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Interschool
Cultural Exchange Programme
In this Programme, teachers from various schools in a range
of art forms are selected. The cream of this group is chosen
to impart their specialized skills to children in different
schools.
 Bhajan
Training Workshops
Bhajans are a part of Indian culture and literally every village
has Bhajan groups. Shri Heggade decided that it would benefit
them to receive formal training in the art of bhajan singing
and in 1999 organized a workshop. Here, invited bhajan groups
were taught the correct methods and the discipline of invoking
deities through songs. Through these residential workshops
participants learnt different types of bhajans like:
- Narthan
Bhajan where mythology, poetry, music and
spiritual content unite in a dance form.
- Nagar
Bhajan
where trained groups go from house to house performing
bhajans and pujas around the sacred Tulsi.
- These
groups are also trained in Yoga, Omkar Dhyan, Surya
Namaskara etc. Today over 300 trained groups are spending
the goodness of Nama Sankirthana in Dakshinakannada.
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Anche Kuncha
'Catch them young' has always been the aim of Shri Veerendra
Heggade, for he is aware that moulding body and mind at this
stage offers the best results. To encourage painting amongst
school children, he came up with a unique concept in 1999.
This involved painting on a postcard (Anche) using a brush
(Kuncha) and colours on a particular theme.The postcards are
entered in a competion that earns a prize for selected paintings.
The first year's theme was ' Rashtra Purusha ' and nearly
12000 children responded. The second year was Bharat Ratna
and this year was Shrimad Ramayana. The subsequent years have
seen participation rise exponentially. The very best among
the paintings are enlarged and displayed at district level
exhibitions.
 Publication
of value-based books
Shri Heggade believes that the gems of ancient
wisdom must not be lost to the present generation. To spread
the values that our culture has developed on the lives of
great spiritual, mythological and historical personalities
are published. To ensure that the books are distributed do
not remain unread, teachers are encouraged to familiarize
themselves first with the books and then to organise competitions
based on their contents. Beginning from the interschool level,
winners go on to participate in taluk and district level
competitons. The response has resulted in publishing over
50,000 books.
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