Kalakshetra 2016-18

Kalakshetra 2016-18

Date: 18th November, 2016

In order to push the envelope further, this year’s Kalakshetra was designed to find student’s capability and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

• Students had to take a short story and dramatize it
• The story had to be relevant to Kannada culture or Karnataka
• The story has to be dramatized in Kannada, which meant they had to write the script in Kannada; act it out in Kannada; and it had to be in the form of a street play; without the use of elaborate stage props, lights or makeup
• The “play” had to be presented 2 times:

First, to a corporate entity at their premises as part of their Kannada Rajyotsava contribution; for this, they had to find on their own, a corporate entity in Bangalore, ready to host it

Second, they had to record this live play; the recordings were judged by a panel and allocated marks for

• The best 5 of 13 plays were presented in IBA, in front of an august jury of Kannada personalities as part of IBA’s Rajyotsava celebrations, who also judged and allocated marks to them. The 8 plays which did not make the cut did not get these marks
• All persons had to be on stage with speaking parts and can’t have parts of a tree or a rock; no words, no marks

The ultimate purpose being every student to speak and emote in Kannada hoping that this will teach them more Kannada than simply “Kannada Gottilla”, thus helping especially when trying for customer facing jobs in Bangalore in future.