PeaceWorks played an active part in the Peace Team to Pakistan, a team put together by The Telegraph in School, Calcutta, which included eleven teachers and thirty-two students, two of whom, Satwik Ghosh and Purti Melanie Simon, were PeaceWorkers. The team was specially invited by the Karachi High School to take part in the school's annual International Schools' Educational Olympiad. Almost a hundred and fifty schools from all over Pakistan come to Karachi to take part in the Olympiad. The whole trip was partly sponsored by The Telegraph in School, Calcutta.
List of Activities
Orientation
workshops (x3)
Conducted by Jayant Kripalani with thirty-three students going to Pakistan.
The workshop was to groom these kids for the trip. The participants were
given a basic training on voice/speech, movements and the use of space
in performance. The entire workshop was built around the PeaceWorks theme
with a production in mind.
Talk
(x2)
The first session was with Dr. Somnath Zutshi and the students where the
social, political, economic scenario with the historical background of
Pakistan was discussed. The second session was with Ms Kavita Punjabi
who narrated her experiences in Pakistan and also discussed the present
scenario in Pakistan.
Production
Rehearsals for a presentation at Pakistan, which include two Monologues
by Manjula Padmnabhan ("Points" and "Invocation") interspersed with music,
the whole production was made with everybody on stage from the beginning
to the end of the production.
First
presentation
The performance was presented to Mr Barry O'Brien, The Seagull Team and
the parents at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource centre.
The
New Group of PeaceWorkers
The whole group of thirty-three kids volunteered to be PeaceWorkers.
Poems
for Peace
Inviting
students from India and Pakistan to write poems for Peace. This would
lead to the publication of a book, which would be an anthology of poems
for Peace from India and Pakistan, selecting hundred poems from the entries
Scrap
books
Each Student was given a scrapbook and was told to maintain a dairy through
out the trip. Keeping a future exhibition in mind.
PeaceWorks
Stall at Karachi High School, Pakistan
A stall was set with the Poems for Peace Pamphlets, text about PeaceWorks,
copies of the PeaceWorks newsletter, PeaceWorks mementos (bookmarks) and
Seagull in general (newsletters). This stall was manned by three PeaceWorkers
at a time, telling people more about our programme and also guiding others
about how to become PeaceWorkers in their country, and collecting the
names and particulars of people who are interested in including their
names in the PeaceWorks database. PeaceWorks presentation in Karachi High
School, Pakistan This was done in the presence of students and teachers
of 150 schools from all over Pakistan. The presentation included a ten-minute
talk on PeaceWorks with a power point presentation followed by the fifteen-minute
performance ("Points" by Purti Melanie Simon and "Invocation" by Sarah
Ezdani).
Distribution of the PeaceWorks pamphlets