Gender Shadow: A Chance to Interrupt Injustice, a shadow theatre performance, was put up by a group of second-year students from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology at the Women’s Study Cell at Women’s Christian College, Calcutta, on 15 December, 2010. The group—accompanied by course coordinators Arzu Mistry and Evan Hastings—was visiting Calcutta…
The Peaceworks Mapping Communities project is an attempt to address apathy at the very basic level in the youth by understanding the nature of change, and what role the youth can play in our societies today, when their mindsets are still being former, and they tend to be financially and emotionally dependent on parents, their…
Human Rights Defenders programme report ‘Tell the Prime Minister to go and wear a sari’ said an adolescent boy, jostled by grinning men, as he accused the PM of having ‘given in’ to the demands of Muslim groups in the face of tensions over Babri Masjid. Around me, as I sat cross-legged in a darkened…
Living With Difference ‘Tell the Prime Minister to go and wear a sari,’ said an adolescent boy, jostled by grinning men, as he accused the PM of having ‘given in’ to the demands of Muslim groups in the face of tensions over Babri Masjid. Around me, as I sat cross-legged in a darkened room watching…
The PeaceWorks Festival titled, Thoda Pyar Thoda Peace, was held using theatre, photography, music and film workshops to stimulate creative expressions of social concern. These workshops were held through September and October 2008 and culminated in performances, exhibitions, and public service advertising campaigns that ran throughout the city from November 7 – 9, 2008. For…
