Weeks gone and the Week Coming !

The past three meetings at the Comics Cafe, held as usual on Saturday evenings, have been very heady. Film screening, impromptu reading sessions and usual discussions over coffee, these are the images which conjure up in our mind when we think of these meetings.

Last week, one of our friends Madan Sharma played some digital stories made by the underprivileged children of Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. In these stories the children shared various stories revolving around their lives. The children used the collage of sketches, comics, still pictures and dramatized situations and weaved them together by a narrative to give it a story shape. The children of Tamil Nadu, for instance, relived the trauma of Tsunami through these stories. One of our photographer friends who is a resident of the Tsunami-affected region of Nagapattanam spoke about how the catastrophe has changed the lives of the fishermen there.

Many new friends have joined the weekly meetings. They are from different cultural and professional backgrounds and have lent varied hues of colours to the cafe. We welcome them all.

This Saturday, on June 3, we invite you for a reading session at the Comics Cafe where all those who are present shall read any work of theirs, prose or poetry. You are welcome to read any of your past works and if you have been shying away from it so far, here is the time to pick up the pen and scribble down those lines/images/thoughts which have occurred repeatedly in your dreams or are lurking somewhere in the recess of your heart.

If you still can’t find words, you may read the work of any of your favourite author; any page, any paragraph.

See you then on Saturday, June 3 at 5 pm.