Welcome to STEPARC
Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, Art & Craft STEPARC is constituted under the Society's Act 2001, Govt. of A.P., which comprises a President, Srinivasan Raghu A Post Graduate in Engineering. Presently working as an Director at a Leading Software Development Company at Hyderabad. Has a lot of enthusiasm and interest in the knowledge addition through Visual arts for the school-going children.
Upcoming Events
Sphoorthi Theatre-STEPARC hosting a Dutch Puppeteer
Mr. Frans Hakkemars's performances and Workshops.
Two Performances: On MARCH 8, 2023 at Lamakaan Open Cultural Space, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
On March 10, 2023, in collaboration with Rangabhoomi Cultural Space in Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Hand and Shadow puppetry Workshop from March 10-16, 2023 in collaboration with Oxford Grammar School, Himaythnagar, Hyderabad
Hand and Shadow puppetry Workshop from March 10-16, 2023 in collaboration with UNIMA Puppeteers Trust, India and UNIMA Internationale from March 10-16, 2023 at Oxford Grammar School, Himaythnagar, Hyderabad
About Ms. Padmini Rangarajan
An Educational Puppeteer , Storyteller, Speaker, Presenter and Research Scholar. She holds an M.Phil in Sociology from Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, Post Graduation degree in Social Work, and a Post Graduation Diploma in Women’s Studies from Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka.
She is an Independent Research Scholar in Puppetry, Storytelling, Folklore, Sociology and Education. She is in the education and teaching field for over a decade. She was a Lecturer of Basic Chinese Mandarin and Spoken English at Vivekananda Institute of Languages, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, from 2005–March 2010. I was a Resource Person for The Hindu-Newspaper in Education-NIE programme from 2003-2010.
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Latest News and Events
Ms. Vicky Hart's documentary film "Magic in Our Hands" -made on Sphoorthi's work is now on Amazon.
Our film www.magicinourhands.com featuring SphoorthiTheatre Steparc has been picked up by Conscious Good whose mission is to elevate the human experience and collectively heal the world one inspiring story at a time. How awesome is that?!
#Environment #ExpandingConsciousness #InspirationalStories #Mindfulness #Nature
Thanking you
Vicky Hart
News and Events
- Touching a Chord with Puppets" in 'Sunday Scrape' Suppliment Edition of Telangana Today English Daily dated Jan 5, 2020 .
- "Teaching effectively with Puppets" by Udayavani-Kannada daily, Mangaluru Sudina (Greater Mangaluru), dated December 25 2019.
- Udayavani - Kannada Daily Newspaper about 'Two day Workshop on Role of Puppetry in School Education' dated December 13, 2019.
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Padmini R - Director
Recipient of Tata Fellowship in Folklore 2012-2013
an M.Phil in Sociology, Postgraduate in Social Work, P.G. Diploma in Women's Studies, having long associated with cultural & art forms acquired vast knowledge and versatile expertise. Characterized by strong enthusiasm, envisaged and passionately striving to bring-in radical changes into the training methodology for imparting knowledge to learners.
