Sahitya Kala Parishad and the Department of Art, Culture, and Languages, Delhi Government is organizing the 8th edition of the Youth Festival from February 22 to 27, 2019 at Central Park. The 6-day long festival started on February 22, 2019, will continue till February 27, 2019.
I am proud to see Delhi Youth Festival has engaged more than 1200 youngsters who are serving the society through art and culture. There are many social problems in our history and present times. I strongly believe solutions will come from education and art. Creative, innovative and compassionate youth give us hope for the future, as they take our country forward with passion.
The Youth Festival where more than 1200 artists are performing is one such big platform that showcases the rich cultural legacies of our country.
On the first day of the festival, people were mesmerized by the larger than life puppet show by Puran Bhatt and his group, who performed on many Bollywood songs like Jai Ho and many more. Jan Akansha Pratishthan, an NGO with an aim to promote inclusive growth to India and provide livelihood to the underprivileged youth and children, gave a performance depicting a life of a soldier and the performance was dedicated to our Indian Army and Martyrs. The evening continued with a street play named ‘Home Sweet Home’ by Guru Govind Singh College of Commerce. The play was about the importance of natural resources and how a human should take care of the Earth and control the violation of the natural resources for our human greed. Followed by this was a soulful music performance by one of the best youth band in Delhi – Aamil band. Amongst all the performance, P. Vetri Boopathy also presented Rudraksham – Percussion & String Ensemble. This comprised of two items namely, Rudra – Taalam aadi, set to revati raagam.. and secondly, Thunder – in Taalam – chatusra ekam , set to raagam – Miya malhar. Post all the classical performances, the evening witnessed a contemporary dance form by Aadhunik Unit of Contemporary Dance. Since a decade Aadhunik has been producing many ballet and short items. They performance was named ‘Lok Aur Tantra’ and was a powerful satire on the political system. With an energetic wave, SGND Khalsa performed the folk dance of Punjab Bhangra. Later, Rajendran Pillai performed one of the major forms of classical Indian dance – Kathakali. This was followed by Meenu Thakur’s Kuchipudi Ensemble, first Durga Stuti, that depicts Goddess Durga and how she protects her devotees from darkness and violence. The second was Krishna Leela.
The audience will get to witness an exciting line up of artists performing dance, music, and street plays on a single stage.
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