Last Friday was International festival at Aarohi. We had one constraint “any festival other than India’s festival” – this was part of our objective of understanding the world around.
It began with researching different games, music, food (recipe) of different countries. We read stories from different culture and enacted with puppets. We found out significance of Dragon in Chinese festivals. Some got together and made salad, calling it ‘AMerican Potata Salad’. Few got together and enacted African story of night. Some practices games from different countries, Arthi Anand, a story teller joined us on skype to tell the story of HinaMatsuri, her story was a folktale Moonflower which she intertwined with this festival…so not fully true to the original folk story….it was not one but many things together made this day.