Creativity Adda March 2021
In March Flowers bloom and so does hope.
In the month of March, begins season of colors, rejoice and new beginnings. It is the time when everything awakes and develops. Nature becomes renovated and gets ready for productive and warm months. The warmth of the sun fills us with energy and enthusiasm to be energized, and it is always our first priority to bring all of this color and energy of nature into our activities here at Creativity adda. We as a team are never afraid of hard work or the challenging demands of this unusual times that come our way, so we pulled all of our efforts together and brought scent hope in the spring air.
Highlights of the month
Ø Community visit and reconnect with parents
Ø Entrepreneurial approach for projects
Ø Filmmaking online session with Filmmaker “Nitin Das” from filmkar
Ø Filmmaking session with Eshaan from Filmart
Ø Filmmaking session with Sonu
Ø Video shoots, Customer interaction
Ø Natural Holi colour making workshop with Sakib
Ø Setup the urban farm with Sakib
Ø Dariya Dil cafes, Holi SpecialØ Breaking Dance workshop with The Quest Hip Hop Skool
Ø Self-design learning by taking initiatives in learning, integrating new diverse skills.
Community Media Lab
Filmmaking Sessions with Nitin Das from Filmkar
Our media team had an online session with filmmaker Nitin Das, from Filmkar. In the session students share about their work and expressed the areas where they want to learn and grow. It was nice interaction with him. Nitin bhai gave an assignment to create and share a story with 5 photos to keeping in mind 5 photos for creating a story:1Hero, 2 Villain, 3 Action, 4 Emotion, 5The End. Jatin and Satyam made their story keeping all the 5 elements. It was great learning experience for them.
Duo Team of Media Abhishek and Satyam
- Satyam along with Abhishek did a product shoot for an old client which included 12 products.
- They both went to Aligarh for three day wedding shoot and it was fantastic.
- They also designed ID cards for Creativity Adda this month.
Filmmaking Workshop for beginners with Eshaan from FilmArt
Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through screenwriting, casting, shooting, sound recording and pre-production, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and an exhibition.
(1) Which one first film in the world
( 2 ) creative photography
(3) How to shoot Film
(4) Type of films
(5) Type of shoots
(6) How yo get interview
(7) Team short 2 Films.
(8) Editing How to use shortcuts
(9) How to Use cross roll
(10) How to create subtitles
Mohit 8th class and Jitender 7th class helped the facilitator to do manage all the equipment and team. Both of them are playing major role in editing the film as it is pending for editing.
Workshop with Sonu
Community media lab students had workshop with Sonu. In the workshop students learnt and explored how to make proper frame, formatting of the text, how it is important the size and font of the text. Rohit, 10th Class found it really helpful, as he was not using this in his edited videos.
A Day with Gandhi Ji, film made and edited by Rohit, class 10 from media hub, during the visit of National Gandhi museum, last month.
Design studio and Maker Space
Repair cafe in Community
As a community experiment we went to students house and in front of their parents we asked them to repair the electrical board of their house and it made parents so happy so happy and proudto see their children are doing something meaningful for them. Abhishek class 7th shared that we will definitely do these experiments again.
Products for Sale
Design studio and maker space team Krishna, 7th class, Abhishek, class 7th Adarsh 8th class designed and made wooden guitar stand which is available for sale at rs350. Team made a book selves and multipurpose storage too.
Electrical Repairing and Light Repairing
We repair all the handmade decorative light for the Dariyal Dil café and we also.
In this month we done a various session regarding Electrical Repairing where we learn basic concept of Electricity work like way to identify the power and neutral wire, Students learn to repair old electrical boards and later we gave them to assemble and doing wiring of a brand new electrical boards.
Slowfood Junior Chefs Academy
Mexican Food Festival and the cuisines
we tried our hand are Mexican rice,nachos,burritos,tacos, and churros. It was total delight and the kids loved it, we are pretty sure we are going to cook all that again soon.
Baking
We baked Marble Cake,Ragi Chocolate Cake Ragi Chocolate Cookies and Multigrain Bread.
Italian Food Week
cook off and we baked pizza, pasta, bruschetta and lasagna. It was all Splendid!!
Stall in community
As a social interactive event Kids organized food stalls near there residential area and served sandwiches to family and friends. They managed it all so well, we were proud and overwhelmed at the same time.
Special Workshop by Parents
Student mother of Adda Nazira and Bhuri taught the kids “Bottle Gourd Kheer” and we discussed the possibilities of experimenting with Kheer, including substituting Ghee with Butter, adding nuts etc. It was fun and very connecting experience.Students Nazira’s and Bhuri’s mother taught us how to make ‘Lauki (Bottle Gourd) ki kheer’. Children asked her lot of questions about her culinary skills. She shared steps by steps- first she mentioned we had to roast lauki on kadhai ( round circular Dish/Utensil used for cooking). Rahul asked her how would we know that the lauki has been roasted- she replied when it turns golden also means it is ready. She told us it is vital to roast it well for the kheer to have that crispy quality. Without proper roast, kheer will not get that desired taste.
We contemplated how could we innovate- Sunil, 7th class,had one idea he said that we could put dry fruits in this kheer and Krishna, 9th class,poured in with his idea- could we put a pinch of turmeric for the color! Nazira Ji mentioned if we put turmeric, it will also have a taste of turmeric which can spoil the taste of ’sweetness of kheer’. Faizal asked the way in which we made lauki kheer- can we look at making ‘gajar ki kheer’? We coaxed Faizal that he should experiment at home and then share the results with us.
Krishna, 9th class, and Rahul 8th class,tried ‘Lauki ki kheer’ at home which they after they learned at Adda. Krishna, 9th class,told us that there was no desi ghee at his house So he used butter in it Krishna told us that adding butter to the kheer did not change the taste of kheer, everyone agreed and liked what they were having.
Krishna, 9th class, and Rahul 8th class made potato papad for their mother and also send us some sample. They shared that now they want to cook something at home so their family members do not interrupt them as their family trusts them.
Dance Hub
FLASH MOB AT CNG PARK, GOPALPUR
We performed flash mob for local residents of Gopalpur, the theme of skit was not force and pressure kids to do something for the sake of society or some rat race. It didn’t go the way we wanted it to be, but now we are so much more determined to make it loud and success next time.
BREAKING DANCE WORKSHOPS WITH QUEST-THE HIP HOP SKOOL
Suraj Vohra and Yasum Takam senior Faculty of Quest-The Hip Hop Skool held Five days Breaking camp with Creativity Adda. The main motto of this camp was to introduce a new dance style in the Break Dance genre to the students.
With different forms and techniques we also learnt that dance is all about expressing your emotions by using your body, having fun, gaining strength in my muscles and developing a balance not only for dance purposes but for our inner self. Kids loved the camp and it was one of best training experiences for them.
Our Participants Himanshu, Tarun, suraj, Vikas, Nitesh, Deepu, Aakash, Ashutosh, Anand, Bhavya, Vishal, Sujal, Lucky, Anmol, Vikas kumar, Nikhil, Raj.
Salsa, Back Step, Cross-back Step, Apache Storm, & Shuffle. Backflip, Summer sort, air flare, Knee Drop,P, 360 Spin, Jump and Hook, Baby Freeze, Hand Stand, Head Stand & Master Swipe, were some Dance forms performed and practiced by our troop. Overall the five day workshop was great learning experience of the kids.
The cardio exercises of 45 minutes was done for the dance troop to boost endurance and Strong Core as a Dance Therapy, which we found very helpful.
The choreography on a Dance number of Satya by our team was our March Dance Highlight.
Music Hub
We went to Tagore Garden music studio with our musical group and they felt so empowered and delighted with that aura. Later our Student Mange Ram sung a classical folk song and everyone loved his exceptional talent.
Team learned the song Chaudhary and did very well. Team have told that by doing this song they got a lot of information, they found out that there are songs in different languages too. Team performed the song Jugni ji and the children liked it very much. For the first time, the children sang a whole Punjabi song in which the children also knew the Punjabi language and the children learned to remove the song on Cassio.
Djembe and Percussion workshop with Labhansh
Sports and Fitness Hub
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 one leg, camel etc.
Sarvan has mesmerized us with their sea skating skills, not just us whoever has seen it, they all are praising them.The Younger one is also doing very well in racing, skating, artistry. His body balance is really good which is a bonus.
Daryadil Cafe
Our first cafe of this month was on 6th March. Dariya Dil Cafe was a hit. We had total blast in our games and ice breaking activities with family and friends. Our troop Himanshu, Tarun, suraj, Vikas, Nitesh, Deepu, Aakash, Ashutosh, Anand, Bhavya, Vishal, Sujal, Lucky, Anmol, Vikas kumar, Nikhil Performed Dance number by Divine which was so well appreciated by everyone present.
We celebrated the holi special Dariya Dil Café on 25th March. There were around 100 ppl including parents, friends and students.
Our cooking team manage the whole hospitality of Dariya diL Café . we divided our self into four teams. Faizal, 7th class, was leading the first team and took the responsibility of making tea, Gulshan 9th class was leadsing second Team took the responsibility of making raagi mix veg pakkode,and Deepak, 6th was leading the third team took the responsibility of Gunjiya. Aakash and Dimanshu took the lead of fouth team took the responsibility of take care of cleanliness. Chefs played a good role in serving and making food for the everyone who visited to our café. Following things we made in dariya dil café:_ Raagi Ke Pakode, Gunjiya, Tea. Music team gave an amazing performace and did the jamming with parents. Dance team also performed their performance. This time the skating group also came up with their performance and amazed every one with it. Makers space took the responsibility of decoration.
Maheep conducted a special natural holi color session with the parents and freinds (which he learnt few day before)to make the holi for fulfill and joyful.
URBAN FARMING
URBAN FARMING
We did Urban Farming workshop with Sakib, Maheep helped him throughout . We used the plastic boxes and made our own compost to grow Tomato, Bitter Melon, Sweet Corn, Laal Saag.
COLOUR MAKING WORKSHOP
We had a traditional Natural Holi Color Making workshop with We made Yellow Color using Turmeric + Aararot, Green Color using Spinach + Aararot, Purple Color using Beetroot + Aararot, Blue Color using Ujala + Aararot. Students had enjoyed the workshop and had a great fun.
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