bAKEHOUSE Artistic Director Suzanne Millar initiated this cultural exchange program during her visit to India with an aim to provide daughters of sex-workers in Kamithipura with an education and pathways out of the cycle of inter-generational prostitution.
Jatinga-theatre to provoke social change
Playright Purva Naresh at SBS studio in Sydney Source: SBS
Playwright, dancer and percussionist Purva Naresh is the Bakehouse theater company's cultural exchange recipient for 2016. She is in Sydney to collaborate with Australian artists on her production "Jatinga". Daughter of a trail blazer, Purva also talks about what was it like for her mother Vijaya Naresh to be the first woman to graduate in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Nital Desai talks to Purva Naresh.
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