Dearest Readers: many apologies for the lapse in posts. I had caught the "oh-dear-Kolkata's-air-is-so-polluted" sickness that is so pervasively rampant in city. The addition of sporadically working wireless delayed the posts as well.
As was previously mentioned in the Design for Development post, one of the projects is the Interwoven Storytelling project, led by Joann, Coleen, Atisha, and Devon. The project is attempting to provide a sustainable model for perserving the local cultural traditions of textiles, generating income for those communities and for education of these traditions.
There are four phases to the project, the first was completed in Providence and the second phase was tested in Kalighat over two nights. The first night (day four) had the kids of New Light [these are children of the red light workers] use the printing blocks created in Providence on paper.
The group then unveiled the tapestry created in Providence from those printing blocks, but created by RISD students before we left for Kolkata.
Colleen and Devon, from the Interwoven group. Maren, Shannon, Matt, Mike, and others were the very patient volunteers. The kids were crazy!
Yours truly giving out crayons above. Some of the kids and their creations below.
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