Monday 30 June 2014

Vedic India Program at 'Artea'

Navadwipa Iswari narrates:
Our Vedic India school program is now starting to spread its wings. While the main focus is bringing Krsna consciousness into schools it seems now that the rest of the community is starting to show interest as well.

We were invited to the new Artea art studio/cafĂ©/education centre in Port Melbourne where they were being filmed for ‘Big Tv review’ who were in town to review the studio.
For this event we did a mini version of our usual program in that we only had a henna table and prasadam distribution.

The Artea studio allowed us to promote the temple as much as we liked, so we distributed temple cards, and had devotees showing Prabhupada books and talking about our philosophy while being filmed.
Artea has invited us back for their grand opening later on in the month.

Here are some photos of the event.

If you would like to have a similar event in your school, please contact Navadwipa Isvari dasi

(Nala Exley): nala_aravind@hotmail.com

Monday 23 June 2014

School Program at Port Melbourne Primary

Navadwipa Isvari Mataji narrates:

On 23 may we took our Vedic India school program into Port Melbourne Primary school to teach the prep classes about Indian culture.  We had 5 workshops that went for 40 minutes each that we were ran over 5 sessions.


Workshops included: Festivals & culture of India, Indian traditional wear, moral story & badge making, Indian music & dance, and yoga.
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Because our Vedic India program goes into High schools as well as primary schools, we tailored these workshops specifically for the preps.
All workshops included a power point presentation followed by an interactive hands on activity. The children enthusiastically participated in all the sessions. At recess while we were all taking snacks, some of the students that had attended the Harinama at the Port Melbourne school fete the weekend before were requesting us to do one again. Jaya Jaganath Prabhu and Varadatri Radha mataji were happy to seize the moment and lead a harinam for the entire school.


After school we could see the children meeting their parents and many telling them what a fun day they had; the parents looked so happy to see their children so excited. The prep coordinator said both the children and staff all had a great day.  



If you would like to have a similar event in your school, please contact Navadwipa Isvari dasi


 (Nala Exley): nala_aravind@hotmail.com


 

Wednesday 18 June 2014

Port Melbourne Primary School Fete

Navadwipa Iswari Mataji narrates:
Due to the mercy of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai our school preaching of late has been a great success. Word is getting around and many schools are now inviting us to come and present our Vedic India Program.

One of these schools was Port Melbourne Primary School, who invited us to be part of their annual school fete. The school gave us 2 stalls, one for the ever popular Henna/Face painting and the other for the even more popular prasadam distribution.

The devotees in both the stalls were kept very busy throughout the day, with prasadam being sold out by 3 pm. We were also given the opportunity to do Harinama. The chanting was led by Varadatri Radha Mataji and she had everyone singing & dancing along while the Holy name was amplified throughout the school and into the surrounding streets.

If you would like to have a similar event in your school, please contact Navadwipa Isvari Dasi

(Nala Exley): nala_aravind@hotmail.com

Here are some photos of the event.

Wednesday 4 June 2014

School Preaching at Beverly Hills Primary

On March 28th, Beverly Hills Primary School in Doncaster East celebrated their Annual Harmony Day.
This year they not only invited us to participate but made our ‘Vedic India’ program the highlight of the day.
We ran 7 workshops simultaneously over four sessions. Workshops included henna art, garland making, traditional Indian wear, festivals and culture of India, Indian Music and dance, moral story and badge making and Indian cooking.

When lunch time came we had hot Kofta balls with sauce ready to serve as prasadam while Jaya Jaganatha Prabhu led an ecstatic Harinama. When some of the kids finished eating they joined in with the singing and dancing and everyone had a great time.

After the workshops had finished we split the whole school into two groups. One group was taken through a light yoga session, while the second group enjoyed an interactive Harinama. After 25 minutes the two groups switched.

The day was a great success; many kids showed their appreciation for the program by writing an article for their school newsletter. The school Principal thanked us saying: “this has been the best Harmony Day celebration, and I don’t think anything can beat this”.

Here are a few photos of the event.

If you would like to have a similar event conducted at your school, please contact Navadwipa Iswari Dasi (Nala Exley): nala_aravind@hotmail.com