DARPANA FOR CHANGE

2003-2018
COLOURS OF THE HEART
Dance theatre performance dealing with the constant presence of violence in the lives of women
1990-2017
Sita’s Daughters
A one woman show with dance, music, masks and theatre, looking at mythology and present day real stories
2013
Ahmedabad rising
Reaching out to 50,000 young women and men in schools and colleges to change gender biases, as part of One Billion Rising
1999-2016
In Search of the Goddess
A one woman show exploring patriarchy in mythology and religion
2012-13
Women With Broken Wings
A two person performance with live piano, highlighting the univdersality of violence against women
2003-2005
Aapni Bapor - OUR AFTERNOON
A bouquet of TV programming to empower and educate women using popular genres of television, in Gujarati
1996
Shakti : The Power of Women
A one woman show examining how language diminishes women, through the lives of women from our past and present
1963-2016
Memory Is A Ragged Fragment of Eternity
A bouquet of TV programming to empower and educate women using popular genres of television, in Gujarati
2001-2002
ASO-PALAV FOR MHRD
A series of five music videos on different aspects of women including the value of the girl child, bonding with other women, and empowerment
1999-2016
IS IT A DREAM?
Dance performance highlighting rape and other issues

2018
The Actor Doctor Project
Family Planning
2003
Katha Chalisi
A 40 part docu fiction for television on menopause
THEATRE FOR CHANGE
Chabi Khushiyonki
Educating rural audiences in Maharashtra and Jharkhand about family planning and the need to space children through performances
2003-2005
Olakhiye Aapni Rasoine
300 episodes of a weekly TV show on healthy cooking
2008
Let’s Talk About Food
A 52 minute film on food and nutrition for the Public Service Broadcast Trust
2010
UNICEF projects
Creating performances for rural audiences in Gujarat about the need for vaccination, hand washing, family planning, cervical cancer
2012
Peer Educator Training
Educating and empowering rural youth to become change makers for health and nutrition by imparting skills of using the arts
2003
HIV/AIDS
12 different theatre performances on various aspects of issues of HIV/AIDS form the physical aspects to stigma and living with the disease

2005-07-09-11
Srishti : The Environment Quiz
Three editions of a fifteen part TV quiz for school children involving over ten thousand children across Gujarat
1996
Jagruti
A three year project in Ahmedabad’s municipal schools to empower children to become change agents for saving nature
2002
ASO-PALAV - FOR MHRD - ENVIRONMENT
Five music videos on different aspects of environmental issues like water conservation, deforestation, animal life and drought
1998
Kaan Gopi No Vesh
A reworked bhavai performance taking of from a popular love episode of Krishna and Radha
1980
Aspirations
Dance performance on the need to conserve nature created to garner support for saving the Silent Valley rainforest in Kerala
1980
Ganga
Dance performance on the dirtying of the river Ganges, and the need to clean it
1980
SURYA
Dance performance on the power of the Sun

2013
Dammed
Dance and multi media performance about internal displacement and the human rights abuses that go with this
2003-2004
HUM
A one year project in Gujarat’s schools speaking of the need for harmony
2003-2004
Vaividhyotsav
One year daily television programming highlighting different aspects of the need for a harmonious and violence free society, using popular genres of television
2006-2007
Unsuni
A musical performance on the lives of five real people on the margins of society, aimed at sensitizing school and college children
1996-2013
V For…
A performance looking at violence from the point of view of the violator
2013
RA/UPTURE
Dance production examining different aspects of violence

2003-2004
Umbar The Chat Show
30 part television programme on various aspects of adolescent issues bringing together youngsters, parents and teachers
2011
UNARTHUPAATTU
Half hour fiction film based on real case studies, used as a part of an intitiative by the Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation to reach out to 40,00 girls in colleges
2002-2003
Umbar
Docu fiction based on real life situations, and attempting to find solutions
2005
The SAT Chat Show
Six episodes on adolescent issues bringing lay people and experts together
And including voices from the street
2005
NAANA MODE MOOTI VAAT
Giving voice to adolescents through their own TV program about current affairs
2002-2004
PAHONCHE NAARI AABH ATAARI
A career counselling television show for adolescents

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