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HSEA Children’s Voices

A sharing of thoughts on their return to campus after almost two years of online learning.

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Roshni

Head Start Educational Academy turned 15 this year and as a community, we have travelled through difficult times, but always with hope. The children in this music video represent the larger HSEA community for whom there is unity through diversity, positivity in times of adversity, and harmony through making music together. The song ‘Roshni’ is reflective of these deeper thoughts.

The videography and voice recordings for this music video were done from the individual participants' homes during the lockdown in 2020.

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Celebrating 35 Years: 1984-2019

We have travelled with children for 35 years and they with us. We have grown together...sharing a purposeful journey. What is wonderful about our journey is that it continues, along different paths and avenues, but with a specific vision, to find ourselves within the connectivity of the universe. At Head Start, our greatest joy has been connecting with children, and seeing them evolve from the period of infancy to that of young adulthood; and being part of a team that shares a culture that is an integral part of our philosophy.

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HSEA presents BETTER THAN THE REAL

Theatre Production

BETTER THAN THE REAL
By the students of Grade Eleven
(A play in English based on Slawomir Mrozek’s short story 'The Elephant')
Direction: Samta Shikhar & Ashwini Kumar Chakre

Suitable for an audience above the age of seven

Synopsis
This play encapsulates the nature of human existence and is set in a zoo, where animals are caged for display. Inspired by the story “THE ELEPHANT” by Slawomir Mrozek, it seeks for us to collectively reflect on the structures of existence that we as human beings occupy.

Using the trope of a zoo both comically and metaphorically, the play comments on the very nature of human evolution from animals to humans. We may have evolved from primitive animals to the thinking mind, but as thinking minds are we constantly carrying the burden of our own existence? Have we evolved as animals with bent backs rather than human beings capable of owning our decisions? Keeping this question as its central thrust, the play is entirely devised by our 11th graders, in conversation with the story “The Elephant”.

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Arts & Education – Process versus Outcome

Theatre Production

Arts & Education – Process versus Outcome

Literature, music and the arts, all are necessary for the development and flowering of a student to form an integrated total personality.- Rabindranath Tagore

THE BMTC
I got an opportunity to attend a play that was presented by the Head Start school children in Cubbon Park, Bangalore. The multilingual (Kannada, Hindi and English) play was about the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses enacted by a young group of children called ‘The BMTC’. This play is directed by Samta and Ashwini, theater facilitators of the school. A synopsis of the play can be viewed on the following link as that shall not be part of this piece: https://headstarteducationalacademy.edu.in/?p=4130

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