Students from Summer Camp | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
In collaboration with Ahum (Art Heart You and Mind) Trust, Satya Foundation, Jakkur will offer a performance of his annual Art Intensive Summer Program, Kalakrida, which loops children in under-service communities.
About a hundred students were taught various art forms such as creative writing, theater, music, concol, painting and movement during a three -week summer program. These children will present their learning and experiences in the showcase.
The Bharatanatram Dancer and the founder of the Trust, Anuradha Venkatraman, says, “Children will showcase the songs that he wrote as well as a medley of Kannada songs that he had learned in the music class. After that it will be done by Levinaisa, which discovers the rhythmic cycles in Concol.”
“Next, the children will tell the stories prepared in their creative writing classes and then, a contemporary movement will perform with a piece title. Got stuck in feed. There will be a Kannada adaptation of the play Chalk Circle, After which the children will demonstrate the art works made during their painting classes. ,
Typically, the Calcrida program, which was first cuisted in 2016, takes around 120 students during registration. However, Anuradha explains, many of them get out as they have also contributed to family income during the summer holidays. This year, 95 students studying in government schools in Jakkur completed the program and would be a part of the program.
“Through this showcase, these disadvantaged children are given freedom of expression, which they do not enjoy in their home or school. Since most of the attention of education is on Rot Learning and STEM education, we forget that art helps to develop non-realistic skills that are more valuable and essential to face the world, understand teamwork and solve problems.”
“We take steps to fill this difference by bringing art and supporting their emotional development in a positive way.”
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During the camp, the children were asked to choose any two art forms of offering six, which are then taught them every day in two sessions. “From 10 am to afternoon, movement, painting and creative writing are taught together in three different places. The next session is focused on theater, concol and music from 1 pm to 3 pm.”
Students were also provided back to their homes with lunch and transport, when the camp ends at 3 pm.
Art vigor and professional artists were hired to take these classes. “We ensure that our narrators make these children not only experience the form of art, but also make themselves a safe place to use art and use art as a means of empowerment,” says Anuradha.
She says, “Kalakrida has now become our most important project gradually and this year, we have especially focused on the voices of these children through art. We are also considering expanding Kalakrida to a more collective place, where these children can express it throughout the year and not the stage for only 15 days.”
Over the years, the trust has hosted Kalcrida and other programs through crowdfunding and support of other foundations and businesses in the community.
“I invite more and more people to see these performances, see how efficient these children are and encourage their efforts,” Anuradha says. “The program is independent and open to all.”
On May 4, from 6.30 pm, at Jakkur Pu College. Admission fee. For more information, call 9886334046
Published – May 01, 2025 03:26 PM IST
