Ages 9 -12 yrs

For more information on the Trinity Guildhall programme please visit the website  http://www.trinityguildhall.co.uk

Please email gulmohardays@gmail.com for more information on the programme.

Two day Art Workshop for Kids ( 8 yrs-14 yrs)

“You see things as they are and ask why?
I dream of things as they never were and ask why not?” 

-- George Bernard Shaw

 Art workshop for children (8 yrs and above)

  

Experience Art!

‘Experience Art’ takes the children through a mix of visual art, music, reading and writing through this innovatively designed module. Each module will be offered in the form of an interactive workshop built around a process, yielding a product.

Module 01: Explore line, form and colour

No of sessions: 2

Dates: Friday, 5th February (4.00 pm to 6.30 pm)

           Sunday, 7^th February, (2.00 pm to 4.30 pm)

Facilitator: Renu S

LAST DATE FOR REGISTRATION: 28^TH January, 2010

The workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore their innate creativity through simple line compositions and colour. The participants will be taken through a step-by-step process involving basic drill exercises, linear compositions and finally composition and colour.

• Exercise 01: Participants will be taken through a half hour drawing drill exercise. Each participant will be given quarter imperial size chart papers. A warm-up exercise which will loosen their hands to draw.
• Exercise 02: Participants will be taken through a slide show presentation of modern art and tribal paintings (eg. Paul Klee, Mondrian, aboriginal and tribal painting) followed by an interactive session explaining the concepts of line and form.
• Exercise 03: Create a design using a combination of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, scalloped, curly, wavy and zig-zag lines. Compose an image using a combination of a variety of lines to form shapes (human faces, curved lines, semi-circles) Paint the composition using poster colours, oil-pastels and black conte chalk. Followed by a slide show of artworks (paintings) highlighting geometric forms and shapes. Participants will observe the image and interpret any one image using lines and geometric shapes.
• Exercise 04: Participants will be asked to bring a real flower to make a few sketches. Design composition using one selected sketch of the flower from the previous exercise, exploring basic design principles such as repetition and rhythm. Participants will paint the design using opaque poster colours.

Please do email gulmohardays@gmail.com for further enquiries on this workshop.

Pongal-o-pongal!

The smell of incense and flowers greeted everyone who visited the Library on the 13th of January 2010 as all of us got together to celebrate the harvest festival of Tamil Nadu: Pongal. A big thank you to all the mothers who attended the function and took so much trouble to dress their kids in elegant ethnic wear. The kids eagerly waited for the pot to boil over and equally relished the sweet pongal and snacks that we served. In the short art session that followed, several kids captured the essence of the celebration as they drew the sun, sugarcane and lamps to capture the significance of the festival that gives thanks to the Sun. Enjoy the pictures!

Pongal Celebrations at the Library!

Dear Friends,

The 14th of January every year is celebrated as Pongal all over Tamil Nadu. Its a festival that gives thanks for a bountiful harvest and is celebrated with great colour and pomp.

At Gulmohar Days we do not miss any celebration! So lets give the kids a taste of tradition. Lets get together on Wednesday, the 13th of January, at 3.45 pm, to understand the significance of Pongal, decorate the Library with kolam or rangoli, give thanks to the Sun for blessing us with life and watch the pot boil over as we shout Pongal-o-pongal! And of course, feast on some sweet pongal as well!

Please note the event details:

Event: Pongal celebrations
Date: Wednesday, 13th of January 2010
Time: 3.45 pm to 4.45 pm
Dress code: Traditional

Entry: Free entry for Library members
          Non-members: Rs. 150 per child

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR PARTICIPATION AT THE EARLIEST.

Look forward to seeing you all and have a great week ahead!