BENGALURU, INDIA, December 24, 2017 (Express News Service):: Parveen Sultana and TM Krishna will be among the many maestros conversing with students from over 100 schools, from across the country, at an intensive six-day program to be held in the city from today. At this convention, International School Convention (ISC) of Spic Macay, youngsters will be introduced to Indian arts and crafts through workshops and talks. For the first time, this event will have participation from international students and teachers. Two hundred and fifty artistes will be present as trainers. This residential programme will be held at DPS Bengaluru (north) and 30 acres of space will accommodate students from 20 states. For all six days, the students will wake up at 4 am and practise seven different types of yoga including Koodiyattam, a theatre form of yoga, till 7 am. Thirty types of workshops will be conducted till afternoon where students will be introduced to classical art forms and crafts such as as mask making. Evening concerts will be held every day from 6 pm to 9 pm and these will be open to the public. Overnight public concerts will be held on December 29.
Students will also present their learning on the final day. Sadhana Rao, a Spic Macay advisor, has been a volunteer for 30 years, ever since she joined the program as a student in Miranda House. “I have always felt there was something missing in the education system. I figured what it was once I joined Spic May. It has been 30 years now,” she says.The first convention was held in 1985 in Hyderabad and Kiran Seth, the founder of Spic Macay, says that there were 50 participants and jokes how the gathering then was divided with the World Cup.