Author: child2015
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Child’s Play @ Goa’s first Children’s Book Fest
The children of Child’s Play were delighted to be invited to perform at Goa’s first Children’s Book Fest organised by Bookworm. On Sunday December 16, a gaggle of kids piled into our cars and came to the Panjim Municipal Garden, which was the venue for the Fest. There, amidst the colourful bunting, the gaily decorated…
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Child’s Play (India) Foundation wishes you a merry Christmas and a great New Year 2013!
Christmas greetings from us to you! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBsu_UkK8Xw]
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We’re now in Bangalore!
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve now got a music project in Bangalore (Bengaluru)! We’ve got a violin teacher giving weekly lessons to a group of children at Abhayadhama, a charity in Whitefield! And by the end of this month, we’ll hopefully have a music project in Mumbai as well! Thanks as ever to Musequality…
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“Bahut Lucky hain!”
Irfan is one of our more keen violin students in the Child’s Play (India) Foundation music project at Hamara School. I was driving him to a private lesson with Sanya Cotta, an extremely gifted Goan-origin violinist who now studies and works in Germany, and regularly coaches young children there herself. On an impulse, I asked…
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And now…. Keyboard!
On 8 August 2012, we began keyboard lessons for the kids at Hamara School. It’s funny how one thing leads to another: A lot of our recorder students used to enjoy the singing sessions that went along with learning their instrument. They literally begged for more opportunities to sing. So we began choir last…
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Patricia Rozario at Hamara School
We were delighted and honoured to have internationally-acclaimed soprano Patricia Rozario visit our children at Hamara School on 29 July, to hear our fledgling choir. It’s an initiative that is barely a few weeks old, and we are grateful to the indefatigable Jean Kalgutkar for giving us her time, energy and enthusiasm to set it…
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Now live: Dr. Luis Dias @ INKTalks 2010
We’ve had many requests for the video link to our Project Director Dr. Luis Dias’ talk at the INK Conference 2010 held at Lavasa. The INKTalks website was recently revamped and we’re pleased to announce that the talk is once again online. In his talk, Luis describes how Child’s Play was born and what we…
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Our new project with Mitsuko & Children Walking Tall
We at Child’s Play (India) Foundation have begun a new recorder project at Mitsuko Trust. Around 10-12 children from Children Walking Tall make the trip every week from Mapusa, either by bus or in a minivan, to take recorder lessons from Susan Badyari, who has been with us since last year. We began on my…