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Makhampom’s
refugee program
Working
with youth theatre troupes in 3 refugee camps on the
Thai-Burma border using theatre for popular
communication on legal aid, gender based violence, and
adolescent reproductive health and training facilitators
in dispute settlement in partnership with the
International Rescue Committee (IRC) |
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Conflict
Resolution Manual & Training
Writing a user manual on Makhampom’s participatory
theatre-based conflict resolution techniques, studying
the conflict in the Deep South of Thailand, and
conducting training workshops for peace workers |
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Performance
Touring in Hong Kong (IDEA),
Korea
(ASSITEJ),
Japan
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Germany
- Mahajanok
– Never Say Die, a performance combining
Thai mask dance-drama and physical narrative
theatre, drawing on the Buddhist take of
Mahajanok, bringing the themes of perseverance,
trauma, and struggle in the Deep South,
tsunami-affected communities, and refugee camps.
(Hong Kong & Korea – July)
- Naga
Wong, a likay (folk opera)
performance, revised from the collaboration
between Cambodian,
Laos
, and Thai artists in 2005, telling the story of
the Naga (serpent) in creating the
Mekong
River
and peoples of the region (
Japan
– September)
- The
Giant that Stole the Children’s Voices, a
comic physical, visual theatre performance
performed by the Chiang Dao youth theatre group,
based on the piece devised by the 2006 Mid-year
Study Tour group, reflecting on the theme of
young people having no voice in the community
(Germany – September).
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Study
Tours
Our annual study tour programs, based in Chiang Dao,
with international participants joining with the
Makhampom team and Chiang Dao community in 2-3 weeks
of theatre, training, community activities,
performance, sightseeing, and play, held in
June-July and December, with a Japanese Study Tour
being launched in September |
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Theatre
Lab
With seeding funding from the Australia-Thai
Institute, the theatre lab will run from
late-October into early November, training in the
traditional Thai theatre and Makhampom’s
inter-cultural theatre method, culminating in
performance at the Bangkok Theatre Festival
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International
Volunteers
In April, a Canadian theatre student will join us,
with two theatre workers from
Australia
on a 3 month Asialink residency from June, and a
refugee worker starting a 1 year AVI program with
her husband in July |
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Chiang
Dao Community Program
- Hilltribe
community project
Developing community support and development
programs with marginalised dalaang and pakyaw
villages in Chiang Dao district
- Youth Theatre
Troupe
Building up the youth theatre troupe in Chiang
Dao, including a performance tour in
Germany
as part of the Childrens Cultural Caravan
- Schools
Storytelling & Reading Project
Activities in 9 schools introducing
Makhampom’s work through storytelling and a
creating reading project
- Community
Playgrounds
Building community playgrounds in Tung Luk
village and Makhampom Centre as a collaboration
of Australian volunteers, Makhampom, and the
local community
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