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Apeksha – On Gender Based Violence

20Dec09

Apeksha is a play by Dramatic Action. It’s based on gender based violence and sponsored by Beyond Borders. It is going on the boards at the British School Auditorium on the 21st of December. All proceeds will go to a good cause. Come.

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Jerked

02Sep09

Jerk? went well. The turn out was good and the cast was in top form. Many intervened and came up with their views and we are grateful to everyone who was present for helping us make it a success.
We are in the process of preparing a report on our findings and will share it as [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Forum Theatre, Social Change, Youth Participation

What we are singing for the Open Mic

05Mar09

Bloggers and Colombo creative-types are doing this Open Mic thing today. Some of us will be there. Here’s a glimpse of our contribution for the evening..

Kiddin.. but We will be there. You should too. More info about the whole thing is found on Indi’s blog.

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Tags: Activism, Beyond Borders, Creativity, Open Mic, Poetry, Politics, Sri Lanka, Youth

Censored, YAR

13Dec08

Yet Another Review (YAR) on Censored. This time, on the Daily Mirror. We thank Shifani Reffai for the kind review, the entire article included below. ( Also see 6 six previous reviews)
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirise all orthodoxies, [...]

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Censored on TV

06Dec08

Censored is now on YaTV’s No War Zone. Catch it randomly on ETV and TNL. For the moment, it’s available on youtube:

Update: Yatv also has the Tamil/Sinhala version up on youtube.

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Beyond Borders Sri Lanka, British Council, Colombo, Freedom of Expression, Sri Lanka, Theatre, TV, Youth Activism

Censored; an insider’s view of an outsider’s sentiments

25Nov08

Forum Theater, as I learned on the day of the performance of Censored, is supposed to deal with topics that aren’t too impossible to solve yet are not too easy to solve either. In other words, FT is meant to open up dialogue and fuel thought on current topics that need support and a sense [...]

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CENSORED — A Forum Theatre on Freedom of Expression

13Nov08

Beyond Borders, along with the British Council presents : Censored.

A forum theatre looking at issues related to freedom of expression at a time of war. The event would take place Thursday, 20th of November 6.30 pm at the British Council Hall.
The tickets Priced at Rs.100/- is available at the British Council “Help desk”. We have [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Colombo, Forum Theatre, Fredom of Expression, Sri Lanka, War

Wrong turn @ Ja-ela

28Apr08

Forum Theatre crew of Beyond Borders performed a revised version of “wrong Turn”, a forum theatre based on a poverty theme. The play was performed in ja-ela by invitation of the Law & Society Trust on the 26th of April, 2008. The play, intially produced on behalf of a CEPA event, was done in Sinhala [...]

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Tags: Activism, Forum Theatre, Ja-ela, LST, Sri Lanka, Young people, Youth

Forum Theatre – Call for Volunteers

10Mar08

Are you a drama queen/king? Are you between the ages of 16-26? If you If you answered yes to both questions, then we would like you to be a part of the Beyond Borders Forum Theatre outfit. We are a voluntary youth led youth run organization who use Forum Theatre as a tool to help [...]

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Tags: Beyond Borders, Colombo, Forum Theatre, Sri Lanka, Theatre, Volunteer

Wrong Turn

08Dec07

‘When every decision you make is the wrong one’

(Sheetal @ wrong turn)
Beyond Borders performed a piece of forum theatre for “Off the Page”, an event organized by CEPA (Centre for Poverty Analysis). The play focused on the plight of a young woman with an ailing mother and a younger brother who’s still in school. [...]