Hi. this has been a very busy weekend with many events and thousands of people from across the whole Diocese which I am still discovering covers a very wide area.70% of people in the diocese are tribal.
So events started on Friday morning with the Inauguration of the Eye Clinic. The building has been funded by the Methodist Church.
The inauguration started off by the Bodo tribe, who travelled hours to be here, dancing and playing their traditional music. There is some very different music up here in this part and I hope to find out more about it and the instruments they use.
This was followed by a short service held outside.
The placque showing the date and time of its opening by Mrs Laura Hewitt from the USA
This is inside just after the opening. You can see there is a camera filming. The whole weekend has been filmed and a documentary is being done on the Diocese and the work of the DWFCS.
This is some of the equipment that is in there and it will start work soon. When I was in Bankura helping with the clinic there, two or three with eye problems were referred to the eye clinic here when it opened.
The clinics here are outreach into the community. Families through the children become linked and hear about what is available for them, there is much more than just the children's work.
I had violin as usual at 8.00 am that morning, and then we rehearsed in the school auditorium with mic in the afternoon. Time to change and be back ready for a 5.00 p.m. performance of the Cultural performance. This had all six centres participating, mainly dance.
After the opening prayer, and offical welcomes the violins started the programme off.
Here we are performing - I do exist - we played Ode to Joy in two parts and St Anthony Chorale in three parts. They all look very smart in the white shirts and black skirts/trousers and new black shoes. The outfits were made here in the sewing centre.
Here is a close up of Shanti and Mithun playing.They played brilliantly with a lot of praise - mostly people not understanding how they performed like that having never held a violin until 7th January. But they are willing to work and they worked hard to give a good performance.
The rest of the evening were different dance performances by the different centres.
This is the first ever performance from the Child Study Centre at Raniganj. They were all very small but it is an old dance telling a folk tale. It was great seeing the little boys with big bushy black beards - false of course.
This is a group of the Inter Faith centre at Bankura, performing a dance, telling a story. The majority that attend that centre are Muslem or Hindi.
This is the younger girls from the hostel performing their dance, it was great to see with them all dressed up in costume having seen them learning it from scratch on the courtyard for the previous few weeks, it look so different up on the stage and with lighting.
The older girls from the hostel closed the evening with a classical Indian dance and they looked wonderful dressed in their costumes and make up.All their movements are so precise, especially the hand and fingers, and they all have different names.
It was a wonderful evening with the brilliant colours of the costumesand the high standard of the dancing. Having been involved in dance shows in the past and most numbers being 3-4 minutes but all these were 8-10 minutes and they remember them so well - it did also mean that it ran over time.
So events started on Friday morning with the Inauguration of the Eye Clinic. The building has been funded by the Methodist Church.
The inauguration started off by the Bodo tribe, who travelled hours to be here, dancing and playing their traditional music. There is some very different music up here in this part and I hope to find out more about it and the instruments they use.
The clinics here are outreach into the community. Families through the children become linked and hear about what is available for them, there is much more than just the children's work.
I had violin as usual at 8.00 am that morning, and then we rehearsed in the school auditorium with mic in the afternoon. Time to change and be back ready for a 5.00 p.m. performance of the Cultural performance. This had all six centres participating, mainly dance.
After the opening prayer, and offical welcomes the violins started the programme off.
Here we are performing - I do exist - we played Ode to Joy in two parts and St Anthony Chorale in three parts. They all look very smart in the white shirts and black skirts/trousers and new black shoes. The outfits were made here in the sewing centre.
Here is a close up of Shanti and Mithun playing.They played brilliantly with a lot of praise - mostly people not understanding how they performed like that having never held a violin until 7th January. But they are willing to work and they worked hard to give a good performance.
The rest of the evening were different dance performances by the different centres.
This is a group of the Inter Faith centre at Bankura, performing a dance, telling a story. The majority that attend that centre are Muslem or Hindi.
This is the younger girls from the hostel performing their dance, it was great to see with them all dressed up in costume having seen them learning it from scratch on the courtyard for the previous few weeks, it look so different up on the stage and with lighting.
The older girls from the hostel closed the evening with a classical Indian dance and they looked wonderful dressed in their costumes and make up.All their movements are so precise, especially the hand and fingers, and they all have different names.
It was a wonderful evening with the brilliant colours of the costumesand the high standard of the dancing. Having been involved in dance shows in the past and most numbers being 3-4 minutes but all these were 8-10 minutes and they remember them so well - it did also mean that it ran over time.
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