École Mondiale World School
Literacy Week 2016
Breaking Barriers
École Mondiale World School, Mumbai
21st-25th Nov 2016
About Literacy Week
4th Annual event
EMWS Secondary School Literacy Week event creates opportunities for young people to critically and creatively engage with literature and art forms that define our cultural, socio-economic and political understanding of the world. With a view to imbibe the principles enshrined in the IB vision, the festival celebrates artistes, speakers, writers for young people, peace builders and rights activists in the field of social change. This is an opportunity for young people and educators at Ecole Mondiale World School to interact with change makers about inclusivity, pluralism and diversity through the medium of art, poetry, writing workshops and literature circles.
Why Breaking Barriers?
Through this event, we seek to create awareness about rights issues, transform attitudes of young people towards local communities, and provide spaces to learn the art of dialogue, facilitating personal and social
transformation.
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Chintan Girish Modi is a freelance journalist, researcher, editor, educator, teacher trainer and peacebuilder living in Mumbai, India. He conducts creative writing and peace education workshops with students in schools, colleges and universities. His writing on art, culture, gender, peace and education has been published in The Hindu, The Indian Express, Times of India, Free Press Journal, Asian Age, TheWire.in, and DNA, among other leading publications. He writes a column for The Friday Times,
With a professional degree in film making from Columbia University NYC, Rustom Dadachanji has worked in various fields and in various capacities. From advertising, Scriptwriting, Photography, theatre to Furniture restoration, Film teaching and now children's story teller. Ravana Refuses to Die is my first book. He has a masters degree (MFA) in Film Studies (Columbia University NYC). He has worked extensively in the theatre both as actor and director, written and shot film scripts and advertisin
Malik Sajad was born in 1987, in Srinagar, Kashmir. His illustrations and stories appeared in various local and international publications. He studied Visual Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. His first graphic novel, Munnu: A boy from Kashmir offers an alternative history of Indian administered Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, drawing on the author's life to tell the story of Munnu as he grows up to become Sajad.
Neha Singh is a Mumbai based activist, blogger, theatre actor and playwright. She is the founder of the Why Loiter? movement which has been operational since May, 2014. The movement looks at reclaiming public spaces in the city for women, and making spaces safer. She speaks at various forums across the country about the same and conducts workshops with various groups.
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An eclectic mix from 18 writers, including R.K. Narayan and Vikram Seth, which takes on the narrow notion that 'boys will be boys'. Written with humour and empathy, there is a story here for every boy. Raj Shekhar is a contributor in this book of short stories.
S. Anand is an author, publisher and journalist. He, along with D. Ravikumar, founded the publishing house Navayana in 2003, which is "India’s first and only publishing house to focus on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective.” Navayana won the British Council-London Book Fair International Young Publisher of the Year award in 2007.
Even in modern society many women don’t have the freedom to share the public spaces they are entitled to. Why Loiter is a blog and organisation fighting to break these barriers. A part of this group uses the power of words and her fearless attitude to bring equality among genders.
Even in modern society many women don’t have the freedom to share the public spaces they are entitled to. Why Loiter is a blog and organisation fighting to break these barriers. A part of this group uses the power of words and her fearless attitude to bring equality among genders.
Even in modern society many women don’t have the freedom to share the public spaces they are entitled to. Why Loiter is a blog and organisation fighting to break these barriers. A part of this group uses the power of words and her fearless attitude to bring equality among genders.
Nandita Haksar's career has been awe-inspiring in its breadth and its single-minded focus on building a tolerant and inclusive nation. Ms. Nandita has shown us that advocacy is not about taking on cases, but causes. It is about speaking with those whose voices have been muffled, gagged or silenced. That advocacy is not limited to courts and litigation but extends to grass-root mobilization,opinion-making, and education.
Revathi Suresh is a writer and editor. She began her career in publishing with EastWest Books in Chennai, and helped edit, along with a senior colleague, a book review magazine called Indian Review of Books. The company also had an imprint called Manas which brought out quality fiction and non-fiction. She has worked with some of India's finest translators. Later, as a freelancer, she wrote small commissioned books for children for Mumbai-based IL&FS-ETS.
Katie Bagli is known for using art forms to create stories. The story is mostly focused on children. She is passionate about Art, photography, puppeteering, film and writing. Organiser of the Junior Writers’ Bug Literary Festival 2012. They hold workshops and events to explore the art of storytelling.
A fiction and non- fiction writer. Ex- Hon. Wildlife Warden of Udaipur District, Rajasthan. Treading the jungles, playing with snakes or exploring jungle caves has always delighted.
Manabi Bandopadhya is the principal of Krishnagar Women’s college in West Bengal. She is India’s perhaps even the world’s first transgender woman to have become principal! In another first, she became West Bengal’s first transgendered professor, when she joined Vivekananda Centenary College in Jhargram as a lecturer in the late 1990s.
Aditi Gupta is a social entrepreneur and co- founder of Menstrupedia, working towards spreading awareness about menstruation. While studying at the National Institute of Design as a Ford Foundation research scholar, she has conducted extensive research in understanding the scenario of menstrual unawareness in India and its impact on a girl's life. She has designed effective educational tools for girls and schools using storytelling and
Rachana Iyer cofounded CraYon impact. She wants to create behavioural change and break stereotypes of society by fighting taboos against disability, mental health, gender and inequalities. She is also a Spoken word slam poetry artist Story- mobilise-platforms-collaborate and made CraYon along with Rohan Sabharwal.
Rohan Sabhrawal is an Indian filmmaker. After graduating from film school in 2006, the same year that he edited the award winning commercial 'Sarah and Wendy' which won the Kodak Student Commercial Award in the UK, he left London to pursue a career in film and television in India. Here he shot his 16-minute graduation film Shunyata, which premiered at the ICA cinema in London and generated mixed reviews, though most were favorable.
An online movement against fairness products has found a star in Nandita Das, who is perhaps the only actress to have resolutely refused to change her skin tone despite the push and pull of the entertainment industry.
Revathi Suresh is a writer and editor. She began her career in publishing with EastWest Books in Chennai, and helped edit, along with a senior colleague, a book review magazine called Indian Review of Books. The company also had an imprint called Manas which brought out quality fiction and non-fiction. She has worked with some of India’s finest translators.
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