media matters : exploring & demonstrating participatory communication & action with a rights-based, process-oriented approach

Exploring and demonstrating Participatory Communication & Action with a rights-based, process-oriented approach

Capacity Building Design & Development Performing Media Video Documentaries Advocacy
Research & Process Documentation Community Interventions

Naseeb Ke Paren,
Kya Karen Kya Na Karen
A board game on child rights

Sakhi Sajni
An exhibition to facilitate discussions around life skills for/with
adolescent girls

Mulichya Jatila
He Shobhat Nahi
A video docu-fiction on rights of adolescent girls

Chuppi Todein,
Khulkar Bolein
An interactive exhibition on youth and HIV&AIDS

Whose Dream Counts?
A documentation of a participatory learning and action (PLA) process facilitated with children's groups

Participatory Communication & Action
Report of the annual workshop - 2008

Mukt Manch
An open-to-all platform for screenings, performances, exhibitions... The idea is to come together and dialogue

Workshop

Theatre for Development
as Cultural Action

Dates
Feb 26 - Mar 3, 2009

Duration
Six-day residential
Please note that the lodging and boarding facilities at the venue will be available from Feb 25 (evening) to Mar 3 (evening).

Venue
Environment Education Centre, Talegaon (near Lonavla), Maharashtra

Objective
By the end of the workshop, the participants will have explored, experimented and practised facilitating participatory theatre processes.

Methodology
The effort will be towards creating a participant-centred environment for experiential learning. The facilitation will explore a wide range of participatory tools and methods to encourage learning from each other.

Language
Hindi and English will be working language of the workshop. However, participants will be encouraged to interact/work in their regional languages.

Participants
The workshop is open to any person from CBOs, NGOs, government departments, theatre groups and educational institutions. The workshop will most benefit participants who have a background of working on community empowerment issues, with an interest/experience in exploring participatory theatre. Young people below 18 years of age will have to be accompanied by a chaperon.

Facilitating Team

Prabir Bose works in the area of development communication. He has over 20 years of theatre-related experience - training and facilitating processes with groups and communities across states. He also is a visiting faculty for theatre at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai since the last 10 years.
Seema Kurup has an experience of over 10 years of work in community projects and development communication processes on issues related to gender, women's empowerment, reproductive health and rights, youth for development, adolescent life skills and child rights. She is involved in capacity building processes - facilitating "participatory communication and action" with groups.

Participation fees
Rs.7,000/-
Please note that the participation fee includes lodging, boarding, facilitation and workshop resources. Participants will have to make their own travel arrangements.

Registration
To confirm your participation, please send the registration form/s (together with a demand draft favouring "media matters" payable at Ambernath or Mumbai) latest by February 6, 2009.