Jagriti is community-facing, connecting children and adults through a common medium and space.
Jagriti’s education and training wing brings together teachers and performers to share their knowledge through an integrated framework with children and adults from disparate socio-economic backgrounds. Jagriti partners with individuals and institutions locally and internationally, to bring Drama into everyday living.
The Drishya Foundation
Jagriti currently works with students of the Drishya Foundation, three learning centres for the urban poor, comprising 86 children from 7 communities. The Drishya Kalika Kendras were initiated for child drop-outs from government schools, to create a hands-on, relevant, Arts and ecology-based curriculum, to empower these children to work towards sustainability of their spaces and livelihoods.
Trinity College, London: Drama & Speech
Trinity Guildhall combines the resources of London’s Trinity College Drama and Speech and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to offer assessment across a range of performance and communication skills-encompassing all aspects of speech and drama, acting skills, musical theatre, communication skills and performance arts for candidates of any age and any level.
www.trinitycollege.co.uk
Jagriti is the Bangalore representative for Trinity Drama & Speech.
Soho Connect
Soho Theatre, London, has joined forces with Jagriti to develop an international version of Soho’s innovative Under 11′s playwriting scheme (a scheme for schoolchildren aged 10 and 11 aimed at teaching basic playwriting skills and producing plays by children). The Under 11′s will be the first part of an on-going and evolving relationship that in the longer term will lead to the exchange of ideas, people and productions.
www.sohotheatre.com
