St Joseph Vaz Institute of Education, Cortalim organized a seminar cum workshop on 21st March 2025 on the topic: Creative Writing and Publishing at the institute seminar hall. The seminar was formally inaugurated by the Guest speaker Ms Yashila Lobo along with the Administrator, Rev Prof Simão R Diniz. The Administrator instructed the participants to glean as much knowledge and skill from the speakers, and to use this experience to grow into great
teachers. To celebrate the occasion of World Poetry Day, Mr. Eltrin D'Souza the event coordinator enlightened the gathering on different kinds and forms of poetry, in a way to increase their sense of appreciation of poetry through a selection of great classical works.
Ms. Yashila Lobo, an acclaimed Goan writer, was the resource person for the first technical session. Her participatory approach helped the teacher trainees compose their very own poem. Her presentation was titled: ‘Breaking the Block- through Nature Inspired Poetry’.
The second technical session was led by the acclaimed journalist, writer, and publisher Dr. Frederick Noronha who spoke on the topic ‘You can get into writing … Now’. He focused on reading, writing and publishing and asked the participants to use different Print media and social media as platforms to publish thereby not just becoming consumers of information, but also producers of information. The resource persons were appreciated with beautiful canvas paintings at the valedictory. The seminar was attended by about 100 participants.