TRAINING PROGRAMS

DRAMA AND PUBLIC SPEAKING

500+ amateur actors discovered their unique performance style

Term based

Through our Drama and Speech programs, we promote and foster the best possible communicative and performance skills by working with our participants. They learn and imbibe a wide range of performance, speaking and social emotional skills.

We focus on creating inclusive spaces to ensure that our sessions are a safe space for each and every participant to be their truest self and express without any inhibitions. Through our year long programs and weekend workshops, we create a healthy, competitive, and cooperative environment by integrating participatory and experiential tools like

Eligibility 5y - 16y

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TRAINING PROGRAMS

TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON x ACTING TRAINING

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185 graduates

10 black box shows

In affiliation with Trinity College London, we train and prepare actors for a wide ranging of performance and acting examinations. In addition to qualification from Trinity, the program also helps with professional and university level auditions, portfolio building, and curating black box performances. Students work with us intensively over a duration of minimum 6 months with a wide variety of text to explore their performance styles, and work on character development.

Registrations for February 2023 Examination period are now open. Fill the form below to set up an orientation and assessment call.

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GENDER AND ACTION IN TRAINING AND EDUCATION [GATE]

UNSDG #3, #4, and #5

Gender Sensitization

Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Our Gender in Action and Training in Education seeks to promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #3, #4, and #5. How individuals perceive themselves and engage with the larger society is shaped, extensively by what they experience at formalised spaces like school, college and the workplace. Through GATE, we use tools of Applied Theatre to start conversations and create shared knowledges on issues of gender and sexuality. We offer customised training programs to educational institutions to help students -

Understand Gender as an evolving concept
Understand the relevance of Gender related issues
Bust myths & deconstruct stereotypes
Develop the Gender Lens
Design actionable solutions to address gender inequalities
Understand the galaxy of Sexuality and importance of Consent
Become a gender sensitive leader of the future

Institutions worked with - Ashoka University, Mumbai University, Symbiosis International University, Jai Hind College, Bharda New High School, Oxfam India, Young Leaders for Active Change, Indian School of Leadership

GENDER AND ACTION IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENTS [GAPE]

Customised. Curated.

For professionals and organisations

Our Gender and Action in Professional Environment program works with educational institutions and organisation with the aim of a gender perspective in their work. The program uses tools of Applied Theatre to provide insights on the relevance of gender in a variety of policy areas and offers tools for gender mainstreaming. The program helps to improve individual and institutional competences to mainstream gender into the different sectorial areas and throughout the different stages of the development of any policy/programme/project.

Through the program, professionals learn how to

Cultivate essential knowledge and a clear understanding of the basic facts about gender
Develop awareness of one’s own background and how it reflects on prejudices and attitudes
identify gender inequalities and gender gaps in their field of activity;
define gender equality objectives;
take account of gender when planning and implementing policies;
monitor progress;
evaluate programmes from a gender perspective
Generate steps to mainstream gender in behaviour and interactions in the environment
Develop own tools towards mainstreaming gender into curricula
Empower team members to speak up, speak about their lived relatives and stand up for equality

Institutions worked with - Turn Your Concern Into Action, Urja Trust, DSB International,

CURTAIN CALL

Virtual Play Reading Community

Open Space

25 months. 20 plays

At Curtain Call, we create intimate virtual spaces to read different thematic plays. Every month, a group of people gather and connect on a virtual platform, to pursue the collective interest of reading a play. Each participant is randomly assigned a character. They read the lines, and pour their emotions into the lines. Post reading, we engage in a robust discussion to unpack various themes and foster diverse perspectives on the various concepts and issues emerging in the play.

At the intersection of technology, theatre, and social change, the first ever Curtain Call took place in June 2020, and over the next 16 months, we have read 20 plays, and connected with over 150+ readers across the world to start a dialogue on themes of gender, identity, sexuality, caste and mental health.

Curtain Call was the 2020 recipient of a Cultural Grants from Asia Europe Meeting Foundation and Cambodian Living Arts.

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Want us to host a reading at your organisation? Get in touch with us!

THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED [FACILITATOR TRAINING]

Beginner Level Training

For Facilitators

60 hour program

Our theatre of the oppressed trainings are intensive 50 hour trainings spread over 6 days. The trainings aim to equip participation with Facilitation Skills to use Theatre of the Oppressed (T.O.) with adults and youth.

Focus includes community building games, Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, Rainbow of Desire techniques and culminate in interactive forum performances put up by participants.

In March 2022, we organised a training with 15 participants from across India, in collaboration with Bangalore based Centre for Community Dialogue and Change.

We also organise forum performances specific to an organisations needs.

Want us to host a training or performance at your organisation? Get in touch with us!

SHIFTING FRAMES

Theatre in the park.

Nature is the stimuli.

People in the park, the audience.

Across weekends in spring and winter, we organise theatre sessions in the park for children and adults. In these guided sessions facilitated by our team, we play drama games, do improv theatre and explore the stimuli around us to compose short plays.

These are open sessions [Saturdays for children; Sundays for adults] for anyone with an interest to explore theatre. All sessions involve a short performance at the end, with folks in the park as audience members.

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