Children Film Festival begins at Ali Auditorium

"Besides that there would be eight-day workshop on painting and sculpture. There would also be arts education and theatre workshops for teachers about using visual and performing arts for language, science and arts teachers. These workshops aim to help teachers to produce quality theatre in their schools and enhance their teaching skills with the aid of visual and performing arts," he explained. The workshop titles are 'Integrating drama in education', 'Producing theatre in your school', 'Playing with visual and performing arts' and 'Understanding technical theatre for school environments'.

Iqbal disclosed that this festival was the first of series of such events planned for children. "We will hold Shakespeare Festival in October to be followed by Children Reading Festival in December. In this festival fiction and non-fiction writing competition would be held. All the writing would later be published in the shape of a book," he said.

"The response of the children towards this festival is heartening. We had sent invitations to nearly 200 schools and distributed about 50,000 brochures. The registrations for next shows are complete and we hope to have full houses throughout the festival," Iqbal was of the view.