It was a great day.We were expecting the newcomers !!! A bunch of them marched in to be a part of the drishti with a lot of enthusiasm. A warm welcome and a lot of ice -breaking exercises was enough to let them know that DRISHTI was fun guarenteed !!!We then screened a documentary on waste management since that was the concept of our next play.The day's session was a lot of fun and we sure did learn a lot bout waste management.
TIME TO INTRODUCE THE BUDDING TALENTS........
ARUN I JPEng
TUTU I JPEng
ASHVATHI I JPEng
NIKHITA I JPEng
SONIA I JPEng
PRIYANKA I JPEng
TEENA I EPS
VARSHINI I JPEng
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Drishti Does It Again For Child Rights.........
Drishti as a team in just 4 days has come up with a play on Child Rights !! A lot of dedication and teamwork helped us put up a great performance.Go through the script because it's worth reading and make sure you check out the SLIDE as well!
Nataka Nataka Beethi Nataka, Nataka Nataka beethi Nataka
Banniranna banniri Natakava Nodiri, Bannirakka banniri Natakava nodiri
Duddilla Kaasilla beedi Nataka,and it goes on... Are your wondering what this is all about? This is the opening song for most of the street plays in karnataka which happens mainly to gather the attention of the crowd.By singing this, we all come into a circle and begin the play.....
FATHER(Venu):{enters as a drunkard and screams at his son} Hey.... come here.Look at him,he is just 7yrs old and he wants go to school it seems! Though his mother ,sister ,I all of us work, the money that we earn is not sufficient for our home. In such a situation he wants to go to school . I’ll take you to the land lord and get you some work. You also contribute some money to the family.... (the father takes his son to the land lord )
LAND lORD (Bharath): Yes,What brings you here, so early in the morning?
FATHER: Lord can you give him some job? We are in a financial crisis so please do something for my child, lord.
LAND lORD: You don't have to worry about it, I'm here to help you all. Leave him here, I'll look after him. See there in the field, there are many people working in the land, let him be one of them.
FATHER: Thank you lord.
(the boy is not ready to work and he starts crying)
(another person enters)
GOUDA (Pradeep): What's happening here Budi?
LAND lORD: Look Gowda, his name is Mada, you know that he is a drunkard, he wants his son to get some work in my land, so we are discussing about....
GOUDA: Hey what Budi, do you think he is going to work? He is just 7 years old,
(ALL: he is only seven years old) look he is still a kid. How can he work?
LAND lORD: Gowda, you know what, though he is just seven years old he can learn far more practical skills in six months here than from sitting at school and listening to your boring lectures... And not only that I'll make him work for 8 hours and pay little money.... these are all business tricks, UNDERSTAND?
GOUDA: I don't understand, do whatever you want....(every body pause and the boy stands up to speak)
PUTTU (Prakash): My name is Puttu, I am only seven years old, I would like to go to school. My father is a drunkard and he wants me to work. This bald land lord makes to me to work for long hours and pays me very little money and does not allow me to take a minute's rest.... Do you think I'm the right person to work,DON'T I HAVE A RIGHT TO GO TO SCHOOL? ,DON'T I HAVE THE RIGHT TO STUDY? Is any one listening, is any one listening?
(First scene ends there)
(Everyone enters a hotel. A boy works in the hotel)
BOY(pandu): Sir....( looking at the hotel owner)
OWNER (Akil): Hey stupid, what time is it? When are you coming?...( shouts at boy and slaps him)...
Customer1: Aeeeee....get me one plate idly soon.
Customer2: Drags the boy and orders Masala dosa
Staff: Hey, did you wash the vessels?
Customer3: (screaming)Get me one coffee NOW .
(The boy delays... Every body shouts: Where is my order? Where is my order? The boy starts crying (the group covers him), he suddenly screams and breaks free from the group...........
Boy: I have right to education and not to work. (The group repeats the slogan once again. EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO EDUCATION ........)
Second scene ends here
It is a school scene and all the students are sitting in the class and singing a song that goes thus { Pallikudam pogalam, naame puttagattavangalama( can we go to school and shall we buy the books and teacher enters in classroom)}
The teacher enters.
Students: Good morning sir
Teacher (Arun): What is this, the only thing you do is make noise all the time, at least respond for your roll calls....(And then he starts calling out the names) Ajay (yes sir), Govinda (present sir), Venu. Everybody: He is absent, sir.
Teacher: This bagger is always like this, every day he comes late
Kid (venu): Excuse me, sir. May I come in?
Teacher:Oh yeah, come. (takes the stick, beats him black and blue.Then he orders the kid to kneel down whole day).(First bell goes, second bell goes and continuously bell rings for every hour till the 8th hour. Then the boy cries and finally he fall)
Students: Sir, Venu fell down.
Teacher: Let him, he deserves it..... (Boy stands up)
Kid: I have a right against brutal punishment.
Students: Every child has right against brutal punishment
Third scene ends there
A Street scene in which every body drives vehicles and when the red signal comes on everyone stop their vehicles.(A song goes like this): bike bike bike yellowdi bike,bike bike bike yellowdi bike, bikey nam thayi, bikey nam thande, bikey thane ellakanowou......
(Another song from street children that goes like): Shivappa kayo thande mooru loka swamy deve, hasiveyannu thalallare kapadaya, shivane kapaday!
Street Children:(begging) Sir, sir sir, anna anna
Person 1: Ey, get lost.
Person 2: I have no change....
Person 3: Pushes them.....
Pause
A gentle man(Arun)comes and says : Every child has right to education and basic shelter, not to beggary... (the team repeats the same).
Fourth scene end
Child soldiers; senior beats a child soldier and another force to kill the few people....the terrorists gang make the kids to suffer, they torture them ....they hit them, they punch them and does everything that makes their lives a living hell....
Commando1 (Venu): Picaso........ Come here, shoot them
Picasso (boy/prakas): no,,, I can't, I can't shoot them...
Commando1: shoot the boy... the boy dies
Commando1: hey you , come here. You shoot them
Surya (boy2/pandu): I can't...
commando2(Vishal): If you dont shoot, them we'll kill you just like your friend and we'll kill all your family members....
Surya: Dont do that, I...I'll kill them.(the boy shoots)
The innocent people have been victims.......
A person(Vishal)enters and says : Is any one listening, see this is happening in many developing countries. The kids are being victimized by some groups and they force the kids to do things like this, where kids are supposed to carry the books they are holding the guns and bombs in their hands, facing huge problems everyday and girl soldiers end up being raped by these demons. Who is responsible for these kind of cruel things being done by the groups, so RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST CHILD SOLDIERS...
(The team screams and delivers the same slogan) RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST CHILD SOLDIERS........
The scene ends there.
Another school scene; wherein
Teacher(venu): (Screams) Pappu come here. What is this? What you have written? Instead of '6' you have written '9', instead of 'b' you have written 'd' and instead of '7' you have written 'L' and instead of 'l' you have written 'i'. What is all these nonsense? When are you gonna learn these basic things? I want meet your parents and you should bring them tomorrow..... (With angry face, he pauses)
Class: hay, pappu cant study sala, hey pappu can’t study sala.....
Pappu (arun): Hey, may tho bindaas, facing the students! (Bell rings and class gets over)
All the kids run to field and they start playing foot ball.... Pappu gets a freekick.
Prakash: Pappu ,come on you can do it, you can pappu, shoot? (Pappu misses , he hits somewhere else) Other kids: Hey pappu can't play sala, and hey pappu can’t play sala......
Pappu: Hey, hame tho bindaas.... (Pappu comes home; his father is sitting on the chair holding news paper and his brother is reading.)
Pappu: pappa, I got my report card. Teacher asked me to get signature of yours in the report card and they have called you, they want to meet you, it seems...
Father (Pandu): Yup, I have been waiting for you and to see your report card,
Pappu: take pappa
Father: give my child,(sees the card)pappu what is this, your is this your performance, what did you write in your exams, single digits in all the subjects... I'm not happy with this, look at your brother he gets, around 95% in all the subjects, you should learn from him.... beats pappu
Pappu: no pappa, no pappa, please stop beating me... I can study well further... pause for moment and
Pappu: pappa, while coming from the school I got this on road, could you tell me what this is, (pappu gives a box to his father)
Father: I don’t know what it is. It’s written in Chinese...
Pappu: I wanna know, I want to know... (The whole team shouts I wanna know)
Father: since It’s written in Chinese, how can I read it, I don’t understand... Everybody pause
Pappu: Same as you, If I dont understand my subjects how can I study well?
Team: baap ko samjavo, dimak ki bathijalavo...
Pappu: every child has right to expression.
Team: (Repeats) every child has rights to express(three times)
And with that the script comes to an end and our Assistant Director Mr. Sharath comes on stage and explains about the child rights and the child sponsorship programme of CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ACTION, CHRIST UNIVERSITY......
Nataka Nataka Beethi Nataka, Nataka Nataka beethi Nataka
Banniranna banniri Natakava Nodiri, Bannirakka banniri Natakava nodiri
Duddilla Kaasilla beedi Nataka,and it goes on... Are your wondering what this is all about? This is the opening song for most of the street plays in karnataka which happens mainly to gather the attention of the crowd.By singing this, we all come into a circle and begin the play.....
FATHER(Venu):{enters as a drunkard and screams at his son} Hey.... come here.Look at him,he is just 7yrs old and he wants go to school it seems! Though his mother ,sister ,I all of us work, the money that we earn is not sufficient for our home. In such a situation he wants to go to school . I’ll take you to the land lord and get you some work. You also contribute some money to the family.... (the father takes his son to the land lord )
LAND lORD (Bharath): Yes,What brings you here, so early in the morning?
FATHER: Lord can you give him some job? We are in a financial crisis so please do something for my child, lord.
LAND lORD: You don't have to worry about it, I'm here to help you all. Leave him here, I'll look after him. See there in the field, there are many people working in the land, let him be one of them.
FATHER: Thank you lord.
(the boy is not ready to work and he starts crying)
(another person enters)
GOUDA (Pradeep): What's happening here Budi?
LAND lORD: Look Gowda, his name is Mada, you know that he is a drunkard, he wants his son to get some work in my land, so we are discussing about....
GOUDA: Hey what Budi, do you think he is going to work? He is just 7 years old,
(ALL: he is only seven years old) look he is still a kid. How can he work?
LAND lORD: Gowda, you know what, though he is just seven years old he can learn far more practical skills in six months here than from sitting at school and listening to your boring lectures... And not only that I'll make him work for 8 hours and pay little money.... these are all business tricks, UNDERSTAND?
GOUDA: I don't understand, do whatever you want....(every body pause and the boy stands up to speak)
PUTTU (Prakash): My name is Puttu, I am only seven years old, I would like to go to school. My father is a drunkard and he wants me to work. This bald land lord makes to me to work for long hours and pays me very little money and does not allow me to take a minute's rest.... Do you think I'm the right person to work,DON'T I HAVE A RIGHT TO GO TO SCHOOL? ,DON'T I HAVE THE RIGHT TO STUDY? Is any one listening, is any one listening?
(First scene ends there)
(Everyone enters a hotel. A boy works in the hotel)
BOY(pandu): Sir....( looking at the hotel owner)
OWNER (Akil): Hey stupid, what time is it? When are you coming?...( shouts at boy and slaps him)...
Customer1: Aeeeee....get me one plate idly soon.
Customer2: Drags the boy and orders Masala dosa
Staff: Hey, did you wash the vessels?
Customer3: (screaming)Get me one coffee NOW .
(The boy delays... Every body shouts: Where is my order? Where is my order? The boy starts crying (the group covers him), he suddenly screams and breaks free from the group...........
Boy: I have right to education and not to work. (The group repeats the slogan once again. EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO EDUCATION ........)
Second scene ends here
It is a school scene and all the students are sitting in the class and singing a song that goes thus { Pallikudam pogalam, naame puttagattavangalama( can we go to school and shall we buy the books and teacher enters in classroom)}
The teacher enters.
Students: Good morning sir
Teacher (Arun): What is this, the only thing you do is make noise all the time, at least respond for your roll calls....(And then he starts calling out the names) Ajay (yes sir), Govinda (present sir), Venu. Everybody: He is absent, sir.
Teacher: This bagger is always like this, every day he comes late
Kid (venu): Excuse me, sir. May I come in?
Teacher:Oh yeah, come. (takes the stick, beats him black and blue.Then he orders the kid to kneel down whole day).(First bell goes, second bell goes and continuously bell rings for every hour till the 8th hour. Then the boy cries and finally he fall)
Students: Sir, Venu fell down.
Teacher: Let him, he deserves it..... (Boy stands up)
Kid: I have a right against brutal punishment.
Students: Every child has right against brutal punishment
Third scene ends there
A Street scene in which every body drives vehicles and when the red signal comes on everyone stop their vehicles.(A song goes like this): bike bike bike yellowdi bike,bike bike bike yellowdi bike, bikey nam thayi, bikey nam thande, bikey thane ellakanowou......
(Another song from street children that goes like): Shivappa kayo thande mooru loka swamy deve, hasiveyannu thalallare kapadaya, shivane kapaday!
Street Children:(begging) Sir, sir sir, anna anna
Person 1: Ey, get lost.
Person 2: I have no change....
Person 3: Pushes them.....
Pause
A gentle man(Arun)comes and says : Every child has right to education and basic shelter, not to beggary... (the team repeats the same).
Fourth scene end
Child soldiers; senior beats a child soldier and another force to kill the few people....the terrorists gang make the kids to suffer, they torture them ....they hit them, they punch them and does everything that makes their lives a living hell....
Commando1 (Venu): Picaso........ Come here, shoot them
Picasso (boy/prakas): no,,, I can't, I can't shoot them...
Commando1: shoot the boy... the boy dies
Commando1: hey you , come here. You shoot them
Surya (boy2/pandu): I can't...
commando2(Vishal): If you dont shoot, them we'll kill you just like your friend and we'll kill all your family members....
Surya: Dont do that, I...I'll kill them.(the boy shoots)
The innocent people have been victims.......
A person(Vishal)enters and says : Is any one listening, see this is happening in many developing countries. The kids are being victimized by some groups and they force the kids to do things like this, where kids are supposed to carry the books they are holding the guns and bombs in their hands, facing huge problems everyday and girl soldiers end up being raped by these demons. Who is responsible for these kind of cruel things being done by the groups, so RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST CHILD SOLDIERS...
(The team screams and delivers the same slogan) RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST CHILD SOLDIERS........
The scene ends there.
Another school scene; wherein
Teacher(venu): (Screams) Pappu come here. What is this? What you have written? Instead of '6' you have written '9', instead of 'b' you have written 'd' and instead of '7' you have written 'L' and instead of 'l' you have written 'i'. What is all these nonsense? When are you gonna learn these basic things? I want meet your parents and you should bring them tomorrow..... (With angry face, he pauses)
Class: hay, pappu cant study sala, hey pappu can’t study sala.....
Pappu (arun): Hey, may tho bindaas, facing the students! (Bell rings and class gets over)
All the kids run to field and they start playing foot ball.... Pappu gets a freekick.
Prakash: Pappu ,come on you can do it, you can pappu, shoot? (Pappu misses , he hits somewhere else) Other kids: Hey pappu can't play sala, and hey pappu can’t play sala......
Pappu: Hey, hame tho bindaas.... (Pappu comes home; his father is sitting on the chair holding news paper and his brother is reading.)
Pappu: pappa, I got my report card. Teacher asked me to get signature of yours in the report card and they have called you, they want to meet you, it seems...
Father (Pandu): Yup, I have been waiting for you and to see your report card,
Pappu: take pappa
Father: give my child,(sees the card)pappu what is this, your is this your performance, what did you write in your exams, single digits in all the subjects... I'm not happy with this, look at your brother he gets, around 95% in all the subjects, you should learn from him.... beats pappu
Pappu: no pappa, no pappa, please stop beating me... I can study well further... pause for moment and
Pappu: pappa, while coming from the school I got this on road, could you tell me what this is, (pappu gives a box to his father)
Father: I don’t know what it is. It’s written in Chinese...
Pappu: I wanna know, I want to know... (The whole team shouts I wanna know)
Father: since It’s written in Chinese, how can I read it, I don’t understand... Everybody pause
Pappu: Same as you, If I dont understand my subjects how can I study well?
Team: baap ko samjavo, dimak ki bathijalavo...
Pappu: every child has right to expression.
Team: (Repeats) every child has rights to express(three times)
And with that the script comes to an end and our Assistant Director Mr. Sharath comes on stage and explains about the child rights and the child sponsorship programme of CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ACTION, CHRIST UNIVERSITY......
Wow, Drishti: Did some thing significant by putting the Child Rights play......
Yes, it does significant things... Actually this is play to create awareness in students as well public. Drishti has performed 5 show in University campus and this mainly to campaign about the Child Sponsorship programme of CSA, which has been sponsoring around 250 Children every year with the help of Chritites or Christ University students, so to encourage them to keep doing the sponsor we did the play on the Child Rights..
While we are putting this play definitely there would be students, some of them were really fascinated/impressed by our play and wanted to become a part of Drishti team...
That was really something interesting and we were proud about it... After that CSA had general meeting for all the volunteers and there we announced about the New comers, they were happy to be part of, and finally we got some of the Girls artists for this year, when we did the Child Rights play then Drishti did not have even one girl artist but after that we got not only girls artists even the boy No increased.....
I'll write about them latter... Dont you all think this is something that really great about Drishti?; I dont know I feel its something special about Drishti, it did impact on students they came forward to put up more and more plays like this....
I'm proud about being in Drishti.The-Vision street theatre team!
While we are putting this play definitely there would be students, some of them were really fascinated/impressed by our play and wanted to become a part of Drishti team...
That was really something interesting and we were proud about it... After that CSA had general meeting for all the volunteers and there we announced about the New comers, they were happy to be part of, and finally we got some of the Girls artists for this year, when we did the Child Rights play then Drishti did not have even one girl artist but after that we got not only girls artists even the boy No increased.....
I'll write about them latter... Dont you all think this is something that really great about Drishti?; I dont know I feel its something special about Drishti, it did impact on students they came forward to put up more and more plays like this....
I'm proud about being in Drishti.The-Vision street theatre team!
Who and all involved in this Child Rights play?
Here I take the pleasure to introduce Drishti Members :)
Sharath Chandra III Bcom Tourism
Pandu R III B.A EPS
Bharath N III B.A EPS
Arun Williams II B.A EPS
Prakash K N II B.A EPS
Vishal I B.A JPeng
Akil I B.A JPeng
Pradeep I B.A EPS
Venu I Bsc CMS
Sharath Chandra III Bcom Tourism
Pandu R III B.A EPS
Bharath N III B.A EPS
Arun Williams II B.A EPS
Prakash K N II B.A EPS
Vishal I B.A JPeng
Akil I B.A JPeng
Pradeep I B.A EPS
Venu I Bsc CMS
Gathering of senior volunteers....
After the first day workshop, senior volunteers gathered for tea and then we talked about how is the play going , who are really concentrating on the play, who seemed involved in the play, who will stay for a long time and everything we discussed. After that we became serious about junior volunteers, we had thought that we should make them be part of the Drishti for long time. Because last Drishti gave only 9 shows on Street Children but it faced challenges that secondary here! so we all thought same thing shouldn't happen for this here as well. Every one came across how can we make the team sustain and strong! Based on everybody's suggestion the following points are put across to do something better
- Gathering for tea/coffee
- Perform the out side of town
- Go for a play or movie togather
- Make them involve in other activities of CSA
- Recognize their qualities
- By giving complements
- Some time have lunch toge
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Monday with curious!
Monday:) cool we also had general meeting, which mean the meeting which is for all the volunteers of csa not just only for Drishti team, we all met at 4pm with other volunteers, meeting was about to inform the Child Rights Week. I some how used the opportunity, when I just announced that if any one would like to join Street Theatre team, please inform and surprisingly/luckily we got two other new volunteers:):D
Siddharth was late, so team decided untill siddh come we'll just sing a song or do something weird thingy, we started and suddenly hey that's nice, sound came from siddh! hi, hello was flying for sometime! we got into play and started to practice what we did on sunday.
The curiosity started about the another half play, because siddh has told us while practicing on Sunday that, I have another half wonderful theme about it! when he came started to explain about the other half of the play, we said ok sounds like good and then he directed the left out play!
End of the day we could able to finished the whole play at around 8.30pm. We performed it for Johny sir who is CSA coordinator, Jai was there with him as rehearsal. All of us was really very tiered and hungry, because practiced too much, may about for 4 and 1/2 hours, screamed for long time, I guess you all know that when we talk about street play we should have voice otherwise the message will not reach the spectators..... Sir was happy, suggestion that was little bit more practice must be need:) we said OK:D
Then all went cafeteria to have something! I ordered Channa Battoora, some one odored south indian meals and went on, with juice every one left the place by 9.30>>>>
Siddharth was late, so team decided untill siddh come we'll just sing a song or do something weird thingy, we started and suddenly hey that's nice, sound came from siddh! hi, hello was flying for sometime! we got into play and started to practice what we did on sunday.
The curiosity started about the another half play, because siddh has told us while practicing on Sunday that, I have another half wonderful theme about it! when he came started to explain about the other half of the play, we said ok sounds like good and then he directed the left out play!
End of the day we could able to finished the whole play at around 8.30pm. We performed it for Johny sir who is CSA coordinator, Jai was there with him as rehearsal. All of us was really very tiered and hungry, because practiced too much, may about for 4 and 1/2 hours, screamed for long time, I guess you all know that when we talk about street play we should have voice otherwise the message will not reach the spectators..... Sir was happy, suggestion that was little bit more practice must be need:) we said OK:D
Then all went cafeteria to have something! I ordered Channa Battoora, some one odored south indian meals and went on, with juice every one left the place by 9.30>>>>
Sunday, productive day indeed!
He he: P good after noon guys :) the volunteers are arrived on time but not all the volunteers, that was kind of shock too.... for senior volunteers. Because previous day all of them agreed to come on Sunday but only two new volunteers came and that made us to feel very sad/bad about them, but we did not depressed completely, not canceled the workshop, though we were only 9 volunteers we started to work on our play and really started with energy and did not stop till 6pm and worked very hard, in between we had break then we had fun by creaking jokes and teasing others dialogue and making fun of others, really enjoyed! And then again we came to field to work, at the end half of the play completed! siddharth brought a person who is also belong to Christ law college for us to know about child right according to the law! All of us felt proud to be part of the team, because we put effort, especially siddharth who really scarified his Sunday to produce a good play, and he made us to feel comfortable and given chance to say our opinion about the play, took our suggestions to make it better. every thing went well! Something we did great job in just 4 hours, really we never worked such hard since my two year experience in Drishti team! New comers co-operated with us very much, they also said that I would like to be for a long time, because the team has put such an effort! And then we made noise for our out come, the credit goes to the Drishti team- that's really team effort indeed!
Then we decided to meet on Monday 4pm, as soon as our class gets over....
With tiered every body made move towards gate, myself and other two came to CSA office, Bye Bye sounds for 1 mins...
Then we decided to meet on Monday 4pm, as soon as our class gets over....
With tiered every body made move towards gate, myself and other two came to CSA office, Bye Bye sounds for 1 mins...
hard and fun weekend;)
Since Drishti has been asked to put a play on Child Rights as early as possible, we all had to be work hard. Previous day, that is on saturday the newcomers are said they gonna come on sunday but they did not turn up, which made slightly disappointment but we were happy because two of the newcomers had come and there were really very active too, because of both of them we were able to do something on sunday, though we would have manage without them these two gave kind of courage and made us to feel happy!
And then without wasting the time, we started to practice on the topic, before that we all cheered and sang song as usual....
As I mentioned this is the week for Drishti to work hard, in the sense research, analyze, write script, practice, practice, and finally perform!
Finally we got some new volunteer for workshop which held on 5th of July, same day CSA conducted a team building session for new volunteers, as soon as the session end, the exclusively team Drishti had meeting with new volunteers, Siddharth led the meeting with fun exercise. Then we had around 16 volunteers including both senior volunteers and juniors. Siddharth started the meeting with one old street theater song to break the shyness among the new volunteers and then we divided into three groups, to make our own small play about the child needs/rights, each group came up with one elements which says how a group or individual can help the kids or understand their problems.
Drishty starts with play, after all the exercise and everything, siddharth has given us a small introduction about the play, and he asked our suggestion on it. we said that nice and we can go further about, then we started to work on the issue Child Rights, same day we finished the introduction part of the play, we are requested to come on Sunday too... to finish the whole play.
Thing is though we worked hard that was really fun the way we worked and end we felt something that we produced..... I mean that is productive day indeed :)
And then without wasting the time, we started to practice on the topic, before that we all cheered and sang song as usual....
As I mentioned this is the week for Drishti to work hard, in the sense research, analyze, write script, practice, practice, and finally perform!
Finally we got some new volunteer for workshop which held on 5th of July, same day CSA conducted a team building session for new volunteers, as soon as the session end, the exclusively team Drishti had meeting with new volunteers, Siddharth led the meeting with fun exercise. Then we had around 16 volunteers including both senior volunteers and juniors. Siddharth started the meeting with one old street theater song to break the shyness among the new volunteers and then we divided into three groups, to make our own small play about the child needs/rights, each group came up with one elements which says how a group or individual can help the kids or understand their problems.
Drishty starts with play, after all the exercise and everything, siddharth has given us a small introduction about the play, and he asked our suggestion on it. we said that nice and we can go further about, then we started to work on the issue Child Rights, same day we finished the introduction part of the play, we are requested to come on Sunday too... to finish the whole play.
Thing is though we worked hard that was really fun the way we worked and end we felt something that we produced..... I mean that is productive day indeed :)
Child rights week......
This is the week meant for child rights as far as CSA concern, which is between 7th to 12th of July., but since we have been senior volunteers aware about it in advance to plan it out, so majority of the volunteers and troupe leaders were told that through bookmark, posters and street plays we can spread the message about child rights week to the whole University and then Drishty took an initiative to perform a street play on the issue Child Rights, So we started to think about how as a team Drishty can contribute to make it successful week. Then we were just 6 volunteers in the team gathered for a meeting on 4th of July, to discuss about basic rights of children. The meeting held only for senior volunteers. sidharth, who was volunteer of CSA and great theatre person came to guide and direct the play, he asked us to think about what are the basic need and as an individual how can I help a child? We discussed on these two questions and came across, Food, Education, Health, Freedom and Love/Care. Answer regarding how an individual can help a child, love them, care them, if it is possible sponsor them or at least smile at them. Some more important things been discussed, that how can sustain the Drishti, how to encourage the new volunteers? And how Drishti performed last year?
This is the First meeting of Drishti for the year 2008-09, indeed it went well, we gave some work to our mind in the beginning of the year itself... Every body was interestedly got into the meeting and came up with the suggestions, Cheered...
This is the First meeting of Drishti for the year 2008-09, indeed it went well, we gave some work to our mind in the beginning of the year itself... Every body was interestedly got into the meeting and came up with the suggestions, Cheered...
hey, here is Drishti.The-Vision once again.....
Hello every one, hope you all aware about a exclusive team of Centre for Social Action(CSA)Drishti- The Vision! First of all sorry for last year, Drishti was not able to update anything about its activities because it had faced challenges. But now it has emerged once again getting into streets or going to capture its land and public, including students everybody. Hence The-Vision warmly welcomes you all back, to get to know more about its shows, funny things, cheery things and new experiences and the volunteers who are really trying to make a change in society directly or indirectly with their efforts!
Yup, since we are being as so called senior volunteers started campaign for CSA, new comers are arrived at christ university and to engage them about CSA activities to make them involve into communities through CSA we started the campaign! As usual CSA organized activity inauguration on 28th of June 2008- where all the new volunteers got to know more about CSA activities and how it works, how many teams are there in CSA! after the formal presentations session all the volunteers are asked to be divide into five groups to interact with senior volunteers with respective groups! So a group of new volunteers came towards Drishti Street theatre team, then we explained about what is street theatre all about and what it does exactly and what did it do last year and every thing! I hope they were enjoyed, because Jai our senior volunteers and experienced person made them to cheer with a small game!
Some of them went for tea and some of them left!:)
That was really great start of Drishti as well as CSA!
Cheers:)
Welcome once again!
Yup, since we are being as so called senior volunteers started campaign for CSA, new comers are arrived at christ university and to engage them about CSA activities to make them involve into communities through CSA we started the campaign! As usual CSA organized activity inauguration on 28th of June 2008- where all the new volunteers got to know more about CSA activities and how it works, how many teams are there in CSA! after the formal presentations session all the volunteers are asked to be divide into five groups to interact with senior volunteers with respective groups! So a group of new volunteers came towards Drishti Street theatre team, then we explained about what is street theatre all about and what it does exactly and what did it do last year and every thing! I hope they were enjoyed, because Jai our senior volunteers and experienced person made them to cheer with a small game!
Some of them went for tea and some of them left!:)
That was really great start of Drishti as well as CSA!
Cheers:)
Welcome once again!
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