Aagaaz Theatre Trust
Acting to Change
Our Vision
Aagaaz is the Urdu word for ‘beginnings’.
Operating at the grassroots level, we are a community of educators and arts practitioners, committed to examining and questioning ‘what is’, to inquire ‘what could be’.
We envisage a world of equality and well-being. A world where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can shape their lives with an understanding of their rights and responsibilities as members of a shared society.
Our Mission
We create spaces with arts, play, and a sense of leisure as well as purpose for children, adolescents and youth, and women. Our approach is to witness every member of Khwāb Ghar, our Community Arts Centre and Library in Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin - to let them know through each interaction that they matter and have the potential to grow through deep, regular and long term engagements.
Aagaaz models a community-led, slow, and ground-up approach. Our work is led by youth of the community, who are alumni of Aagaaz’s work. Our curriculum is developed in collaboration with the community.
Workshops that evoke curiosity, imagination and a questioning of “what is” to probe and act “what could be” are also offered through short-term engagements with various communities and organisations.
Aagaaz's Repertory
Creating, rehearsing and performing is an extension of our process-based work in Ajab Gajab. Our productions co-created by the repertory and playwrights/directors from the city, raise questions that urge audiences to engage in dialogues with contemporary issues.
We believe that in the process of ACTing, both the performer, by being witnessed, and the audience, by witnessing, is transformed.
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Aagaaz Learning Centre
276-A Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin
Baoli Gate
Delhi-110013
+91-7982034574