TALK "Jana Natya Manch : Shaping a Pocket (of Resistance)" by Moloyoshree Hashmi and Sudhanva Deshpande at Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 22nd September 2016

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 22/09/2016 18:30 22/09/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK "Jana Natya Manch : Shaping a Pocket (of Resistance)" by Moloyoshree Hashmi and Sudhanva Deshpande Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/talk-jana-natya-manch-shaping-pocket-of.html Seminar Hall 1 & 2, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Seminar Hall 1 & 2, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : ​TALK "Jana Natya Manch : Shaping a Pocket (of Resistance)" by Moloyoshree Hashmi and Sudhanva Deshpande
As part of Lila Prism Lecture Series. 

Jana Natya Manch (People's Theatre Front; Janam for short), the New Delhi-based amateur theatre company specialises in left-wing street theatre in Hindi. It was founded in 1973 by a group of Delhi's radical theatre amateurs, who sought to take theatre to the people. Janam collects donations from viewers after each performance and funds its future work. As a matter of policy, the group does not accept donations or grants from state, corporate or NGO agencies. The company does street as well as open-air proscenium performances, and organises talks, discussions, workshops, exhibitions, film shows, etc. This group of self-trained actors has done over 8,500 performances of nearly 80-odd street plays and 16 proscenium plays in about 140 cities in India. The company has performed outside India once, in spring 2007, when they toured the United States, performing, lecturing and conducting workshops on several university and colleges campuses.

Sudhanva Deshpande is an actor and director with Jana Natya Manch (Janam), a radical political theatre group based in New Delhi. He has been involved in the creation of dozens of street, proscenium and other performances, and has lectured and led workshops in institutions across India, as well as in Palestine, South Africa, Germany, Poland, the US and UK. He has held teaching positions at the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) and the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi). He writes on theatre and politics, and has edited Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007) and co-edited Our Stage: The Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India Today (Tulika 2009). He has co-directed two documentary films on Naya Theatre and Habib Tanvir (available from Magic Lantern Films). He is a member of the Core Team of the India Theatre Forum, and has been involved in the creation and teaching of India's first capacity building training course for theatre, SMART. Since 1999, he has headed LeftWord Books, an independent publishing house, as Managing Editor, as well as May Day Bookstore and Cafe since 2012. He has been involved in the conceptualisation, creation, administration and programming of Studio Safdar, Shadi Khampur.

Moloyashree Hashmi has been engaged in theatre for the last forty-five years, and is currently President of Jana Natya Manch, a radical political theatre group based in New Delhi. She has been involved in the creation of more than 80 street plays and has more than 6,500 performances to her credit. She has been involved in the formation of the Studio Safdar Trust, Shadi Khampur and is the Secretary of the Trust. A school teacher by profession, she has worked in the field of elementary education for over forty years as a school teacher, teacher-educator and as a curriculum consultant. She has written several textbooks and evolved new educational material. 
She has extensively used theatre as a pedagogic tool in the classroom and explored the interface of the Arts and Education. She has been associated with the Theatre Practicum of the Bachelor of Elementary Education (Delhi University) from its planning stages, and has conducted the Practicum for the student-teachers for nearly twenty years in many colleges.

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