Students of the Vignana Bharati School visited Kaleidoscope as part of a field trip to experience a library environment. Going by all the lovely hand decorated thank you notes they sent us later, they seemed to have loved it!
Saturday, Aug 30. 5.15 to 6.30 pm
This weekend, Kaleidoscope presents a unique event - a puppet show with a Krishna theme!
Ratnamala Nori’s puppet group designs puppets and performs shows with music and dialogue suited to the audience.
Ratnamala’s group brings together a Krishna themed show for the first time!
Come by and watch a great show. Give yourself and your kids an experience that is not a run-of-the-mill weekend affair!!
Some photos from the Puppet show
Films. Friends. Fun.
Iranian movie, English Subtitles, 98 minutes
Editorial review from Amazon.com
Majid Majidi celebrates the immediacy and essence of childhood in this delightful tale of a brother and sister who share a pair of shoes when the boy (though no fault of his own) loses his sister’s only pair. Since their parents are too poor to afford a new pair, they keep it a secret, trading them off every day in a mad rush, jumping gutters and navigating the twisting lanes to their schools and back. Then the boy hatches a plan: the third-place prize in a student footrace is a new pair of shoes, and he’s determined to take it. The plot may smack of a Disney film, but the direction couldn’t be more different. The family scenes are delicately observed, and Majidi captures the spirit of the children perfectly: proud, emotional, petulant, sweet, and disarmingly sincere.
Majidi’s efforts earned the film the honor of becoming the first Iranian feature to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.
Sean Axmaker.
