Monday, November 26, 2007

Collins' postcard for Pilot



This is TfaC Monitoring Officer Collins' Smith's second video to Pilot Theatre in York - filmed at the Theatre for a Change office in Labadi, Accra.

Collins was lucky enough to have four different correspondents in Pilot's last video and he was eager to ask them all questions while filming his reply at the fortnightly meeting of Monitoring Offices.

Theatre for a Change Monitoring Officers maintain, evaluate and record the progress of the company's 'In-School' work, which has trained hundreds of trainee teachers to use Interactive Theatre with focus groups in the schools they practice in and the schools in which they eventually end up teaching permanently. Each Monitoring Officer is based at a Teacher Training College, each situated in a different region around Accra.

The fortnightly meeting is a chance for all of them to come together, discuss issues that have come up in recent workshops, develop strategies for future workshops and training sessions and report back on the numbers of people taking part across their regions.

In the video, Collins also talks about how he got involved with Theatre for a Change and his hopes for the future - including his ambition to lead a similar project in Liberia.

Pilot Theatre's reply to Collins' postcard will appear here in the next week or so.

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