Registration Details

Nahalee NGO Organization Members

Nahalee Source Funds

Contact details

Nahalee Key Issues and Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements

Operational Districts: Kolkata

Operational States: WEST BENGAL

AchieveMents: Four young theatre workers, few well wishers and some unemployed youth came together and found NAHALEE on May 22nd, 2005. In the year 2007 on 26th July we registered our group under the West Bengal Society Registration Act-1961(Reg.No.-S/1L/46058) Our Main Activities are: •We Perform Drama, Mime, Dance Drama through proper training and practice. •Work with underprivileged individuals who are creative and talented. •To improve the overall cultural environment of the locality, we organize various cultural activities (viz.Theatre festival, Cultural competition, Training etc). •Working with children to make them one of our society.. •Use Art and Culture as a Therapy. •School Theatre Programme. •Training and Workshops. Our Achievements are: •Conducted training and workshops on Theatre with different Organizations like CINI, CRY, MJCC, and SAHAY in the last six years. •Nahalee dealt with 350 children (approx), who got training on different aspects of theatre and other form of Arts like (Dance, Drawing, Mime and song). •It was noticed in the school theatre programme that students have learnt to communicate better with each other, spontaneity developed and theatre also gave them a medium to express themselves freely. Many of them developed interest in Theatre. •Nahalee was invited in the following festivals: Sangeet Natak Academy Young Theatre Artist Drama Festival – 2008 Natya Chetna(Odessa) Drama Festival-2010 Thealight Drama Festival- 2011 Bol Jamoore children street theatre festival by CRY -2010 and 2011 •We organized an open air Theatre festival (Annual Programme 2011-2012). •We have performed more than 125 street shows in the last four years for different Organizations like CINI, MJCC etc on various topics like Child Rights and other social issues. •Through our experimental theatre with children, we were able to bring privileged and underprivileged children under one platform and in future it can help us in research based work.