Darpana For Development
Since 1980 Darpana for Development has been creating innovative grass roots projects using performances as entry points in dealing with issues of development and social change, with varied end audiences. Some of these have necessitated working with and retraining traditional itinerant folk performers in becoming change agents; others have required putting together groups of people from tribal areas and training them as actor-activists to go back into their own villages with new ideas of change; some have meant creating performance pieces that can reach the policy maker or the politician; yet others have taken Darpana's own performers on the trail of potential HIV carriers. Some projects have grown out of our own initiatives; others have been created for the government or funding agencies or for other NGOs.
Service Offered
Darpana for Development works as a development communications unit and accepts projects which encompass developing training modules; giving training to organizations on the use of arts as a language for societal chance; accepting commissions to undertake a development project from conceptualizing to delivering; setting up groups and training them to undertake grass root projects while supervising them; creating performance pieces for specific messages and offering unique solutions for the delivery of messages to a varied target audience.
