Seeds Theater Group Inc

© Seeds Theater Group
Genre : Theatre company
Column : Theater
Contact details Seeds Theater group
P.O Box 984, Huon Gulf Post Office
00411 Moro Lae
Tel. : +675  473 4620
Papua New Guinea
http://seedstheatre.org
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Seeds Performing Arts Theatre Group was established in 1997 as an initiative of Sam Solomon Sommi, the Founder and Director of the group. The group consists primarily of unemployed youths in the settlements of Lae District, Morobe Province. The members  participate as a gospel outreach ministry group reaching people through drama, dance and music.

For the last 12 years the group has been actively involved in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and other health issues, as well as running theatre training and workshops for other community theatre groups, NGOs and the Morobe Health division.
The group is a not-for-profit organisation and most of its members are still active, using their talented performing arts skills technique to facilitate self-education, self-employment and self-reliance in community development and mobilisation.

The Seeds Thater Group's mission is to use theatre and drama as an effective communication tool to address issues that are affecting Papua New Guinea socially, economically and politically.
And its goals are :
    1.    To use theatre and drama as a powerful communication tool in order to increase the level of knowledge and understanding amongst the general public by providing correct and accurate information and messages on HIV/AIDS and STIs. Other health-related, social, and development issues are also dramatized with the target audience being the illiterate rural and urban settlement population.
    2.    To use theatre drama as an inclusive media strategy that relies on the participation of unemployed youth in their respective communities. This community-based media and communication strategy is aimed at informing illiterate communities, which the popular Media fails to reach due to illiteracy and lack of accessibility in remote communities.
    3.    To use the energies of unemployed local youth whose talents in Drama, Dance and Music can be creatively and innovatively employed to use performance as a way of helping their own community for educational and entertainment purposes, and as a communication tool for social gathering and art.

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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