Children in Lockdown: Artiste Commissioning Programme
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‘Stages, Theatre Group’, an artiste company was set up in year 2000 to promote socially and politically challenging original Sri Lankan Theatre. It has launched an island-wide initiative to connect artistes with children and communities to address the challenges faced by children because of the COVID 19 pandemic.
‘Children in Lockdown’ is a commissioning programme that supports artistes to work with children helping them deal with the challenges of the pandemic, or helping adults understand what children are going through. This project, curated by ‘Stages Theatre Group’ and supported by Kindernothilfe (KNH), will commission artistes in Sri Lanka to respond creatively to the theme of ‘Children in Lockdown’ by either producing artworks such as plays, books, visual art, scripts, films, music, research etc.; or conducting workshops for children or institutions that support children (schools, child rights organisations etc.).
Stages Theatre Group has put out an open call to artistes in Sri Lanka to contribute to this project. Applications are now open for artistes to propose projects that relate to the challenges and experiences of children during the Covid 19 pandemic.
A special component of this call is that it is open to children. Stages encourages child artistes to apply. Both children and adult artists go through the same process of evaluation.
Institutions or organisations supporting children (schools, care homes, help centres, children’s rights organisations) are welcome to get in touch should they be interested in securing the support of artists to work with them in supporting their own work with children during this time. Stages Theatre Group would endeavour to connect these groups with artistes through the project.
Applications close by midnight on March 5. To apply or for more information please refer to https://www.stages.lk/artistcommissioning.
For more information could be obtained via Email: stageslk@gmail.com, Website: https://www.stages.lk/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StagesTheatreGroup and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stagestheatregroup/