Children Drama Festival
Generating awareness of child rights
Cultural Correspondent
A children's drama festival was held recently at the Rabindra Sharabor stage, beside Dhanmondi lake. The festival was organised by Ichchey Children's Media Centre and sponsored by Save the Children Sweden-Denmark. With the slogan 'No more discrimination, all children are equal', the event was the first of its kind in the country. About 17 children's group from Dhaka and other parts of the country, including a children's group from Nepal and Butterflies from India. performed popular music and dance at the festival.The festival was aimed at depicting the discrimination between children from all walks of life. Besides this, the function aimed to generate awareness on how children are using cultural events to achieve their rights. The festival was organised with children from all spheres of our society. The organisations that participated in the festival were Bangladesh National Women Law Association (BNWLA), Underprivileged Children Education Programme (UCEP), Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), Association for Community Development) (ACD), Community Participation and Development Jhinukmala (CPD), Incidin Bangladesh, Nari Mayitri, Child Brigade, Society for Underprivileged Families (Suf), Socio-Economic Enhancement Programme (Sip), Development Initiative for Social Advancement (Disa) and Paribartan Theatre. The subsequent two days of the festival featured plays, dances, songs, recitation, comic-skits and many more items by the children. Most of the performers, who also come from the underprivileged and marginalised sections of the society, developed the productions themselves based on the experiences from their own lives. Asif Munir, the Programme Manager Advocacy and Communication of Save the Children, believes that the function revealed the immense potential of the children.
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