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30 Minutes: Exercises in Creativity

I recently read a blog post by writer-designer Jack Cheng titled 30 Minutes a Day. If you’re a creative person in any field and have time to read just one post, I’d say, read this. The premise is simple – if you are going to learn / master something, you must push yourself into making …

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Rico Rod in Conversation

Trailer of the interview with Rico Rod, well-known star of yesteryears on Goa’s tiatr stage. This interview is produced for the Tiatr Academy of Goa and is part of a series of interviews with famous tiatrists of yesteryears on the Goan stage.

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Staying Awake for God

A film by Alexander Henn (Arizona State University/Heidelberg University), in colaboration with Alito Siqueira (Goa University). Camera and editing by S Gasper D’Souza. An introduction to the Jagor in Goa. Jagor, meaning to be awake, are all-night ritual performances in various villages in Goa, once a year.

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Flowers of St Mary’s

On a warm and sunny Saturday evening, 200 odd little kids, 3 to 5 years old, parents in tow, assembled at the St Marys pre-primary school in Mapusa, Goa. It was an unusual event for the little ones, one for which they’d been practising for weeks. The excitment was running high by the time the curtains went up for the pre-primary annual day event.

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Beyond Walls

Artists Milan Khanolkar and Priya Kamat spent 6 days working on the walls of a day-care center at the Goa University. The duo worked their way up, from ground to the ceiling, bringing the blank concrete to life with colour and facinating characters. This, they tell me, was a labour of love.