 Hello everybody, I'm very very grateful, the whole team is very grateful, all the participants are very grateful that all of you are here, it's so beautiful that you brought your presence here and it will be a collaboration between people who will be performing and between you because if there is no audience this will not make any sense, so I'm very very grateful that you guys are here. I would like to share a little bit about how this came in existence. One day I was just thinking how do I work with children in Auroville? I worked in like little little groups or individual kids but I wanted to work with a lot of children together so I randomly thought of this idea let's do a play and then few of us as a team who put all these together we did a flyer and we sent a few groups and many kids signed up. Most of us are not from theater background, I am not from theater, I've never acted in my life, I've never directed anything and a couple of people are from theater background who are actors but as such we didn't know how to put this whole thing together but we wanted this to happen so we thought we will see how it will unfold and we started so when a lot of kids applied for it signed up for it we thought okay how can we expand and get more kids then we approached Tamaraya school they were very happy to collaborate then we approached Deepam school they were very happy to collaborate and then soon enough we had approximately 60 to 70 kids who were part of this. First few months the process was we would gather and we would say choose your groups you could be solo you could be in pairs you could be in groups choose your groups and choose a topic and create something and we will present to each other that's how it started and kids were having a lot of fun for many reasons one anything and everything was allowed to be created there was nobody who was saying this is wrong this is right this is good this is bad and they could they could choose their own characters they could choose their own lines they they felt allowed in terms of an ownership of their creation then slowly slowly we started telling them that okay now we would like to do a performance then they finally chose the groups they really wanted to work with and during the process they worked with many different groups and the feedback that we received from the kids the things that they were taking back in these sessions were we are learning how to love more we are learning how to accept more we are learning how to adjust with different groups more we are learning how to how to cooperate and consider other how to see that how all of us are so beautifully and amazingly gifted even though our gifts are different we all look different but we all are gifted absolutely every living being in this world is gifted so they discovered a lot of their gifts and that that that they will present today then slowly they chose their groups that they stuck to and they started writing their own stories once the stories were completed we helped them guided them a little bit to refine the story how do we write the dialogues now who will speak what they chose everything they chose which character they wanted to play how many lines they wanted to speak so there was no competition that I have five lines and you have ten lines because they were choosing everything themselves also checking in with each other between each group are you okay with this so all these little little processes were mind-blowingly amazing to see how they were putting everything together and then they started writing the songs and we help them the music team help them compose those songs they created some of them created their own melodies some of them we helped them to create their melodies it was a very very for me my heart expanded each time I met them and to see how gifted all of us are and how beautifully we are sharing this gift with each other few things that we noticed and observed there was racism there was I am not good enough there was I don't think I can do this there was I am better than you there were many many things like this came up and through different processes we we crossed few rivers and the main process was authenticity can I stand in front of the whole group of 50 60 and say what I'm really feeling also can say oh I don't like you and I like you and then we worked on that that how can we like everybody we may not like certain things about one person or two people but it's not the whole being so there were many many processes that we did with kids so it's not about a performance it's not about theatre you will see a lot of you will see basically a perfect imperfection on the stage today and it will be it you will love it I know you will love it because kids all we were talking about with them was the word stress is not in our dictionary we are allowed to forget our lines we are allowed to take help from the people who are part of the story I'm forgetting my lines can you help me we are allowed to freeze on stage and they feel comfortable with that and that's the confidence we wanted to build in them not the confidence that oh I remembered all my stories and Jester one moment I just a please when you will watch this show please watch it as if you are part of the show because you will see a lot of mirrors in these stories I'm sure you must have feel it felt ashamed in some time of your life there's a story on shame I'm sure you must have felt sometime in your life that I'm not good enough so there's a representation of that there are many many things that you will see mirror in them so please feel that you yourself are in the stage and not just these kids love you all please have fun love what I see in you I love what I see in me I am you you are me even though every soul is unique we are all love love love he's the best forget the rest spinach is tasty and good when it's cooked with the perfect move drink many juices he's the best forget the rest she's so old like what can she do I guess I'll trust you do you smell those fights inject the face back into the road yes but you're going to give up what you love well you really don't want me to give up keep on reminding you never give up never give up what am I supposed to do I'm really scared and I don't why don't you take me as your support to the concert tomorrow nobody would mind me I'm just a flower yes that would be great your voice is really nice the song is so creative I would love first things first I must say all the words inside my head I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been no way to things have been no he wants to sing for a band on the street and then I don't know what happened I think I was five years old since then I was making music on the street and I don't feel comfortable telling you that's totally fine we understand but would you be willing to join our band be perfect yeah take to the world