THEATRE & TALK "Zindagi Ke Natak, Natakon ki Zindagi" A Presentation of Excerpts from Hindi Feminist Street Plays Followed by a Q&A Session at Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar > 5pm on 13th May 2016

Time : 5:00 pm  Add to Calendar 13/05/2016 17:00 13/05/2016 19:00 Asia/Kolkata THEATRE & TALK "Zindagi Ke Natak, Natakon ki Zindagi" A Presentation of Excerpts from Hindi Feminist Street Plays Followed by a Q&A Session Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/05/theatre-talk-zindagi-ke-natak-natakon.html Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Note : None of the events are ticketed. Studio Safdar is unable to pay anything to the artists who enrich our lives, unless you contribute. We’ll spread the chadar at the end of the performance. These contributions will be shared 50:50 with the artists.

Venue : Studio Safdar, May Day Bookstore & Cafe 2254/2A, Ground Floor, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008

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Event Description : THEATRE & TALK : India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Studio Safdar presents "Zindagi Ke Natak, Natakon ki Zindagi" A Presentation of Excerpts from Hindi Feminist Street Plays

Followed by a Q&A Session by Deepti and Shanti of the Sampurna Trust

Join us for a dramatised reading exploring feminist street theatre in the 1970s and 1980s,

The featured plays, Ehsaas and Aurat aur Dharm, and others such as Om Swaha and Parivaar ki Gaadi, were created by ordinary women from colleges and bastis in Delhi and elsewhere, and performed hundreds of times during the 1970s and 1980s. Through these plays, women articulated their hidden experiences of pain, love, anger, and resistance making visible the social structures that oppressed and exploited them. Deeply political, the feminist plays unearth patriarchy, discrimination, violence against women, communal violence, and state complicity.

Sampurna Trust members, who were part of the original street plays, recall, "We voiced our own truths, for all to hear. It was completely subversive - we really thought we could change the world! We performed anywhere and everywhere -- parks, courtyards, schools, colleges, hostels, hospitals, at protests and celebrations. We were breaking taboos, awakening into wider worlds... There was a progressive broadening of horizons."

Today, these plays will be read against the shifting background of personal lives, political consciousness, social customs, society, and state, to interrogate, explore, and extend the inherent possibilities of feminist theatre.74

Shanti is an intrepid activist, singer and thinker.

Deepti is a dreamy writer, political scientist and teacher.

Sampurna Trust is a registered charitable trust that supports grassroots action and research for children, education, and women's empowerment. Sampurna Trust received a grant, with Deepti Priya Mehrotra as the Principal Investigator, under the Arts Research programme of India Foundation for the Arts, with part support from South Asian Women's Fund.

Duration : 1 hour

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