Workshop on Reading is fun

This  workshop is for children to discover that reading is fun. The children will be taught how to select and read books from the library collection.

The session  will help children to :

• develop a love for reading
• imagine and spark creativity
• learn how to communicate & understand art
• encourage children to read and enjoy books from other cultures.

There will be a prize (every week!) for the child who demonstrates good reading skills and is able to to apply the guidelines taught to them during the workshop.

Varsha Seshan will facilitate the workshop. She is a writer, dancer and teacher. You can find out more about her on www.varshaseshan.com

The workshop will take place on 15, 22 and 29 September and 5 and 6 October.

It is open for children between 8 and 12 years.

Registration fee:

INR 1000 for library members

INR 2000 for non-members (includes a complimentary Gold six-month library membership) 

Registrations open on a first come first served basis; 20 seats only

For further details please contact Sugandhi on (020) 41005300 or send an e-mail atsugandhi.v@in.britishcouncil.org

Date & Venue: Sunday, 15 September 2013 to Sunday, 6 October, 2013

Time:                 15:00 to 17: 00

At                      British Council, Pune

Oxford Bookstore offers Children's Hour- Every Saturday

Event Info : Oxford Bookstore offers many kids activities like painting, storytelling & activities in case of special occasions.

Time : 04:30 pm - 05:30 pm

Place : Oxford BookStore, Statesman House, First Floor, 148, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110001
Walking Distance from Barakhamba Metro Station

Guitar Workshop- TANSEN SANGEET MAHAVIDYALAYA - MALVIYA NAGAR

 Excellent opportunity to learn Guitar from a very good Guitar instructor who has trained more than 1000 students.

The workshop will have 10 classes with 2 classes per week.

A new beginning to your life and develop your skills.

Age Group: 5 to 14

Event Date: 15-Sep-2013 to 20-Oct-2013

Contact Person: Team Tansen Sangeet Mahavidyalaya , Contact No.:01166579160

Email ID: mnagardelhi@tansensangeet.com Visit at::www.tansensangeet.com

Address: 17 - 18, 2nd Floor Corner Market Near Pind Balluchi Restaurant

Venue: Tansen Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Malviya Nagar

Workshop on Granta Reader Group, Chandigarh

Love reading? Want to read the very best of British contemporary literature?

Join our new Granta Reading Group, and experience the Best of young British Novelists first hand! You'll read short stories by the Best of Young British Novelists, discuss and analyse them, and later in the year, meet one of the novelists in person!

The Granta Reading Group meets on the second and last Friday in the month. It's facilitated by a British Council team member and a library member.

In this sesion we will discuss excerpt by Ned Beauman. Ned Beauman was born in Hampstead, London in 1985, and was educated at Winchester School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther and the Guardian.His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction and the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book. His second novel, The Teleportation Accident, was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013 He was included on Granta magazine’s prestigious list of 20 ‘Best Young British Novelists’. His third novel, Glow will be published in 2014 by Sceptre in the UK. County Library Children's Book of the Year Award and won the 2003 North East Book Award. Her latest book for young adults is Close-Up (2006). Paralysed (2005) won the South Lanarkshire Book Award and the Leicester Book of the Year Award and is about someone dealing with a spinal cord injury. She has also written three non-fiction books for teenagers: two GCSE guides, English Language (2001) and English Literature(2001); and Fat (1997), which deals with body image.

Registration: Space for 12 members only.

Contact person: Namrata Sandhu

Email: namrata.sandhu@britishcouncil.org

Venue & Time :British Council, Chandigarh

                         Friday, 13 September, 2013 at 17:30 - 19:00

Event designed especially for the youth: India Today Youth Summit 2013 “Mindrocks” New Delhi

Time : 9:45 am - 7:00 pm

Entry : Click here for registration details
Contact Details : Saurav Parmar/(0120) 4807100 Extn. 3496/Email: youthsummit@intoday.com

Place : Siri Fort Auditorium, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi - 110049
Date & Time : 21 Sep, 2013, 9:45am to 7:00 pm

Event Description : India Today Youth Summit 2013 “Mindrocks” New Delhi
Mind Rocks is an event designed especially for the youth. The daylong conference is a forum that allows bright young minds to interact in an open two-way conversation with their icons. A space where inspirational leaders from different spheres of life share their success stories. A festival that celebrates through ideas, music and art by recognizing the best in the field and also giving youth a stage to create, perform and engage.

Workshop on Mantra for writers to write fiction

This two day workshop aims at providing a "kick start" to the writing talent of creative individuals from all walks of life– by introducing them to the nuts and bolts of 'professional' story writing and providing them with tips and tools for penning 'publishable fiction'. It will deal with important aspects of professional story telling – beginnings and endings, plot points, character development, dialogue and setting and descriptions 

Age Group : For 16 years and above

Contact Person: Huta Raval 

Email id: huta.raval@in.britishcouncil.org

Contact number: +91 79 26464693/26469493; extension 102

Venue- British Council Ahmadabad

Time  & Date-  Saturday, 14 September, 2013

                           Sunday, 15 September, 2013

                             At- 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Aarohi Verma

V - A

Bal Bharati Public School, Brij Vihar, Ghaziabad

Workshop on - Confusing words: Using correct spellings

 - 16.00

There are so many words of English which children don’t know when and where to use. Words like ‘practice’ or ‘practise’, ‘accept’ or ‘except’ often leave kids confused. So, come and transform yourself into a confident user of tricky words by understanding their origins, differences and their proper usage. 

Workshop to be conducted by: Shalu Mehra

Registration details:

Age group between 7 and 9 years

Registration fee: 400 per person

Contact person: Anu Bhardwaj

Email id: delhi.enquiry@in.britishcouncil.org

Contact no: 01142199000

Registration is on a first-come first-served basis and is open to all the platinum members of the British Council Library. Registration fees for workshops are not refundable or transferable.

Venue- British Council India- Delhi

Date & Time: 21 September, 2013. 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm