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Puppet theatre with Mereille
Mireille, a puppeteer from France, worked with the children to teach puppetry. The sessions were held on Sundays and sometimes during our summer camp. In this class, students were learned to make their own puppets using art paper and sticks. They had so much fun drawing the characters and painting them. The main theme of the…
The Impact of Storytelling
A huge congratulations to the young people of the Foróige BEY project, Ballyhaunis, Ireland and Thamarai, Tamil Nadu, India who were awarded a 2025 Youth Excellence Award for the publication of the International Storybook. This is a prestigious award given during the #ETBWeek 2025 Excellence Awards. The ETBI is the Educational and Training Board based…
JOY, WELLBEING & SELF CARE for Educators and Children by Om Lalita Yoga
I am Lali. I come from Argentina. I visited Auroville ten years ago and fell in love with it. Many synchronicities brought me back to India by the end of 2024 making Auroville a must-visit.This time, my primary focus was to explore holistic educational institutions dedicated to wellbeing and joy. As soon as I discovered…
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Visiting the seed festival in Auroville
It was a warm Sunday morning, and students arrived one by one at Thamarai with permission slips signed by their parents. By 9:40 AM, everyone had gathered. There were 23 students and 6 facilitators, we sat in a circle, clapping to rhythmic beats created by the students. We divided into four groups, each with a…
Christmas Holiday Camp
Magic Show with Juergen on Christmas-Eve! German volunteer Oscar invite Magic-man Juergen to perform a show for the Thamarai students and community. It was a non stop extravaganza of magic with the audience laughing throughout and excited to find out how Juergen created the tricks. The finale was exciting as Juergen showed us how the…
Telling compelling stories with Action-Cams, Smartphones and Tabs
Manu Bahuguna has brought his skills of commercial filmmaking to support youth with career opportunities beyond convention with a film making and communications course with the aims of 1) providing life-skills to young people to take-up film making as a profession or use it as an additional skill in their careers and lives and 2) to…
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