The Centre for Community Dialogue and Change (CCDC) is a Bangalore, India based organization for Theatre of the Oppressed. Our TO workshops enable individuals, groups and institutions, especially those in education, create change through dialogue, reflection and action.
| Theatre of the Oppressed (TO)
is a creative tool for personal and social transformation. Created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, TO is a set of theatre games and exercises devised by Boal - inspired by the work of the educationist Paulo Freire.
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"Learning couldn't have been more fun than this! Keep inspiring many more."
(Feedback on a Development Communication course taught by Ravi Ramaswamy) Read More
Interview and blog post
We are delighted to bring you this interview with and blog post on Ravi Ramaswamy and CCDC by Anjala Farahath of Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media.
Forthcoming Events
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TO in Education
  Workshops with schools, colleges, universities across India.We work with students, teachers, teacher educators, parents and school heads and managements.
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Six Day facilitator Training Includes Image Theatre, Cop in the Head, Rainbow of Desire and Forum Theatre.
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TO in Medical Humanities Workshops for medical students, faculty, other healthcare professionals. Focussed on humanizing the profession, improving doctor-patient communication.
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TO with senior citizens Regular voluntary work with senior citizen groups, and forum plays on issues such as Elder Abuse, Retirement, and Dementia.
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Workshops in Community Leadership Sustained engagement with communities of women and others interested in building leadership skills. Workshops based on Freirean ideas of education and liberation from oppression and drawing on exercises in TO Read More |
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Research and Documentation We encourage and support national and international volunteers and interns , and collaborate with scholars in research and documentation of TO practice. The following is a list of publications arising out of the work being done by CCDC in the field of Medical Humanities. These are not necessarily authored by CCDC but also by those who have participated in our workshops and trainings. We are grateful to the authors for spreading the message, philosophy and pedagogy of Theatre of the Oppressed. Desire Imagination Action: Theatre of the Oppressed in medical education by Ravi Ramaswamy and Radha Ramaswamy pp 250-256 . in Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities ed Alan Bleakley Embracing the unknown: introducing medical humanities into the undergraduate medical curriculum in India:Radha Ramaswamy Theatre of the Oppressed in medical humanities education: the road less travelled : Setu Gupta, Abhinav Agrawal, Satendra Singh, Navjeevan Singh Exploring medical humanities through theatre of the oppressed : Satendra Singh, Jagjit Khosla, and Shobhana Sridhar. Whither medical humanities? : Navjeevan Singh |
