International theatre festival PITARA 2020 for children, young audiences begins online on Saturday
Supported by Korean Cultural Centre India, the 5-day the online theatre festival will bring together five professional performances for audiences from India, Ireland and South Korea.
NEW DELHI: In its second year, the PITARA 2020 theatre festival will bring together five professional performances for audiences from Saturday, December 19 to Wednesday, December 23, 2020, on a digital platform. Pitara will feature national and international performances from India, Ireland, and South Korea; across genres of Toddler’s theatre, Object Theatre, Storytelling, and Dance Theatre.
Organized by Theatre I-Entertainment Trust and supported by Korean Cultural Centre India, Pitara International TYA Festival 2020 is born from the idea of celebrating its childhood.
With the impact of COVID-19, Theatre I-Entertainment Trust aspires to provide quality theatre for children, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In this new online avatar, the performances will be premiering on a private channel online and shall give viewers the advantage of watching it anytime for the duration of
next 72 hours.
Pitara is meant to ignite the moments of exploration and wonder for children and encourage adults to rediscover the child in them and relive the moments which are getting sidelined due to the Pandemic and lockdowns. Pitara does this through digital theatre – a mode of learning by enquiry, experiencing, and evidencing without fear of any physical contact with outsiders
Mr. Hwang Il-yong, director of Korean Cultural Centre India says we have decided to support this event for encouraging children to overcome the difficult times, and nourishing them with cultural contents in terms of their hearts and souls. We are cheering and supporting the artists, at the same time not to be discouraged in their journey to nourish children, the future of humanity.
