ACTIVITIES UNDERTOOK FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS
ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR 2007-08
April-May – 2007 : Conducted 3 week Children Summer Vacation
Theatre Camp (Pancharangi) and puppetry in Dharwad in association with National School of Drama, Bengalooru Branch and staged a Children Play “NANI BHATTANA SWARGADA KANASU”, Written by Gajanana Sharma, Directed by Rajani Garud.
July – 2007 : 2 months workshop on Puppetry, Theatre and Theatre
for Alternative Education for Teachers in Dharwad in association with India Foundation for the Arts, Bengalooru and Nawajbai Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai.
: 3 days workshop on Theatre for Teachers in Dharwad
in association with Rangayana Mysore and Swidish ITI organiastion.
: Conducted workshop on subjects like Theatre For
Education, Scientific Temperament, Literature, Mass Media etc., for High school children organized by NEWS IN EDUCATION section Deccan Herald, Daily News Paper.
September – 2007 : Staged play “VISHAMA VIVAH” at Gurunanak
Bhavan, Bengalooru. Organised by Sangeeta Kalabhavana, Malleshwaram, Bengalooru.
: Directed a play “CHITRAPATA RAMAYANA” by
Puppet House Trustee Dr. Prakash Garud.
October – 2007 : Staged Puppet Shows in New Delhi organized by
Sangeeta Nataka Academy, New Delhi. First time
Puppet House staged two Leather Shadow Puppet
Play ‘A MAN OF AN ASS’ & ‘RED FLOWER’ in Hindi language.
November – 2007 : Staged dramas – “VISHAMA VIVAH” and
“AMANI” in Dharwad during the occasion of Dharwad Utsav, 2007.
January - 2008 : Staged a puppet play “A MAN OF AN ASS”, in the
South Zone Puppetry festival in Dharwad jointly organized by South Zone Cultural Centre Tanjavuru” and Kannada and Cultural Department, Dharwad.
January-
February 2008 : Organised College Theatre Training workshop for
College Students for 3 weeks and also organized 5 days College Theatre Festival “Belagu Yuva Rangotsava – 2008”. In this workshop nearly 100 students of different colleges of Hubli-Dharwad have participated. And stage 12 selected plays written by Jnanapeetha Awardee Dr. D. R. Bendre.
: Puppet House took up developing a compendium of
use of Puppetry to Eradicate Child Labour and importance of Child Education in association with International Labour Organisation, Karnataka Chapter. The compendium contains 4 scripts and puppetry, each of duration 20 minutes and informations on puppetry media. The selected two puppet plays (1) Putta Gouriya Chandamama (2) Gombe Ganeshana Nyaya staged in St. Joseph’s College, Bengalooru organized by ILO, Bengalooru.
March – 2008 : Staged Dr. Sriranga’s Play “ADHIKA MASA” in the festival
Sharanandevari Navu Dharawadakka - 2000, in Dharwad.
: Conducted 1 week Puppetry workshop for Rural
Home Science Women’s College, Agriculture University,
Dharwad, and developed 2 skits on Child Education by the
students.
: Conducted Story telling workshop for Rural Children,
village – Handur, Dist. Belgaum, Karnataka.
ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR 2008-09
April – 2008 : Conducted 3 weeks Puppetry and Theatre workshop
for Economically backward children. Nearly 75 children participated in this workshop and at the end of the workshop 2 plays were staged viz., (1) Chor Charanadas (2) Kappu Kageya Hadu.
May – 2008 : Staged a musical play “VISHAMA VIVAH” in Greeshma Rangotsava at Rangayana Mysore, Organised by Rangayana Mysore.
July – 2008 : Started 2 months D. Ed. Teachers
Training workshop in Theatre For Alternative Education
“AKSHARA SIRI” at Noolvi village of Hubli Taluk, Dist.
Dharwad. This workshop is a condensed short certificate
course in Theatre and Puppetry.
: We will undertake College Theatre Activities,
Repertory Productions, Children Theatre Activities, Puppetry Training for Teachers and Students etc., during the forthcoming days.
September-2008 : Conducted Short Term Teachers Training
course in Theatre and Puppetry. We did
Theatre For Education workshop to the
25 teachers selected from Different villages
of Savadatti Taluk of Belgaum District.
Most of the teachers have completed
Minimum 10-15 years service.
October – 2008 : Conducted College Theatre Activity at Lingaraj
College, Belgaum. About 15 students trained in College Theatre Activity, They gave the performance of “Rangeela Rajana Rangu Rangina Vesha” based on the Story “Emperor’s New Cloth”.
February – 2009 : 3 weeks College Theatre Workshop
& March – 2009 conducted at J.S.S.College, Dharwad and S.J.M.V.S.
Arts and Commerce College For Women (23-2-2009
to 15-3-2009) Nearly 40 students participated in the
workshop. Plays Produced are –
(1) J.S.S.College, Dharwad : (a) Dare Devil Mustafa
(b) Hathye.
(2) S. J. M.V.S. Arts and Commerce
College for Women, Hubli. Play Produced is – Agnivarna.
This workshop is conducted for women.
All the male roles are played by the women.
Theatre Appreciation workshop at Lingaraj College,
Belgaum (1-3-2009 to 3-3-2009)
March – 2009 :“PANCHARANGI” CHILDREN THEATRE WORKSHOP – 3 WEEKS.
a) BATCH: I From : 23-3-2009 to 14-4-2009.
For J.S.S. Shree Manjunatheshwara State and
CBSE School, Dharwad.
Play Produced : AMOHAH, The Story of Reptiles
Number of Students: 20, all students are from
Same school.
b) BATCH : II From : 12-4-2009 to 3-5-2009
Workshop for Slum and economically backward
children.
Place : K. E. Board’s School, Dharwad.
Association : “DIKKU” Kurtakoti Memorial
Trust, Dharwad.
Number of Students: 50
Play Produced:
a) JAHM JOOM AANE MATTU PUTTA
b) ISPEET RAJYA
On 4th and 5th May 2009.
2 days Children Theatre festival was ogranised at
Vidyaardhaka Sanga, Dharwad.
ACTIVITIES OF THE CURRENT YEAR 2009-10
April – 2009 : SHORT TERM WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS
AND CHILDREN.
Ramadurga - Taluk, Belgaum - District
Date : 27, 28, 29 of April – 2009.
No. Teachers Participated: 25 from different villages
of Ramadurga Taluk. District. Belgaum.
No. of Children Participated : 15
This Short Workshop on storytelling and puppetry conducted for rural schools children and teachers at Government High School, Ramadurga Taluk, Dist. Belgaum. A story “YAROO ILLA” translated from Malayalam short story is took as exercise for children. 15 children were participated in the workshop.
Participated in Puppetry festival organized by DAATU Foundation Bangalore at Chitra Film Society, Bangalore on 16th April – 2009. And performed Leather Shadow Puppet Play “A MAN OF AN ASS”.
May – 2009 KALI – KALISU Teachers Training Programme at
NINASAM, HEGGODU Sponsored by India
Foundation For the Arts, Bengalooru and Gothe
Institute Maxmuller Bhavan, Bangalore.
On 21-5-2009 to 23-5-2009
Total Teachers Participated: 37
25 Puppet shows in Ranibennur, Koppal, Davanagere
and Byadagi Taluks. Sponsored by NUNHEMS India
Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad. To create awareness among
Farmers for the issue Child Labour Eradication.
June – 2009 KALI – KALISU Teachers Training Programme at
At DIET Dharwad, Sponsored by India
Foundation For the Arts, Bengalooru and Gothe
Institute Maxmuller Bhavan, Bangalore.
On 17-6-2009 to 20-6-2009
Total Teachers Participated: 60
July-Auguest-2009 DED Teachers training programme at dharwad.- Different D.Ed colleges of dharwad, Sponsored by India Foundation For the Arts, Bengalooru, Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust Mumbai.
Total Participant: - 50
September,October
2009 Regular workshops are organized at JSS College,Dharwar. In the recent workshop, Shri. Onkar K.R., National School of Drama, New Delhi and directed the play “A Mid Summer Night Dream”, 25 students participated in the workshop. Principal, JSS College,Dharwar is keen to start a short term Theatre Course in the college. This course will probably launched be launched from next academic year. The college management is willing to support the activity.
Nevember-December
2009 To extend D.Ed Teachers training programme in North Karnataka, we selected Gulbarga Government Teachers Training College for women and conducted 30 days art training camp. Gulbarga is backward area. Good rapport of Gombemane with some of art loving community and art groups in Gulbarga has encouraged and enabled us to organize a successful workshop in Gulbarga. The Gulbarga has produced nearly 10 Theatre graduates. As a result of this, few of them worked with us as resource persons. The workshop was also organized in Gulbarga to trained theatre workers of Gulbarga to establish themselves locally. So that, in future they too think of organizing teachers training programs independently.
Participants :- 100 Trainee teachers.
Short term Workshop - We organised puppetry and storytelling workshops in Chalamatti and managundi school. They don’t have basic exposure to creative art. We identify that these village children are more exposed to TV culture. They even do not properly identify basic colors and shapes. The 3 days Puppetry workshops gave basic inputs to develop their skills. They could draw their own sketches and identify proper colors and could narrate the stories.
January-2010 Semi professional activities-
Puppet House team produced a play “Swpna Darshana” which is the part of semi theatre activities. 11 artists worked for one month and rehearsed the play. Abhinaya Bharati a local Amateur theatre group organized the premier show in Dharwad at Srujana Rangamandira.
University of Agricultural Science, Dharwad, College of Rural Home Science
We organized short term puppetry workshop in Rural Home Science College for Women Agriculture University Dharwad second time as a follow up activity. It is a part of their “Development of educational materials for early childhood educational for children with normal and special needs”. Dharwad Agri- University Home Science Department likes to introduce learning puppetry skill as one of their subject in the syllabus. The home science students are also working with children. They have to develop educational material for early childhood education for children with normal and special needs. Our workshop in puppetry gives an ample scope to them to learn more skilled activities considering the puppetry as one of the subject in their syllabus. This is a positive development in art education.
February-2010 JSS College of Dharwad has been organizing 3 week theatre training camp for college students. Every year Puppet House organizes these workshops from since 3 years with support of NRTT and IFA. Puppet House organizes 3 weeks Theatre workshops followed by one play production every year. JSS College introduced 45 days theatre appreciation certificate course in the year 2010. They would like to introduce diploma course in theatre. This is the result of Puppet House’s regular theatre appreciation course conducted in this college with support of NRTT & IFA.
S.J.M.V.S women’s college Hubli is organizing theatre workshop from past two years. Puppet House promotes workshop. 2 workshops are conducted with support of NRTT & IFA. This year too we organised 3 workshops and produced Aristophanes comedy play with girl’s participant of the workshop.
March-April-2010 This year we organized 3 week children Theatre Workshop in Siddapur of Karwar District. 30 children participated in the workshop and at the end of the workshop children staged the play “Dham Dhoom Suntaragali”, Children’s versions of Shakespeare play “Tempest” adopted by Smt. Vaidehi, directed by Ganapti Hegde
May-June-2010 Short term workshop for Teachers
Jamakandi is a taluk place in Bijapur District, 100 Km away from Dharwad. Tungal School is primary school which is practicing non formal way of teaching process. We conducted three days puppetry workshop for teachers at that school. 10 teachers participated in the workshop. Low cost material teaching aid preparation, simple puppet making and theatre games for Pre-primary children were taught during the workshop.
Childrens Summer camp
In association with Kalamandal an established visual art group of Dharwad. We conducted 10 days puppetry workshop for children during summer vacation.
Semi Professional Activities
We did two productions during this period 1)Swapnadarshana- Repeat show with our team. Mainly Ninasam trained actors.
2) With local theatre actors who are working in different department in Dharwad
production - Maduve Album. Written by Girish Karnad directed by Prakash Garud.
Totally 15 actors are participated in both the production. We will repeat these productions in future.
July-Auguest-2010 Teachers Training Programme
During the month of July-Auguest-2010 We conducted long term teachers training programme in Dharwad. This workshop is divided into two parts 1) Directly selecting few teachers who are already employed preferably government teachers 2) selecting a particular school and give training to teachers who are employed there.
September-October Theatre Appreciation course for college students
2010 JSS college of Dharwad started 2nd batch Theatre Appreciation Training Certificate Course for academic year2010-2011. This is 45 days training course (daily 5 - 6 hours) after the college timing. Our institution conducted the workshop. At the end of the workshop Theory examination will be conducted and a play will be staged as part of practical by the students.
October-November
2010 Short term Workshop in Trivendrum
Abhinaya Theatre is organized our workshop in Trivendrum (Kerala). 50 Students are participated in workshop. At the end of the workshop we performed a Puppet play “Gardhabha Manushya Prahasanam”.
December 2010 Short Puppetry workshop with five D.Ed colleges in Dharwad.. 250 D.Ed studendts are participating the workshop.
