CCDC in 2016
Ravi Ramakantan
A Quick Overview of CCDC’s work in 2016
In 2016, our annual facilitator training in June had participants from Bangalore to Bareily, Hoshangabad to Hong Kong, Dhampur to Dubai, and Mussoorie to Muscat! The public forum performance on June 11 saw 4 plays performed to an audience of 80 people, who actively participated through interventions and discussions.
Through our 8 Forum shows in Bangalore we reached out to over 400 people- students in schools, and colleges, teachers at education conferences, healthcare professionals, senior citizen groups, and residents in apartment complexes. We were able to have meaningful dialogues on issues such as body image, mental health, inequity in education, and familial relationships. The plays we performed: Permanently Imperfect, The Race, Retirement Blues.
Other workshops :
1. A One Day Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed
2. Medical Humanities workshops:
a. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal2016 saw us consolidating our work in education and medical humanities, and
b. Melaka Manipal Medical College, Manipal
c. Confluence- National Conference at GS Medical College, Mumbai.
3. Workshops in Education:
a. Workshop for teachers at RV Educational Consortium, Bangalore
b. Workshop at teacher training programme by Pearson Educational Trust, Bangalore
c. Workshop for school teachers at Shishuvan School, Mumbai
4. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed courses: Two Courses on Freire and Boal for students of Journalism and Communicative English at Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
5. Workshops for inmates of the Bangalore Central Prison, a program organised by the NGO Peacemakers, to facilitate their rehabilitation after release on January 26, 2017.
6. A mental health Forum project with students from Azim Premji University
7. A forum presentation at the Leadership Conference of The Association of International Schools of India
Besides organising and conducting these workshops, courses and forums, we put in a lot of time and effort in 2016 into organising the David Diamond workshops that finally materialised in January 2017. We wish to thank all the BJs who actively contributed to this in one way or another- brainstorming, planning, giving us your time and support.
Another programme that we conceived of and planned is a study based on regular and long term TO workshops with 7th Std students at Annasamy Mudaliar School, Bangalore- ( all BJs know this school- this is where we go for our community workshop in the training). This study is ready to take off in July 2017.
2016 saw us consolidating and strengthening our work in education and medical humanities. We have boldly entered new worlds. We step into 2017 with confidence and humility- confidence in our ability to learn from our experience, and humility from recognising the immense power that communities possess to renew themselves. We are fortunate to be gifted this work
Thank you,
Radha.