*This video plays scenes of participants in movement and action during different workshop sessions of the program, merged with images of paper toy mountains made by the participants. Further plays scenes of participants engaged in hands-on activity of making mountains with materials like paper, grass, twigs, soil, and ropes along with scenes of them enacting the mountain with their bodies during this activity.
Cultural Exchange & Outreach
Three Arts, Mountains, and Ecology Series
Outreach programs of the BRM project built creative discourses that linked Accessible Theaters and ecology, through collaborating with a range of organizations spanning from universities, and colleges to NGOs and other community organizations.
This facet of the BRM Project includes a series of activities such as talks, workshops, and where applicable, showings of works-in-progress. The focus of this facet was based on materials on:
Related arts and ecology examples and patterns in the US
Processes of blending together approaches to arts and ecology across the US and India.
Building Accessible Theatre; Shifting the Frame: New Stories and New Audiences; Accessible Theatre Pedagogy
Performance and the Mountain
Intercultural Creativity, Laban Movement Analysis, and Space,
Intercultural Performance Project, In the Blue Houses Dream the Mountains.
Eco-Aesthetics and the More-Than Human
A central part of the outreach program was a series of workshops with Blind/VI and Deaf/hard-of-hearing communities. These workshops explored performing and perceiving mountains through collecting mountain stories while attempting to think differently, hear differently, and see differently. Outcomes and findings from these activities contributed to the development of our Intercultural Performance Project- ‘In the Blue Houses Dream the Mountains’.
*Image Description : A collage of mountains with different natural materials that were crafted during the outreach workshops and body participants performing the mountain.
Calendar
Introduction to Accessibility in the Theater
October 4
School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur
Ecological Imagination: In the Blue Houses Dream the Mountains
October 6
PG and Research Department of English, Farook College, Calicut.
Intercultural Creativity, Laban Movement Analysis and Space
November 20
Kerala Kalamandalam, Deemed University for Art & Culture, Cheruthuruthi, Thrissur
Performing the Mountain: Towards Accessible Theatres
November 29
Kerala Sahithya Academy, Thrissur
Workshops
Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis
September 8,9,10
Gramani Enlighted Village, Naduvattam, Palakkad
Performing Mountains
September 26
Asha Bhavan HSS for the Deaf, Thrissur
Laban Movement Analysis: Performance, Eco-aesthetics and the More-than-human
October 9,11
School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur
Storytelling: Earth Space Across Sensory Frames; Introduction to Disability in the context of Performance.
October 16,18
School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur
Theater Pedagogy: Eco-performance, Accessibility and the Multisensory
October 20
School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur
Performing Mountains, a Mixed Ability group workshop.
October 25
School of Drama and Fine Arts, Thrissur
Performing Mountains: An Acting Workshop for Blind/VI Performers
November 12
Sreelakam- Lifelong Learning Institute, Cherpu, Thrissur.
Performing Mountains: Intercultural Creativity, Laban Movement Analysis and Space
November 20
Kerala Kalamandalam, Deemed University for Art & Culture, Cheruthuruthi, Thrissur
