Braiding Earth Stories: Accessible Eco-Theatres in India

In the summer of 2024 when the performance of Towards a Different Earth in Thrissur (India) ended, the mixed-ability team—Blind/VI, Deaf/hard-of-hearing, other disabilities, and non-disabled—broke down into tears of joy. Emerging from a powerful convergence of personal experience, community engagement, classical Indian theatre, such as Kutiyattam, and contemporary cross-media artistic expressivities, our project on mountains and climate change had made Kerala history as the first accessible performance of its kind. Braiding Earth Stories will consider how Accessible Theatres, from my own work to that of others such as Blind Opera and Jana Sanskriti, can offer a radical opening towards translocal intimacies and new forms of scoring the land.

This event is open to the public.