Sights and Sounds

The venue for our next workshop, Sights and Sounds was the Nature Study Park. It was the 15th of December and all members were requested to be there by 3. Attendance was a little low and the dismal traffic delayed the session by nearly 20 minutes.

However, once all the members were present, Richa wasted no time in dispersing them around the park to list all the sounds they heard. There was indeed a variety of sounds if one kept quiet long enough to hear them!
The members returned to us, thankfully all in one piece, with long lists of birds chirping, teachers chatting, insects buzzing and the ever-present sound of traffic.
Richa then sent the members off on another wild goose-chase, quite literally, this time to keenly observe the colours around them. The park was, of course, the source of much colour and this exercise kept the members busy for a while.

When they finally returned with lists of yellow from the sun's reflection in the water, the grey colour of the water itself, the green leaves and the white geese, Richa set them yet another agonising task; the members would now have to incorporate the colours from the lists into the clothes of a fictional character that they were to create. The sounds were to be incorporated into the music that would accompany the character as it entered the 'scene'.
The members found this particular exercise very enjoyable and all came up with extremely original and fascinating characters.
This was also the first workshop when we started taking videos of the sessions. The videos will be edited later and posted on youtube so that other people can see the work we do.
Though Mon and Megha recorded quite a bit of the session itself, we also took short videos of each of the members present talking about their experiences with writeherewritenow. The members were shy at first but soon got over that to make concise speeches that were entertaining as well as informative.
After this thoroughly entertaining session, we all dispersed at 5 pm.