YOUTH FESTIVAL 2022- MK Bhavnagar University
This blog is made as a task assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir to reflect our literary and critical skills on the events we had attended in Youth Festival 2022. In this blog, I will try to give a detailed description of all the youth events. The main motto behind this is documentation for future participants.
"AMRUT RANG- YUVA URJA MAHOTSAV 2022"
અમૃત રંગ ૨૦૨૨ યુવા ઉર્જા મહોત્સવ
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University organized a four day long (18,19,20,21 September 2022) Youth festival under the campaign ‘Aadi ka Amrut Mahotsav’. This whole event is hosted by Takshshila Institute of Science and Commerce. The theme of 2022 youth Fest is ‘યુવા ઊર્જા મહોત્સવ’ . Due to the corona pandemic this grand intercollege youth festival wasn’t possible. This year again with the same enthusiasm university, host, institutes and students are being part of this event. Everyyear youth fest is declared around 2 month earlier and all the institutes used to prepare for 2 months but this time due to Gujarat State level youth, MKBU Youth festival was declared just 15-20 days prior and was performed by the students.
Here are the glimpses of youth fest 2022
KALAYATRA [18-09-2022 Sunday]
The aim behind Kalayatra is that the whole district should come to know that ‘kala’ art is being celebrated in their own city and it's like an open invitation to all the citizens to be a part of the Youth festival. The route for Kalayatra was from ‘Pani ni taki- main water tank’ or the entrance gate of Victoria nature park to the Amphitheater of MKBU. Kalayatra was also live-streamed on the Youtube channel of MKBU (unfortunately due to some issues it has been made unavailable on Youtube channel). According to the announcements around 1 lakh people watched our kalayatra in online and offline mode. There were around 6-8 colleges that participated in Kalayatra.
19th September 2022
OPENING CEREMONY
The opening ceremony was organized in the amphitheater, and the main stage of the youth fest was named ‘Shri Mahendra Meghani Mukhya manch’. Dignitaries in the opening ceremony of the youth fest were the Youngest IPS officer Safin Hasan sir, IPS officer of Bhavnagar District, SP officer of Bhavnagar, Kirtiben Danidhariya- Mayor of Bhavnagar, Abhishek Jain- Filmmaker and Jitubhai Vaghani- Honorable Education minister of Gujarat.
The ceremony began with the University song and welcoming of the honorable guest.
There was a wonderful dance performance by the differently abled students of K.L Institute of Deaf.
All the dignitaries gave inspiring and motivational speeches, wishing luck to all the participants of the Youth festival.
Saffen Hasan sir aptly talked about today's generation noting them to be a confused generation as this generation has lots of options in every field and everything. He guided me to follow his inspiration and to stay connected to own roots, family, to the institute the one who helped me to grow.
Abhishek Jain talked about the importance of cultural activities and the importance of Youth festivals. He is also the one who grew from the stage of the Youth Festival. Stages help students to have instant ideas, increasing their spontaneity. He ended his speech saying participation is important and the result is secondary. Standing on stage is also an achievement.
Here is the video recording of the opening ceremony.
VARIOUS EVENTS OF YOUTH FESTIVAL
DAY-1 [19-09-2022]
List of the competitions on day-1, topics in events, in brief about a few events, and some photos.
Mimicry- There were only four participants in Mimicry and majorly they all did mimicry of animals, birds, vehicles, etc. voices. It was organized in Atal Auditorium (Vinodbhai Amlani Natyamanch).
Bhajan- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Tatkal Chitra (on-the-spot painting Drawing)- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- Festival of Navratri
- Azadika Amrit Mahotsav
- Village marriage
Prashn Manch round 1 (Quiz)- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
I was not a participant in a Quiz but I was present there as a volunteer as it was organized in our Department. I saw many of the participants have no idea about the format of the quiz. The quiz event is done in two rounds. Every team has a maximum of 3 participants, the first round is written in which all three combinedly give a test. From this round, the highest-scoring 5 teams are selected for the second round. The second round is in a proper quiz format with a quiz master, arranged on the next day.
Swarachit Kavya Pathan (Poetry writing and recitation)- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
- વિરહી હૈયાંની વાત (Song of a Bereaved Heart)
- સ્મરણ (Memory)highest-scoring
- આ માટીને કાજે (For this land)
- અચાનક એવું થાય તો…! (And suddenly if it happens so)
- કાલ તમારું સપનું આવ્યું (I dreamt about you)
Swarachit kavya Pathan amuses me a lot, it seems amazing how participants write wonderful poems on their own in a given limited time. I got a chance to listen to a few poetry recitations. Being completely unknown of the way of writing poems, I liked all the poems. It was a great effort by all of them. Most of the poems were written in free verse and few tried their hands on couplet and quatrains. Mostly everyone used metaphors from nature and mythologies. I expected that at least one of them might have used modern metaphors but it wasn't found. The topic majorly chosen by participants was Memory and I dreamt about you and mostly the poems were love poems. There were one or two patriotic poems.
Lok Nritya (Folk Dance)- organized in the Amphi Theater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
Mime- organized in Atal Auditorium (Vinodbhai Amlani Natyamanch)
Mime is a theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement. There were a total of nine teams participating in it. The themes in the mime were:
- Importance of outdoor games over mobile games. It aptly showed modern reality. It also showed how mobile games affect youngsters and remarked on the recent Indian Olympic winners also.
- The life of a soldier, his fight, sacrifice, living away from family, and working for the nation Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav was a focused theme.
- One other mime was also a patriotic theme. It had the idea of a surgical strike and also showed the agni dah to soldiers. It uses the reverse technique in there, which was unique in them among all the participants.
- There were two mimes on a similar theme of humans harming animals for their own fun and entertainment in the jungle and today humans are harming themselves in this culture of technology.
- The new and unique theme I found was transgender. Acceptance of transgender, a boy who identifies his real identity as a girl in his teenage his and the reaction of society towards him.
- Story of Gautam Buddha.
- There was contemporariness in one mime, it talked about the life of farmers and their fight for their rights. It represented the recent (Kisan Adolan 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest) and at least one farmer having suicide.
- Circus and the threat to the life of humans in the circus. It showed the reality of circus doers and their difficulties.
Halvu Kanthya Sangit (Sugam Geet)- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Collage - organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- Amrut Mahotsav ni live stage event
- Freedom fighters (લડવૈયા)
- Mother
DAY-2 [20/09/2022]
List of the competitions on day-2, topics in events, in brief about a few events and some photos.
Samuh Geet (Western)- organized in the Amphi Theater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
Ekanki (one- act play)- organized in Atal Auditorium (Vinodbhai Amlani Natyamanch)
I had my competitions so unfortunately I couldn't get a chance to watch one act plays. But you can read about it in Himanshi parmamr’s Blog, Trushali Dodiya’s Blog and Dhruvita Dhameliya’s Blog.
The One- act plays performed were
1) Ashifa ek paheli
2) Hu pasalo chu
3) Adhuru Chitr
4) Aai khani chopa
5) Artificial intelligence
One act plays were also live streamed on the YouTube but due to some reasons it was removed and so the participants of other events couldn't get an opportunity to watch it.
Shastriya Gayan- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Poster making- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- Wild Life
- Road Safety
- Yoga
Parshan Manch Final- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
Western Song (solo)- organized in the Amphi Theater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
Lok Geet- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Clay Modeling- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- Teacher and Student (ગુરુ અને શિષ્ય)
- Yogasan (યોગા)
- Traveler (મુસાફીર)
Mono Acting- organized in Atal Auditorium (Vinodbhai Amlani Natyamanch)
Shastriya Vadan (Tal Vadhya)- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Mehndi- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
1st rank
3rd rank
Nibandh (Essay writing)- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
- Mobile Phone - useful or useless?
- Health is wealth
- If humans can know the future
- Fatal factors of democracy
- Two steps towards a nature
Shastriya Nritya- organized in the Atal hall (Vinod Almani Natyamanch)
Tatkal Photography (Spot Photography)- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- લોકોની વચ્ચે
- યુવા મહોત્સવ
- કુદરત અને હું
Short Film- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
- ભારત/ગુજરાતનો ભવ્ય વારસો/સંસ્કૃતિ
- સ્વતંત્ર સગ્રામ
- સામાજિક જાગૃતિ
Short film event was organized for the very first time in our university. There were a total of 7 entries.
Magic Box
It was a great film. Here magic box is used symbolically and it refers to Makeup box. The theme of the film was domestic violence and how it gets transferred from mother to daughter. Makeup as a magic helped the female protagonist to hide their wounds of domestic violence. And this also affected the young girl child in the family who was playing with dolls. The short film showed the three generations all together. It had a good use of light and dark shades of light. The wonderfully focused makeup box which held a great importance in it, it also had a wonderful use of silence and pauses. In less dialogue and less time they delivered a strong effective message. It has also used an amusing memory/ past sequence. It is a must watch short film for beginners who are trying to make a short film.
Zamku
Zamku , the whole short film is in a dream sequence. It talked about male dominated society. It had simple cinematography and light comedy. This can also be used as a strong and good example for beginners. It's a satire on male dominated environments through light comedy.
Three
This short film tried to bring awareness about Dissociative Identity Disorder. It had good acting and strongly brought this idea.
Bhavnagar
This short film had no dialogues but had good cinematography, good shots and drone photography. It represented bhavnagar as a heritage city and presented all the famous places of it.
Swatantrata no Sangram
It was like a documentary short video, presenting only a write up of the great fighters, who fought for the independence.
Maharajshree
This film talked about the Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji who was the first one to give his country to sardar Patel to unite India. This short film talks about it . It has a good beginning as a friend walking among. They had a wonderful idea of using only the torso part as a symbol of the person. But the mistake they made was the use of background. It talked about the royal family but the clothing of the queen and the background they used was not at all royal.
Fake it Till you Make it
Fake it till you make it is about Fake news and its harmfulness. How Politicians overpower the media and don't let the truth come out. This film has also made good use of camera and cinematography. It tried to bring out the reality of today.
Lok Vadya Vrinda- organized in the AmphiTheater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
Skit- organized in Atal Auditorium (Vinodbhai Amlani Natyamanch)
Skit is a short comedy sketch or piece of humorous writing, especially a parody. I got a chance to watch a few skits and am writing briefly about it.
Skit-1
In this skit the Ravana came on the earth in the 21st century and was shocked to see all the happenings on the Earth like the Ukraine Russia war, sold media, elections, male domination, women's situation. The skit ended with a question of where is Ram Rajya? And even after so many wrong happenings why is he burnt on every Dussehra. The element of comedy was aptly presented when Ravana was facing difficulties in the 21st century.
Skit-2
It referred to all the contemporary happening like blindness towards vaccine, thali bajao and diya jalao, all the recent cases of murder and rape of girls: Rabiya case, grishma case of Surat.
Skit-3
This was a wonderful skit it played with most of the genres like farce, wit, parody, black humor. It was a social and political satire. It satires the use of the word sanskriti, education and the recent trend of boycotting movies. They used the character of Gangubai as a politician and Pushpa as a middle class person. They satirize religion in education; Schools and machine makers; students as machines. Schools and education where everything's there except God Saraswati. And if anyone tries to ask questions they are asked to enjoy what's happening like keep on playing garba, enjoy carnivals, don't question.
Skit-4
This skit was named ‘WHY?’ in it they question society about losing humanity. But in this skit I felt the major target was women. They question surrogacy and question women that for maintaining their they don't want to be pregnant. They question women living their life, wearing jeans, going to the parlor and living their child with a nanny at home. They gave shradhanjali to humanity. But in all this matter there was complete absence of father and his role.
Other skit had a court scene where a student filed a case against a teacher for overloading the studies and requesting a child to be a child and one was a ‘Love e-story’ a village love story. Both were comedies but we couldn't find any parody or satire in it.
Shastriya Vadan (Swar Vadhya)- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
Cartooning- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- Politician (નેતા)
- Inflationary (મોંઘવારી)
- Corruption (ભ્રષ્ટાચાર)
Duha-Chhand- organized in the Amphi Theater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
DAY-3 [21/09/2022]
List of the competitions on day-3, topics in events, in brief about a few events and some photos.
Samuh Geet (Bhartiya)- organized in the Amphi Theater (Shree Mahendrabhai Meghani Mukhyamanch)
Vaktrutva (Elocution)- Organized in Old court hall (Shree Rajesh Vaishnav Surmanch)
- Gandhian Thought and the 21st Century (ગાંધીવિચાર અને 21 મી સદી)
- Our role in Aazadi ka Amrut Mahotsav (આઝાદીના અમૃત અવસરે આપણી ભૂમિકા)
- Value Based Education - How far is necessary? (નૈતિક મૂલ્યો આધારિત શિક્ષણ - કેટલું જરૂરી?)
- Nation Building and Youth (રાષ્ટ્રનિર્માણ અને યુવાનો)
- Woman - A Self-creating Force / A Dynamic Force (નારી - એક સ્વયં સર્જન શક્તિ)
Rangoli- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
Installation- organized in the External Department (Shree T. K. Gohil Kalamanch)
- સંસ્કૃતિ
- આઝાદી
- સ્વચ્છતા
Debate- organized in the Department of English (Shree Harindra Dave Sahitya Manch)
- Is India marching ahead to lead the world? (ભારત વિશ્વગુરુ બનવા તરફ?)
- Are women free in our society? (આપણા સમાજમાં સ્ત્રીઓ સ્વતંત્ર છે ખરી?)
CLOSING CEREMONY
The Closing Ceremony of the Youth Festival brought a wave of happiness, full of energy and fun. Closing ceremony is always a period of tension. Everyone keeps waiting for the declaration of the result, the result of their hard work.
The dignitaries at the youth festival were Dr. Chetan Trivedi- Vice Chancellor of Bhaktkavi Narsinh Mehta University, IG Ashok Yadav sir, trustees of Takshshila Institute, RJ Akash and Singer Ishani Dave.
Here are the videos of the closing ceremony.
The general championship of Youth fest 2022 is won by Swami Sahajanand College of Commerce and Management
The general championship runners-up trophy of Youth fest 2022 is won by Sardar Patel institute.
I hope this blog will be useful. Thanks for visiting.
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