pro-poor, pro-nature & pro-women.
Voicing
Silence
 Voicing
Silence, launched in 1992, is an unique effort at gendered theatre,
with the objective of giving “voice to the voiceless”.
Aiming to be a catalyst in the process of women’s awareness
and empowerment, theatre has been the primary medium of Voicing
Silence’s interventions. Theatre as a mode of intervention
women's behalf has meant departing from the conventional ways
of producing and staging plays. It has also meant addressing modes
of performance, idioms of expression and representations of women,
and using training in theatre as a source of empowerment by articulating
the perception and aspirations of groups of women. From creation
of the script through improvisation and visualisation on to rehearsal,
right up to performance and relating to the audience, the emphasis
has been on collective functioning. Hence both activist theatre
and theatre activism have become important in the work. Voicing
Silence has also taken initiatives to for a coming together of
fellow theatre workers who concentrate on gender-centred themes.
This festival, a celebratory coming together has been named KULAVAI,
a Tamil word for the ululation by women on festive occasions. |
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| Gender, culture and social activism are the major concerns of Voicing Silence .In the last decade, Voicing Silence has combined three main strands of work | ||
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| Voicing Silence has a rich collection of audio-visual materials, including photographs, print documentation (reports, research studies, articles, papers, reviews and press clippings) as well as video documentation on CR-Rom. | ||
| For more details please contact gender@mssrf.res.in | ||
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