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. We work with children, adolescents, youth, and women. Our approach is to witness every member of Khwāb Ghar, our Community Arts Centre and Library in Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin and other communities we engage with. Through each interaction, we let them know 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.
We also offer workshops that evoke curiosity, imagination and a questioning of “what is” to probe and act “what could be” through short-term engagements with various communities and organisations.
Tana Bana
Tana Bana is at the core of our work at Aagaaz, creating and enacting a rich arts-based pedagogy in a space built for learning, play, and leisure. Through this work, our goal is to set children up with socio-emotional, cognitive, and artistic skills that they are able to rely on, and to build long-lasting relationships with families in Basti Hazrat Nizamuddin.
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Aagaaz Learning Centre
276-A Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin
Baoli Gate
Delhi-110013
+91-7982034574