EVENTS
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With the Nirbhaya Shelter Homes
With the objective of creating Self respect and Self confidence a life skill education programme was conducted to the inmates of Nirbhaya Shelter Homes at Venjarammoode and Poojappura in Trivandrum. The programme continued for twenty days could make rapid changes among the participants who had gone through the Topics like Personality Development, Communication Skill, Art of Public speech, Leadership Skills, Organization skills, Gender, Reproductive Health and Rights, Gender and violence, Mental Health, Misuse of ICT, Creative Thinking, Drawing Skills, Craft work, Influence of Media, Environment and Alternative Life Style and Group Councelling. This programme deeply impressed the Social Justice Department of Kerala which replicated more or less the same programme to the remaining centres of Kerala within this time.
Gothra Reshmi
It is an Integrated development programme for tribal settlements of Idukki District. The excessive glorification of the mainstream culture has totally wiped out the indigenous life and culture of the aborigines. The people who fulfilled their livelihood through primitive agriculture practices have been gradually going away from it. They are at present more or less going after the main stream culture which depriving them of their basic needs. To save this aborigines from this deplorable condition they have to be brought back to their good old days.
Gothra Reshmi cultivates a pride in the past of the tribal communities through the introduction of Organic Practices. To begin with the tribal communities like Muthuvan, Mannan, Urali, Hilpulaya and Paliya were selected and a Participatory Rural Appraisal study had been conducted to identify the open and Hidden resources to patch up the gap between their needs and resources. To make the entire process participatory from top to toe sixty Gothra reshmi groups have been from to monitoring the forthcoming programmes.
Assocoiation with Bharath Bhavan
On 22nd, 23rd and 24th March 2017 a training programme was conducted for the Bharath Bhavan.
The Organic theatre programme was further extended to the electoral ward of Kalamachal, Vamanapuram Gramma Panchayat, Trivandrum District. The programme is indended to restore the agriculture practices by inspiring the villagers through the presentation of different art forms especially through the drama which is much more influencing the spectators. The conservation of soil, water and the biodiversity is highly essential in the present situation. But to train and equip the inhabitants towards the task of conservation process is not an easy job. The stereotype awareness building proves will not be sufficient enough to influence the people. To prepare whole atmosphere conducive to the process of Agriculture we need to interweave the spirit of art and agriculture together. To put the above said idea in to practice, on a ten acre plot at Kalamachal the Organic theatre process has been initiated in collaboration with the Bharath Bhavan
Organic Theatre
Wiwa presents an Organic theatre in Kerala for the first time with the perspective of enlightening people about the necessity of leading a nature friendly way of life and using organic products and vegetables
Today, deadly diseases like cancer are spreading in Kerala due to the excessive use of pesticides in cultivating vegetables and grains. God’s own country is cursed with the dark and gloomy ghost of cancer and the only way to get rid of it is in keeping pesticides away from cultivation and making adulteration free food products.
Wiwa is taking initiatives to educate people through the art form of organic theatre which inculcates the people about the danger of pesticides and the need for organic farming in Kerala.
The theatre workshop will be conducted in the campus where the first day of the workshop will begin after planting the seeds of vegetables. The workshop will go on as the organic farming progresses. As the seeds sprout anf grow, the play will be developed with the cultivation process. At the end of a period of three to four months, the vegetables will become ripe for harvest and the play will be perfected into the final form for production. At the bens of the first production, the organic vegetables will be distributed among the viewers.
The play formed out of the workshop will be staged in every nook and corner of Kerala and the actors will distribute seeds and vegetables and fruits among the viewers at the end of the play. We will also stage our play in schools and colleges and in other cultural centers. Environment and the throbbing life forms of nature will be given in future in this theatre. Besides human beings, all other life forms like plants and animals will be depicted in the play and the flow of natural energy and godly presence of nature are also given importance as the necessary factors of human development. Besides the actors and the properties of the play, people will be invited to participate in the play and at the end of the play a dialogue will be initiated about the unhealthy food habits which have become vogue in the present life.
Program Conceptualized by S.N.SUDHEER,-Secretary of the WIWA Cultural Development Organization.