Tuesday, May 27, 2014

workshop for undergraduate and postgraduate students at YWCA

New Delhi

Workshop for undergrad and post grad students


workshop in Subathu : Pinegrove School

Subathu  : We Sprawl and Pinegrove School conducted a photography, film making and development communication workshop in April 2014. "We saw the photographs by students and were amazed. They had the talent, all they needed was guidance,” says A Anjum, one of the founder members of We Sprawl, freelance film maker and a trainer in a media institute in Delhi. During the photo film workshop the students not only learnt the aesthetics but applied them in a unique way. The outcome is brilliant. They portrayed the beauty of their surroundings in a way that anyone who sees will be surprised to know that it is work by school kids.The workshop began with theory of basics of photojournalism and documentary making. Then they get hands on training with professional equipments like Nikon DSLR and Sony PD . Many kids had their own camera. Children clicked some amazing photographs, shot the documentary and suggested the story themselves. The documentary shot by them is at now editing stage.“They were better than us. They came up with brilliant topics like taking care of the environment around them, long lasting friendships and how their school is helping them become better human beings, " says S Preet Kaur, mentor and founder member of the group We Sprawl.  We Sprawl thanks Captain AJ Singh, Ms Samiksha,  My Sanjay Chauhan, principle, Mr Sanjay Singha, Mr Tridib and also Mr Manmohan, Ms Vanadana. We Sprawl thanks each and every participant.
coverage of workshop in www.wesprawl.com, 
Also see the coverage of workshop at


The list of students and budding photographers and film makers includes- AKHILESH SINGH, GAORISHA PRASHAR,  HIMANI GULATI,  MEHAK AGGARWAL,  SHREYASHI RAJ,  PALAK GOYAL,  UDDYAN ARYA,  INDRAYUDH CHOWDHURY,  ABHISHEK KAUSHIK, PURU BANSAL,  GURANSH BAJAJ, AVIK GOPAL,  AMRINDER DHILLON, GURPREET S NARANGH,  ATRIJ MAUNI,  PRATEEK SHARMA,  ADITYA SONI,  HARSHAJ SOOD,  HARSHDEEP SINGH,  RITINDER SANDHU,  ARYAN JAIN,  YASHIK JAIN,  NIKHIL MITTAL, LOVEPREET SINDHU, HARSHVEER BAJWA

Soon see their work at -www.wesprawl.blogspot.com and www.wesprawl.wordpress.com and also at  www.wesprawl.com.  

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Joy of Learning at Tibetan Children's Village Suja

Kangra/ Suja : Learning and teaching can give immense joy. This is what the outcome is of a five day long documentary and photojournalism workshop in Tibetan Children's Village (School), Suja, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh in November.We Sprawl went to train this existing talent of one of the oldest TCV schools in India. This workshop was initiative of ITCO, (Indo Tibetan Coordination Office) TCV Suja and We Sprawl.
The students of TCV learnt basics of documentary making , scripting, photojournalism along with training with professional equipments. They did a photo feature and soon will come out with their documentary based on themes like joy of learning and a day in TCV school Suja.
“The school students and staff were very excited and eager to learn. Some of the students wanted to learn much more about things like shutter speed and aperture. While teaching them we learnt so much,” believe founder members of We Sprawl.
The workshop began with theory of basics of photojournalism and documentary making. Then they get hands on training with professional equipments like Canon 1100 and PD 177. Children clicked some amazing photographs, shot the documentary and suggested the story themselves. The documentary shot by them is at now editing stage. “We wanted to share the "joy of learning" through this film. We wanted to spread a message among the students about how reading and learning help throughout one's life. Education, principles and learning is what the school TCV stands for. Also , TCV Suja is located in a beautiful place in nature's lap. We want students to explore this and click pictures and experience the beauty,“ says Karma La , principle, TCV Suja.
We Sprawl thanks the director, principle Karma Tharchin, staff members like Tenzin Dhargay , Tenzin Sangpo, students of TCV Suja and ITCO , Delhi

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Workshop in Kasauli at Pinegrove school

Talent can be found anywhere and can be nurtured at any age. Among the gushing pine trees on top of the hills in town of Kasauli lies abundant talent. We Sprawl went to train this existing talent of one of the top schools in North India- Pinegrove School in Dharampur, near Kasauli. We Sprawl trained students in basics of photo journalism and documentary making through a four day workshop this month. The workshop began with theory of basics of photojournalism and documentary making. Then they get hands on training with professional equipments like Nikon D-40, Canon 1100 and PD 177. Children clicked some amazing photographs, shot the documentary and suggested the story themselves. The documentary shot by them is at now editing stage.

We Sprawl thanks Mr AJ Singh(headmaster), Ms Samiksha Singh, Head Administration (Sr. School), Ms Kiran Attri (principle) , Mr Vishal Gauri , Mr Sanju , members of staff and all the students for making this workshop a possibility.

Do see photographs by students at
http://wesprawl.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/workshop-at-pinegrove-school-kasauli/

do see coverage of workshop here

http://beyondheadlines.in/2013/03/pines-of-talent-budding-photographers-and-film-makers-in-the-hills/

http://twocircles.net/2013mar28/pines_talent_budding_photographers_and_film_makers_hills.html

http://tehelka.com/fostering-a-creative-streak/

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Film making workshop for TERI and PVR

see these:http://www.pvrnest.org/resources/cineart/CineArtFilmLeadership.pdf
http://sumiran-preet-kaur.suite101.com/sprawling-creativity-




Filmmaking workshop for TERI and PVR, where the children fromNGO Butterflies, Sai International School and Windows Art and Craft Centre participated in the workshop where they came out with one minute documentary. The batch consisted of privileged and underprivileged children.The films were screened at PVR.
The documentaries are still screened at PVR before the main commercial films

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

A cultural extravaganza by We Sprawl

Brewing Culture

‘We Sprawl conducted a cultural extravaganza ‘over a cup of coffee’ at the heritage Indian Coffee House in Connaught Place, New Delhi on 3rd April, 2011. The evening was about music, photographs and untold stories by We Sprawl.

The exhibition was a display of talent shown by various students in workshops conducted by We Sprawl. There were photographs by students of Father Agnel School, underprivileged students in school run by NGO Deepalaya and members of We Sprawl. The photographs and news stories done by these children were edited by French and Mexican journalists.

The evening also saw a music band coming from Ryan International School perform and impress the audience. They had audience grooving to their music and singing along with them. The group conducts dance, music, theatre, journalism and photography workshops in various schools.

"Young aspiring people need such platforms. That’s our only aim, that is to give them opportunities,” says Aqsa Anjum, one of the founder members, on the occasion. Vanshika Sahni, a spectator at the exhibition was awed by the ambience at the venue. “We had beautiful photographs, lovely music by these children. It was really enjoyable. We were surprised to see little kids perform like professionals,” she said.

Sanchya, the band leader from Ryan International, says that the evening was full of fun. " Many of our band members got so carried away that they were not ready to leave the stage." Sartaj Singh, another solo performer at the event feels that the audience was really supportive. "Yes, we just didn't want to leave the stage," he says. The other band members were Chaitanya Kapoor (lead guitarist), Abhinav Wadhwa (Drummer), Madhwan Sharma (Rythm Guitar) Raunak Mongia( Keyboard) and Aditya Paul (back up vocals), all from Ryan International.

Sartaj Singh was another solo performer at the event who was singing and strumming the guitar.

We Sprawl salutes the talent in these young aspiring students.

Read the coverage of the event http://beyondheadlines.in/2011/04/brewing-culture/

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Photography workshop for the underpriviledged










In November 2010, We Sprawl conducted photography workshop for underprivildged children in school run by NGO Deepalaya in Okhla. The workshop was conducted by Ms Aqsa Anjum and Anas Haq, Sumiran Preet Kaur. The children were taught basics of clicking a photograph and taken for outdoor assignments with semi professional cameras.

Friday, November 12, 2010

our film screened at PVR, Juhu as part of Mumbai Film Festival 2010










Our documentaries, Entertaining Tibet and What Lies Ahead, have been screened in various national and international film festivals.
Entertaining Tibet- Directed, edited, written by Sumiran Preet Kaur, Sheeba Naaz
What Lies Ahead- Directed, edited, written by Sumiran Preet Kaur, Sheeba Naaz
check out
http://mumbai.burrp.com/events/pvr-cinemas_forget-me-not-other-films---12th-mumbai-film-festival-mami_juhu_mumbai/1983698811
http://mumbai.localtiger.com/india/mumbai-events/movies---film/what-lies-ahead-film-11872.html
http://www.buzzintown.com/mumbai/events/category--special-screening/day--pastevents/order--desc/sort-by--title/id--82/page--9.html

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

NEWSLETTER BY WESPRAWL

We Sprawl conducted theatre, dance, photography and journalism workshop for students of Father Agnel School, New Delhi. We Sprawl came out with a newsletter that has articles by students of our journalism workshop, photographs by photography students and columns by the Vice Principal of the school and French journalists who gave feedback for stories and photographs. Read articles at www.wesprawl.wordpress.com.
We would like to thank Mr Christophe Randy, Ms Sujatha Samy, Mr Isreal Ayala from Paris and Mr Sartaj Singh, Ms Natalia Ningthoujam, Ms Aqsa Anjum for their efforts and contributions.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Final show, in collaboration with NGO Kutumb











We Sprawl conducted theatre, dance, journalism, photo workshop for children of Father Agnel School, New Delhi. A final show was held on 26th June at Khan Market, New Delhi in collaboration with NGO Kutumb.
Children of Kutumb and students of We Sprawl workshop gave fabulous performances of dance and theatre. NGO kutumb works for the underpriviledged children.
The audience comprised of children the NGO works for and parents of children of Father Agnel School (New Delhi), who had enrolled for We Sprawl workshop.
For journalism stories by students, photographs and feedback by French journalists,
visit
www.wesprawl.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/we-sprawl

Photography workshop

on an outdoor photography assignment