Kritya's commitment to poetry is endorsed in the timely issues of its web journal circulated online on the very first of every month. The poems included transcend time and space speaking through the universal language of poetry and the arts. The stake is high for the unseen hands that work overtime to publish the journal on time.

KRITYA 2008 - II INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL AT CHANDIGARH

It is festival season for art lovers the world over as Kritya, a renowned cultural foundation, is all geared up to celebrate poetry and painting in collaboration with the Punjab Arts Council, actively supported by the Sahitya Akademi and CIIL, Mysore. Kritya2008 scheduled for November 14th 15th and 16th, will once again celebrate the borderless domains of art and culture. The third in a row of successful annual festivals, Kritya will strive to add another milestone in its annals.
Kritya's unalloyed mission is to achieve harmony both cultural and linguistic. It will widen the scope and reach of global literature, arts and culture and fulfill its goal of promoting the aesthetic experience through poetry and the allied art forms. It will also provide a common forum for poetry-lovers all over the world to come together, show case their talent and exchange views.
Kritya2007 organised at Trivandrum, Kerala, drew several well known poets from Italy, Ireland, Hongkong, Belgium, US besides India. Varied voices greeted the festival of muses at the Kritya 2007, International Poetry Festival held at Vaillopalli Samskriti Bhavan in Trivandrum on the 21st, 22nd & 23rd of July. A delegation of more than seventy poets and litterateurs the world over gathered for the occasion. The festival was a tribute to the great poet, late Dr. Ayyappa Pannikker and co-sponsored by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (Ministry of External Affairs) and the Government of Kerala. An anthology of international poetry edited by Dr. Rati Saxena and co-edited by Joneve Mc.Cormick and Christina Pacosz, was also released on the occasion.

Kritya2008 will be held in Chandigarh on 14,15 and 16 of Novemebr 2008. Around thirty renowned poets from all around the world will congregate at Chandigarh for the event. Among them Margus Lattik-Estonia, Odveig Klyve Norway, Uktamoy and Hudoykulova - Uzbekistan, Naim Araidi-Israel, Triin Soomets Estonia,Araceli Mancilla Zayas Mexico, Elisa Biagini-Italy, Evelyn Holloway, John Siddique, Peter Waugh, , ROCIO GONZALEZ, and Hanane Aad - Lebanese. Great name from India include Nand Kishore Acharya, Ramakant Rath, K.Satchidananadan, A. Krishna Murthy, Keki Daruwalla, Udaya N. Singh, Kunwar Narain, Arun Kamal, Mangalesh Dabral, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Dilip Jhaveri, Mamang Dai, Jiban Narah, Robin S Ngangom, Chandra P. Deval, S. S. Noor, Kikkeri Narayan, Vishvanath Tivari, Shambhu Badal, Purnima Varman,Vijay Shankar , Amit kalla, Rati Saxena among others. The programme will have sessions of poetry readings, panel discussions and interactive sessions with the poets. A chapbook competition has also been well received and the winner will be announced at the festival. Details of the event have been posted on Kritya's website. www.kritya.in. As is customary for Kritya an anthology of poetry will be released on the occasion.
Kritya's director, Dr. Rati Saxena, is the relentless spirit behind the venture. She is also the chief editor of its successful bilingual web journal devoted to poetry and translations. Surjit Pater is the Host diretor of Poetry Festival. Kritya has grown in stature and its acknowledged international status cannot be contested as Argo Spiers, its Western Consultant for Kritya2007, aptly records, the dream of Doctor Saxena, her advisors and the Trustees of Kritya to establish an expanding space for global literature, art and culture to flourish through the tools of translation, publication, performance, interaction and interchange of literary ideas among various languages and cultures can be realized. The 'child of Kritya that was born at Kritya2007' may indeed become a much appreciated movement with a fixed international dimension.
Kritya's commitment to poetry is borne out through suggestions to forge international collaborations from various Arts councils who have recognized Kritya's efforts to propagate the arts regardless of all barriers.
Kritya engagement with arts and the esthetic experiences through poetry and allied art form has always manifested it self in the blending of the visual and the poetic. On the occasion of the festival an art exhibition has been envisaged kritya will afford a forum for art lovers of the world over to witness a visual extravaganza through the work of upcoming Indian Artist the exhibition in the exhibition gallery of Punjab Arts Council and will be open to the public on all days of Poetry festival. Amit kalla , Divya Pandey,Daniel Connell, Kuldeep Singh, Yogendra Kumar Purohit, Vijay Kadam,Vishal Bhuwania are a few names , taking part in Art Exhibition.
Please visit festival site- http://www.kritya.in/Kritya2008/kritya2008.html


Rati Saxena

Director -poetry festival

Kritya2008

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