Let your performance, do the thinking

By Alamgir Khan (*)

Children Performing Arts Festival 2011 – Karachi

Children are the faces of tomorrow. They are the hope of the present generation and the pride of the past. It is every child’s right to live life to the fullest and experience the wonders of the world.

This makes it very important to expose them to worldly as early as possible. It further promotes a vision of culture and performing arts as inheritance and “blueprint giving our lives meaning,” while defending a dynamic view in which culture is seen as a continuous, flexible and evolving process that adapts the received inheritance to new contexts.

Friday – 25th February 2011, Thespianz Theater organized a Children Performing Arts Festival by the name of “Royal Talent Fiesta 2011” with the collaborations of Royal Rodale Club for the promotion of Peace and Harmony in Pakistan. Different schools appeared with different Theatre Arts and duet singing performances, which were more than 100 children performed in different categories from all over Karachi.

The Children’s Performing Arts Festival of Thespianz Theater gives young performers in Pakistan an opportunity to get to know and communicate with each other through performing arts. Through this festival, Thespianz Theater responds to the challenge of moving from celebrating the diversity of national traditions to building pluralism by promoting the principle of “Peace and Harmony.” It is an exceptional opportunity to give a concrete illustration. Thespianz Theater’s festivals are unprecedented opportunity to carry out performing arts works with face-to-face contact. Children from different areas of Karachi city performed together on harmony and Peace.

Widely attended by mass media such as television, radio, newspapers and Internet people including performer’s family members and selected Journal public. There were 4 judges in Theatre Arts and 3 Judges in Duet Singing categories. In Theatres, Barister Shahida Jameel (US Alumni), Shaheen Salahuddin (US Alumni), Naeem Shaikh (famous TV Actor), Khalid Anum (famous Tv Actor) and in Duet Singings – Salman Alvi (famous Classical Singer), Umer Shaikh (GM EMI), Javaid Yousuf Qamar (DG ASSITEJ-Pakistan).

Many more US Alumni such as US Alumni Sindh Chapter’s President Mrs. Faqzia Siddiqui, Rahat Najam, Mr. Hafeez were presented. Mr. Ali Chuhan from Public Affairs Deptt, represented US Consulate – Karachi.

Thespianz Theater serves as a fundamental catalyst for children and young people to appreciate the performing arts and be a showcase for the community at large. The Arts should be cultivated in children during the formative years so as to better understand the role of arts in the world & society as a whole.

(*) Associate Director of Thespianz Theater, Pakistan.

March 2011, First Edition