We, at Vikalp Kriya, facilitate processes enabling groups and communities to come together, tell their stories, sing their songs, think critically and dare to dream!
triennial, national workshop
Five-day Residential
facilitating participatory theatre
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Dates
Dec 2 to 6, 2024 Venue Leslie Sawhny Centre Deolali, District Nashik, Maharashtra Language Bilingual (Hindi & English) Facilitators Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose Participation Fee ₹ 25,000/- per participant Please note that participation fee includes food (veg & non veg), shared accommodation, workshop resources, and GST. Limited Seats on first-come, first-served basis |
In the background of an all pervading culture of silence, how do we facilitate liberatory processes and practices whereby groups and communities build critical thinking, assess their everyday reality, challenge dominant power relations, reclaim control over collective spaces, tell their own stories and sing their own songs for cultural action.
The workshop, informed by the works of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal, will adopt an experiential learning process to create thought-provoking dialogue around social and environmental justice. By the end of the workshop, participants will have practiced participatory play-making, performed theatre pieces and honed their skills in facilitating theatre processes with groups and communities. With the belief that each one of us have the right to “act”, we welcome anyone interested in exploring theatre as an empowering process to rehearse change. |
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About the facilitators: Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose
Their journey as theatre practitioners, for over 30 years now, includes being part of an amateur theatre group, scripting and directing performances, engaging in community theatre and facilitating theatre workshops across the country. Prabir has been a visiting faculty at School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) for more than 20 years. Both Anju and Prabir have been co-facilitating a course - Participatory Theatre for Development - at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) for the last 15 years. Recently Anju and Prabir were invited to perform Conversations around a dilemma as part of Theatre From The Streets, a pilot project of New Perspectives Theatre Company, New York with artists from Palestine & Lebanon, Venezuela and India. Superman ka Best Friend, a one-act play written and directed by Anju and Prabir, is about children not being mute witness to the outside world even if they remain unheard. Set in the backdrop of the pandemic, the performance creates a space for both children and adults to deepen a conversation around “development” and reimagine a better world. In an intimate theatre format, the play is performed for small gatherings in alternative performing spaces, academic institutions, workplace, neighbourhoods and even people's homes. |
June 10 to 14, 2024
An Immersive, Residential Workshop in Goa!
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Mazedaar!
That one word captures the intense five-day process of our recently concluded residential workshop in rain-soaked Goa: Welcoming to Belonging! Engendering DEI through Participatory Practices. The participants represented a wide range of organisations: Avaazein Foundation, Breakthrough Trust, Deep Griha Society, Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Foundation for Social Transformation (FST), SNEHA Mumbai, VSO International, WWF India, and other individuals from across the country—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Manipur. Facilitated by Anju Uppal & Prabir Bose and hosted by Vikalp Kriya. |
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What’s New!
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Superman ka Best Frienda one-act (50 min) play in Hindi, is about children not being mute witness to the outside world even if they remain unheard. The performance creates a space for both children and adults to deepen a conversation around “development” and reimagine a better world.
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Vikalp Ki Kahaniyaana series of picture books for children, young people and adults too
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