Bringing together PEOPLE for PEOPLE’s art

2. Create Bringing togetherPEOPLE for PEOPLE’s art THE DERA PROJECT is a seven day concourse of youth from Delhi and artists from Rajasthan and their communities. Get Inspired Creating solutions for traditional art and folklore. Understanding and appreciating folklore. 11th Feb- 17thFeb Experience Collaborations free from boundaries The Dera

3. This concourse facilitates the collective understanding of folklore, its relevance and role in the culture. Concept Core: • A concourse of 7-8 youth and young professionals from Delhi with the folk artists and village communities in Rajasthan. Ideas and action plans will take birth from reflections of these understandings leading onto concrete action of revive the folklore and the arts.

4. 7 day Concourse • Phase1: Community immersion Or Walk the Walk (3 days) • Urban participants are hosted by village community • Exchange or knowledge and art • Phase 2: BastiPathshala • Collaborative brain storming for creating economic and social justice for folk arts • Ideating, & workshops on folklore • Phase 3: 1,2,3 CHECK • Acting on plans and ideas from PAATHSHALA • Implementing and testing ideas

5. You could be a student, an atheist, a homemaker, a rock star, a beatboxer, or someone who just doodles in their spare time... Just pack your bags and let the spirit of enquiry prevail. Who can Be A Part? a) about yourself (a brief introduction) Note: The details about participating communities and artists will be updated on the webspace All you have to do is write to us at rajat.kukreja21@gmail.com b) why would you want to be a part of the DERA c) How you can contribute to the community

6. Identity is every evolving. We can consciously chose what we want to be and what we want to create as individuals and as a community. -Reflection on belief and influences of the community and self WHY FOLKLORE OR FOLK ARTS -Taking new inspirations and influences -Seeking and creating new opportunities for self and society -Social and economic justice for the tradition bearers

7. Bandobast: The participants will be provided with : Travel costs: Delhi-jhunjhunu and local travel. Food lunch and dinner /100rs per day against the same Accommodation with host artists for the first three days Central accommodation at the workshop space for rest of the four days Laptops, recording instruments, internet facility, and any other tools which you might need for your work must be brought along by yourself. We won’t be able to provide any such tools. THIS IS A NON-PROFIT INITIATIVE WE LOVE GIVING AND RECEIVING GIFTS

8. GET INVOLVED: • Besides participating in the Dera, you could contribute to the community in you own way. • *Donate/Gift • Funds for travel, food, accommodation, workshop costs and further activities of the community need to be raised. We need Rs30,000before the first week of February. • (For each contribution, you get handmade gifts delivered either at your inbox or your doorstep) • For details as to how to donate PLEASE SWITCH ON TO THE LAST PAGE of the presentation. • *Become our messengers • Raise Funds for us • Forward the mailers to your friends, colleagues, partners, college societies • Put up posters in markets, notice boards • Forward the link on FB(tell your friends to tell their friends) • *We are looking for friendships • Academic and research support from different organizations, folklorists, activists, scholars or people working with folklore is much needed. • Suggest us organizations/artists/individuals you might know who are working for and with folk arts/folklore. • Or just visit us/talk to us/share your ideas. • www.thederaproject.webs.com • www.facebook.com/TheDeraProject • For queries/worries/suggestions/feedback/praises/abuses/anything at all… • Just shoot a mail to: rajat.kukreja21@gmail.com

9. SENDING YOUR DONATION/GIFT CONTRIBUTION: • SEND A CROSSED CHEQUE AT • THISADRESS: • RajatKukreja • Motilalsaini, MaaliyonKaMohalla • Village Post- Malsisar • District: Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan • Pin Code: 331028 You could make an online transaction or In favor of Rajat Kukreja Account number: 079901501472 IFSC Code: ICIC0000799 ICICI Bank, Branch jhunjhunu, District Jhunjhunu Rajasthan. We are not registered as an organization yet. We are a bunch of self driven young people who have found their own individual interests in this larger cause. All the money raised will be deposited in the common fund to be used to be used for the activities by the group.

10. Important Dates and LINKS CALL FOR DERA 20th January,2013 Meeting and brief in Delhi: 2nd Februrary,2013 Dera Begins: 11th Feb Dera Ends: 17th Feb Info about Shekhawati region: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhawati

11. TeaM • YOU & • Rajat Kukreja, KUKU/ The VOCAL ONE • Founder, Head of operations • After studying journalism and mass communication from Delhi and working for a range of crazy projects he came to Rajasthan to work as a Gandhi Fellow. He is currently working with 4 rural government schools in Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan. He is also working to create a module of using folklore to ensure learning quality in schools. • He loves singing, telling stories and hosting celebrations. • Nikeetha D’souza, THE NERD/SCIENTIST/ The ARGUMENTATIVE ONE • The mother, workshop designs, planner and thinker • After completing her biochemistry from Bangalore and a stint with school education she started leading a program for youth leadership development. She creates freakishly neat mind maps, loves reading comics and graphic novels. • Archita Sisodia, THE EARTHY ONE • Designs • A literature student she loves to sketch and paint and • make earrings and draw on anything and everything. • Her sketches often have a natural resemblance to some • tribal art forms. • Ashwini krishnaprasad,THE CRAZY FEMINIST • Content and workshop support • An extensive reader from Bengaluru and a compulsive • writer, she wants to create an Indian cult figure , • an Indian superhero. She likes wine-tasting, cheese and • everything that smells good. • Taniya D’silva, THE GYPSY • Workshop support and marketing • A microbiologist from Mumbai, she loves to travel, • taking long walks by herself, and laughing for no • reason at all. She’s writing about her experiences • of living with a nomadic community in Rajasthan.

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