No26-Mumbai-India




					Workshop in Mumbai, India 15 April 2000 - 20 April 2000 RORTALY CLUB OF MUMBAI ART JAPAN

		The 29th KIDS' GUERNICA (the 37th if 10,000 children's series included) has be en completed in Mumbai, India. Mumbai is the big city of west coast which had been called Bombay till 1977, and the workshop was organized by Rotary Club of Mumbai Goregaon West. West Goregaon is the northern part of Mumbai city, and the Club was founded five years ago. This is the second participation of the Rotary Club in KIDS' GUERNICA after the one in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and the third work in India after the ones in Calcutta and Rishi Valley. Through Mr. Asit Poddar, who realized the workshop in Culcutta, ART JAPAN has had connection with the Rotary Club, and it took us about four months to connect each other chiefly by e-mail to get pepared for the workshop. The staff of ART JAPAN went over to Mumbai to cover the event in time for the completion of the murals, with Video Cameraman Mr. Yoshimoto Norimasa as a volunteer. Today we can fly directly from Japan to Mumbai, but the weathers and the customs of the two countries differ considerably, and having interviews there, even for the short time, was painstaking. The children in Mumbai, however, welcomed us at the workshop site to answer our interviews cheerfully, telling that they were looking forward to their participation in the coming exhibition in Nepal in December. This is a good memory for us. The mural that the children in Mumbai painted is divided into seven big parts (each represents an island as Mumbai was once a seven-island-nation), which individually forms a heart shape, dispatching a peace message to the world. The workshop in Mumbai was held on Bhavan's College of Mumbai University for six days, from 15 to 20 of April. KIDS' GUERNICA is a nonprofit cultural program. In India, like other countries, the organizer collected the financial supports from the domestic companies that approved of the purpose of KIDS' GUERNICA, and realized the workshop. It was very hot by day in Mumbai, but having the site air-conditioned was out of the question. But the children from every part of Mumbai, neatly in school uniforms, answered our interviews politely. After the completion of the mural, all of them were given participant cards and souvenirs (12 colors ofpastel crayons). It is Dr. J. T. Vyas of The International Rorary Club of 3140 district ( Governor, 1998-1999), and Mr. Banibrata Podder, the Director general of the exective committee for the workshop, that hand the cards to the children. On the last day of the event, there was a culture program, a show. At the place where the workshop was held, we enjoyed traditional Indian dance performance by girls, which was really fascinating. ORGANIZER: Banibrata Podder ARTIST: Bishnu Dhar TEACHER: Reshma Kumar Renuka Deo Ms. P. Sabnis Ms. Swapna Choudhury
		Participant children: Nirmala Vishwanathan, 13 Rukmini R. Chowdhary, 13 Himani Gandhi, 14 Amrita Gupta, 14 Anagh Banerjee, 12 Prathamesh Naik, 14 Kunal H. Chandak, 13 Sarojkumari Kureel, 15 Jignesh G. Patel, 14 Seema Raje, 14 Richa Gupta, 13 Prina Doshi, 13 Sneha Fernandes,13 Anuja Rane, 14 Shoan Shinde, 12 Sohini Mondal, 13 Vaishali Gandhi, 13 Dipie Mahidharia, 12 Supriya Iyer, 14 Aniketa Sharma, 13 Onisha Dhar, 10 Roshan Sirohia, 12 Rimpie Panjwani, 13 Masooma Rehmtulla, 13 Yash Shah, 13 Farha Furniturewalla, 13 Deepshikha Ghosh, 13 Aditya Joshi, 12 Srushti J. Parikh, 10 Ugam Parikh, 7 Ipshita Podder, 14 Minal Singhee, 10 Chetan Pasari, 10 Meet Pasari, 7 Zennon Rosario, 11 Mellissa Pereira, 11 Mellinda Pereira, 11 Sagar R. Kadam , 13 Paulomi J. Saha, 7 Madhuri V. Prabhu, 9 Amita Vaidya, 16