Capacity Building in Theatre Based Communication

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Dear Friends,

The Nagpur YMCA is organizing a 4 day training on " Street Theatre " with special

reference to HIV/AIDS from 25-28th February 2008 at YMCA Nagpur, 140, Mahatma

Gandhi Road, Nagpur. The training will conducted by Banglanatak.

Nagpur YMCA has been leading NGO working in the field of HIV since 2003. YMCA

has been implementing various programs on HIV prevention, advocacy and care and

support.

Banglanatak dot com, works at grass roots with under developed and marginalized

communities. Since 2000 the team@... has worked across 21000

villages in nineteen states of India. ‘Natak’ or theatre is used

innovatively for educating people on diverse social issues, researching with

community participation and empowering poor and less educated people to

transform their own realities for building a better tomorrow. Banglanatak dot

com won the “Civil Society Award 2006†for outstanding contribution in

HIV/AIDS Communication using Art & Culture. This is a National Award, given by

UNAIDS, NACO and SAATHI.

Those interested in the training program may contact Borges at

peter.borges@... (09923414559) or Mitali Nandeshwar at

mitali@... (09960496121).

The registration fee for the training is Rs. 400 for all 4 days (this does not

include accommodation for outstation participants if any). Participants are

limited to 30 only on first come first serve basis. Please contact us for more

information if required.

The following, please find the 4 day program schedule

Capacity Building in Theatre Based Communication

Workshop Goal: Capacity building of resource groups in theatre based

communication on HIV/AIDS.

Workshop duration: 4 days : 10:30 am – 6:00 pm

Number of Participants : 25-30

Day 1

Introductory Session (10:30 am – 11:15 am)

Welcoming the participants

Expectation assessment

Sharing of workshop goals and objectives

Getting to know each other - ice breaking game

Tea Break (11:15 am – 11:30 am)

Understanding Behaviour Change Communication (11:30 am – 12: 00 pm)

Participatory discussion : BCC Approaches and Tools, Problems and Limitations

Elements of effective communication

Use of Theatre for Communication

Clarifying Concepts: HIV/AIDS Communication (12: 00 pm – 1:00 pm)

Activities to assess level of awareness of participants on HIV/AIDS

communication

Lunch Break (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)

Communication Planning (2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)

Group work to identify target group wise communication needs in local context.

Building Communication skills (3:00 pm – 3:45 pm)

Activities to build verbal and non verbal skills

Tea Break (3:45 pm – 4:00 pm)

Script development (4:00 pm – 4:30 pm)

Do’s and Don’ts

Imbibing Messages

Making an attractive and effective script

Building creative skills and attitudinal skills (4:30 pm – 5:30 pm)

Activities to build skills like imagination, creative thinking etc.

Theatre activities to illustrate impact of stigma, need for collective work and

leadership.

Day closing session (5:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Review of day’s work

Planning for Day 2

A closing exercise

Day 2

Recapitulation of previous day’s work (10:30 am – 10: 45 am)

Warm up Exercise (10:45 am – 11:15 am)

Tea Break (11:15 am – 11:30 am)

Building skills in theatre based communication (11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Using theatre in group communication Storytelling, Role Playing, Masks

Lunch (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)

Script Development (2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)

Production Development (3:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

Tea Break (4:00 pm -4:15 pm)

Production Development (4:15 pm – 5:30 pm)

Day closing session (5:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Review of day’s work

Planning for Day 3

A closing exercise

Day 3

Recapitulation of previous day’s work (10:30 am – 10: 45 am)

Warm up Exercise (10:45 am – 11:15 am)

Tea Break (11:15 am – 11:30 am)

Planning a Theatre based campaign (11:30 am – 12:00pm)

Understanding communication needs

Campaign Cycle

Making communication two way

Theatre-in-development methodologies ( Forum theatre, Image theatre, Magnet

theatre etc)

Production Development (12:00 pm – 1:00 pm)

Lunch (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)

Assessing a campaign impact (2: 00 pm – 2:45 pm)

Documenting a campaign

Documenting audience profile and reach

Designing feedback forms and collecting feedback

Production Development (2:45 pm – 4:00 pm)

Tea Break (4:00 pm -4:15 pm)

Production Development (4:15 pm – 5:30 pm)

Day closing session (5:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Review of day’s work

Planning for Day 4

A closing exercise

Day 4

Recapitulation of previous day’s work (10:30 am – 10: 45 am)

Warm up Exercise (10:45 am – 11:15 am)

Tea Break (11:15 am – 11:30 am)

Performance by the resource groups to demonstrate skills (11:30 am – 1:00 pm)

Lunch (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)

Review of performances, fine tuning of production (2:00 pm – 4:15 pm)

Tea Break (4:15 pm -4:30 pm)

Workshop Evaluation & Valediction (4:30 pm – 6:00 pm)

Feedback Session by participants

Vote of thanks

Regards,

F. Borges

Program Manager, HIV/AIDS

The Young Men's Christian Association, (YMCA)

140, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Nagpur – 440 001, Maharashtra – INDIA

Phone: +91-712-2524 834, 2548 789, 2540 024; Mobile: +91-9923414559

E-mail: peter.borges@...; Skype: peterfloriano;

Website: http://www.ymcanagpur.org