WE BELIEVE

Theatre is the yardstick of civilization
Theatre is dialogue with the society
Death of Theatre means death of civilization

PREFACE

  • Anik is a theater organization in Kolkata, India. Anik started his journey on December 26, 1986. It was recognized as a registered organization by the Registrar of Firms and Societies of the Government of West Bengal on 3 March 1969. From then until today, till November 2020, we have been successfully producing plays for 32 years in Kolkata, different districts of West Bengal, different states of India and many cities of that country including Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. We have received the unconditional love of the theatre loving audience. Led by our founder, the late Amalesh Chakraborty, Anik not only produced its own plays, but also organized the Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsav to coordinate between the theater troupes of the country and Bangladesh. This festival has become popular as an international drama festival. This year is the 23rd year of that festival. 
    We have done residential workshops with indigenous boys and girls for four years. We have organized statewide drama competitions. We are organizing inter-school, inter-college and inter-university drama competitions with the students of schools, colleges and universities of West Bengal, which have been held for 18 consecutive years and thousands of students have already participated in this competition. 
    In addition, we are organizing seminars every year. Since 2016, we have started giving Amalesh Chakraborty Memorial Honors and Amalesh Chakraborty Memorial Lecture in memory of our founder Amalesh Chakraborty. 
    We stood by the unemployed workers for 6 consecutive months during Pandemic, with many of them associated with the drama. When the state was hit by cyclone Amphan. We rushed to many affected areas. I have taken some help for the endangered people. We have tried to provide meals to the hungry people on different railway platforms in the affected areas. Since we couldn't do theater on stage because the theater was closed, but we moved to the village, to the people in the city, to the real stage of life. That was the theater for us at that time. We want to take the drama work further in the coming days. We want friends with drama organizations. Besides, we must fulfill our social responsibilities. It is the responsibility of the group theater to take care of the society and Anik will be dedicated in that work.
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    ANEEK, a group theatre with a difference, established on 28 December, 1988 and running its 32nd year of glorious existence
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PERFORMANCES

    
    
          
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    Paticipation in the International Theatre Festival at Bangladesh in the years 1999,2000,2008 (twice), 2011,2012,2013 (twice),2014 (twice),  2016 (twice) & 2017(twice)
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    Participation in the festival organized by different group theatres and organizations, throughout the country.
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    Regular participation in the festival organized by State Drama Academy (Govt. of West Bengal), Youth Services Department (Govt. of West Bengal), Department of Culture (Govt. of West Bengal ),Zonal Cultural Centres (Govt. of India ), Sangeet Natak Akademi (Govt. of India).
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    Hundreds of invited shows all over the country.
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    Regular own shows at different auditorium of Kolkata.
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Awards

      
      
      

        

                    
International Awards

           
           
    
             
  • 1.LEBEDEV AWARD (USSR) : Best Production, Best Dramatist, Best Director
    2.NURUN NAHAR SAMAD NATYA PADAK (BANGLADESH) (Best Production, Best Dramatist, Best Director )
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State Awards 

           
           
    
             
  • 1.STATE DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD – Best Dramatist
    2.STATE DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD – Best Stagecraft
    3.STATE DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD- Best Director
    4.STATE DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD- Best Actor
    5.STATE DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD- Best Actress
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Other Awards

            
    
             
  • 1.SUNDARAM AWARD - Best Dramatist
    2.DISHARI AWARD – Best Director
    3.DRAMA ACADEMY AWARD – Best Dramatist
    4.JYOTSNAMAKHA DAS SMARAK SAMMAN – Best Production
    5.JYOTSNAMAKHA DAS SMARAK SAMMAN – Best Actress
    6.DISHARI (PUNE) AWARD – Best Actress
    7.LIGHT DESIGNER CHITTA SARKAR MEMORIAL THEATRE SAMMAN – Overall Activities.
    8.DIPANKAR SENGUPTA SMIRTI SAMMAN BY SAYAK – Festival Organiser.
    9.NANDIKAR SAMMAN – Overall Activities
    10.HA ZA BA RA LA – Dramatist
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CULTURE COMPLEX

    
    
           
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    Our stages give opportunity to the theatre workers to experiment with theatrical activities. It is an ideal stage to produce short plays, intimate plays and experimental plays.
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    ANEEK has also constructed an open air theatre stage – ANEEK MUKTA MANCHA.
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    ANEEK has constructed a theatre stage, ANEEK NATYA MANCHA , with all necessary components of modern plays with a capacity of 150 spectators.
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NATIONAL INTEGRATION CAMP

   
    
  
            
            
                           
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    ANEEK is keen to organise such National Integration Camp in the coming years also.
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    ANEEK has organised National Integration Camp from 22 to 28 July, 2007 on Para Theatrical Activities based on Regional Themes of Folk Culture to from and establish a common platform from diverse religious, linguistic and cultural background to work together to promote increasing national understanding and effective participation in nation building activities.
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ANEEK INSTITUTE OF THEATRE EDUCATION 

   
    
                      
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    In this field, we had mainly concentrated our activities among the socially backward communities , whose nature cultural instinct with the help of scientific education will, we believe, enrich Bengali theatre in particular and theatre in general. Backward Class welfare Department of Govt. of West Bengal had extended their helping hand in our venture
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    Aneek Institute of Theatre Education has been formed to impart scientific education on theatre to theatre-worker
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    At the moment, in West Bengal, there are more than three thousand Theatre groups and more than one lac youth are engaged in Theatre-activities.
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    Bengali Theatre is a matter of pride in the socio-culture life of Bengal. Theatre workers are engaged in experimenting and developing theatre although right from the days of lebedev. Galaxy of Theatre personalities have enriched the Bengali Theatre for the last two hundred odd years.
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LIBRARY

     
     
    
           
  • ANEEK has established a library, Aneek Natya Granthagar, with drama and drama related books/magazines to meet the requirement of hundred of theatre workers of Kolkata.
    At present , the library is having about 500 books.
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CONCLUSION

        
ANEEK has been striving with the awareness that the more it achieves , the more is demanded of it. ANEEK commits itself to move onward with its objectives.

  








       
    
   
   
   

 
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