Youth Carnival

Updated on: Sunday, August 14, 2011

Lok, a youth based creative arts group, founded by Soumyajit Majumdar, is promoting the theme “Youth for Arts” through a carnival, spread over two days, August 28 and 29, 2011, at Gyan Manch, which will include all forms of performing arts, painting and photography. On the first day, a walk is being held from New Market to Park Street. There will be costumes, music, dance and street theatre -- an absolute carnival-like affair. The day after, Lok will perform a play; KHOJ, which is an amalgamation of dance, visuals, mime and theatre. Along with this, there will be an open-house performance platform for musicians, dancers, freestyle actors and writers.

It all started on January 3, 2011, when Majumdar, along with co-founders of Lok spearheaded the Indian Youth for Arts and Change movement. “We wanted to connect to the Indian youth on a common platform and make interaction and exchange among them possible. What seemed like a youth creative arts movement in Kolkata is now taking shape as a national youth creative arts movement and is spreading to cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.” says Majumdar about the IYAC project, which will have a similar carnival in Delhi, this September.

While the walk will look like a carnival, the young members are trying to say something; “The powerful role of any art form will only be determined when it can escape its small audience, reach a wider audience, in the open and inspire individuals to have vision and express that vision.” explains Aditya Sengupta, one of the founders of Lok. Being a youth based movement has its disadvantages, especially if it is relatively new. They know there will be quite a bit of criticism coming their way. Pujita Guha, one of the first members of Lok, says, “See, every action has a reaction. Of course, something like this will not go unnoticed, so yes, we are expecting a few people to come around and say “why now, why this and why us?” But, we are in no way going to be deterred from what we have envisioned.”

Youth Carnival

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