Wednesday, May 04, 2016

ASSET session titled "Theater in Education " on Saturday, May 14, 2016

May 4, 2016

Dear Member,

It is a pleasure to inform you that this month ASSET is organizing a Theater Workshop in collaboration with Tehrik-e-Niswan. Interactive theater/drama practices aid the educational process and useful as a way of fostering effective learning in schools. Moreover, art and culture is an important aspect of the education and theater could be used for understanding curriculum related topics, conveying socially relevant issues, and enhancing creative capacity of students.

Session Objectives:
By the end of the session participants will be able to:
•           Understand theater building technique in Education.
•           Identify and conceive the theme of a play and construct a story around it.
•           Explore their hidden talent of script writing and acting
•      Apply theater building techniques in enhancing student’s creative capacity and theater    performing techniques.
•           Organize theater performances on different issues of society in their institution                        
Topic:                           Theater in Education      
Date:                             Saturday, May 14, 2016
Time:                            9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Facilitator:                  Tehrik-e-Niswan

About Tehrik-e-Niswan
Cultural Action Group of Tehrik-e-Niswa has been performing socially relevant and educative theatre plays since the last 35 years in low income areas and communities. It uses traditional story telling techniques as well as modern theatre devices to bring messages of peace and harmony to the audience. Now this organization is embarking into theatre training workshops and offering training workshops to build teachers and student’s acting and creative capacity.
The Tehrik Company has performed in many dance and theatre festivals locally and abroad and many of the plays and dance productions have been land marks in the history of performing arts in Pakistan.
We urge you to participate in this novel event as it will provide you a great learning opportunity.

In view of limited seats available, prior registration for this workshop is mandatory. Kindly confirm your participation latest by Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at ied.ptan1@aku.edu or call 36826991-94/36347611-14 Ext. 8554/8556, as this will facilitate us in organising the workshop effectively