Qaasid - filming your dreams

To build intellectual curiosity in young leaders of today to make sense of the world they live in through the art of film-making. WHAT WILL THE KIDS LEARN?

To support our cause contribute on the link below:
http://www.giveindia.org/igive-qaasid

HOW IT ALL STARTED? Working as a fellow in Teach For India, we teach students who come from very strenuous and defenseless communities with their respective struggles and bright spots in low-income private and government run schools. One day while watching a movie, one of our kids, enthralled and fascinated

by the movie asked, “Didi, how is a film made?” This is when we thought why not try and teach them how it’s made. Her curiosity led to a series of conversations among us that made us realize how art has always been the business of the bourgeois and has been created and used as per their disposal. Film making being another such art form, is also produced by the elite and consumed by all. Times are changing now, and with the democratization of art, the power to make an impact is open to all. Why deprive our brilliant kids of such an opportunity? To be a filmmaker, all you need is a unique perspective, a story to tell and a camera to film. Our kids have powerful perspectives and untold stories. All they need is a good camera and some technical expertise to venture into this yet unexplored field. And this is how "Qaasid" - Teach for India fellow led project came into powe. A project through which we are inviting students from low-income private and government schools across Delhi, to become artists by providing them with technical expertise and a platform to bring power to them and cultivate new and fresh voices that deserve to be heard. With students' unique perspectives and continuous learning of the art of film making, the project will help kids build creative confidence and achieve self-efficacy by providing them a platform to showcase their own creations and acquire several soft and hard skills via art of film making. This journey of learning will act as personal transformation for kids as it will provide them with opportunities to explore creative diversity in front and behind the camera, present themes which are under-explored in mainstream media form perspectives and redesign their own experiences. I will help our kids' ideas fly and build creative confidence that they need, they can do whatever is set out to do for them and become creative confident leaders. HOW WILL THIS BE DONE? It will be carried out under the guidance of experts who will assist students throughout the year with the monthly execution of training modules on content knowledge and experiential learning through exposing them to practical aspect of film making aiming to screen documentaries made by the kids at the end of the year. The project will help kids build creative confidence and achieve self-efficacy by providing them a platform to showcase their own creations via documentary film making. HOW CAN YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE CAUSE? To make “Qaasid” successful we need your wholehearted support, in any way possible, big or small, which is essential in our endeavor to enable kids to build and exhibit strong craft. These funds will be utilized to enable the learning to be experiential through tool kits that we aim to provide all our kids in the program and for other logistical purposes. We invite interested sponsors and donors to help us bring this vision alive. DONATE NOW @
http://www.giveindia.org/igive-filmingdreams

Let's take a journey into the imaginative mind palace of our kids and see how the world looks like from their eyes.

31/08/2017

Has your major part of growing up and learning life lessons been through watching movies?
Has media and likewise exposure helped you to perceive things in a way different from rest of the people?
Do you wish to help kids in guiding them to look at things with a
different lens/ wish to see things through a child’s lens?
Do you have an experience in school, college societies or courses in the field of film-making and wish to impart those to kids coming from backgrounds where they don’t have access to such opportunities?

If any of your answer to the above question is a YES, we have an exciting volunteering opportunity for you to experience and explore your love for films and help kids (aged 12-15 years) build creative confidence and make them believe in the possibilities that lie ahead in their life by exposing them to the art of filmmaking.

Kindly go through the link below to know about the volunteer profile if you find the project interesting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1er4QcOMO9Q7ZywucfLYYAZ5OmS-a8BHIBZjZFR8XQBs/edit

To apply for the role open the link below:
https://goo.gl/forms/gnLLcqTN6XiKb2LC3

LAST DATE TO SIGN-UP:
10th September, 2017

29/08/2017

We are delighted to receive responses from 25 classrooms 😍
We thank you all for believing in our project and supporting us. We are very grateful to all of you.
Due to certain limitations on our end we will be shortlisting 10 classrooms.
Keep an eye on your inboxes for the shortlisted classrooms. We will be declaring the names of the shortlisted classrooms by 30th August.
Stay connected to our page for more updates.
Thanking you all again.

“If we experience life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary.Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end."

Khuda Hafiz !
Team Qaasid

27/07/2017

We are looking for awesome and creative minds

In life we look up to the innocence of the childhood to remind ourselves the meaning of real life and through films we have experienced life on reel. With the thought of combining both the experiences, we bring forth the idea of Qaasid a Teach for India fellow led project, where our little messengers will put a new light on life through camera because we believe in our kids and know how beautifully they can bring out the message from real to reel.

To bring this vision into action and make the impact at a larger level, we are inviting our dear fellows to become a part of this project and be a part of an exciting core team.

To know about the different verticals feel free to reach out to us

Click Here to Sign - Up. Last Date to Sign up 30th July ! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEDciKh1QybonHNIAnD1LCRrpV7vCs8tNYeEW5UgcjXTNpBA/viewform?usp=send_form

16/07/2017

DONATE NOW:
http://www.giveindia.org/igive-filmingdreams

Give these dramebaaz a platform to showcase their drama 🎭 through filmmaking. Support in building a creative learning space and expose yound kids to opportunities which are assumed to be beyond their reach!

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- Click on the link above
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Stay tuned for watching the creative juices flow through these tiny little brains!

Support the little artists film their dreams

13/07/2017

Underwrite the Filmmakers!

DONATE NOW @
http://www.giveindia.org/igive-filmingdreams

Pitch in to support young artistry through our project -
“Qaasid – Filming your dreams”

Our kids have powerful perspectives and untold stories. All they need is a good camera and some technical expertise to venture into this yet unexplored field.

So here we present before you “Qaasid - filming your dreams”, a project through which we are inviting students to become artists by providing them with technical expertise and a platform to bring power to them and cultivate new and fresh voices that deserve to be heard.

We will shortly be coming up with our Instagram and pages to keep you updated with our work.
We highly appreciate your support.

“If we experience life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary.Let our curiosity, adventure, and wonder of life never end.”

Warm regards,
Team Qaasid

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