Welcome to Avehi Audio Visual Resource Centre
We live in a media-saturated culture. A culture of paradoxes, where the information explosion co-exists with shrinking spaces for public debate. The communications revolution has tended to serve the interests of the powerful. More than democratising access to knowledge, it has worked towards spreading consumerist cultural values.
In this scenario, the work of organisations and groups committed to media alternatives, to people-centred, participatory communication, acquires new significance. Avehi is one such organisation, working to facilitate community access to relevant media resources.
Avehi, an audio-visual resource centre, was launched in 1981 as an initiative of the Avehi Public Charitable Educational Trust. It was founded by individuals from various fields, committed to empowerment through education and to using the potential of audio-visual media to facilitate rational thinking, social awareness and social change.
Objectives
Avehi means ‘to know‘. Avehi sees itself as a media support organisation working towards its stated objective: To promote audio-visual modes of communication and alternative media Ibr widening horizons, for raising the level of education and social awareness, for promoting values of equality, social justice, gender sensitivity, secularism, communal harmony and human rights.
Media Support Activities
- Archiving and Dissemination: Audio Visual Library
- Networking
- Training
- Production
- Promotion of Local Resource Centres
Avehi Audio Visual Resources – Catalogue
- Theme Based Packages of Avehi Library’s Audio Visual Resources
- Sources of Audio Visual Material in the Library
- Supplementary Background Printed Material
- Avehi Membership