Projects: We Amra Projects (literary, musical, creative performing arts, learning and entertainment)
What are We-Amra Projects?
Educational & Entertaining global projects that work towards children welfare and enrichment providing education & awareness through music and various art forms and other useful hands on activities that finally promote a healthy young generation so that they are able to build a better sustainable environment where we all can live in peace and harmony.
Why do we need this? World is changing every day. Children are learning a lot and losing many. Our children are moving away from mother earth, nature, mother tongue, human connections, social values, own culture tradition, even they are losing their childhood, These projects are intended to raise love and awareness towards what our children are losing. Even if children are our main focus, adults participation is also significant.
Project development: These projects were conceptualized around end of 2016 by Dr. Nivedita Ganguly from Kansas City (USA) who is professionally a physician with great passion for literature, music, painting, mother nature and children, education & teaching & Mr. Nirmalya Roy from Kolkata (India) who is professionally a stage & play back singer, a great musician, composer, music director, mentor with extensive knowledge in Indian classical music and with extremely bright music career. He is not only a singer but also a social reformer.
Educational resources: We-Amra book part 1 is written and illustrated by Dr. Nivedita Ganguly and We-amra part 1 music album is composed by Nirmalya Roy. We-Amra album producation was done by Music Mantra Institute (MMI), Kolkata, India. We-Amra project was originally started as a collaborative educational and entertaining project as a musical journey involving children of various cultural and ethnic background from USA as well as India. We-Amra project's educational content (Book & Music album) was published in June, 2017 and since then this project has been running in full swing in various places of USA and India.
Teaching methods: These concepts are taught in a very joyful manner, mainly through music and various other creative art forms (dance, recitation, story telling, painting and acting etc ). After lerning these concepts, learners use their own creative abilities & expressions and present as various We-Amra performing art presentations locally and beyond. Besides learning and presenting various We-Amra performing arts presentations, children are also encouraged to get involved with various related hands on activities/projects with adults to learn how to integrate these learning concepts in real life. (They are termed as We-Amra other projects). These projects also help children to understand the importance of difference, diversity, concept of sharing, exchange, love and peace.
There are two We-Amra Projects ... We-Amra Part 1 (completed, implemented & ongoing ) & We-Amra Part 2 (partially implemeted, ongoing and upcoming)
A. We-Amra project part 1 (developed 2016 and implemented June 2017)
Two major Learning goals of We-Amra Project Part 1:
LOVE YOUR MOTHER EARTH & LOVE YOUR MOTHER TONGUE
"Mother Earth" means a lot and includes many things, so for easy learning, several more focused learning areas are created to achieve the above mentioned learning goals
1. MOTHER EARTH & US 2. OUR MOTHER NATURE: OUR LIFE 3. OUR BIRDS & ANIMALS: LET US LOVE THEM 4. LET US LEARN OUR MOTHER TONGUE
These learning concepts are compiled in We-Amra Part 1 Book & Music album in the form of poems, lyrics, paintings, stories and songs that children learn and then perform as various performing arts presentations which are designed based on these concepts. We-amra team works with local community and beyond in collaboration with other communities in other geographic areas for We-Amra cultural events. .
B. We-Amra Project Part 2 (Upcoming: Work is in progress)
learning concepts: Human realations, social values, learning culture/traditions through celebrations, importance of health and charity
"We-Celebrate" Project (musical): upcoming
- "Baromase Porbon Tero": Work is in progress: This is a musical project for Bengali children to help them learn their own festivals/culture tradition through music and performing arts. Couple of songs have been released for this Album ...
First song was released on October 9th, 2018 : Jay Durga for little children. This song is written by Dr. Nivedita Ganguly, Music Composer: Nirmalya Roy and music production by Music Mantra Institute, Kolkata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm5rx5diP0o
Second song was released on February 10th 2019
We-Amra project Part 1: "Mother Earth and Us": This is intended to raise love and respect towards mother earth, people, peace and harmony. Here children will learn about the natural cycle of life of mother earth: its destruction and creation. They will also learn to appreciate her natural beauty and her endless blessing on human life. In this section they will receive message regarding importance of diversity, unity and global peace. Children will learn these concepts through a format of entertainment in the form of music, poems, stories, painting as they are compiled in We-Amra book and music album. After learning these concepts children/adults will present a theme based We-Amra performing art presentations (as for example : "Dance of Mother Earth" at the Nelson-Atkin's Museum of Art, "O My Mother Earth" at BPACON 2017, Ei to Prithibi sei to Jibon at BAGC, Chicago) : may see events / gallery section for more detail
We-amra project Part 1: "Our Mother Nature: Our Life". This is intended to raise love and respect among all children towards nature and its natural treasures so that they know the value of our mother nature and its great generosity in human life. Through this project they will develop awareness how to project mother nature, how to protest against all ruthless and thoughtless human acts those are destroying our mother nature. Children will learn these concept through a format of entertainment in the form of music, poems, stories, painting as they are compiled in We-Amra book and music album. After learning these concepts children/adults will present a theme based We-Amra performing art presentations (as for example: "Dream of Green Earth" at Edward Campus, Kansas city, (USA). may see event/ gallery section for detail.
We-Amra project Part 1: "Our Birds and Animals: Let Us Love Them". This is intended to raise love and respect among all children towards birds and animals so that they know the importance of these natural treasures in human life and they have enough awareness to protect plants, animals birds and other wild lives.
We-Amra project Part 1: "Let Us Love Our Mother tongue": This is intended to raise love and respect towards mother tongue: Bengali, specially among Non Resident (NRI) Bengali children. This learning concept is compiled in We-Amra book part 1 in the form of poems, stories, lyrics and painting and these contents are also given musical transformation for easy and fun learning. Children are encouraged to learn these literary items. Each literary item also has English translation and phonetic expression for easy understanding. Once children learn these concepts under guidance of their mentor, they present a theme based We-Amra performing art presentation using their own creative abilities and expressions. You may find related performing arts presentations in event section/gallery section e.g. Tribute to Mother Tongue at Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, USA), Melodies of Mother Tongue Edward campus, Kansas City, USA): May see event / gallery section
We-Amra project Part 2 musical: "Baro Mase Parbon Tero": work is on going. This is to raise love and respect among Bengali children, specially NRI Bengali children towards Bengali culture, traditions and festivals of Bengal. The first song of these series is "Saraswati Vandana" has been released on you-tube in 2019. Lyrics: written by Dr. Nivedita Ganguly (USA), Music composer Nirmalya Roy, singer Nirmalya Roy and rising stars of Music Mantra Institute (MMI), Kolkata,India.
