co-founder of spring with and double up
as a programs coordinator and spindle
and set out to design first provoking
transformational odd pieces that does
not only entertain but educate edify and
encourage and I’m training myself to
become a cultural interpreter so I’m
involved with various cultural
organizations and I’m part of a cleaver
Dance Theater a dance group that really
helps young people land traditional
dances and other dance forms and I’m
also part of vine school of music that
helps to discover the music in New
especially for children and I know that
any economics but why theatre why should
I go into the other and that’s one
question I’m here to answer I don’t know
whether all of you remember when you
were children did you have an encounter
with Shakespeare well I had an encounter
with Shakespeare friends Romans
countrymen lend me Lord yes I come to
bury Caesar not to praise him and that
was my first encounter with theatre and
the fact is that theater over the years
have shipped lives and have lit and hot
should and ideas on back and over again
now dr. anand Kumar when setting up in
verse you’re gonna decided to add the
School of Performing Arts as the fair
part component of the diversity and as
that’s department is at the surface is
the first department use find when you
enter the university of gamma and that
means that do with a good keepers of the
ideas that shipped Ghana now AB
definitely theater gives us that
environment where we every social
construct you can think about every
social idea every em every idea within
the society is is shipped right and over
the years that the bundle kuma but
regarding kuma was very very very much
instrumental and developing the idea of
the other but there is one thing that
really really drew my attention to the
other scientists know that whenever they
want to do experiment they go to the lab
they have test tubes they have been
balanced they have all the lab
equipments to do the experiment now when
the social scientist wants to do an
experiment yeah does he do that
experiment and I think that the best
place for the social scientists to do an
experiment is the stage is the theater
speaks and that’s why I think that every
organ every country lead to real
engineer engineer its social construct a
psychological construct and for the
engineering space for the sociologist
the psychologist the philosopher is the
theater speech now I know that all of
you will think that okay we have movies
and we have all the videos available to
us but with these movies at with these
video what we see
you ever have a direct contact with the
audience ask the producer oh yes you are
the audience have you ever had that
direct contact with the actors and
theater is the space where every
individual who comes to that states have
a direct interaction with the actives
with the people designing and ensuring
that both social construct those
psychological ideas those fears and
virtually as I stand here there’s a
little bit of tension right those fears
of the address I really really talk to
bear and I see to expect that every
theater show every theater show is
different if an i can simply over over
again but it is different because the
difference is that the audience are
different and their fears that the
actors have within that space is also
different now there was one phenomenon I
remember we were contracted by an
organization juniper tree to design a
sketch for them and that sketch was
talking about rape prevent rates
reported and we as an organization
spring breath good that’s short sketch
for them and it was the first thing to
be done and various individuals tend to
give speeches now can you believe it
that girl the people that give the
speech thing right mud reference to what
we did because not we did the children
within that space who identify with it
you could see it directly between we go
for conferences and there’s a long
speech somebody comes there meets the
whole speech
but in the long run the individuals may
not be able to identify with some of the
issues that have been raised with within
that space so what is that theater
offense the opportunity for communities
to develop so there’s this whole new
concept called tiata for development and
theater for development and shears that
every developmental issue every
developmental iga is brought into that
space and is acted out and Bay is also
even participatory theater whether
community and individuals within the
community participate in that space I’m
here to tell you that sriracha is very
very very important I had the
opportunity of visiting Cape Town and in
cape town they had a lot of theater
species tomorrow in space the theater
space but we have the place the theater
space stars and it’s driving very
important the national data in our class
sells a great lot of papers and I think
that this is the time that c’mon
straight does me out yes burden that no
we need to build a theater please ensure
that we really really engage the youth
and the older people in theater and i
bet you it’s really really going to
enhance the community and whatever we do
thank you very much [Music]