ARTPAD: A Resource for Theatre & Participatory Development - Brazil, Peru, UK

Aimed at NGO workers with some or no experience of drama techniques, the resource will focus on issues of gender and social inclusion, new ways of participation and access to information and decision making. The Centre for Applied Theatre Research worked in partnership with The Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil and NGOs in Brazil and Peru to develop a manual, video and training package in theatre-based participatory development techniques with and for development workers. The manual will be distributed to development workers with an interest in integrating theatre techniques into their working practices, not only in issue-based workshops, but also in areas such as project planning, evaluation, decision making and research. The resource was developed through participatory research and training courses held with civil society organizations in Northeast Brazil and Peru, where the project team created, tested and adapted theatre-based techniques. Some of these techniques are already well known and used. Others are new. The project team has systematized techniques from existing practice in the field and has also created and adapted many others.
The manual is accompanied by a video which includes:
1. Interviews with development workers about the role of theatre in their work.
2. Demonstrations of exercises.
3. Interviews with workshop participants.

Gender, political development, rights.