Workshops

A series of in-person workshops

RAPT undertakes a series of workshops on arts-based methods in research primarily for practitioners. These workshops are designed for a range of different participants – some are designed for community groups and individuals who are new to research, some for those already working as researchers but who might not have had an opportunity to explore arts-based methods, and some are at an advanced level for practitioners and artists already familiar with these methods. These workshops are typically residential and intensive and are practice based and are intended to instigate and enable people to take on arts-based research practices. Some workshops, especially those relating to writing (narrative writing, embodied writing and reflexive writing) take on online avatars.

Reflective Workshops

Ideal for collectives, movements/campaigns and organisations

Extended Training Workshops

Train to become a practitioner of theatre as a method of research.

What we offer

Taster Workshops

Get the glimpse of the power of theatre as a method of research.

Intensive Specialist Workshops

Specialised workshops for practitioners.

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What participants say

"...a principle learning experience of my life..."
I consider the workshop with RAPT one of the principal learning experiences of my life, and that I say after more than a decade of lab-based research. I internalized, visualized, indeed felt how different frameworks of research open up and constrain different kinds of knowledge, I felt how knowledge is held in the body and in experience, through exercises that forced me to confront the dynamics of power in ways that surprised me by surfacing in actual, bodily, lived interactions. I learned a very great deal about the core processes that constitute, move and motivate research as an undertaking and as a process - and I have found this learning continually useful ever since in my own research journey, in lab, field, or stage.
- Sanjna Bannerjee

Postdoctoral research affiliate, Jameel Arts and Health Lab

Research team member, Foundation for Arts and Health, India
"...opened up a totally different world for me!"
RAPT opened up a totally different world for me… of possibility (creation, community building), performance (devising, thinking-making) and play, in a very democratic, non-hierarchical way that separates it from the conventional forms of practising theatre. It is powerful because it blurs the lines between the performer and the audience, thereby making it a rewarding learning experience for all.
- Prajesh Kashyap

Actor and Theatre Practitioner
"...we were able to engage members of the community in dialogue that would not otherwise have been possible..."
As the Kinky Collective, an activist group based in India that seeks to raise awareness about BDSM and to strengthen the community from within, we would like to acknowledge RAPT's role in enabling us to use theatre to have difficult conversations within the community. Most of us had no theatre training at all but by the end of two workshops RAPT brought us to a point where we were able to use Theatre of the Oppressed methods to engage members of the community in a dialogue that would not have otherwise have been possible.
- The Kinky Collective
"Reflective workshops have given me a new language and lens..."
Reflective workshops have been one of the most transformative experiences of my life as a social science researcher. The method and tools of collective reflection primarily through body and affect-emotions, sounds and story-telling helps access the participants (both researchers and researched) the often inarticulable, informal, and invisiblized spaces of being and knowing. It makes a case for those marginalized spaces of being and knowing to be accounted as knowledge. The collective immersive experience also disrupts the binaries and power inherent in dominant research practices between subject/object, researcher/researched, mind/body, knowledge/emotion and so on. Reflective workshops have given me a new language and lens that make it possible to address power inequalities particularly in feminist research processes not just in theory but also in practice.
- Anjam Singh

Independent Researcher

While these workshops are typically open-call events, we are happy to design workshops for you, your collective or your organisation. Let us know!