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Health: Speak adult opposite piece abuse
- Updated: July 4, 2017
“When we was a kid, we remember a TV sequence called Chunauti. It was perplexing to lift recognition opposite drug abuse. The Archie comic array that we review around a time also carried messages like, ‘Say No To Drugs'; we felt these were surplus messages. But, when we went to college and after to work, we realised they were a unchanging partial of a universe around me,” shares oral word artist Ramya Pandyan, who goes by a name Idea Smith.
Simar Singh (right), owner of UnErase Poetry, during an event
This week, Pandyan will be pity her thoughts on drug abuse during a oral word communication eventuality patrician UnErase Against Drug Abuse. The thesis is lifting recognition about a dangers of drug use on a arise of International Day Against Drug Abuse Illicit Trafficking that is celebrated on Jun 26.
“We [UnErase] are a four-month-old village that works to foster and furnish oral word poetry. We control events, furnish live content, fire it and post it online,” says owner Simar Singh, adding a name UnErase was selected to weigh something of importance; something that couldn’t be wiped out.
Swamini Deshpande
Pandyan will be assimilated by 8 other oral word poets, including Navaldeep Singh, Preeti Vangani, Ankita Shah, Ramneek Singh, Moira Rajpal, Swamini Deshpande and Suhani Mardia. These poets have been selected by a village from communication and open mic events in a city. Pranav Kakkar will yield song around a performances.
UnErase’s initial eventuality was hold on Women’s Day, and centred on a thesis of gender equality. “We pronounce about amicable issues whenever we get a chance. Since drug abuse is a vital regard in a country, we motionless to collect it as a subject,” adds Singh, who will be hosting a event.
Moira Rajpal
Spoken word producer Swamini Deshpande adds that she is blissful to be partial of an beginning that tries to open adult a discourse about drug obsession and impediment by her favourite middle of expression. “I realize that as an artist who has a payoff of being listened by a crowd of people, we am obliged for bringing out a customarily unattended and speechless aspects of this issue, and try to provide them tenderly by my poems,” she says.
Ramya Pandyan
Pandyan, meanwhile, hopes to share her thoughts on being dismayed during how “normal, bland and invisible a obsession is – cigarettes that indeed enclose marijuana; minute discussions among ‘cool’ people about a smoothest weed, a best rolling paper, etc. I’ve learnt not to decider a robe during face value. But I’ve also seen friends remove vast tools of their lives to this addiction.”
“Identifying obsession during a beginning theatre and holding suitable movement is a need of a hour though amicable constructs get in a approach of kids and teenagers removing a assistance they need. If by events like these, we are successful during starting a conversation, half a conflict is won,” summarises Rajpal.
On: Jun 25, 3 pm to 6 pm
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