That was how Hannah Kagalwala a 12 year old participant in The Pomegranate Workshop™’s summer program this year chose to explain and depict the ‘origin’ of the pomegranate!
Hannah decided to give the pomegranate her own “origin myth” at our tribal art session which highlighted the art and origin myths of the Gond tribals of Madhya Pradesh in central India.
After viewing fascinating works on canvas which depicted stories on the origin of the universe, plants and beings by Gond tribal artist Venkatraman Singh Shyam from Bhopal, Hannah and her friends set to work coming up with whacky (and sometimes serious) origin myths of their own.
The result was pure fun, imagination and hard work.
That’s what we do at The Pomegranate Workshop™ – provide triggers for creativity and then watch the children let themselves go. And that is pretty much our approach towards various creative disciplines – art and craft, story writing, illustration, sculpture, performing arts, nature based sessions and sometimes a little bit of everything – in structured modules that layer multiple disciplines and focus on self expression and experiential learning in children.
The result as you will see on these pages, is a serious approach to bringing out latent forms of expression in children.
What they’re saying about us
“We found the lack of pre-set ideas about how a particular art form should be approached very refreshing.It appears that Vidit was encouraged to use his imagination and no answer was either ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.
Vedika Bhandarkar (Mother of Vidit Age 8 )
“Exactly what I was looking for in a writing class, i.e. writing. The class got me writing which is something I love doing when I am doing it but don’t seem to make time for… I have attended several writing classes in my life and I found this class to be the most helpful of any of them.”
Lindsey Gordon (What’s Your Story? – creative writing for adults)
“My son had a blast. He said the workshops were really something. Each kid felt like he/she is capable of something special. No one conducts programs like these.”
Sonal Ashar (Mother of Maalin Age 12 )