Using Street Theatre to End Violence Against Women
Street Theatre to Counter Violence against Women has been implemented in Parwan and Badakhshan. Three group of young female and male artists have engaged their communities through a series of iterative theatre performances in 7 zones, across the Parwan, Kapisa and Badakhshan provinces. The groups have comprised Asia Culture House’s professional theatre artists and demonstrated different types of violence through their performances in public. In each street performance, hundreds of members of local communities has been targeted as audiences.
Violence Against Women Campaign, Three groups of youth theater artists worked hard in collaboration and facilitation with the Asia Culture House and UN Women Afghanistan efforts to engage their communities through a series of interactive theatre performances. In nine districts across two provinces of Afghanistan, community-based civil society organizations identified as audience a total of close to 3000 adult people aged up to 18 years to be the direct benifecries of the project, which has directly reached more than 9,000 community members.
Together with UN Women Afghanistan, the ACH organization trained the young people on age-old an popular street theatre techniques and facilitated in-depth discussions about the prevalence and forms of violence against women that occur in Afghanistan. The groups each then chose a theme related to gender violence that they identified with and developed it into a short dramatic piece for members of their own communities. The goal: to engage more young people in programs to eliminate violence against women and to change the mindset that such violence is a private or “personal matter” but rather a societal problem.
In Addition, Asia Culture House has organized solidarity walk to say no to violence in 4 province, near 400 male and female women activists walked in the cities to end violence in the target provinces.
Book reading competition, advocacy campaign with local offices and responsible localities has been organized in five province, online campaign was another activities which has been implemented successfully in these provinces. As well as, storytelling and collecting the voice of the victims was another campaign which has been done by local coordinators and volunteers.
Asia Culture House has hired 30 young male and female theater artists, in Parwan, Kapisa and Badakhshan. These artists has performed in 9 events and 9 zones of three provinces, Parwan, Kapisa and Badakhshan. In each event near to 100 audiences benefited from their public performing.
The performances were originally designed to be conventional plays, but then evolved into interactive dramas. After the actors would perform a story representing acts of gender violence, the entire cast would start engaging the audience in a conversation about the events that took place on stage, as well as the acts of violence that regularly take place in the community.
Violence Against Women Campaign, Three groups of youth theater artists worked hard in collaboration and facilitation with the Asia Culture House and UN Women Afghanistan efforts to engage their communities through a series of interactive theatre performances. In nine districts across two provinces of Afghanistan, community-based civil society organizations identified as audience a total of close to 3000 adult people aged up to 18 years to be the direct benifecries of the project, which has directly reached more than 9,000 community members.
Together with UN Women Afghanistan, the ACH organization trained the young people on age-old an popular street theatre techniques and facilitated in-depth discussions about the prevalence and forms of violence against women that occur in Afghanistan. The groups each then chose a theme related to gender violence that they identified with and developed it into a short dramatic piece for members of their own communities. The goal: to engage more young people in programs to eliminate violence against women and to change the mindset that such violence is a private or “personal matter” but rather a societal problem.
In Addition, Asia Culture House has organized solidarity walk to say no to violence in 4 province, near 400 male and female women activists walked in the cities to end violence in the target provinces.
Book reading competition, advocacy campaign with local offices and responsible localities has been organized in five province, online campaign was another activities which has been implemented successfully in these provinces. As well as, storytelling and collecting the voice of the victims was another campaign which has been done by local coordinators and volunteers.
Asia Culture House has hired 30 young male and female theater artists, in Parwan, Kapisa and Badakhshan. These artists has performed in 9 events and 9 zones of three provinces, Parwan, Kapisa and Badakhshan. In each event near to 100 audiences benefited from their public performing.
The performances were originally designed to be conventional plays, but then evolved into interactive dramas. After the actors would perform a story representing acts of gender violence, the entire cast would start engaging the audience in a conversation about the events that took place on stage, as well as the acts of violence that regularly take place in the community.
The audience is asked: What went wrong here? What would you have done differently? What should have been done? What actions are not acceptable for the peace and progress of society?
After the discussions, the performers then portray a new version of the story with a positive outcome, reflecting the feedback they get from the audience.
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