Haan Hum - Our Work

What emerged was not just art, but memory: sewn, stitched, and seen. This was a workshop of many firsts, our first large offsite workshop, our first night workshop and the first time our participants staged their own, creative stories as plays.

A space where healing began with the question, “What age is the self inside you?”

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AHEAD workshops- Mural by our Facilitators & Core Team Meeting WORKSHOP 17, January 2025

It was time to experiment our Art based dialogue Methodology with outside participants. Our Core team artists and facilitators headed to Yuva Taleem Sevagram, Wardha to paint with the Nation's Youth and complete our Core team planning for a very busy 2025!

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Our FIRST THEATRE PERFORMANCE and a Drum Circle - Mumbai WORKSHOP 16/ PERFORMANCE 1, January 2025

Sponsored by our Partner Save the Child Foundation, and our guest facilitator Sheetal Jain, our women set new intentions for 2025 through a beautiful Drum Circle and Expressionist Art session!

We had our very first Public Forum theatre Performance, Invited by Aravani Art Project, for its Solo Exhibition in Gallery XXL Mumbai!!

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Humsafars Residency Induction Workshop - Alibaugh WORKSHOP 15, November 2024

Gearing up for a very busy 2025, with a full-week Artist-In-Residence Program, we spent time with our most senior participants at an offsite to work through art, image and theatre, to give a glimpse of what intense workshop would look like!

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Celebrating Sisterhood - Saathi Workshop - WORKSHOP 14, November 2024

With the Festival season just over, our sisters welcomed new "Saathis" in our midst, and celebrated all festivals, through art, theatre and Rangoli.

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Sakhi Workshop - Self Preservation through a visit to Mangroves - Childhood Stories Circle- Deep Healing - WORKSHOP 13, August 2024

For the women who have worked with us for a long time, now named as "Sakhis", we conducted a deeper exploration of their stories through connecting with Mangroves and Nature, through a unique Offsite Workshop.

It was a lot of fun, and laughter and a time of deep introspection. Their stories formed the beginnings of our upcoming Performance Forum Theatre.

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Welcoming "Saathis"- Welcoming new-comers - Theme - Childhood and Nature- WORKSHOP 12, August 2024

As per our Haan Hum 2.0 Vision, We conducted our first ever open workshop, to induct brand new members, Saathis, to our funneling strategy. We discovered some amazing new Saathis, through themes of Childhood memories and Nature related art.

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Occupying Spaces- SUKOON- Art/Drum Circle- WORKSHOP 11, August 3 2024

We sent three of our Sakhis, to a healing workshop with art creation and drum circle. They rubbed shoulders with the ordinary citizens of Mumbai, expressing their art, and drumming their emotions, brilliantly facilitated by Sheetal Jain. We were incredibly proud of them, and they were incredibly proud of themselves, for occupying their city in their terms.

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Focus Core Team Offsite Meeting- Haan Hum 2.0- WORKSHOP 10, July 2024

As we complete our third year, our core team members met at Sambhaavna Institute, Himachal for an intense planning meeting for 3 days - Led by Jaya Iyer, our Core team coordinator and Theatre Facilitator, attended by Neethu Venkateshaiah, Anil Jha & Girija Hariharan, We followed our Haan Hum Methodology to our internal processes as well, and arrived at a solid roadmap for Haan Hum 2.0 (2024-2025).

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Street Photography and Image Theatre- Conflict Resolution through Light and Shadows- WORKSHOP 9, April 2024

We explored the streets of Kamatipura, armed with cameras - after training from a professional Photographer Shreya Wankhade.

Later, we explored Image Theatre, mini-forums, dialogues on conflicts along with light based Cyanotype printing and Clay therapy of conflicts.

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Theatre of the Oppressed- Foundation Course- WORKSHOP 8, March 2024

We sent four of our team members, two sex workers and two core team members to get trained in "Jokering Justice- Theatre of the Oppressed" foundation course, at Sambhaavna Institute, Himachal Pradesh. For the very first time, our participants worked with outside theatre groups and people, and learnt the TOTO tool to be implemented at Haan Hum.

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Reflections Workshop-Theatre, Art Appreciation, Zine Making and Exploring Alibaugh- WORKSHOP 7, January 2024

We reflected on our journey so far, shared our dreams about this year, then we got to recollect some theatre exercises and games. We made Zines for the very first time, and then had a beautiful day trip to Alibaugh!

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Roadmap- Planning meeting with the Core Team- WORKSHOP 6, October 2023

We started Haan Hum as a stand-alone event. It became a collective, and a movement. It was time for us, the core team to meet and spend time together to share our dreams and hope for a fantastic 2024 for our sex workers and ourselves!

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Celebrations and Outings Participants December 2023

Our Participants have come a long way from being led, to leading themselves.

They organized multiple meetings, coffee dates, picnics and outings, occupying public spaces, and cooking for themselves and others and having house parties!

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Anniversary Celebration and Exploring the Self- WORKSHOP 5, August 2023

Our first Offsite workshop in Theatre, Clay, art involved some beautiful and poignant moments of theatre, sightseeing, and traveling and staying together for three days at Lonavala.

We also marked our One year Anniversary here!!

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Reconnection and Mumbai Monsoons- WORKSHOP 4, JULY 2023

This event was to reconnect and explore the city together. We met as a group, had a sharing circle, and went to Gateway of India, Bandra Bandstand and the Worli Sea Link!

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Exploring Rest - Feedback and Decisions- WORKSHOP 3, JUNE 2023

Our Third event was a one day reconnect and Theatre workshop, with focus on gathering feedback and future vision for our explorations, conducted at a small Wedding Hall in Kamatipura.

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Exploring Spaces and Seeing- WORKSHOP 2, FEBRUARY 2023

Our Second event was a two day workshop at the Kamathipura Municipal School and a Heritage walk, Lunch and visit to the Art Museum (CSMVS Museum)

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Exploring Art and Freedom- WORKSHOP 1, JUNE 2022

Our launch event was a two day workshop and Exhibition at the Kamathipura Municipal School

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