Responsible Drumming by DUMRU with Tree Public

“DUMRU” – THE DRUM FESTIVAL OF INDIA is India’s BIGGEST and ONLY Annual

DRUM/RHYTHM FESTIVAL, organized in the city of Pune.

The festival is Conceptualized and Produced by Mumbai based production house Gladpeople Entertainment Networks and it played host to more than 25 thousand rhythm lovers in its first season last year. The audiences were typically in the age group of 25 to 55 hence giving all our partners a varied target group for their promotions.

DUMRU – The Drum Festival of India 2012 will feature India’s best percussionists and will focus more on collaborations and new world sounds.

World famous percussionist and tabla Maestro Pandit Bickram Ghosh from Kolkata will be curating the festival is looking forward to include 2 international collaborations among other star percussionists like Sivamani,Peet Lockett, Greg Ellies, Ustad Taufiq Qureshi, Vidhvaan Vikku Vinayakram to name a few.

 Dumru – the Drum Festival of India has joined hands with Pune based NGO Tree Public to spread the awareness of creating a green tree blanket over Pune and to make Pune an environment friendly city. The organizers of DUMRU – The drum festival of India will donate one tree on every ticket sold to Tree Public.

Tree Public’s Annual “ Environment Arts Theater Festival ”

Tree Public Foundation organizes its annual Inter-School “ Environment Art Theatre Festival”  for the past 3 years, focusing on environment, biodiversity, wild life as central theme. This green festival is been planned only for school students in two groups

i.e.  ( pre-primary up to Std 4^th) & the secondary section i.e. (Std 5th to Std 10th)

Tree Public Foundation gives an opportunity for school students to perform drama and dance mélange on the given theme of nature. The performance is designed to be of minimum 10 & maximum 15 minutes, revolving around the given theme. Festival consists of Primary/screening rounds moving on to the selection rounds and then the selected schools get to perform on a bigger platform showcasing at the “Grand Finale”.

Shortlisted schools performing at the grand finale win certificates of participation , prizes, trophy’s for their school.

Tree Public in addition gives an opportunity to perform on various professional platform with renowned artist. The grand finale is judged by renowned senior artist & stalwarts from the theater & film fraternity.

Refreshing Outcome of the Festival :

1.      In-depth understanding of the alarming issues.

2.      Constructively self-solution finding methodology.

3.      Communication ,stage presentation & theater skills development of the students participating.

4.      Helping the art form keep alive & developing by more participation.

Number of school participating: 100 Schools

Treevolution Pune 2012.

Tree Public celebrated Treevolution Day 2012 at Symbiosis Vishwa Bhavan, on Saturday, 28th April 2012.

Vision : To save a decade we need to plant trees , but to save a decade we need to plant “Green Ideas”

Panel discussion & QA session for manufacturing Industry & construction related to environment and future challenges ahead.

It was a 3 hour program that included panel discussions and specially created environment art performances by television artistes organized by the Tree Public Foundation – commonly known as Tree Public. Environment NGO.

Amongst the eminent panelists in the panel discussions are:

Dr. Rajendra Shende, Director of the United Nations Environment Program,France.

Architect and world renowned city planner Christopher Benninger.

Biodiversity expert & Chairman of Maharashtra biodiversity board  – Dr. Erach Bharucha,

Vir chakra, environmentalist & HR expert- Col Lalit Rai, former Deputy chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral SCS Bangara, leading economist and environmentalist Dr. Vijay Paranjapye.

Who discussed about the sustainable City modules , growth and Pune’s infrastructure to support the growth.

Also in the program are two specially created environmental theatre programs. Award winning Parlekar Group from Mumbai, led by Tejas Malap would enrapture the audience with their two different plays miming and shadow play with environment as a central theme.

This is a “Green Ideas” concept by designed by TPF via which we are engage Industries , construction , services & society together to think green . Each one of us has a artist in him or her and we are trying to connect , inspire & reflect team work to come together to move towards a green pune revolution via Treevolution Pune.