Creativity Adda Delhi, July-2019 Newsletter
Highlight Of the month
Daryadil Cafe Mansoon special cafe had around 150 people. Parents, students, friends of Adda, they bring their gifts of oneness, dance, singing, drumming, talking, making new friends, eating healthy and tasty food prepared by our junior chefs. It was an overwhelming moment when mothers came up in front and lived their childhood once again. They sang Kajari, played cooperative games and other folk songs of ‘Saavan’ (Monsoons). This time the team decorated the whole space aroundthe theme of monsoon.
COMMUNITY MEDIA LAB
Nonverbal communication and expression!!
We had a three-day workshop on nonverbal communication and expression which was conducted by Zeba Rizvi. The workshop made use of tools from theater, deep meditation and comic making. The idea was to give participants space to creatively express themselves, strengthen ties and at the same time explore different challenges faced by them and see those challenges from different perspectives.
The media team made this highlights video on this year’s summer camp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtprqV-b7tE
SLOW FOOD JUNIOR CHEF’S ACADEMY
Yum! Yes our cuisine is expanding!
Our junior chefs learned, how to make the traditional recipe of raw banana fry. It looks like a south Indian recipe (vazhakkai varuval). Akshay, 7th one of the junior chef asked how to serve it? So Shashank shared that it is a starter recipe and we can serve it with plain rasam rice, sambhar rice, curd rice, etc.
Next was, chaklis!! Our junior chefs were learning how to make chaklis it was strange we don’t have the mood to make it in proper shape. So what next, so our junior chefs came with their creativity and made it by hand and gave some interesting shapes. cooked Chinese snacks called Veg gold coins, cheese pocket pizza, and Malai roll and made besan ladoos in their sweet special week.
DESIGN STUDIO AND MAKER SPACE
Design Studio and Maker Space team members as they engaged in many different, hands-on activities, including the construction of a water-level indicator which has different lights to inform about the water tank levels — red indicates overflow, green means adequate level, and yellow stands for medium-level. They also learned and made a laser security alarm. https://www.facebook.com/creativityaddadelhi/videos/2552919938271681
In the last Daryadil cafe we face an issue of adjusting the projector between the performance. So our design studio made a hanging projector stand with old waste wood on their own. It has come out quite nicely and we are using it ever since.
DANCE MUSIC AND ART ACADEMY
The Music students were busy exploring the foundations of music and preparing some new songs. They spent time learning the basics of playing the guitar and the harmonium leaning Raag Pahadi for a bhajan. https://www.facebook.com/creativityaddadelhi/videos/431331134135298/
SPORTS AND FITNESS HUB
SPORTS & PASSION!!! The members of our Sports Hub are ever keen on deepening their skating skills and learning new tricks and techniques. This month they practiced advanced skating techniques including doing the ‘backward eight’ and ‘forward eight.’ Prashant, 6th class, is one of our upcoming skating stars. https://www.facebook.com/creativityaddadelhi/videos/490944608307049/
Council team action !!!
After returning from a short retreat, the councilors are highly charged and excited to contribute more to Adda. They arranged a meeting with students and shared their roles, responsibilities, and duties. They also formed small teams to take care of Adda and add some new ideas to co-create and sustain the Adda experience. It was nice to see the ownership and leadership among the councilors.
Dish Washing Unit !!!
Saving water and dishwashing unit to wash the daily utensils, Sadat initiated this project with other team members and students. It was his dedication and hard work that finished the whole project and it is a huge boost to adda cleanliness.
