Friday, September 10, 2010

buzzin@campus

Dear all,
Keeping our promise of coming up with exciting opportunities for young people to come, learn, engage and have FUN, we would like to share and invite everyone for the following campus events!
To begin with, SMILE is launching SMILE SHOOTS (The SMILE Film Club) which will be a platform for young people to own, design and lead a space for self exploration and engaging with issues, using film as a medium. The inaugural meeting "the first day,first show" will be on 12th September, Sunday (Pravah Basement)
Then there is a 3 day theatre workshop from 15th-17th September (North Campus), which will be the launch pad for SMILE ACTS (The SMILE Theatre Club) which enables young people to use theatre as a medium for self exploration and engaging with the issues. The workshop will focus on Self exploration and expression, learning theatre skills to engage with issues and stage play(s) in campus
The Youth Adda on 18th September (Saturday) at AADI will be a day of learning and having FUN!. The day focusses on understanding UN Millennium Development goals and see how each one can respond to these! We would like you to spread the word around, be there to experience, learn, have FUN and add Energy!
For further details, read on...

SMILE is launching SMILE SHOOTS..,a space led and designed by young people, using film as a medium for self exploration and engaging with issues. As part of this, we invite you to the Screening of the film
"In Search Of My Home" (
http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Search-Of-My-Home/120847587935554?ref=)
Screening to be followed by an interactive session with Filmmakers,Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh(He's an old SMILEr) Also know the role,significance and nuances of Films as a medium of social communication by the filmmakers!!
A little bit more about SMILE SHOOTS...The idea is to provide young people a platform to design, own and lead a space which uses film as a tool for exploration.While exploring means not just learning about the society but also about your own Self. It aims at understanding film as a powerful medium for engaging with Self, issues and people...by facilitating film screenings, discussions etc.So,come and join young people like you ....and have loads of FUN,which is a serious business in SMILE
Do spread the word to as many people as possible.
Time:11.30am-4:30pmDate and Day:12th Sept'10,Sunday

Venue: Pravah conference hall (Basement),C-24B,kalkaji.

SMILE is ready to start off with its various clubs in campuses this session. These clubs would be youth-led platforms for exploring, understanding and expressing Self, issues and themes, using theatre, films and photography To begin with we plan to launch the theatre clubwith a three day long theatre workshop from 15th-17th Sep.'10 in North campus, Venue: Kirori Mal College, North Campus (Porta Room)
For this workshop,we will have Yog Kapee from theatre y, Chennai( http://www.theatrey.com and http://theatrey.blogspot.com)Yog who started Theatre Y is himself an actor, director and writer . Theatre Y focusses on training - acting, voice, scriptwriting,radio jockeying, communication skills, performances & productions publishing and beyond!. This will be a space to explore SELF through theatre and learn to express an issue through it. The workshop will be in form of half day thing for above mentioned dates. Exact details will be mailed across you shortly. We look forward for your response to this mail and overwhelming participation for the workshop
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Youth Adda SMILE invites you toYour own space"YOUTH ADDA" for a day of learning, sharing and fun Come and join other young people like yourself to Explore and Understand UN Millennium Development Goals and see how each one of us can respond to these! The Youth Adda will be co-facilitated by professional theatre artist, Yog Kapee from theatre Y, Chennai.( http://www.theatrey.com and http://theatrey.blogspot.com)Yog who started Theatre Y is himself an actor, director and writer. Theatre Y focusses on training - acting, voice, scriptwriting, radio jockeying, communication skills, performances & productions publishing and beyond! Also explore interesting things coming up in SMILE Come and own your own space, the Youth Adda.
Hope you will have loads to learn and have some great FUN
The day: 18th September Saturday
Timings: 10 am onwards
The Place: AADI – Action for Ability Development and Inclusion2, Balbir Saxena MargHauz Khas, New Delhi-110016Ph. +91-11-26966331, 26864714,26569107
The venue is a 5 minutes walk from the Green Park Metro Station

We would request you to bring your own food and water.
Kindly confirm your participation
For further information and confirmation,

contact:Sonal:9990162481,sonal.sharma@pravah.orgShubhi:9958205194,shubhi.dwivedi@pravah.org Hope you are excited and eager to be part of some of these...
do let us know so that we can create a meaningful experience for you
Love, Peace and Energy
The YI team
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