THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

Theatre for Nonviolence and Peace

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Theatre for Nonviolence and Peace

Organized by CESCI - Medai 2005 - Manj - Stage - Forum

The Seventh International Theatre Festival,   Workshop cum Performance Tour

The Theatre Festival cum workshop is a major socio-cultural interaction event of CESCI.   This year the title of the workshop is “Theatre for transforming the society from a culture of violence to a culture of Nonviolence and Peace”. There is no need for us to explain why the theme is so important in a world of war, terror, and violence of all forms. As you know CESCI is promoting different themes every year and is also involving many artists from different parts of the country. This is the seventh year that we are organizing a theatre workshop for social change.

 It made an impact by means of creating social awareness through theatre helping the works of social activists.  This is why, as a continuation of these events CESCI likes to organize a theatre festival cum workshop this year too. We intend to hold another international theater workshop/festival in December 2006. Both of these festivals are in preparation for the big action planned for October 2007 - the Janadesh or people's verdict 2007, a large civil disobedience Campaign which will culminate in a gathering of 100'000 people in Delhi organized by Ekta Parishad on land reform.

 It is the need of the hour to build solidarity among the different activists groups and movements across the World   to promote nonviolence and peace. We consider cultural platform especially theatre as an efficient way to bring peaceful changes in the World. 

OBJECTIVE

The objectives of this festival cum workshop are

• To look at the issues that the world is facing and create theatre forms to spread the message of Non-violence and Peace across the World through theatre forms.

• Respect and Celebrate the cultural diversity among    world

•  Bring out the relevance and importance of nonviolence and Peace in a world endangered by violence and war.

• Create street plays around the themes of nonviolence and peace and reach out the people.

PROPOSED PLAN OF ACTION

The ten day Theatre Workshop cum Festival   will be divided into four parts namely,

1.      Theatre Workshop (From 21^st to 30^th  Dec 2005)
2.      Play production (from 21^st to 30^th Dec 2005)
3.      Theatre Festival (From 26^th to 30^th Dec 2005)
4.      Performance tour (31^st Dec to 2nd Jan 2006)

Theatre Workshop

Date: (From 21^st to 30^th  Dec 2005)

Venue: CESCI Campus Majagram

Time: 10.00 am 12.00 noon

Lectures

In the first part of the program, renowned resource persons from North and South India will give lectures on following subjects.

Play Production:

In the second part of the program eminent personalities from theatre field will teach the techniques of theatre and shall facilitate the production of new play on Peace and nonviolence.

Festival

The Theatre Festival will take place in the third part of the programme.  In this, various cultural groups representing different states will perform their plays every evening.  This is intended to give exposure to each other and serve as a method of exchanging and sharing different techniques of theatre.  Next day morning a discussion will be held on the previous day’s performance, its concepts, theatrical techniques etc

Date: from 26^th to 30^th December

Time: 7.00 pm to 08.00 pm

Venue: Gandhi Museum

Performance tour

In the fourth part of the program, there will be a grand performance at Chennai Gandhi mandapam. There the group performs the final production play which will be created during workshop.