27 April,2021 06:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Gayathri Chandran
The Write Your Own Play workshop being held in pre-pandemic times
Starting May 1, St Andrews Educational Foundation in Bandra will host Awesummer 2021, a series of online summer courses for youth between the ages of 16 and 25. Conducted over Zoom, these 10 different short courses can be attended from the comfort of their homes.
Dr Omkar Bhatkar
"This time, keeping the pandemic in mind, we have had to curate subjects that would be easy to execute online," says Anjali Gracias, workshop coordinator, adding, "The facilitators are all experts and well-known in their own fields." The workshops include activities like play-writing, scenography, food design, Bollywood dance, Zumba and more. The events are scheduled in a way that participants can pick up more than one workshop if they choose, provided the timings are aligned.
Chef Michael Swamy
Dr Omkar Bhatkar, sociologist and theatre practitioner, will helm courses such as Write Your Own Play and Introduction to Scenography. "With the play-writing course, I guide participants on writing a play entirely from scratch. They're also taught to write dialogues and how to put their ideas on paper. With scenography, the focus is on how to create a visual vocabulary, with a little bit of history of certain scenographers and their works," shares Bhatkar. City chef and author Michael Swamy will teach a course in food design and photography.
Daryl Arambhan
"Food design is about how you plate and present food. I'll be guiding participants on how to put how to photograph food, and how to make it more Instagrammable for a digital audience," he says. Operatic tenor Daryl Arambhan will conduct the Introduction to Opera workshop. "With these theoretical workshops, I'm sharing some background about opera's origins using images and recordings from YouTube. I'll be depicting how opera showcases emotions of love, rejection, sacrifice and more. We will also have a question and answer session where I will share with students what I've learned from my career, over the years," says Arambhan.
On: May 1 onwards
Call: 9769296630
Cost: Rs 500 onwards
