Creativity Adda, December — 2018
Highlights of the month
Kabaad se Jugaad Meet!!! We organized the “JUGAAD MEET 2018” from 26th to 29th December for children and Youth age of 14–25 years with the collaboration of EcoHut and Karmmarg. 40 students attended the workshop. Being a residential workshop, the children got to be in an environment that emphasized the idea of looking for the best in every person and everything. Vijay Ansh, Azad and Ishant say that it was a really fun experience and they got to learn a lot from it. Across the four days, the space in which we gathered brimmed of energy, enthusiasm and creativity. Our days started early in the morning and often did continue till late at night, giving our alternative learners ample of opportunity to engage in hands-on activities and interact with everyone around and learn from the more experienced designers and workshop team. We explored design thinking and how to use a broad variety of materials, and everyone was able to produce some gifts for society from what is usually considered as useless waste. This was an awesome feeling and great learning experience for everyone which proved once more that everyone and anyone, everything and anything has its own intrinsic value which is often overlooked by society but can be re-discovered in the right space and environment. Students worked on basic skills of stitching, pasting and weaving and made Diary from waste papers, paper bags. We watched the Story of Stuff and had discussions around our waste, with young participants from different organizations being able to put their creative hats on. It was a great opportunity to explore, learn and share ideas about building a zero waste world!
Community Media Lab
At the beginning of this month the schedule of adda went on with the usual timings, but soon with the onset of winter vacations, children came to adda for almost five hours a day from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. This provided them sufficient time to learn up the things and work on new projects. In the beginning of the month, Chirag 9th and Ayan 7th worked on making the Business Visiting Cards and made some wonderful cards for various local publishers.
In the photography workshop, new students learned and used DSLR camera and setting of exposures while clicking. Also, after the mid-December kids made a visit to Coronation Park for the practice of outdoor photography and took beautiful pictures which have been displayed in their space as well as during various events.
Design Studio and Maker Space
Our free learners at the Design and Makers space along with facilitator Saadat began the month with a workshop in robotics in Audino programming. With their skills, they then made a Bluetooth controlled light. The children also made a showpiece water fountain with materials they collected from the scrap yard.
In the Repair Cafe, students learned how to repair a drill machine. It was a nice learning experience. For the first time, students saw a drill machine from inside. Subhash 9th quickly learned the process and assembled it again.
Slow Food Junior Chef Academy
The month began with a theme of Chinese-inspired cuisine. Together with their new facilitator, the junior chefs created flavourful fusion dishes such as chili potato and Manchurian. Naveen,8th class one of the junior chefs who participated in the workshop, said that he is glad to have gotten this professional, hands-on experience in order to better understand the catering business as he himself would like to become a food entrepreneur in the future. Italian cuisine week, white sauce pasta, pizza, veg spring roll, and calzone. Next in line was the Punjabi tinge with parathas ranging from stuffed to pocket and mughlai to harabhara. Chiraag 10th and Sajid 9th class also came up with their own ideas of Aflatoon Paratha Dora cake, the cherished pancakes of Doremon. The month then concluded with desserts: Dora cake, mud cake and browny cake. Salman and Sajid said that the month was an amazing joyride of experiences as they got to cook and serve so many dishes that they had come across for the first time.
Sports Hub
This month was all about improving skating techniques and stunts. Anand, 7th class and Almomin 7th class have moved from the beginner to medium level, becoming more and more confident in their skating. Aman, Nikhil 8th class and Rahul 8th Class are now able to skate even outside the Adda on the stairs and the concrete floor. They have also achieved feats in ramp stunting and racing practice. With great dedication, all of the kids are honing their skills and even started to play frisbee while skating — maybe the start of a new exciting sport? Aman, Nikhil and Rahul also immensely enjoy playing table tennis. Rahul recalls the day he had first come to Adda and was impressed by the advanced skating and table tennis skills of the other alternative learners. Looking back, he says that he never would have thought of reaching such a high level in both sports, and he is glad that he had the encouragement and support from the other Adda kids and the adda facilitators to be at his best.
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Dance Hub
Dance hub went to Karol Bagh to give a dance workshop to children. On 20th the children gave a theme based performance in Karol Bagh on the theme of eradication of corruption.
In the Winter Carnival on 23rd, the children revised this performance and presented it once again. Nitesh 9th, Himanshu 9th, Faizaan 10th, and Vineet were in the Adda for their Christmas celebration. As the schools were closed and most of their friends had gone to their villages, it was a home-like experience for them as they had a lot of fun making performances on Christmas carols. Faizaan says that dance, particularly the performances in Karol Bagh and Faridabad, has helped him channelize his energies in the best creative manner.
Music Hub
For the music hub, this month went on for without any permanent facilitator and the kids learned on their own. Despite this, the kids participated at various competitions and performed at various events in the adda as well as during their visits to other NGOs and functions. On 13th of December, children performed at Gostop tourist hostel near Delhi gate. On the 23rd of December, children went to participate in the annual event by the NGO KaramMarg, Also, there was a poetry workshop at adda in which almost all the kids of music hub took part. Our music students went to Sarvodaya Kanya Vidhalya Malka Ganj to perform their music.
Special Workshops
Our students participated in Drama in Education jam organized by Aagaz Theatre Trust. Faizan and Deepak shared some games with new friends. Chaman recalls the experience as very informative as the exposure boosted him with confidence and helped him to step out of his comfort zone.
We had a very interesting workshop on writing poetry with Ankita Anand. The students really enjoyed and wrote some lines on their imagination, feelings and emotions.
Students participated in the organic community garden and the vertical garden with Sakib from Edible Routes Foundation in Wazirabad. This helped them once more to realize that we can grow food in all kinds of urban spaces not just traditional farm lands.
