May 05 - 08: Jaipur: Capacity Building workshop on theatre and comics

Pravah is a youth development organization which has been working since 1992, to promote leadership for social justice among young people. Through our work we aim to promote values such as non violence, love, diversity, interdependence, collaboration and sustainable development. Pravah's work over the past 15 years has been mainly directed towards making a case for youth development. Our core competence lies in developing and facilitating creative and impactful experiential learning initiatives for adolescents, youth, NGOs and other educational institutes. We also support youth startups and other organizations through organizational development and programmatic support.   In addition we are engaged in influencing public policy in the field of youth.

 Having successfully nurtured a number of youth initiatives within Pravah as well as within other organizations, we are currently in the process of incubating Pravah Jaipur Initiative- a youth development organization. (For more information on our organization and programmes please visit www.pravah.org and www.younginfluencers.com )

The Pravah Jaipur Initiative in collaboration with World Comics India (www.worldcomicsindia.com) , Jan Kala Sahitya Manch Sanstha (www.jksms.org) and Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur  is organising a 4 day capacity building workshop for young people in and around Jaipur focussing on using creative arts for communication. The workshop will help the young people learn the skills of Theatre (specifically Theatre of the Oppressed) and Grassroot comics to communicate social issues. In the process the participants will also develop their own self confidence and communication and teamwork skills. The participants do not need to know how to draw or act for these workshops.

The workshop will be held at Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur from 5^th to 8^th of May. This will be a non- residential, day long workshop or young people roughly between the ages of 16- 26 years. We would like to invite you to nominate at least two people to attend this workshop from your organisation.

Please do let us know if you would be interested in this in the next few days and send us the filled registration form that is available on www.younginfluencers.com .

The last date for registration is the 30^th April 2008. Participants are welcome to send the forms post the deadline too, but will be considered only if there is space. Please note that a basic registration fee of Rs. 250 will be charged to help us cover part of the costs. In case you cannot pay the full amount you can also get in touch with us for support.

We would also like to request your support in helping us reach out to as many young people in the city as is possible. We would really appreciate any help that you can give in this regards. Please do circulate this mail widely.

In case of any queries or clarifications, please do get in touch with me at the following nos-

9983762103, 0141-4030356, or email me at neha.buch@pravah.org .

Looking forward to a positive response.

Thank you.

With warmest regards

Neha Buch