Write-up by Ashwin
“What you are holding in your hand,
takes anywhere between 20 to 1000 years to be fully destroyed !
No, we are
not talking about the love of your life. We are referring to the seemingly
innocuous plastic
bags that you are holding, that seems to be so much an
integral part of your shopping experience.”
With the above two lines
as a base, CTC’s Social Awareness Team decided to target retail shoppers at Prominent Malls in the city. In this pursuit, we chose Forum Mall at
Vadapazhani, which has a footfall of over 1500 walk-ins during a weekend
evening.
For Forum, the team decided to add a Play along
with the Dance event. While the first 4 mins of Dance, helped in gathering a
crowd, the play held their attention and send across a message of how Mother Earth is being victimized due to extensive use of Plastics.
Incidentally, we had a significant number of new comers who were making
their on-stage debut at Forum.
THE SHOW :
On the 8th August
evening, the show began with a staged-fight amongst our members, followed by a
well-choreographed dance on Foot-tapping English-Hindi-Tamil numbers.
What followed was a Play which showed Chitra
Sharma as Mother Earth, how she is happy, selfless and ever-giving. This is
followed by scenes where people lived together with nature, portrayed by Farmers who benefitted by the bounty of Mother earth.
The scene then changes
to how Humans, in the name of modernization, bring in Plastics as a way of
their life. The suffocation of mother earth, the invasion of plastic
monsters and how Mankind eventually rescues Mother Earth from being choked by
Plastic Monsters forms the rest of the play.
We were very encouraged by the response we
received for our Debut. We had over 300-people
engaged during our 8-min
performance.
While there are areas of improvement for our show, we
believe such efforts do leave a mark on the minds of the viewers and can be
an influencing factor, when they have a choice of using a plastic bag next time.
Ending Note
- We managed to minimize the use of plastics in our props.
- We chose to paint our banner, instead of a Flex banner. CTC’s team spent over 16 hours to design and paint the Banners and Placards.
- Our Thanks to ePagemaker to have given us a studio for practice.
- Chitra’s performance was appreciated by all viewers. It is rumored that she turned down movie offer, which came after her performance at Forum Mall.
- Chella’s sir guest performance as one of the bullocks was also well received.
- The dancers were at their spirited best.
- We had over 45 members handling the on-stage and back activities. 40% of the performers were women.
- We also had 10 members who were aged between 5 to 12.
- Choreography, Screenplay for the script were all done by our members.
- No animals were hurt during the making of this play.
Details of the next event will be posted soon.
"Caring for Mother Earth, doesn't involve travelling
the world to clean up oil spills or standing in the path
of bulldozers to
prevent land clearing. It actually involves saying a simple no to plastic bags,
when you go
shopping next" - Aswanth.
Photo Links:-
Video Links:-
Say No to Plastic - The Forum
Mall
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Write-up by Chitra Sharma
The
Worth of Mother Earth is not measurable. Right from the inception of our planet,
mother earth has helped us blossom and progress. As our generations keep going
forward, we have stopped valuing the importance of our mother.
CTC’s
Tandora brought in a novel skit demonstrating the slow degradation of the care
taken towards earth. Right from the heavy showers to water the dry seeds waiting
to sprout to the little boy waiting for his fruit to ripen, mother earth has
never disappointed.
But
the advancement of civilization has slowly given birth to a monster whose power
keeps growing. This small kit aimed to showcase how we need to fight away the
plastic monsters to save our mother earth and again rejoice in the lap of the
giver who never asks.
PS. If you wish to join our team and create
awareness on environmental & Social issues, Pls register by fill it out in Google Forms.
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