Youth Festival 2023 (My Experience and Themes or Topics of Various Events)

TOPIC OF THE BLOG:-

In this blog I am going to discuss about My experience of 5-day Workshop on Theater, Selection of Youth Festival, experience of Mono Acting and Installation in Youth Festival 2023 at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University and also so many themes which represented in various events.

THEMES IN VARIOUS EVENTS:- Youth Festival, this two words makes everyone heart flattered and exited. As it's name in Youth Festival all the participants are from a particular college of their University. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University organized Youth Festival from so many years to support the talent which is emanating from the Youth. This year's (2023) Youth Festival was organized by the Department of Physical Education. Of course all the Participants enjoyed the process and the big thank you and contribution was given by Volunteers, Teachers of Departments and all the students who came to watch performance of participants too. This is the 31st Youth Festival with the theme of 'Nari Vandana' and full title with 'Man Bhavan Yuva Mahotsav'. 

Let us discuss the themes and other things of Youth Festival. Events related to theater cannot be conclude in given themes, but by our observation we have to catch themes or topics of Kalayatra, Essay competition, on the spot painting competition, paper collage competition, poetry writing competition, Elocution Competition, photography competition, clay modeling competition, cartooning competition, poster making competition and Installation Competition, etc. 

KALAYATRA:-

Kalayatra is a perfect event as a starting of a Youth Festival which is full of Colorful Clothes, Various Ideas, Hard Work, etc. In this year of Kalayatra most of the college represented the idea of Chandrayan from different perspectives and one of the colleges came up with the idea of 'Navdurga', and picked up the costumes of politicians. If I talk about our Theme it is based on Traditional Vs Modernity with Oppression to Freedom. Theme of Kalayatra isn't given by them but we have to present it with unique thoughts, thinking and ways of representing. 

(Click here to see the photos and videos)

ESSAY COMPETITION:-

The Essay Competition had the following topics.

• India's Space Odyssey 
• From the Kitchen to Cabinet - Women, Don't Give Up
• Are Wars Inevitable?
• The Importance of Value based Education 
• Plastic Pollution - Problems & Resolution

ON THE SPOT PAINTING:-

One of the difficult competitions which only needs creativity and years of hard work to do or draw under the circumstances of the pressure of completing in just a few hours. But all of them did very well. One the Spot Painting or Live Painting had the following topics.

• ઉત્સવોની ઉજવણી
• નારીશક્તિ

PAPER COLLAGE COMPETITION:-

Paper Collage Competition had the following topics.

• Fish Tank 
• Flowerpot 
• Rainy Season

POETRY WRITING COMPETITION:-

Poetry Writing Competition had the following topics.

• ઉમ્મીદ 
• બાળપણ ખોવાણું 
• સ્મરણોની કેડીએ 
• જે કર જૂલાવે પારણું 
• મેરી મિટ્ટી મેરા દેશ

ELOCUTION COMPETITION:-

Elocution Competition had the following topics.

• આર્ટિફિશિયલ ઇન્ટેલિજન્સ: કેટલું પડકારજનક?
• યત્ર નર્યાત્સુ પૂજ્યંતે
• ચાલો વૃધ્ધાશ્રમ ઘટાડીએ
• પર્યાવરણ અને માનવ: એક સિક્કાની બે બાજુ
• Global Terrorism: Implications and Solutions વૈશ્વિક આતંકવાદ: અસરો અને ઉકેલો 
•  बुलंद भारत की बुलंद तसवीर

PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION:-

Photography competition had the following topics.

• યુથ ફેસ્ટિવલ 2023
• આજની નારી 
• કુદરતની સંગાથે 

CLAY MODELING COMPITITION:-

Clay Modelling competition had the following topics.

• માતૃત્વ
• ગ્રામ્ય જીવન
• સંગીતકાર

CARTOONING COMPETITION:-

Cartoon competition had the following topics.

• ચૂંટણી
• મોંઘવારી
• ગાંધીજી અને જનતા

POSTER MAKING COMPETITION:-

Poster Making competition had the following topics.

• વૃદ્ધની સેવા
• કન્યા શિક્ષણ
• પાણી બચાવો

INSTALLATION COMPITITION:-

Installation Competition had the following topics.

• નારી શક્તિ
• મજૂર 
• સુરક્ષા
• ચિકિત્સા (આયુર્વેદ સંદર્ભે)

• Most of the themes in the theatre events are based on women empowerment or to support women. (Click here to see photos)

MY EXPERIENCE OF 5 DAY WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH FESTIVAL 2023:-

Workshop, Practice and Training are the most important words which can't be learnt only by theory. We have to cherish the physical and mental involvement in it. Just like that, for helping our performance in different fields Maharaja KrishnaKumarSinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat arranged the Workshop for upcoming Youth Festival 2023 to encourage students of the University. There are so many workshops - નૃત્ય વિભાગ, લલિત કલા વિભાગ, સાહિત્ય વિભાગ, રંગમંચ વિભાગ અને સાંગીતિક - arranged at the same time at various departments and places from 23/08/2023 to 27/08/2023. I took part in the Theatre Section which has two great instructors, one is Gagan Shrivastava Sir and second is Mohit Thadhani Sir. They both are experienced and very well skilled in their field which provides students a better and deeper understanding of their questions and doubts. It is 3rd day today for this workshop and half a day we got to see other performances from લલિત કલા વિભાગ like ગરબા, ટિપ્પણી, હુડો and દાંડીયા. We all enjoyed this break from our session for a bit and watched beautiful performances by them. I am really happy that I came for this workshop and met so many amazing people as well as skilled instructors. Thank You so much to both of the instructors, to the arrangers, to my fellow friends, to Bhatt Priyank for this group photo and to everyone who helped us to make this possible.

I would like to thank these four people from the depths of my heart who taught us in these five days how important not only Acting is but also the beginning and basics of it.

SELECTION IN YOUTH FESTIVAL 2023 FOR INSTALLATION:-

To do something creative is not as easy as it seems. For an Installation competition a competitor needs a very creative mind. From our class including me there are 5 people who want to go in this competition but there are only 4 rules so one has to quit. This is one of the reasons for which we have to go through the process of selection. Frankly speaking, I am not more into this creativity, I just want to participate because we are going there as a team. In the end, I was the one who wasn't selected in this. But unfortunately, because of some Youth Festival rules, technically one of the four people can participate in it. I was chosen as the fourth member as the participant in the competition of Installation. But I enjoyed it a lot these days and here is a glimpse of it.

By Bhavyata Kukadiya 

By Drashti Joshi

By Avni Jani

By Rajeshvariba Rana

By Pooja Bhuva (Me)

KALAYATRA PREPRATION:-

Excitement, enjoyment, happiness, learning - these are the words from which we can assume that the preparation can be enjoyable with the whole team. First of all I would like to thank all of them who helped us with the preparation for the Kalayatra without recognizing the day and night. Here is the Glimpse of our preparation for it.

MY EXPERIENCE OF MONO ACTING AND INSTALLATION IN YOUTH FESTIVAL 2023:-

I was scared at first to perform in front of everyone but the support from my friends, my juniors, my classmates, and my teachers is like a spine for me. Till the end, after performing my Mono Acting I was still nervous but with this nervousness I was happy. I am right now but they also supported me and congratulated me for doing my best. After the three days of practice, I was ready to withdraw my name but my friends and teachers proved to be the backbone for me. I heartily thank you all for this beautiful and unforgettable experience. I am, was and will be grateful to Apla Ma'am for giving me her precious time and helping me to get ready to climb the stairs and go on stage. 

For Installation, I already said that I am not a creative person, I participated in the installation only for one reason, actually two. One is to work as a team and second of course for a certificate. Thank You to these three members (Drashti Joshi, Bhavyata Kukadiya and Rajeshvariba Rana) of the Installation group for making this experience beautiful and marvelous.

Here is a detailed blog on themes of Youth Festival's various events on Drashti Joshi's Blogspot (Click here)