Activities within the grant and expected impact:
The main objectives of the grant come under four categories:

	Children’s workshops, which are conducted during summer camps, over a duration of three weeks each. Fifty children, in age group 7-14, participate in each workshop, where they are exposed to local folk performing art, dance, visual art and puppetry.
	Teacher Training Programmes (TTP), consisting of intensive 3½-month three-part programmes. These cover 40 primary and pre-primary school teachers, besides focusing on production and testing of theatrical teaching aids, benchmarked for their capacity to be assimilated into the mainstream D.Ed programme. This component affects practice teaching in D.Ed colleges in the region.
	Short-duration workshops, on subjects of puppetry, storytelling and teaching language through theatre. These create exposure to various aspects of theatre, targeting approximately 60 college students, 20 school students, 20 urban schoolteachers, and 15 rural schoolteachers annually, resulting in disseminative impact targeting ten schools and colleges in the region.
	Workshops with semi-professional theatre artistes, including production workshops with 10 rural theatre artists, 1 tour and the performance of 25 shows over a year. This ensures base-widening impact, besides forming the basis of a future self-sustainability strategy.

The Trust’s support enables Puppet House to strengthen its network among the theatre fraternity, and to lay strong foundations in the educational institutions in the Hubli - Dharwad belt.

Also read:
	Invitation to a play
	Theatre for education training – long term workshop
	Puppet House conducts children's theatre workshop in March – April 2009