OSA Drama Festival started in 2009 for the first time. Dr Sri Gopal Mohanty was the festival coordinator. The concept of regional drama festival went into effect during the month of April 2009 at 3 sites, Texas, Michigan and Washington DC. OSA is planning to continue the tradition in its present form or in an improved form (combining music and dances) for 2010 and 2011.

• Drama Festival 2010

• Drama Festival 2009

• Drama Festival Guidelines

Drama Festival 2010

Coordinator: Dr Brajendra Panda

Co-coordinators: Dr Sri Gopal Mohanty

                         Sandip K Dasverma

Announcements: February 22, 2010

Dear Friends,

Preparations for this year's Regional Odiya Drama Festivals are underway. So far, the following four festivals have been confirmed.

1. Eastern Region:  led by New England chapter, to be held at Boston on April 10, 2010 (Contact: Nishikanta Sahu / Dillip Behera 603-988-8468) - Check program details

2. South-West Region: led by South-west chapter, to be held at Dallas on April 24th, 2010 (Contact: Tapan Padhi / Saroj Mohapatra 469-579-4167)

3. Northern Region:  led by CanOSA, to be held at Toronto on May 15th, 2010 (Contact: Jibanjit Tripathy / Gagan Panigrahi 416 223 2756)

4. North-Central Region: led by Chicago chapter, to be held at Chicago on June 19, 2010 (Contact: Ashok Parida / Gyana R. Patnaik 630-640-5631)

In addition, we are in process of contacting people at two more regions to see if there is enough enthusiasm to organize the drama festivals at those locations. We will send updates if and when the plans crystallize.

All members and non-members of OSA can participate in the Regional Odiya Drama Festival. With the locations and dates fixed, any group wishing to present their drama can contact us or the respective local organizers.

Best wishes,
 

Brajendra Panda, Sandip Dasverma, and SriGopal Mohanty
Coordinators, Regional Odiya Drama Festival
 

Program Details: Eastern Regional Drama Festival
 

Venue: Chinmay Mission Auditorium, 1 Union Street, Andover MA-01810
Date: Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Contacts: Nishikanta Sahoo(603-233- 5522, nsahoo@yahoo. com)
                 Arun Mohanty(617- 224-3275,arunmohanty_ 05@yahoo. com)

3:00PM – 3:45 PM

• Welcome & Registration
• Snacks

04:00PM

• Utkal Divas/Odisha Day Celebration

• Odissi Dance

• Kanchi Abhijan - A dance drama by OSNE Junior artists

• Dasanana: Naka Kata Upakhyana - A drama by NY/NJ chapter artists

• Rannapa Dance - Special Dance by NY/NJ Chapter

• Dinu Kaka Thiika Kahuthile - A drama by OSNE Senior artists

• Vote Of thanks

• Tumari paain - Oriya Medley

7:30PM

• Dinner

Drama Festival 2009

OSA National Coordinator: Dr Sri Gopal Mohanty

Number of Events: 3

South-West Region

Festival Coordinator:	Loknath Patro
Host	DFW Orissa Society
Event Date	April 4, 2009
Place	Dallas, Texas
Dramas	Athacha chANakya by Dallas Group
	SAhitya gaDiA manthana by Austin Group
	E ki Nataka by Arkansas Group
	Mom, mA Au mADAm by Houston Group
Website	http://southdramafest.orissasociety.org/

Eastern Region

Festival Coordinator:	Debaki Nandan Chowdhury
Host	Washington DC Chapter
Event Date	April 18, 2009
Place	Silver Spring, Maryland
Dramas	Gitinatya Sri Ganesha by DC group
	Pathoi Bohu by DC Group
	Gua Nimantrana by NYNJ Group

Northern Region

Festival Coordinator:	Jogesh Panda
Host	Michigan Chapter
Event Date	April 25, 2009
Place	Flint, Michgan
Dramas	Banna-Nasika by Canada Group
	Gitinatya Mahisa-Mardini by MI Group
Website	http://picasaweb.google.com/canosa.secretary/CanOSAAtOSARegionalDramaFestivalFlintMI#

Drama Festival Guidelines

Purpose:

• Exclusive opportunity for drama lovers to participate and/or to be spectators.

• Increased opportunity for inter-chapter socialization and sharing of ideas at a closer level.

• Improving the spirit of congeniality among members of communities in regions, by reviving earlier half-a-day Convention format.

Motto: The Festival should be more fun than anything else. 

Implementation Procedure:

1. Regions are formed from Chapters or otherwise. Four possible regions are: Canada, Michigan, Ohio and Chicago; New England, NY-NJ, Maryland-Virginia, Washington DC; Southwest, OZARK, South; California. Minnesota and Southeast are left out in this division. The division need not be rigid. An example of flexibility is Michigan, Chicago and Minnesota to form the region in a year when Chicago hosts (to be explained soon), or Southeast may join when Washington DC hosts. Sometimes, there might be two teams from the same Chapter, say Southwest may have two teams, one from Dallas and another from Houston since both have strong interest in drama and both cities are not close.

2. In each region, a Chapter to host the Festival and the dates of the Festival for a given year are selected through mutual consent of different Chapters within a region. Normally it is expected of Chapters to take turn to be a host.

3. The Festival will be held in a suitable weekend.  The guests arrive on Friday evening/night or at the latest on Saturday morning. Dramas are performed on Saturday afternoon and evening. On Sunday the guests depart.

4. The host Chapter makes all arrangements including facilities and providing hospitality to outside guests. Provision of facilities should be reasonable and nothing fancy or expensive. It is understood outside guests are accommodated with families.

5. The duration of a drama should be approximately one hour.  For optimality, there should be at most four dramas, two performed in the afternoon and two in the evening with a tea/coffee break for approximately an hour. The minimum number of dramas in a Festival is two.

6. At least two Chapters should participate in a Festival. It may be possible to have two teams from the same Chapter if there is insufficient participation in a Festival.