Globally Children are in risk not only country & society but also at family. The Children violences are gradually increasing. This is really alarming for building the social-cultural psychological pattern of next generation young child. Mime for Children has the intention to reach the most vulnerable Children in its communities entertaining, engaging them & educate on some of important content. In the year of 2015 Mime for Children tried to reach not only the children living on the plain area also in the Indigenous children in Hilly areas by its intervention

IN THIS ISSUE

Message from Artistic Director

Issue 1

January December 2015

Conceptual Understand of Mime for

Children

2 February 2015 1st year celebration at

Government orphans home

Children group theatre performance of

MMIS

Observing world Mime & Theatre day

March 2015

Experiment of determining

contemporary performance based on

Mime for Ingenious Children audiences

Observe World Children Day 2015

10 education rights campaign at School

in Chittagong, Bangladesh

A few of Mime Sketches

Upcoming Events

Annual News Letter of Mime for Children, Bangladesh

2 February 2015 1st year celebration at Government orphans home

There are innumerable numbers of children living in a deplorable condition in Bangladesh. They are orphans,

destitute, disabled and very poor, who are living below the poverty line. From the nineteen fifties some

orphans were reared up, educated and rehabilitated by the Government through establishing the state

orphanages named Sarkari Shishu Paribar (State Children Home). Since the inception of the Department of

Social Services in 1961, the responsibility of running the state orphanages (State Children Home) had been

shifted to the DSS (The Department of Social Services). There are 85 Sarkari Shishu Paribars under the DSS all

over the country with a capacity of 10,300 orphans. Among which 43 institutions are earmarked for boys, 41

for girls and 1 for both sexes.

2 February 2015 Mime for Children celebrates its 1 year celebration with the Children who live in the state Children Home at Rowfabad in Chittagong, Bangladesh where about 150 children are observed the mime performances. Mime for Children has a plan to cover the whole 85 Sarkari Shishu Paribars (State Children Home) through the Mime performances of entertainment, engagement & education by getting lots of fun & Smiling!

Conceptual Understand of Mime for Children

Mime is a performing art of beauty! As a most attractive & an aesthetically powerful communicative media

Mime is very much interesting for the Children. Considering the attention an initiative has been stated on 2

February 2014 in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Its a Mime for Children! Mime for Children is a voluntary

Initiative. Its a concept more than performance. There are uncountable children around the world who

have less happiness & pleasure. In the modern world every Children are in a kind of helpless for a certain

moments! Although Children competent gets achievement hugely but they dont feel of proud due to less

attention of the adults. Mime for Children would like to effort for the children where Children will trust we

are proud our self. Mime for Children committed to serve Entertainment to the children; Engagement

them into mime illusion; Educate them with the contemporary issues. Its a 3E (Entertainment,

Engagement & Education) based conceptual approach of Mime for Children.

Presenting of indigenous traditional & folk instrumental music at Bangladesh Shilpakala Acadamy (BSA) in Dhaka & BCCT at Patiya, Chittagong

Presenting of indigenous traditional & folk instrumental music at Bangladesh Shilpakala Acadamy (BSA) in Dhaka & BCCT at Patiya, Chittagong

Observing world Mime &

Theatre day March 2015

Many children wont know about history of our country unless an adult takes the step to teach them... MIME

FOR CHILDREN is an organization which performed only for children. MIME FOR CHILDREN wants to teach

that being patriotic means loving, supporting and defending ones country. Children can learn about

constitution of Bangladesh, the declaration of independence and the bill of rights through a patriotic mime

production. Basically, MIME FOR CHILDREN wants to develop a sense of patriotism begins with watching a

patriotic mime production

"Vhor Hai Akti Deshe ( ). A Mime based performance by the class three student of Master Mind International School (MMIS) observing National Independent Day of Bangladesh celebration (26

March) in school campus at Punchalaish, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Children group theatre performance of MMIS

Mime for Children is a voluntary Initiative. Its a concept more than performance. Mime for Children committed to

serve Entertainment to the children; Engagement them into mime illusion; Educate them with the contemporary

issues. Its a 3E (Entertainment, Engagement & Education) based conceptual approach of Mime for Children.

Presently Mime for Children experimenting to shape up Contemporary Mime based performance style for the

different classes of Children audiences like indigenous, rural, urban etc. There are 11 of ethnic community are

consisting at Bandarban (Hilly District) in Bangladesh.

Here puppet is became one of the most interesting alternative communication tools for the Children. Besides

Children have less experience about Mime. Popularize the form (Mime) to the Children in ethnic community; puppet

has taken with Mime as experimental application! It is mostly Challenging but Interesting & Children love it very

much! This is the time of 15 July 2015. There is a community based Children space at a ingenuous community in

Bandarban Hill districts; Bangladesh. The Children Space program is facilitating by Human Rights based organization

named BITA. There are 11 of indigenous communities consisting in the Hill District of Bandarban, Bangladesh. The

community we visited is named Bawm at Faruq para under central Sub District. A group of children are invited to

observe as audiences of a 30 minutes performance. The age of the Children is 8-16 years old. When we meet with

the children they did know nothing what is going to happening actually; they know only a performance is will be

happen! Some of the Children are playing indoor games, some are observing us. The performance facilitating team

invited the children to sit together at the children space premises.

Very beginning the children observed that a man starts for getting make him up. The Children got more curious how

a man changing himself as a performer by holding a character in his face supporting make up materials. During the

time the facilitators asked a few of question to the children that what they are observing & their experiences about

the observation?

Completing the makeup & ready for performance the character arranges the performance by the support of

children. The performer performs solo mime performance based on Mime illusion with getting puppet. Then the part

of process the children are invited to get perform with improvisation.

Improvisation!

Impassively two children willingly participated in process. Of them one is boy & another is girl.

Both the child had held the puppet & took their position for performing! Oh my god! I still surprise!

Actually the children dont know what is going on or what they will perform! but they enjoyed a lot of!

It was difficult & challenging the situation on that moment developing composition of mime illusion, developing

puppet character by the children, different of mother tongue, communication with Mime & Puppet character

Experiment of determining contemporary performance

based on Mime for Indigenous Children audiences

Events of Celebrating "Observe World Children Day 2015" BITA (Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts) a Human

Right based organization organized & celebrating "Observe World Children Day 2015".Mime for Children is invited

to take part with the event performing by its a few of Mime sketches. Mime for Children is a voluntary initiative.

These photos are performance by Mime for Children at Urban Slam community in Chittagong,Bangladesh on 31

October 2015. Mime for Children performed the mime sketches of "A naughty Child" & Death of Beauty" The both

solo performances are performed initially by the Pradip Acharjee & Aungkon Adithaya. Make up & music are

supported by the Sanju Biswas. Huge of community Children, adults are participated in the events & enjoyed a lot!

The 10 rights are determined conducting

consultation by Action Aid Bangladesh & its

development partners BITA (Bangladesh

Institute of Theatre Arts) from early time of

2015. In BITA working area 12 of children

under Udayan Lane BITA Children Space

directly participated in the campaign event

titled the theatre named Ai Amadar Dabi.

The children theatre shows were performed

on 12 & 14 November 2015 at local schools of

Madarbari Government Primary school &

Madarbari girls high schools premises.

The performance is developed by

Mime for Children.

Observe World Children Day 2015

10 education rights campaign at School in

Chittagong, Bangladesh

The 10 rights are determined conducting consultation by Action Aid Bangladesh & its development partners from early time of 2015. In BITA working area 12 of children under Udayan Lane BITA Children Space directly participated in the campaign event titled the theatre named Ai Amadar Dabi.

The 10 rights are determined conducting consultation by Action Aid Bangladesh & its development partners BITA (Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts) from early time of 2015. In BITA working area 12 of children under Udayan Lane BITA Children Space directly participated in the campaign event titled the theatre named Ai Amadar Dabi. The children theatre shows were performed on 12 & 14 November 2015 at local schools of Madarbari Government Primary school & Madarbari girls high schools premises. The performance is developed by Mime for Children

Observe World

Children day 2015

10 education rights campaign in Chittagong

A few of Mime Sketches The Tree

A seed comes out from the Earth as a seedling. With the touch of the Nature it grows and be a big green-tree. A friendship between human being and a tree makes the water sweet in thirst. But when one cuts the tree then the civilization also destroys gradually.

This is our life Children are influenced and affected by a deep attention when they play with. Usually children are wicked, stubborn, arrogant, bold and sympathize with an endless curiosity. A clash and co-operation in need is common with them. This is the life of a child. Children make them in this way

Death of beauty A fish, a deer and a bird. One of them lives in water, one in land and the other flies in the sky. Their three dimensional movement is a part of the beauty to a nature-lover. But fishing net, a sling or a shooting gun can kill the beauty. This death of the beauty not only imbalances the nature but also makes the killer a nightmare with the black mask.

A Naughty Child A child. He doesnt want to study now, he wants to play. But he has to read a book with the pressure of his mother. He has no attention in reading so he plays with toys in absence of his mother. Suddenly his mother noticed this and tries to punish him. There is an entertainment.

Date of publication: 22 March 2016 Contact Person Pradip Acharjee, Artistic Director Mime For Children Barnamala Payel, Manager Communication Mime For Children Contact address 392. D.C Road, Madina Mosque Lane, West Bakilia, Oadud Mansion Chittagong, Bangladesh Contact Phone: 88-01911588003 E-mail Address: mimeforchildren@gmail.com Blog : http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/PradipAcharjee

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Mime for

Children

Upcoming Events Experiment of determining contemporary performance style of Mime for

Urban Children

Observe International Mime Day 2016

Conduct Mime workshop for young Children

Observe Hundred Thousand Mime Campaign for Peace

Observe World Children Day 2016

Organize Children Solo Mime Festival

Creating International Link & exposure

Publication

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