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Message from Executive Director
This Issue
Deputy Head of Mission of German Embassy in
Bangladesh visited BCCT (BITA Culture and
Communication Trust)
Performing arts of Mime is performed as therapeutic
care of recovering psychosocial disability.
BITA Executive Director attended the Regional
Learning workshop of Help Age International in
Sri Lanka
BITA facilitated mass awareness on reducing irregular
migration by sea through the cultural campaign in
Cox’s Bazar and Norsigndi by the support of IOM.
BITA facilitated Children capacity development training
on Children Theatre at Refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar
Martial art and self defense awareness training for girls
in three districts of CHT
France Film maker Fabiem guillermomts observed BITA
P.V (Participatory Video) process in Chittagong
BITA participants attending Women’s Congress of
Asian Association of Women’s Studies under
“Transnational Feminisms and Women’s Activism”
program in Vietnam
Progress in Social Audit Conduct under the Project of
Social Engagement for Budgetary Accountability
Youth Initiatives of TiE Intervention prevention of child
marriage
Organize Mock Drill on Age Inclusive DRR and
Emergency Response
BITA observed World Theatre Education day 2016 in
Chittagong
Happy New Year 2017
As we are at the eve of Happy New Year of 2017
with all the joy, excitement and merriment that
is part of the tradition. It was unfortunate that
last year of 2016 Bangladesh faced different of
unexpected situation like several of militant
attacks, youth involvement in violence
extremism etc. But we believe on collective
voice and peace that will be carrying on
facilitating by our youth. The Bangladesh
Government has taken quick and effective
initiatives to prevent the extremism. That’s
initiatives are well appreciated by all respect in
home and abroad.
We mostly remember all of them who
contributed for hope Bangladesh building last
year in home and abroad. BITA is also trying to
explore the contribution and support of
development partners, partnership and
networking members and community
contribution through its publication. So
beginning of the year of 2017 BITA is going to
publish 10th E-News Letter and remember with
honor all friends and fellows who have given us
ideas and feedback to publish E-News Letter.
You can also stay connected with us through
our website: www.bitactg.org
Sisir Dutta
Executive Director
BITA E-News Letter
October - December 2016
10 th Issue
Michael Schultheiss Deputy Head of Mission of German Embassy in Bangladesh visited BCCT
(BITA Culture and Communication Trust) on 20 December 2016. During his visit time he
attended a meeting with BITA senior management team, observed folk musical instrument
preservation centre, observed popular theatre show on Campaign theatre of undocumented
Myanmar citizen’s census in Bangladesh and a IGA training of grassroots youth women. He
appreciated and remarks for significant partnership between Germany and BITA since 1995 to
till. BITA Executive Director facilitated the whole program during his visit. German Embassy is
interested to continue the partnership with BITA in future also.
Deputy Head of Mission of German Embassy in Bangladesh visited BCCT (BITA
Culture and Communication Trust)
Mime is a Creative Art form has its unique utility as a
therapeutic tool for being an effective alternative of
psychiatry. As a creative art modality, Mime itself is a
language and gesture of feelings, emotions, and actions
expressed by body movements. By the movement
techniques of Mime, words of emotions get an expression in
an art form and it also develops physical and mental health
care. From BITA; mime artist Pradip Acharjee performed a
therapeutic physical poetry in INTAR Conference on 27
November 2016 at Pune, India. It was 12 minutes long
performance focusing the massages of independent living,
freedom of choice and inclusion for recovering psychosocial
disabilities.
BAPU Trust, Pune, India organized an international Conference named “Trans cultural Dialogue
about Mental health, extreme states and alternatives for recovery” for 3 days on 26-28
November 2016 at Lavasa International Conference Hall, Pune, India. As pre conference, Bapu
Trust also organized Learning Institutes of 4 days on peer Support, Dialogue system and Crisis
support on 21-21 and 23-24 November at Pune, India 2016 facilitated by International Trainers.
By the relation of TCI (Transforming of Community Inclusion) Asia Pradip Acharjee from BITA
participated the both events in India. There are 160 participants for 40 countries attended the
conference.
Performing arts
of Mime is
performed as
therapeutic care
of recovering
psychosocial
disability.
A regional learning workshop on Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction is
occurred in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 5-9 December 2016 where BITA
Executive Director is participated. The program is designed both field visit
and learning sharing workshop. The purposes of the workshops were
reviewing the progress, good practices on older people inclusive DRR
(Deserter Risk Resilience). In the workshop BITA Executive Director’s
presented the challenges and recommendations of implementing project
of Inclusion of Digester Resilience for older peoples. The major challenges
are to activate UDMC (Upazilla disaster management Committee)
incorporating the rights and requirement of older people, developing
positive mind set in communities to act for older people and attitude of
local elected representatives etc. Addressing the Challenges Project had
taken the strategy of increasing communication relation with Union
Parished representatives, exploring common interest for all to work for
older people, local level capacity and leadership development for CBO and
youth focusing DRR, increasing livelihood support for the older people.
From Bangladesh BITA Executive Director along with 7 (seven) staffs of
Help Age International in Bangladesh participated in the visit. Help Age
International, Sri Lanka is organized and facilitated the whole program.
BITA
Executive
Director
attended the
Regional
Learning
workshop of
Help Age
International
in Sri Lanka
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has taken a mass awareness programme on
reducing irregular migration by sea implementing in four districts of Cox’s Bazar, Norsingdi,
Sirajganj, Narayanganj. All locations are selected on the basis of tracking data/information from
returnees from the Andaman Sea crisis. As a resource organization BITA involved significantly to
creating mass awareness & sensitization about the importance, process and potential benefits
of census in a lucid manner campaigning in two districts of Cox’s Bazar and Norsigndi. Here
making the positive attitude among the target audiences theatrical performance helped the
people to aware on contribute to the reduction of irregular migration by sea routes. Both the
districts a issue based theatre production are developed and total numbers of 160 shows plan
have been planned where by the end of the year BITA grassroots theatre teams performed 60
shows. 22,069 (368 audience in each show) populations have been informed directly by the
campaign shows informing the dangers of irregular migration by sea and aware on the process
of Govt. initiatives for safe migration. Implementing the project YPSA is supporting in Cox’s
Bazar district and another development partner OKUP is supporting in Norsigndi district.
BITA facilitated mass awareness on reducing
irregular migration by sea through the
cultural campaign in Cox’s Bazar and
Norsigndi by the support of IOM.
Interactive Popular Theatre (IPT) group development
training aims to assist two different children groups
across two refugee camps of Kutupalong & Nayapara
based in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh who taken part
directly in the theatre skills training and perform
educational theatre shows in Camp settings. By the
support of SCIbd, BITA got opportunity to works
with the refuges children groups as consultant
duration of October-November 2016 time frame.
Under the initiatives the key skills aims to achieve for
the children are focusing of self confident, team
approach, creative thinking ability & theatrical
performance skills. BITA has successfully completion
the IPT training at Kutupalong camp and Nayapara
Camp in Cox’s Bazar designed for 5 days long. Total of
50 children were attended in the trainings where 23
were girls and 27 were boys. During the training the
children are more sensitized the C.P (Children
Protection) issues of Hazardous Child labour, Mental
Health, Child marriage and Children Education. The
children groups are developed theatre performances
and performed into the communities focusing the
mentioned issues. The Children group developed a
plan for the next course of action plan of
demonstrating theatre shows.
BITA facilitated
Children capacity
development
training on
Children Theatre
at Refugee camp
in Cox’s Bazar
In addressing the issue of VAW (Violence
Against Women) in Hill area of CHT
(Chittagong Hill Tract) where Bangladesh
institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) had been
initiated some innovative activities
crating mass awareness on the VAW,
legal aid and other government services
targeting communities and institution
under ‘Mass Awareness raising program
on prevention of gender based violence
in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)”
Project supported by CHTDF-UNDP.
Under the project intervention “Martial art and self defense awareness training for girls” Is one
of the innovative activity to create awareness violence against women and encouraging self
protection and building confidence for girls/women specially school student. There are total of
three (3) Martial Art especially karate training were conducted with three school. Total of 60
participants (girls) are attended in the 15 days long training in Khagrachari Govt. high school,
Bandarban Raicha high school and Kawkhali Girls School in Rangamati district .The age group of
the participants was 12-15 years old. Member of school authority, teachers, district education
officer, women leader, journalist and respected officials of CHTDF-UNDP were present in these
training during the course time of September-October 2016.
Martial art and self
defense awareness
training for girls in three
districts of CHT
Fabiem Guillermomts is a very young and talented film maker
of France. Fabiem visited BITA Culture and Communication
Trust (BCCT) at Patiya, Chittagong on 21 December 2016. His
objective of the visit is to sharing the learning of creative
works among the practitioners, organizations and institutes
who are working for developing video documentary in
Bangladesh. During his visit in BITA; He observed some of
creative film of BITA and process of BITA participatory video
(PV). He watched 6 (six) no of video documentaries developed
by BITA P.V team where Our Voice, Alokita Nari and The bridge
and life are very much appreciated by him. This is mentioned
that since 2001 BITA P.V team started a unit to develop as
alternative media communication supporting for social
development. Another learning sharing workshop is held on 22
December 2016 Alliance Françoise de Chittagong office where
BITA participatory video team members are participated.
Fabiem showed 3 of his video documentary and sharing his
working process, impression of interest for film making, future
plans etc. He appreciated the initiatives of BITA PV team and
given some of suggestion for improvement of the unit. BITA
Executive Director facilitated to coordinate the learning
sharing sessions where Alliance Françoise de Chittagong
supported to organize the fantastic events
France Film maker Fabiem guillermomts observed BITA P.V (Participatory Video) process in Chittagong
Mahafuza Akther, Project Coordinator, BITA, took part in 4thCongress of Asian
Association of Women’s Studies under “Transnational Feminisms and Women’s Activism”
program. This congress was organized by Thang Long University, Vietnam, University of the
Philippines Open University and Asian Center for Women’s Studies & Korean Women’s
Institute, Ewha Womans University,Korea. The congress was held at Thang Long University
in Hanoi, Vietnam from November 30, 2016 to December 03, 2016. Young scholars and
women working in different development organizations of 11 ASEAN countries attended the
congress. Apart from the members of the ASEAN countries, they invited two special female
participants: one from Nepal and another from Bangladesh to present their women
development activities. Mahafuza Akther represented Bangladesh and BITA at the congress.
Her presentation was about BITA’s women circle, a process initiated by BITA to increase
women’s participation in the various development activities. The title of the presentation
was “Rural Women’s Connectivity and Combating Trafficking.” Besides, BITA’s theatre
process was also discussed in the open forum segment. BITA’s field activities and their
processes received huge praise and remarkable appreciations. In the 3-day long congress,
Mahafuza Akhter also participated in different parallel paper presentation based on
different subjects.
BITA participants
attending
Women’s
Congress of Asian
Association of
Women’s Studies
under
“Transnational
Feminisms and
Women’s
Activism” program
in Vietnam
SEBA (Social Engagement for Budgetary Accountability) project has made progress to carry out
social audit of Union Parishads focusing LGSP. Having orientation, the Social Committee
Members comprising 5 members in a union, facilitated by project team, has started field level
data collection and verification in the respective unions. Firstly relevant data collection had
done from UP office as per specified checklists covering major contents of plan, budget,
committee formation, LGSP- 2 allocation, purchase mode, scheme implementation, bill delivery
and reporting as per rules and manual. They put comments and recommendations after
completing the checklist. Later the committee members moved to the field and verified the
data for discussing with beneficiaries on the selected schemes. They emphasized on the issues
of committee, budget, implementation, satisfaction level of beneficiaries. As usual they make
comments and recommendations on the findings.
In the mean-time, the UP level data collection made from the 6 unions. Then field level
verification conducted in 5 unions including Baralia, Kolagaon, Haidgaon, Kelishahar &
Bhatikhain covering 8 schemes of road, culvert, tube well and retaining wall. Through data
collection and field verification plenty of information collected to oversee the status and doings
for future to improve the quality of performance and people’s welfare. In a union, people’s
awakening is observed praiseworthy. Noticing shortage in materials, they willingly provided
materials possessed by themselves to vendor so that implementation could be done earlier.
However, the vendor paid the cost of materials later. There are other couples of information
where remedial steps required mitigating the gaps. Through the process, local people got
opportunity to know more about the scheme/projects carried by UPs as well as expressing
their views. In succession it is planned, the findings will be shared through public hearing to
formulate action-points and recommendations for improvements and sustained results
through UP plan and budget. It is mentioned that BITA is implementing the project by the
support of MJF (Manusher Janno Foundation).
Progress in Social Audit Conduct under the Project of Social
Engagement for Budgetary Accountability
Rahela reads is Class Five. One day she felt in Eve-teasing in the way of School. Later on her
parent stops her school and arranged marriage of Rahela. Due to minor age of Rehela her
father made a false birth registration increasing her age for marriage. All of her dream was
destroyed. One year later of her marriage Rahela became a mother and felt in tremendous life
straggle. This is a story of TiE (Theatre in Education) intervention of BITA. Although it was a
story of performance but had similarity with real true story in our country context. BITA
intervention of TiE (Theatre in Education) is a new dimension of theatrical presentation that
mainly concentrates on classroom-based performance and includes all the interactive theatre
practices that help support the educational process facilitate by the BITA. The TiE proved that
as a holistic learning process of two-way-communication between teacher and the children in
to the class room, ensured the participation of the student of class Five-Eight and attendance
of cultural interventions. Attending in the shows the children audiences were aware about the
Help Line support numbers of 10921 for stopping child marriage, responsibility of duty bearer
etc. During the time of October-December 2016 BITA TiE facilitation team performed school
based TiE performance at the school situated in 29 no. West Madarbari ward and 9 no. North
Pahartoli ward in Chittagong City Corporation. The intervention is executed supported by the
Action Aid Bangladesh.
Youth
Initiatives of
TiE
Intervention
prevention
of child
marriage
Two Mock Drill events organized on Age Inclusion DRR and Emergency Response at Char Algi and Bara Khari Unions in Luxmipur district. Initiating community led approach about of 5176 community peoples are participated with youth, male, female and older people’s. Organizing by BITA the first Mock Drill occurred on 9 December 2016 at Charmahar Azizia High School ground and the second one is happened at the ground of Barakhari Union Parished on 31 December 2016.
The objective of the Mock Drills was increasing community ability and skills during preparation of Cyclone depression and reducing digester risk. The overall discussions were to taking special consideration of digesters risk reducing preparation for the older peoples and their families, initiatives of effective actipons taken by Union and Upazilla level digester management committee and improving of immediate response mechanism. As for Occasions local administrations, Digester management committee of Union and Upazilla level, school authorities, local CBO’s representatives, community potentials are participated in those events. The interventions is organized under the implementing project of “Inclusion of Older people in Digester resilience in South Asia” supporting by Help Age International, Bangladesh
Organize
Mock Drill
on Age
Inclusive
DRR and
Emergency
Response
Through storytelling and presentation of theatre in school class room disseminating massages to the school children could create more sensible and sustainable learning environment. Observing World Theatre Education day; BITA organized an event on 27 November 2016 at Alliance Française de Chittagong. A TiE (Theatre in Education) presentation is performed during the day observance on impact of child marriage and community based Children protection mechanism. Later on BITA Executive Director presents a performance relevant concept note of “Theatre in Education: Subject-matter”. As his discussion note the alternative entertainment method of theatre, design of presentation and role of different duty bearer were discussed. In discussion session Rafayal Girar, director of Alliance Française de Chittagong, Dr. Kuntal Barua, Associate professor of Dramatic department in Chittagong University, Anchal Chowdhury, general Secretary of Bangladesh Teacher association, Samsuddin Sisir, teacher of B.Ed College and Ranajit Rakshit were discussed on the paper note. A few of important recommendation were focused for inclusion the approach into the education curriculum.
BITA observed
World Theatre
Education day
2016 in
Chittagong
Date of publication: 21 January 2017 Compose & Design: Pradip Acharjee, Coordinator, & Mrityunjoy Sengupta, Senior Admin Officer, BITA Contact Person Sisir Dutta, Executive Director, Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) E-mail: [email protected]; Cell No: +88- 01711-845996 Mousumi Chowdhury, Advisor (Former Director, Policy & Collaboration) Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts (BITA) E-mail: [email protected] ; Cell No: +88 -01817-297524
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