An artist's community vision

Makawanpur Natyashala (Theater) is envisioned to be a unique community theatre where any and all local, regional and national artists are given easy and free access for the arts they wish to perform for the community. While in other theaters, artists not only have to prepare their presentation, they have to go through whole series of process of securing a stage through deposit and arranging for instruments and other personnel, Makwanpur Theatre aims to give free access to any artist and share the revenue after the performances are over. Furthermore, all the necessary instruments and equipments will also be provided for the artists. This theatre is envisioned to be a minimum 300 capacity with a vibrant community participation that nurtures young and upcoming talents for bigger stages and artistic careers.

Within a year of this all the necessary paper works for the materialization of this vision has been completed and necessary community participation to pool resources to bring it to fruition has been initiated. However, we are all aware that Nepal is a resource poor country and that the decade long conflict has left is even more at a disadvantage. Nevertheless, the vision of new Nepal has to be nurtured and built by everyone in our country. In that spirit, the community-oriented theatre is consistent with an idea of building a foundation of equality for all talented artists to make their valuable contribution. In addition, it also provides an alternate environment to a capital-centric facility development, which is a need of the time. This community theatre demonstrates that talents are not a prerogative of capital city but that they are just looking for opportunities everywhere.