Join hands with us to patron our Artists-In-Residence, gearing towards their first ever Kamatipura Art Festival!!
Jaimala Iyer
(More Fondly, Jaya Di)
Summary profile
For over three decades Jaya has been exploring the warp and weft of the world of art, learning and transformation, social development and ecological integrity. She uses interactive and reflective practices based on Instruction Design Principles and art processes.
Awards
She was awarded UNESCO Aschberg bursary to study the Theater of the Oppressed with Augusto Boal, WISCOMP scholar of peace fellowship. She received USAID and Show of Force- Award of recognition.
Experience
She has worked with a wide range of institutions building leadership and capacity to combat issues using creative methods and dialogue. She has designed and led various public campaigns on seeds sovereignty, child rights, gender-based violence, anti-plastic, proactive peacebuilding.
She was CEO of Pravah and led the process to set up the National Centre for Children and Youth in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. She has been associated with Rainbow Home Foundation, Pradan, Mittika, SESTA, The Ant, Kranti and Space for nurturing Creativity. She has been a guest faculty in Bachelor of Elementary Education, Bosco Institute NSD's TIE, National Museum Institute and Disom School of Leadership.
Theatre
As a theatre professional she developed and staged over 20 major productions and 1000 studio, street and community performances. Her productions have won Sahitya Kala Parishad's best play of the year, been showcased in Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Urdu theatre festival, Sriram summer festival, theatre for Truth festival etc. She has travelled extensively with her performances and as a trainer across India and the world.
Bani Das
Summary profile
Bani Das was in her early twenties, a newcomer to Mumbai and a single mother, when she began to work with a non-profit that required her to visit women in prison. Through her work, she meets Robin Chaurasia, an Indian-American woman also working as a volunteer in India.
Experience
In 2010, Robin and Bani set up Kranti, a non-profit dedicated to the higher education, employment, and long-term prospects of teenagers who were either daughters of sex workers from Kamathipura or themselves survivors of trafficking.
A few years ago, Kranti’s work came to light when one of their beneficiaries became the first Indian girl from a red-light area to study abroad and was also named in a Newsweek list of 25 Under 25.
Kranti now supports 25 young women, aged 13 to 23, including six who are studying abroad, through funds raised by Robin and Bani.
Seeking to break away from a tradition of teaching girls from difficult backgrounds to earn a living by selling pickles and papad, Kranti gives the girls a place to live in Mumbai and uses therapy, theatre, travel, workshops, and spirituality to help the girls tap their best potential.
Zarina
Kranti Staff
Zarina works as our liason to the Kamatipura Community. She works as Kranti Staff and involves herself with Social work with sex workers. She is our priary liason with the sex worker community.
Neethu Venkateshaiah
Theatre Facilitator and Chief Everything Officier
Neethu, facilitates Theatre, and also runs logistics support for all things Mumbai. She also conducts Mumbai heritage walks. Neethu is a Climate Change warrior, and runs events and eco-friendly soap company Bombay Foamery and coordinates and participates in activism through theatre.
Girija Hariharan
Artist and Muralist, Bangalore
Girija works in Murals and paintings as a medium for Social Change. Girija is a techie turned artist, social worker and illustrator working on Feminism and Social Justice with communities through art.
Anil (Palak) Jha
Ceramic artist, Agra
Anil works with Clay as a medium for expressive and figurative artworks that resonates with meaning and poetry and healing. Anil is an avid reader and writer in Hindi, documenting lives in trauma.
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