Anti-Retroviral Theatre (ART) - South Africa
Anti-Retroviral Theatre (ART) is a project that is being used as a tool in the struggle against HIV/AIDS within contemporary South African society. The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC) and its partners hope to use this project to create new ways of addressing critical personal and social issues through the use of "provocative and imaginative theatre and its related life skills."
Communication Strategies
The project is an effort to serve individuals and the communities they represent by probing and questioning critical personal and social issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. It follows a process of questioning that is designed to lead participants to a sense of compassion for, and understanding of, HIV/AIDS-impacted individuals and their roles in society.
ART trains individuals and their communities to take charge of their lives through engendering a culture of proactive action in relation to problem solving and crisis management. It teaches people how to create their own opportunities, developing critical life skills through the medium of the theatre and theatre training. The process attempts to teach people life skills such as critical thinking, personal empowerment, creative problem solving, trust, understanding, acceptance, and compassion.
Organisers believe that failure to address social problems and the inability to address them contribute to the escalating incidents of violation, abuse, rape, and HIV/AIDS infection. "It is our intent to use the tool of theatre to address these issues and provide individuals the skill to use these tools and put them to work within their individual communities."
The project provides employment opportunities for individuals working in the fields of theatre, education, and HIV/AIDS awareness and management.
ART trains individuals and their communities to take charge of their lives through engendering a culture of proactive action in relation to problem solving and crisis management. It teaches people how to create their own opportunities, developing critical life skills through the medium of the theatre and theatre training. The process attempts to teach people life skills such as critical thinking, personal empowerment, creative problem solving, trust, understanding, acceptance, and compassion.
Organisers believe that failure to address social problems and the inability to address them contribute to the escalating incidents of violation, abuse, rape, and HIV/AIDS infection. "It is our intent to use the tool of theatre to address these issues and provide individuals the skill to use these tools and put them to work within their individual communities."
The project provides employment opportunities for individuals working in the fields of theatre, education, and HIV/AIDS awareness and management.
Development Issues
HIV/AIDS.
Key Points
"This is a project that strives toward giving individuals the ability, capacity and skills to provide meaningful HIV/Aids education. Providing education with regards to treatment and prevention, transmission, awareness, care and support."
Partners
FATC, Artists Against Abuse, Artists Doing Aids, The Johannesburg Development Agency, The Dance Factory, The Market Theatre Laboratory, The African Bank Market Theatre.
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