Creative Media Workshop on Gender, Media and Human Rights

The workshop is intended for gender and media activists, peace activists, journalists, creative non-fiction writers, creative communicators and young academics. The participants will deliberate on ways and means to develop gender sensitive media activities, provide an alternative approach to media representations of violence that neither sensationalise nor trivialise women's negotiations in conflict situations and will align several forms of work on peace, gender justice and rights. Each of the participants will be expected to present at the workshop a 1,000-word article, a short documentary, script, an audio track, a photo exhibit or any other appropriate form of creative communication and interact with the resource persons and other participants for working towards effective networking. Applications are invited on plane paper along with a) the applicant's bio-data, b) a write-up within 500 words on the relevance of the workshop to the candidate's work and how she or he can contribute to it and c) a letter of recommendation commenting specifically on the candidate's work.

Selected candidate candidates will have to pay a registration fee of Rs 1,000. They will be provided a resource kit and full hospitality during the workshop. CRG, however, is unable to provide travel grants. Complete applications (hard copy or e-mail) must reach by 15 September, 2004 at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, FE 390 Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 016; e-mail: mcrg@mcrg.ac.in.

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