Traditions
We had our eighth Sensory Experience Exhibition on 5-4-2024. Sensory Experience Exhibition (SEE) is an annual event at Mirra that explores activities and ideas that can be done beyond a therapy session. This year we revisited our ‘Traditions'.
Five stations - Customs and Rituals, Food, Home Decor, Attire and Jewellery, Games and Songs – steeped in our traditions were set up. Each station was carefully planned to include visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and kinaesthetic elements to tick off the sensory quotient.
Our students and their families, our guests from other organisations and well-wishers were all welcomed traditionally, reminded of the healing power of food, made to handle tools such as wood churners, hand coffee grinder and different versions the mortar and pestle. They tried their hand at making a kolam, weaving leaf baskets and making bead necklaces. Then came the shopping fun and wearing traditional attire and jewelleries to go with them as well as using natural perfumes on the body. After that it was Bommai Kalyanam and associated rituals, games, and enacting a villu pattu.
A fitting end to this traditional fare was to have a Patti (Grandma) narrating a story. Thank you Lalli Patti for the lovely stories. Fitting finale indeed.
With our parents brimming with nostalgia of their own childhood and growing up and with so many ideas to explore, we can safely say that Mirra students are going to have great fun the traditional way!