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Amani People's Theatre
Country: Kenya
Project Background:
Amani Peoples Theatre is an association of young African artists who are committed to using their talents and skills in drama and theatre to transform structures of conflict within the communities they work with and concomitantly build stories of peace.
Initiated eight years ago, APT’s theatre for peace approach integrates education, entertainment and research in exploring context specific conflict issues and enhancing the search for creative non-violent responses to conflict. We have been guided by the desire to provide space and skills for individuals and communities to respond to conflict, in all its forms and in all levels of society.
Project goal and purpose:
Amani People's Theatre strives to provide the space and skills for individuals and communities to respond to conflict in all its forms and in all levels of society in a creative and redemptive way that reaffirms the sanctity of human life.
Project Strategies:
- Promote, encourage and explore alternative value systems.
- Enable individuals and communities critically analyse their conflicts.
- Provide fora for healing for those who have suffered trauma.
- To propagate non-violent ways of responding to conflict and injustice.
- To collect, collate and document innovative and creative approaches to peace building, which contribute to afro-centric models.
- To share experiences with a wider peace network in order to contribute to national and international promotion of peace.
Approach:
Our African culture provides resources upon which we can build sustainable peace in Africa. In our work we seek to validate peace traditions thus validating the story of peace in our culture.
The educational, therapeutic and meditative elements of African indigenous theatre as well as the theories of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal continue to inspire the work of the group.
Target Group:
APT works mainly with grassroots and middle level communities in both rural and urban Kenya as well as people in special circumstances.
Over the past eight years APT has had the opportunity to share its experiences in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Thailand, Denmark, France, Austria, USA and the Sudan.
Core Programmes:
- Theatre for peace: workshops cum performances done with grassroots communities.
- Basic Training Programme: trainings that focus largely on leadership, theories of conflict transformation and community approaches to peace building.
- Drama therapy: therapeutic sessions that utilize drama as a tool for healing and has targeted internally displaced people, children in difficult circumstances and refugees.
Materials:
The group has developed two books for practitioners,
“From Playing, Learning to Changing”
“Reflections on Impact Assessment Indicators”.
These works are a culmination of APT’s experiences over the past couple of years and draw inspiration from the projects we have carried out with communities in Kenya and abroad.
Biographical Note Awino E. Okech:
Awino has been a trainer with Amani Peoples theatre for the past six years. During this time she has carried out trainings in gender, governance and conflict transformation quite extensively in Kenya and in the neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania as well. Her work with Amani Peoples Theatre has also led to her sharing her expertise in Denmark, Israel, South Africa and Prague. Awino is an accomplished actress and brings these skills to the fore while working at APT. She has also been actively engaged in other gender concerned organizations such as KEFEADO also based in Kenya. Her project work with this organization has not only been an added boon to their education-based projects in rural schools but has also sharpened her gender analysis tools. Awino holds a Bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Nairobi.
Contact:
Awino E. Okech
apt@aptkenya.org
Amani People’s Theater
Shalom House
Dagoretti Corner
Off Ngong Road
P.O. Box 13909
Nairobi
Kenya