BENGALURU: Puppet-making for the young ones
Dollmations is a session on making puppets. Children will make finger puppets, sock puppets and hand puppets. The session will give children a chance to peek into world of crafting puppets. This will help children use puppets as a medium for expressing their creativity. This will also enable children to use puppets as a tool while communicating to an audience. The session is for 6-10 year old children. The workshop is conducted by Cilre. She aims to provide a non judgmental experimenting platform for a wide range of fields which helps children to discover and nurture their interests.
The workshop will be held on 3 April (Friday) from 5 - 7 pm at Atta Galatta, Koramangala. The cost for the workshop will be Rs 300.
Registrations Call: 9986015483 or mail to ananthi@cilre.com
Tennis and Fitness Camp
Sol Sports conducts its annual summer camp for kids and adults, starting in April. They will conduct tennis and fitness workshops across 3 branches in Bengaluru: Sarjapur Road, Electronic City and BTM Layout. Conducted by certified professionals, the campw ill run through April and May.
Art and theatre
Aashwasan launches creative activities for children to learn art and theatre and through it explore experience and express themselves. After the art workshop, the art work of children will be displayed for parents and a theatre show will also be put up. Art workshop: In the art workshop, children are taken through a facilitative experience where they use art to give their feelings and thoughts a tangible form.
Take aways:
Learn about different art forms
Learn how art can be used in their environment
Develop fine motor skills
Develop decision making skills
Theatre workshop: As children learn about different aspects of theatre through games and activities, they will be encouraged to express themselves freely.
Take Aways:
Develop skills for theatre
Awareness of one’s emotions and thoughts
Develop healthy body image
Develop social skills
Date: April 6 to 11
Time: 11 am to 12 pm
Venue: Aashwasan Center, 405, 3-A Cross, HRBR Layout, 2nd Block Bangalore - 43
Contact: 9731301014/26
Summer song
A music camp that believes that music is fundamental to the holistic development of young minds - encouraging creativity, out-of-the-box thinking, and more than anything, music can be lots of fun. Through this Summer Camp, Centre for Indian Music Expeiance want your child to discover his/ her personal connection with music by exposing the child to a wide spectrum of music related activities.
Facilitators:
Vineet Vincent is one of Bangalore’s best known beatboxers
Solomon is an ace keyboard and piano player, music director for Kannada movies and recording specialist
B C Manjunath is a globetrotting mridangam player, who works with the best of Indian and world musicians
Dr. Sudha Raja is the Principal of Rhapsody Music Foundation, Chennai, and a veteran choir conductor
Dates: April 20 to 24
Timings: Morning batch - 9am - 12.30 pm at Centre for Indian Music Experience Seminar Hall, Brigade Millennium, JP Nagar 7th Phase
Afternoon batch - 2 pm - 5.30 pm at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall Seminar Room, 17th Cross, Malleswaram
Age: 8 to 14 years
Fees: Rs 5,000
Contact: 080 23462242, 9632041490
Children of theatre
Bacha Party aims at creating, developing and producing artistically excellent and culturally diverse theatre for young talents. Their ‘Summer blast’ theme for this year is ‘Our world, Our trees’. A fun venture to create an awareness and sensitivity in children towards their environment using music, dance, craft and theatre, as tools.
Date - March 30 to April 12
Timings - 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
Days - Monday to Saturday Camp also includes a small outing and a carnival on the last day.
Venue: 615/14, 3rd cross, Raghavendra colony, behind IIMB, Bilekahalli,
Bengaluru 560076 Contact: 9880031808
An adventure leadership programme
Sankalp Academy has designed a three day leadership program. The workshop is put together with an aim to bring out the participant and help them grow as leaders through various adventure sports such as rappelling, bouldering, camping, trekking, zip line and much more. Date : 24 to 26 April Venue: Discovery Village, Kanakpura(60 kms from Bangalore)
Cost: Rs 16,000 Contact: 9980156862