Dr. Sulochana Nalapat reads Nalapat Balamani Amma’s Poems
Dr. Sulochana Nalapat reads Nalapat Balamani Amma’s Poems 1-Two Children (1946) Two children, who have come to play at a riverbank, are bickering, oblivious to their beautiful surroundings. Then the poet (who is one of the children) urges her companion to stop fighting, and pay heed to the butterflies, the honey-filled flowers and green grass, […]
Kettuvallathinu nanni/ Obeisance to a boat
Kettuvallathinu nanni/ Obeisance to a boat https://youtu.be/7hc_64mIbSc?si=qW1Oa5T07YH5GBWv Stillnessandme aims at instilling a sense of wonder and oneness with nature and uses the gift of our senses- seeing, hearing and feeling, as doorways into an experience of stillness and creativity. As a continuation of the project activities started in Munnar with the High Range school in […]
The Cell and I
The Cell and I Creation of a Cell-womb The aim is to journey down to the skeleton of the human psyche to help reveal the core potential. Among the guided activities is a focused understanding of ones core potential by relating to qualities of a stem cell and using nature as a mirror to understand […]
Creation of a DNA Helix
Creation of a DNA Helix Art experiential workshop by the Stillness Project for The High Range School Each child identified his or her beliefs, both positive and negative, and created an artistic representation of a DNA ladder. Through this activity they also came to understand that their genes shared a long journey with their ancestors. […]
Visit to ‘Dare’
Visit to ‘Dare’ Art experiential workshop by the Stillness Project for The High Range School A search for ‘value’ in contemporary society The High Range school children visited “Dare’ a school for the differently-abled, run by Tata Global Beverages in Munnar, in October 2016. For those at ‘Dare’ the joy of the journey they undertake […]
The virus attack
The virus attack Art experiential workshop by the Stillness Project for The High Range School Through our projects, we have been able to rekindle within the children of High Range School a genuine relationship with nature, which we believe is the only way to make them care passionately about nature and all its creatures, including […]
In and Out
In and Out As part of the ‘Stillnessandme’ project we decided to explore ‘Stillness’ through a painting commissioned for ‘Lahe Lahe.’ The students came with their ideas. They sketched, discussed, reflected and they wrote poems in an effort to enter and explore stillness for almost five months. The time period saw them moving deeper in, […]
Love Thy Labyrinth
Love Thy Labyrinth Walking the labyrinth is a meditative experience bringing the body mind and soul together. It aims to take the walker through several layers of his being starting from the physical body and culminating in the centre of the labyrinth, a space of godliness, and back. A seven ringed labyrinth will have seven […]
Alice out of Wonderland
Alice out of Wonderland Art Experiential Workshop – ABC Biennale Outreach Feb 2023 Alice in Wonderland is the fictional journey of a child at the cross roads, stepping into adolescence. Alice’s journey is about curiosity, innocence, vulnerability, logic and illogic, changing emotions, fear and authority, obstacles that arise, and the meaning of magic. Participants are […]
