StoryTime

Sunil Vishnu K from Chennai calls his organization,‘a happy factory’. We couldn’t agree more,given that for ten long years,he has been organising shows,workshops and programmes for people to sharpen their leadership and managerial skills apart from helping them evolve as individuals and de-stress. The best way for all this is of course,theatre with a bit of storytelling thrown in,Sunil would tell you. The east zone finalist for the Young Performance Arts Entrepreneur 2009,an integral part of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Award (YCE) organised by the British Council Library (BCL),started Evam around ten years back.

Evam specialises in organizing storytelling sessions for children and theatre workshops that help people discover their latent talents. “The theatre sessions are designed to make the youth identify with the characters,with the ideas dealt with in course of the procedure,” says Sunil. The young entrepreneur at present aims at incorporating new techniques in his productions that improve the over-all quality of his work. “I also want to experiment with new forms of expression that can complement traditional theatre and also boost the quality of Indian performing arts,” says Sunil. He is also looking at business tie-ups and collaborations that can take theatre to new heights.

No wonder,Samarjit Guha,head,programmes,at the BCL says,“Sunil has great commercial clarity and a clear vision of his goals in putting the creative arts in a viable and lucrative mode. He has infectious leadership qualities and loads of positive attitude and that would leave an indelible impact on the performing arts scenario.” The award is aimed at recognizing talent and entrepreneurial skills in the performance arts sector,and the winner would be visiting Edinburgh and get a prize money for five thousand pounds. “The winner should have a profound understanding of performing arts so that he/she can contribute in strengthening Indo-European relations through art. The aim of the award is to create a critical business sense in the artist community but the basis remains creativity that will strengthen business plans,make profits and sustain it,” says a BCL representative.