November ushers in Children's Day with lots of activities lined up for the young ones. Amongst them is Junoon Arts & Education Foundation's School Programme, which will be bringing two plays for students of Delhi Public School, Mohammadwadi, Pune. Under Theatre Adventures module, children between the ages of 8-10 can watch Catch the Crocodile by Gillo Theatre Repertory and the 11-13 year olds can watch Jhalkari by Rahi Theatre. The School Programme is one of the signature programmes of Junoon and Savitri Medhatul of the group explains the initiative. “Junoon has been co-founded by Sanjna Kapoor and Sameera Iyengar. Its primary motive is to make arts available and accessible to people. The most common refrain we hear is, 'Arts is not for us'. Or 'This is too complicated'. We think that arts has to become a part of everyone's day to day life. This is the umbrella motive of Junoon. And, we have multiple programmes keeping this in mind,” says Savitri...
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