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AHEAD Foundation’s Haanh Hum, a collective born in Kamatipura for sex workers using Art & Theatre to amplify voices & heal through expression.

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Best part of our Day !!

Watching our participant proudly introduce Haanh Hum to the Mast Mahila Mandali @mastmahilamandali team was a moment we’ll carry with us for a long time.

#haanhum #collective #moviescreening #introduction taken in Ngma Mumbai by @haanh.hum

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5 months ago

Bachpan ki Khursi.

If this chair was my childhood,
and someone tried to take it away!!

Would I hold on tighter?
Would I fight?
Would I let go,
believing it was never mine to keep?
Would I ask them why?
Would I make my body a wall,
my silence a protest,
my anger a voice
for the child who had none?

Perhaps I would climb onto it,
curl around its edges,
protect the little space
that once protected me.

Because sometimes,
when someone takes away your childhood,
they don't just take a place
they take away the child
you were allowed to be.

And I wonder
when we grow up,
do we leave our childhood behind,
or do we spend our lives
trying to get back the chair
someone once pulled away?

#jagah #haanhum #theatrelife #innerchildwork #innerchildhealing taken in Ahmedabad, India by @haanh.hum

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7 days ago

One chair. Two people.
A question of belonging.

What makes a JAGAH ours?
Is it the space we occupy,
the memories we hold,
the comfort we find,
or the parts of ourselves
we have nowhere else to leave?

What happens when the place
that gives me sukoon
becomes the place you long for?

Can I make room for you
without losing myself?

Day 1 of creating the JAGAH natak by Haanh Hum
Artidt Residency 2026

Showcasing on : November 29, December 1 and December 2, 2026 at @abhivyakti_city_art

#jagah #haanhum #theatreoftheoppressed #artistresidency #theatrelife taken in Ahmedabad, India by @haanh.hum

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9 days ago

Meet Majeeda.

Born of majd, a root of glory,
she carries a little magic in her story.

Ask her the impossible,
the uncertain, the undone,
she’ll smile and say, “Ho Jayega,”
as if the universe has already begun.

In her poetic Bengali-Hindi,
hope sounds less like a prayer
and more like a promise.

And somehow,
with Majeeda,
even miracles feel manageable.

P.S. here she is on the way to Ahmedabad to participate in our Artist Residency of 2026.

We will ( with consent) introduce the creators and performers of Jagah to you.

#jagah #haanhum #aheadfoundation #theatreoftheoppressed #theatre taken in Ahmedabad, India by @haanh.hum

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11 days ago

JAGAH BEGINS.

Haanh Hum (AHEAD Foundation) begins its second artist residency! Creation, collaboration, and exploration as we prepare for Jagah : our theatre production for the Abhivyakti City Wide Arts Festival.

We’re looking forward to spending time together, sitting with the questions that shape Jagah, and discovering what emerges when we create collectively.

Here’s to the process, the possibilities, and the many stories waiting to unfold.

We can’t wait to share Jagah with you all.

#jagah #haanhum #aheadfoundation #theatreoftheoppressed #theatre by @haanh.hum

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This Daan Utsav, Donate to build autonomy and hope 💙 Link in my bio, or scan QR code.

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Help us Take our Jagah to the biggest stages!
#Jagah
#theatrelife #theatreproduction taken in Mumbai, Maharashtra by @haanh.hum

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18 days ago

Spaces Sung into Existence.

In our Jagah Workshop, our participants broke into the Kannada janapada geethe "ಬಂದಿರಾ ನೀರಿಗೆ ಬಂದಿರೆ" / "Have you come to fetch water?"

We as a group hail from so many different places, bringing with us stories and songs and colours from each of them. All this goes so deep in our workshop Jagah/ space as we explore it means for us inside and out.

In villages, the well was never just a place to collect water. It was a place where women met, laughed, gossiped, rested, resisted, and built community.

Today, inside our Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, that well became our jagah again. Our women reclaimed space through memory, music, and each other's voices.

No rehearsal. No cue. Just a song that reminded us that sometimes the spaces we create together become home.

Jagah is where our voices find each other.

#haanhum
#jagah
#theatreoftheoppressed
#kannada
#ᴊᴀɴᴀᴘᴀᴅᴀ taken in Hanging Gardan by @haanh.hum

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2 months ago

Shared Safety.

This Raksha Bandhan, Haan Hum celebrated the bonds we build through art, solidarity, and community

#haanhum #jagah #community #solidarity #community taken in Kamathipura by @haanh.hum

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2 months ago

JAGAH | DAY 3

Independence Day. 🇮🇳

We began with a question: What does freedom mean to you?

From Azadi to shringar, we explored how we inhabit our bodies, how we make ourselves feel beautiful, and how much space we feel allowed to take.

Then came the question: “Tell me a place where you cannot be removed from.”

From our children, our homes, our values, ourselves.

Jahan se humein koi nahi nikal sakta.

Through games, movement and plays, stories of freedom became stories of everyday life, especially for women.

Something as ordinary as getting dressed became a theatrical act. A way of looking at the body. A way of asking what makes us feel beautiful and when we feel most like ourselves.

And we ended with something very special.

Haan Hum completed four years. ❤️

Four years of women making theatre, telling stories, taking space and creating their own jagah.

And JAGAH continues.

PC @_ashwinimane_

#haanhum #jagah #theatreoftheoppressed #théâtre #kamathipura taken in Kamathipura by @haanh.hum

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2 months ago

Jagah at @abhivyakti_city_art

Some stories find the stage they were meant for.

We’re thrilled to share that JAGAH, our new Theatre of the Oppressed production by Haan Hum, has been selected to perform at the Abhivyakti Arts Festival.
@abhivyakti_city_art

A story born from conversations on place, belonging, identity, and resistance is now ready to meet its audience.

See you at Abhivyakti.
More details soon. ❤️

#haanhum #jagah #theatreoftheoppressed #theatre #production taken in Kamathipura by @haanh.hum

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2 months ago

Deepa.
Rehearsing for Jagah.

Her moods are monsoon,
her eyes are flame,
She arrives in red,
never quite the same,
fierce, no storm could ever tame.

PC : @_ashwinimane_

#haanhum
#jagah
#theatreoftheoppressed
#theatre
#production taken in Kamathipura by @haanh.hum

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2 months ago

Day 2 of JAGAH

We spent time looking at Mark Rothko’s paintings, allowing the colours and large fields of colour to enter our bodies and create sensations, memories and emotions without having to name them immediately. From there, we moved into exploring paint ourselves, letting colour become another way of expressing what we were feeling.

We worked with movement, soundscapes and individual stories. A bangle became a memory. A gesture became a story. A sound became a space. We explored how shringar and akelapan could live in the body, in a room, in a relationship and in the spaces between people.

Through improvisations, we slowly began creating a sequence. Individual actions, sounds, positions and stories started coming together, not as a fixed performance yet, but as something that was beginning to take shape.

JAGAH continues to grow through these experiments, through what we remember, what we feel, what we paint, what we hear and what we make together.

PC @_ashwinimane_

#haanhum
#jagah
#theatreoftheoppressed
#theatre
#theatreproduction taken in Kamathipura by @haanh.hum

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