Events for Children

Pratham Books is a non-profit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple Indian languages. Since the beginning of 2004, Pratham Books has managed to create a paradigm shift in the world of publishing through our unique model. Pratham Books has proven that it is possible to develop high-quality books for children that are affordable and therefore more accessible. We are giving below an important announcement for children. 

1. Bal Jamoore -- Street Theatre Fest for Kids

Via an email sent by Chintan Girish Modi

This process will enable your child get understanding of social issues and take it to the audience through theatre.

This festival would be an ideal platform for creative expression of children. The idea is to encourage children to act, direct, screenplay and script a play on their own and then take this across to various audiences across Bangalore.

The children involvement will not only sensitize them about issues affecting children and their rights but to also use this platform to help create awareness in an interactive manner

This Festival will showcase of works by Children – Script, Play writing & Direction

This festival will be in two parts -

First children (11 to 18 years) go though a two day workshop over a weekend and another day for common rehearsal.

They take part in festival by performing in a series of street plays around Bangalore..

Training Program

The training is for children (11 to 18 years) - which will be conducted at geniekids will be on

1. Understanding about CRY, Child Rights and Right to Education

2. Skills of Street theater

• Dates: 30th and 31th Oct 2010 (Saturday and Sunday)
• Venue: Geniekids Learning Center at Indirangar
• Timing: 10.00 am to 3.00 pm {both days}

The Theater Festival is expected to kick start on the 20th

Nov. 2010 post which kids would start performing. Dates & Venue of their performances will be posted once we are through with the training and get required permission from Traffic commissioner.

Registration is Free - Click here to register your child who has to be between 11 to 18 years. Please do not fill the form if you are not sure of participation - we assume once the form is filled - that child's participation is 100% confirmed.

Ideally we are looking at a batch of 10-12 students.

For any other inquiry /clarification please connect with

Sonia of CRY (Child Rights and You) at (080) 25486075, (91) 9886055438

or

Aditi of GenieKids 25202510 OR 98867-24518 OR 98450-45833

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2. Kalari Workshop for Kids

Via Active Canvas (via Indu Harikumar)

The Kalari workshop will teach basics of Kalaripayattu, an Indian martial art. The students will do stretch, and strengthening exercises and learn the basics of the positions and kicks. Kalari is also the movement form that serves as a basis for Indian contemporary dance. Ramya Nair and Sowmya Jaganmurthy, dancers of the Raadha Kalpa dance

company, will teach this workshop.

Date: October 30 and October 31

Days: Saturday and Sunday

Time: 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

For cost of workshop and more details, click here.

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Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty” held at CMC Ludhiana

This smaller implant leaves
undamaged cartilage in
other parts of the knee intact.
Photo Courtesy:Orthop Washington

Knee replacement, or knee arthroplasty, came as a major solution for those who are suffering from knee pains. in fact it is a surgical procedure to replace the weight-bearing surfaces of the knee joint to relieve the pain and disability of osteoarthritis. By decreasing the pain it also improves the quality of life in many patients with severe arthritis of the knees. all major factors relayed to this problems discussed on Saturday  at CMC Ludhiana by medical experts. 

Photo Courtesy:
Orthop Washington

A scientific symposium on “Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty” was held after the oration under the aegis of Punjab Medical Council. Eminent orthopedic surgeons from the country and abroad with extensive experience in the field participated in the symposium.  Dr Bobby John, Professor and Head, Department of Orthopaedics, CMCH, felt that Revision knee arthroplasty was the need of the hour, as many patients with knee arthritis are undergoing knee replacement surgeries and would somewhere down the line need a revision knee surgery. This symposium was conducted to sensitise the doctors and patients in the region to the intricacies of revision knee arthroplasty. According to Dr Anupam Mahajan, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, CMCH, the average age of doing a knee replacement is going down as it is getting more acceptance in the society. Many of these patients may require a revision surgery later and it was useful for all to get acquainted with it.The Symposium was organised on the eve of the 28th Annual function of the Dr L.H. Lobo Memorial Trust. It was held on Saturday, 23^rd October 2010.   Dr L.H. Lobo Memorial Trust was established in 1983 in memory of late Dr. L.H. Lobo, an eminent renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon and former Professor  & Head of Department of Orthopaedics and Principal of the Christian Medical College, Ludhiana. The aim of the trust is ‘Furtherance of Medical Education’. The oration is held in the specialty of Orthopaedics every other year.  The function was jointly organized this year by the trust and the Department of Orthopaedics, CMC, Ludhiana.  According to the President of the trust Shri S.R. Wadhera and Dr. M.K. Mahajan, secretary of the trust, the function has been held regularly for the past 27 years.
Dr. C.V. Ananthakrishnan, Senior Joint Replacement Surgeon, Ex Clinical Associate Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic surgery, Texas Tech University, School Of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas, USA was the chief guest.  Dr Raj Bahadur, Director- Principal, GMCH, Chandigarh were the guests of honour.

Stephen Caple deflects a shot.jpg

U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Stephen Caple deflects a shot during a exhibition game between the academy’s hockey team, the Falcons, and the University of Lethbridge’s Pronghorns at Cadet Ice Arena at the academy in Colorado Oct. 4, 2010. Caple, a sophomore and the team’s goalkeeper, made seven saves while allowing three goals as the Falcons defeated the Pronghorns 4-3 in overtime. 
(DoD photo by Mike Kaplan, U.S. Air Force/Released)

The prosthetic legs

The prosthetic legs of a Paralympic Military Sports Camp participant frame U.S. Navy volunteers at Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 5, 2010. Paralympic Military Sports Camps are multi-day events designed to introduce veterans and military personnel with physical injuries to summer and winter sport opportunities. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Travis K. Mendoza, U.S. Navy/Released)

Live-fire exercise

 U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Brigade perform a platoon mounted and dismounted live-fire exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany Oct. 6, 2010. (DoD photo by Gertrud Zach, U.S. Army/Released)

Practice marching

U.S. Airmen from the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing honor guard team and Afghan airmen practice marching at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2010. The team was preparing the Afghan airmen to perform during a ceremony marking the one year anniversary of Kandahar Air Wing. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Chad Chisholm, U.S. Air Force/Released)

During weapons qualification training

U.S. Navy Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 40 fire M-4 and M-16A2 rifles during weapons qualification training near Camp Mike Spann, Afghanistan, Oct. 1, 2010. (DoD photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael B. Watkins, U.S. Navy/Released)

Fires a mortar

A U.S. Soldier from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment fires a mortar during an area reconnaissance mission near Highway 1 in the Zabul province of Afghanistan Oct. 1, 2010. 






















(DoD photo by Spc. Joshua Grenier, U.S. Army/Released)

practice of conversational English with children

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Rodolfo Duqu (right) practices conversational English with children of Afghan National Army soldiers at Camp Shaheen, Afghanistan, Oct. 3, 2010. Duque is deployed from Naval Branch Health Clinic Bangor, Wash., as a member of NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan’s medical embedded training team to assist in the development and training of Afghan soldiers with the 209th Corps Regional Hospital. (DoD photo by Sandra Arnold, U.S. Navy/Released)

Super Puma helicopters deliver supplies

 AS-332 Super Puma helicopters deliver supplies to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) Oct. 2, 2010, during a vertical replenishment. Essex is under way in the East China Sea as part of the forward-deployed Essex Amphibious Ready Group. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Casey H. Kyhl, U.S. Navy/Released)

Playig with a Philippine child

 U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Carl Johnson, a combat engineer from Combat Logistics Battalion 31 (CLB-31), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, plays with a Philippine child at Anastacio N.F. Dinglas Elementary School in Ternate, Philippines, Oct. 1, 2010. Marines with CLB-31 were constructing additional classrooms at the school during Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) FY 2011, which is a bilateral training exercise and security assistance program between the U.S. military and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. 








(DoD photo by Lance Cpl. John T. Kennicutt, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)