‘Jhelum Fables’: Five-day visual storytelling workshop begins aboard Jhelum
Srinagar: A five-day visual storytelling workshop ‘Jhelum Fables’ kicked off Wednesday at picturesque ‘Roots houseboat’ situated on river Jhelum in Srinagar.
The first of its kinds of visual storytelling workshop held on a houseboat, aims to enhance creativity among the youth through writing and photography.
Organised by ‘Roots Learning Group’, a student club whose objective is to conduct short courses and workshops on a variety of categories, the workshop concludes on Saturday.
The ‘Roots Group’ operating in a houseboat and is an empowering space for students where an open exchange of ideas and dialogue can take place.
Mahi Burza, a young entrepreneur and founder of ROOTS said that the idea was to establish a space where small workshops with closed group can be held. “The youth in Kashmir lack access and opportunities to art and culture in some sense. Our aim was to establish one such space. This is just the beginning, we aim to conduct many such programs”, Burza added.
The workshop is conducted by Dr Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi, a noted journalist of Kashmiri origin who is presently working in Jaipur with reputed national English daily.
She is also a recipient of national award in photography conferred on her by I & B Ministry.
“The workshop is about observing, imagining and then writing about the photographs captured by the participants in the workshop. Apart from learning basics of photography and writing, the participants will be asked to make their own visual story with the help of two mediums – pen and camera, which we will be displaying on the last day of the workshop”, said Qureshi.
The ‘Jhelum Fables’ is attended by Kashmiri youth hailing from different backgrounds such as engineering, humanities, IT, science etc.
However, their common interests-creative writing and photography has brought them together. Qureshi feels the workshop to be close to her heart.
“It feels that I am giving back to Jhelum and the valley (my hometown) whose aesthetics has inspired my life. Such small attempts make a great difference to those who aim to excel in any art form. And there couldn’t have been an authentic place other than a traditional houseboat on river Jhelum”, she said.
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