Kalam: Margins Write
Kalam: Margins Write
Project Brief: Creative literacy program to empower marginalized and underserved young people
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Seattle
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Secondary Focus: children of sex workers
Area: TribalSupporting Chapter Contact:
Seattle
Status: UNKNOWN
Project Steward: Rajesh Korde
Co-Steward: Sahar Romani
Project Partner(s): Contact information unavailable
Project Address: Kalam: Margins Write
C/O The Daywalka Foundation
9/B Hazi Mohsin Road
West Bengal 700026
Tel: 98316998 (Kolkata)
Stewarding Chapter: Seattle
Project Steward: Rajesh Korde
Co-Steward: Sahar Romani
Project Partner(s): Contact information unavailable
Project Address: Kalam: Margins Write
C/O The Daywalka Foundation
9/B Hazi Mohsin Road
West Bengal 700026
Tel: 98316998 (Kolkata)
Stewarding Chapter: Seattle
Total = $0
Kalam: Margins Write started as a critical and creative literacy program that would empower marginalized and underserved young people with skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, interpretive analysis and creative expression through an art-education curriculum centered around their personal life.
Unlike traditional education programs, Kalam motivates and engages youth through a curriculum based on their issues, their feelings, their problems, and their story. With a syllabus based on their life and with the disciplines of art and poetry, Kalam "tricks" young people into learning and improving their skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and creative expression. Kalam gets youth excited to devote their energy into what is traditionally considered boring – WRITING and READING. It integrates reading and writing as a meaningful and necessary part of their lives.
Kalam is not a traditional informal education program, which attempts to mainstream youth into formal schools. Rather it works with youth in and outside of school as a program that teaches reading, writing, critical thinking, interpretive analysis, and creative expression as life skills in their real life contexts.
Unlike traditional education programs, Kalam motivates and engages youth through a curriculum based on their issues, their feelings, their problems, and their story. With a syllabus based on their life and with the disciplines of art and poetry, Kalam "tricks" young people into learning and improving their skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and creative expression. Kalam gets youth excited to devote their energy into what is traditionally considered boring – WRITING and READING. It integrates reading and writing as a meaningful and necessary part of their lives.
Kalam is not a traditional informal education program, which attempts to mainstream youth into formal schools. Rather it works with youth in and outside of school as a program that teaches reading, writing, critical thinking, interpretive analysis, and creative expression as life skills in their real life contexts.
• Integrate reading and writing and thinking as a meaningful part of young people’s lives
• Strengthen youth to be advocates for themselves and their communities
• Break-down stereotypes of marginalized youth in the greater mainstream society.
• Validate young people’s personal experiences, feelings, and opinions
• Build local community-based organization's art-edcuation capacities
• Develop and distribute art-education materials for youth empowerment to local educators and activists.
• Strengthen youth to be advocates for themselves and their communities
• Break-down stereotypes of marginalized youth in the greater mainstream society.
• Validate young people’s personal experiences, feelings, and opinions
• Build local community-based organization's art-edcuation capacities
• Develop and distribute art-education materials for youth empowerment to local educators and activists.
Kalam programs and projects include:
• Writing Out: 20 Week Creative Writing Workshop. These are creative workshops for marginalized youth on themes of identity, home/community, and the world.
• Peer Poetry Workshops: Peer-led creative writing workshops on diverse themes.
• Annual Literary Journal - Khola Baksho: A youth-managed magazine featuring marginalized young people's art/writing. Published once a year.
• Footpath Poetry: An on-going city exhibition of youth poetry along Calcutta chai stalls.
• Second Sundays: Once-a-month gathering of marginalized youth to come together to share art/writing with each other and build community.
• Writers' Dialouges: Quarterly sessions for young people with established local and international Artists and Educators.
Kalam staff and managment includes: 1 Program Coordinator, 1 volunteer International Program Coordinator and 8 Youth Interns who were former participants of Kalam's Writing Workshops.
• Writing Out: 20 Week Creative Writing Workshop. These are creative workshops for marginalized youth on themes of identity, home/community, and the world.
• Peer Poetry Workshops: Peer-led creative writing workshops on diverse themes.
• Annual Literary Journal - Khola Baksho: A youth-managed magazine featuring marginalized young people's art/writing. Published once a year.
• Footpath Poetry: An on-going city exhibition of youth poetry along Calcutta chai stalls.
• Second Sundays: Once-a-month gathering of marginalized youth to come together to share art/writing with each other and build community.
• Writers' Dialouges: Quarterly sessions for young people with established local and international Artists and Educators.
Kalam staff and managment includes: 1 Program Coordinator, 1 volunteer International Program Coordinator and 8 Youth Interns who were former participants of Kalam's Writing Workshops.
Feb 2007 Kalam Application
Feb 2007 Kalam Concept Note