AOSC-H conducts online drawing Classes for Senior Citizens

 

AOSC-H conducts online drawing Classes for Senior Citizens*

A few months back we started free online drawing classes for the elderly and for differently-abled. Learning new things will activate the brain and it will give exercise to the eyes, hands, vertebral column, etc. Dementia the deadly disease can be prevented or delayed with learning to draw. Old age homes elders too will join us soon. Our teacher is an internationally recognised Mouth Artist – Smt Sri Lekha.

 

AOSC members Dr Vithal Rao, Smt Vaijayanti, Sri Shankar Rao, Sri A C Gupta, Smt Sandhya, Sri Mani Nath (new member) are drawing very well. Sobha’s mother, 80+, is also a student. Watch this short video on the program. Narration in the video is in Telugu by Sobha. You can see learners active!

 

https://youtu.be/T5RIZgOLUp4

Details of the learning sessions are given below

Topic: Drawing class  Date: 18/04/2021 Time: 4:00 pm

Repeats every SUNDAY at the same time     https://zoom.us/j/8588617411

Meeting ID: 858 861 7411  password---123456

 

 

*Info furnished by Dr Sobha Perindevi, President, Association of Senior Citizens Hyderabad

Book Reading Session by Smt Indira Narayan

                            Book Reading Session by Smt Indira Narayan

Smt Indira Narayan, President of Senior Citizens Forum, Secunderabad conducted a book reading session online on Google Meet Platform on 17^th April 2021. She is a retired school teacher, social activist, blogger and editor. She hosted the meet online all by herself. Some 13 persons participated. Normally some three or four persons read a book then talk about portions of it which they liked, quoting(=reading) extensively supporting their points of view. This session was different in that we were treated to a single short story authored by RK Narayan titled: Engine Trouble.

Mrs Narayan gave memorable account of the author – his childhood, academics, unsuccessful attempts in convincing the publishers, famous titles written by him etc. RKN lived in a house in the close vicinity of Indira Narayan’s residence in Mysore and she explained how and why she is specially attracted to the author.

Starting off with a question: What could the title of the story mean? She read out the story, helping us follow the text visually on the screen also. The intonation, the clarity in pronunciation, pausing at appropriate places and her diction were all superb. We listened with rapt attention like that of a school child. The story per se talked about a series of problems faced by the author (first person account) after his winning a Road Engine as a prize in a village show and how they were all finally solved. The speaker paused towards the end asking us to guess how the problem could have ended. It was Indira Narayan on RK Narayan. The event turned out to be truly interactive, thanks to the able and efficient handling by the speaker.

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