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The Aseema Trust , Chennai was founded to bridge arts and education, to link rural and urban schools through folk performing arts, to use performing arts as tools of empowerment, teaching and to bring the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi in respect for diversity and dignity of labour projects through spinning on Charkha. Founded by V.R.Devika and run by her team of coordinator and finance manager Vasantha Parthasharathy and several freelance artists and associates, the Trust is nourished by the connections it has made with other NGOs, educational institutions and artists, locally, nationally, and internationally.
Picture Gallery, you tube trustseema V.R.Devika's TED Talk An interview on webindia.com
"Spin a Yarn for self and society" project supported by Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust is being conducted in ten schools in Chennai with traditional performing arts skills workshops and Gandhi and self enquiry sessions with experts. Many outreach programmes on peace education, Gandhi and traditional performing arts requests keep coming all the time and we are happy to be spreading the idea. How to spin on the box charkha pictorial can be seen in Parents' Circle magazine and you tube aseematrust channel.
On 1st and 2nd February 2012, The Aseema Trust partners with South Zone Cultural Centre and Kalakshetra Foundation to present Samavesh 2012 insights into Kuchipudi at Rukmini Arangam, Kalakshetra.
The Aseema Trust marks Sarvodaya Day on 30th January 2012 at 2.30 pm at Besant Theosophical School, Arundale Beach Road, Kalakshetra Colony with a performance by students from Besant Arundale School, Besant Theosophical School, Shriram Matriculation School of Thiruneermalai, Sri Shankara Vidyashramam, V Excel and Navbharath Matriculation School on the theme "Recycling" with resource persons Sangeeta Isvaran (Movement and Theatre), Sundaramurthy and Kannan Kumar (Oyilattam), Sudha Raja along with her Sargam children (Choir), Jacab Jebaraj (Sculpture) Mookammal (Spinning), Sathya, Ahalya and Murielle (Volunteering), Dr.Shilpa Pandit (Pre and post test and analysis of data) Guest of honour: Artist Thota Tharani Chief Guest: Leela Samson, Director Kalakshetra.
We partner with Prakriti Foundation in "Tree of Life festival 2012"
V.R.Devika conducts a lecture demonstration on Bharathanatyam with Rukmini Devi Natyakshetra at Dakshinachitra on 27th January 2012.
V.R.Devika conducted a crafts connect for school students on 24th January at the Dastakar crafts Mela at Kalakshetra and a Gandhi connect session at the D. Parpia Ahmed School for US consulates's ACCESS programme on 21st January, gave a Gandhi connect talk for Corporation School Students at Dastakari Crafts Mela at Kalakshetra on 20th January, a Gandhi and dance connect session with Sangeeta Isvaran and Kannan Kumar at Shriram School in Thiruneermalai on 18th January. We welcomed students of liberal arts from The College of Wooster, Ohio, USA, on a study tour in India on 31st December. We organised their weeklong activities and stay at Dakshinachitra. On 31st December, P.C.Ramakrishna gave them a tour of the Museum theater. V.R.Devika gave them tour of the Bronze museum and took them to witness Mahapattabhishekham dance drama at Kalakshetra. She gave them a presentation on Gandhi on 1st January 2012 and facilitated a visit to Kalakshetra with a talk on Maria Montessori by Uma Shankar and a visit to Shankara Vidhyashramam which is our project school on 2nd. On 3rd Anita Murthy gave a workshop on Bharathanatyam at Dakshinachitra for them. The students from the Wooster Collage did a dance workshop with students in our project from Shankara Vidhyashramam and the village panchayat school on 4th January 2012.
V.R.Devika gave a presentation on Gandhi at the Anjuman School Madarasa for US Consulate's ACCESS programme, gave the S.Manjubhashini Memorial talk on "Education as Parenting - Insights from Gandhi, Tagore and Aurobindo" at the S.manjubhashini Memorial Seminar -2011 at Balamandir on 23rd December 2011. The Aseema Trust in partnership with Lasyatarangini and Kalavartha hosted Samavesh 2011 insights into Mohiniattam. V.R.Devika gave a lec dem on "Mood music in Traditional Tamil Theatre Koothu" at 8 am at The Music Academy's annual conference, a talk with visuals on the icon of Nataraja at 10 am at Raintree hotel for the spouses of a surgeons conference, introduced Bharathanatyam margam with Rukminidevi Natyakshetra at 6 pm at Madras Institute of Technology on 18th December 2011.
V.R.Devika did a Heritage connect workshop for Chennai Corporation Schools teachers at Dakshinachitra on 8th December, a session with young crafts persons for Crafts Council of India on 3rd December at Dakshinachitra.
