Programme 

Wednesday November 26 - Friday November 28, 2014

Scripting the Play instead of Playing the Script

Workshop with Sanjoy Ganguly

The participant actors will be scripting the play at the core of this workshop. The games and exercises in the workshop will act as social metaphors. Through games, the participant actors will relate to their realities and will relate to themselves.  Thus actors will find oppression; all of us will try to understand various dimensions of the oppressor and oppressed characters. The ideology of the oppressor will be understood through techniques. After the scenes are scripted, the Forum play will be structured. Some rehearsal of Forum will be included. Participants will also offer some short presentation of their work on the evening of Friday 28th. 

26.11.14

10.00 -   18.00

Auditorium

Workshop

27.11.14

10.00 -   18.00

Auditorium

Workshop

28.11.14

10.00 -   17 00

Auditorium

Workshop

28.11.14

18.30 -   20.30

Auditorium

 Forum Performance

Saturday November 29 - Sunday November 30, 2014

      Saturday November 29, 2014

 I

29.11.14

08.00-08.45

Auditorium

Registration and Welcome

II

29.11.14

08 45 - 09.45

Basketball Court

Drums Circle by Drumjam

Drumjam is a pioneer of rhythm-based activities in India and holds the record for the largest drum circles in the country.

III

29.11.14

10.00 - 10 30

Auditorium

Welcome : Radha Ramaswamy

Inaugural Address: Sanjoy Ganguly

“Theatre is all about Creating Connections as opposed to Alienations”

29.11.14

10.30 - 11.00

Dining Hall

Coffee Break

IV

29.11.14

11 00 - 12.00

Auditorium

Take a TO Trip  

Walk to the following 4  'stations' and join these conversations

 Is TO Activism or Art?                              Do we always need the Big Picture?

The 'Real' India – rural or urban?         India needs multilingual classrooms

V

29.11.14

12.00 - 13 30

      Auditorium

      Hall 2

      Hall 1

Parallel Workshops   A, B and C

A. Radical testimonies of our time 

B. Oppressed beyond a point

C. Chaya Dialogue 

Lokesh Jain 

Chindu

Evan Hastings

29.11.14

13 30 - 14 30

Dining Hall

Lunch

VI

29.11.14

14 30 - 16.30

Auditorium

Panel  I

Rehearsal for Revolution-Women Enact Social Change

Chairperson : Benson Issac

Women’s Lives , Women’s Words –  Archiving Knowledge for Education

Women as spect-activists - the Jana Sanskriti experience

Breaking the culture of silence - a TO   experiment with tribal artists in Gujarat in 1999-2000

My experiences in using theatre and TO with women

C S Lakshmi

Sima Ganguly

Aditi Desai

Sushama Deshpande

29.11.14

16.30 - 17.00

Dining Hall

Coffee Break

VII

 29.11.14

17.00 - 17.30

TBA

Let’s Play

VIII 

29.11.14

17.30 - 19.00

Auditorium

Haan, Main Savitribai Phule

Performace by Sushama Deshpande

Imagine a woman in 19th century tradition-bound India transcending the restrictions imposed by her gender and caste, to become a social reformer and a pioneer in women’s education. She is an inspiration for us all. Sushama Deshpande breathes life into the character of     Savitribai Phule in this solo performance. Written and directed by Sushama Deshpande, Savitribai has seen over 2000 shows and won critical acclaim.

29.11.14

20.00

Dining Hall

Conference Dinner

Sunday November 30, 2014

I

30.11.14

08.30 - 09 00

Basketball Court

Let's Play!

II

30.11.14

09.00 - 10.30

Auditorium

Panel II (1)

From Monologue to Dialogue – Liberatory Pedagogies in the Indian Context

  Chairperson : Lalitha Iyer

Critical Engagement with Young people in the Indian Context – the Scope and Challenges  of Liberatory Pedagogies

Facing it

The Joker System

Anita Ratnam and

Benson Isaac

 Jaya Iyer

Shekhar Seshadri

30.11.14

10 30 - 1100

Dining Hall

Coffee Break

III

30.11.14

11 00 - 11 30

TBA

Let's Play!

IV

30.11.14

11 30 - 13 30

Auditorium

Panel II  (2) 

From Monologue to Dialogue – Liberatory Pedagogies in the Indian Context

 Chairperson : Jaya Iyer

Dissenting Voices in Maharashtra 

Does the  system intend to liberate the

 children? 

Liberatory education for doctors

Healing Minds and TO

Ramu Ramanathan  

Abhishek Goswami

Navjeevan Singh

Rajani Ramachandran and Neha Naqvi

30.11.14

13.30 - 14.30

Dining Hall

Lunch

V

30.11.14

14.30 - 15.30

Auditorium

Discussion

Is there a ‘real TO’? When does TO become ‘not TO’?

Chairperson: Prof. Ralph Yarrow

VI

30.11.14

15 30 - 16 30

Auditorium

Imagining a TO Community for India

An Image Theatre exercise facilitated by Radha Ramaswamy

VII

30.11.14

16 30 - 17 15

Dining Hall

Coffee with Presenters

Coffee with Presenters

VIII

30.11.14

17.15 - 18 00

Auditorium

Closing Ceremony

IX

30.11.14

18.15 – 19.15

Basketball Court

Parai performance by Makkal Mandram, Kancheepuram

The parai is a frame drum which consists of a shallow ring of wood covered on one side with stretched cow hide. Makkal Mandram is a Kancheepuram based organisation working with dalits and tribals in Tamil Nadu.

30.11.14

20.00

Dining Hall

Dinner