Jammu, 11-06-2025 : A new world of innovation and creativity is being explored by children in Natrang’s Summer theatre Camp-2025. With a tem of over six to seven top professionals under the guidance of Padamshiri Balwant Thakur are working with this year’s team of young children where out of the world work is being done using the most latest approaches and techniques of personality transformation and human development. Jammu Children at Natrang’s Theatre Camp-2025 are setting new benchmarks by exploring endless possibilities of originality and inventiveness. The most noteworthy feature of this year’s camp is that it is being personally devised and monitored by Balwant Thakur himself. He has worked on children theatre in best of the institutions in England, Germany, South Africa, Mauritius, Italy, China, Singapore, UAE, and USA and this year’s participants are extremely lucky to have got the opportunity to share and explore a new world of creativity through the new innovative methods which he acquired having worked globally. New horizons of creativity are being turned inside out by experimenting alternative ways of self-exploration through the vibrant devices of theatre. Natrang organises a children theatre camp every year for forty-five days since the year 1990. This is the only professional platform for children in Jammu where children get an out of world exposure of creativity, art, aesthesis, innovation and culture. They are provided with immense opportunities to explore their immense hidden abilities. While discussing details of this initiative of Natrang, it’s director Balwant Thakur informed that everywhere the work of creativity with children is being done as a fashion. Everywhere one can find some activity being organized in the name of art and theatre but in Natrang, highly experienced and professionally trained people work in a strategically devised manner in infusing creativity amongst participating children. While others after school hours remain attracted to the idiot box (Television)/smart phones or may be sleeping at home, the Natrang Theatre camp for children have found an amazing space where they are equipping themselves with multiple abilities and qualities. Theatre is not only making them confident but is also enriching them with intellect and infusing in them the art of self-expression filled with immense social skills.
Natrang is the only theatre organization of the country which have been running a regular club for children. In this club the children get diverse kind of training in personality development, public speaking, organizing the self and self-exploration through theatre.
Natrang is all set to devise a yearlong theatre training programme to make children aware of their own self-actualization with the help of experts training them. The curriculum of this year-long theatre programme is conceptualized and designed by Padamshree Balwant Thakur who has provided a new dimension to the Children Theatre of the Country with his highly innovative Children Plays like ‘Rang Badalti Duniya’ ‘Bhag Beta Bhaag’, Hum Hain Naa’ Udaan’ ‘Mere Hisse Ki Dhoop Kahan Hai’ and ‘Aap hamare Hain Kaun’.
In the past the experts to work with children have been coming from National and International institutions like, National School of Drama New Delhi and London International School of Performing Arts. The regular faculty include, Sumeet Sharma a National Awardee and also Masters in Dramatics, Neeraj Kant- a veteran theatre artist who has an experience of 35years of working with children and Gauri Thakur, a young theatre director who is Master of English literature with specialization in English Drama. Other than this many other experts of different art-fields like Music, Dance, Painting etc come as visiting faculty to impart a vast knowledge and exposure to the participants. Theatre not only trains actors or directors, but it teaches many skills which help its trainees to excel and lead in any field they opt as a career. As Natrang is doing regular Children Theatre in J&K for the last 35 years. In these years Natrang has trained, inspired and motivated thousands of children till now and most of them have excelled brilliantly in various fields be it acting, management, civil services, medicine, engineering, Judiciary, social work etc. It clearly establishes that no matter, what you aspire to become in life, the confidence, spontaneity, self-exploration, creativity, reasoning and discipline you imbibe while experiencing theatre, acts as your ultimate strength and the motivational force for you to succeed and excel in every sphere of life. Natrang takes pride in not only giving a new cultural and intellectual identity to this region but also have produced best of the human resource through these kinds of creative initiatives.
The lucky participants of Theatre Camp-2025 are Supria Gorka, Tanvi Bajgotra, Vamika Verma, Saanchi Dutta, Dwijesh Dutta, Ruhaan Chandan, Dhanak Chandan, Mahira Singh, Advik Sharma, Adhira Gupta, Reyansh Vaid, Adeesha Singh, Aashrita Sharma, Nirvana Shah, Jazz Shah, Akshaj Mehta, Anvay Mehta, Navda Prasher, Vanya Modi, Kayra Mahajan, Tanvi Mahajan, Raaga Sharma, Shravya Sharma, Aaliya Azeem, Kaustubh Sharma, Viyaan Sharma, Reeshak, Araiya Shan and Kamakhya Bali