PORT MORESBY: If you ask why Active City Development program attracts overseas talents, it aspires to open the city as ‘a centre for volunteers’ from all over the world.
Program manageress Fazillah Bazari said the publicity of the Walk and Yoga For Life work on Facebook and other social media platforms have gripped international volunteers’ attention to visit PNG, leaving their legacy on residents-to work with the young people and to expose them to international standards, so their skills and training can be on par by international requirement and standards.
Ms Bazari added that the program attracted CNN crew, creative movement trainers from the United Kingdom and drama trainer from Kenya.
Today (Sunday, August 26) we have an Argentinean theatre group, Circus Mandragora.
Their elite performers Juan Cruz Bracamonte and Mariana Silva this morning mesmerised thousands at end the Walk and Yoga for Life in Port Moresby’s Paga Hill ring road, with its mimic and clown outfit.
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| With the aid of local Dennis Loftkia, Juan and Mariana forming acrobatic frame in their mimic and clown performance |
With a loud hand of applause, they were delighted by their four-minute show.
They are in town following an invitation of the NCD Active City Development Program to train city residents, especially youths, to become circus performers, so they too can tour the world and earn a living like them.
Their show "Mandragora Circus" was premiered in their country in 2003 and performed in 18 nations overseas across four continents.
Silva said their PNG tour will is the first in Oceania.
She said their performance used gestures which allow the audience to imagine situations, conflicts and solutions.
Introducing them, the program’s manageress Fazillah Bazari said they would be performing at the NCD Independence Arts and Street Festival Paga Hill ring road.
Next week and beyond, she said, they would be training the youths at the Youth Empowerment and Transformation Program to start performing as professional performers, adding we will have our own PNG circus troupe like them.
These are the goals and aspirations of the program to make-some of our youths not inclined academically or vocationally, but are still marketable using their creative and performing arts to be self-sustaining.
According to her, the duo will be training the youths with acrobatic and theatre arts skills for two months at the Taurama Aquatic Centre.
NCD Governor Powes Parkop commended Ms Bazari and her management staff for being innovative with new initiatives creating opportunities and new pathways for the development of the city’s goals to leave no one idle and no one behind.
