Programme of Kritya 2010
International Poetry Festival, Mysore

Day -I

Wednesday, 3rd February 2010

Inaugural Session - 10.00 AM to 11.30 AM

Invocation
welcome address Dr.Rati Saxena, Director, Kritya2010

Lighting of Lamp

Opening Remarks Prof. RAJESH SACHDEVA , Director, CIIL, Mysore

Declaration of the Inauguration of the festival by &

Inaugural Address by Chief Guest Shri Mahesh Elkunchwar , Renowned Playwright and litterateur

Guest of Honour Prof. V.G.Talwar , Honorable Vice Chancellor, University of Mysore

Vote of thanks Prof. Krishna Murthy Chandar

Inauguration of Painting Workshop

Session I - 12.00 pm to 1.30 PM

Poetry Reading

 Alicia Partnoy (Argentina)
 Tenzin Tsundue (Tibet)
 Hanane Aad (Lebanon)
 Osvaldo Sauma (Costa Rica)
 Maryam Ala Amjadi (Iran)

Lunch Break

Session II- 2.30 PM to 4.10 pm

Poetry Reading

 Enrique Moya (Austria)
 Prayag Shukla (India -Hindi)
 Zingonia Zingone (Italy)
 Helen Dwyer (Ireland)
 Nguyen Chi Strung (Vietnam)
 Dieter Berdel Austria (German + Viennese dialect)

Tea break

Session III -4.30 PM to 6.00 PM
Symposium - The Creative Unconscious in Exile, Trauma and survival

 Alicia Partnoy - (Argentina/USA)
 Eduardo Labarca – (Chili)
 Tenzin Tsundue – Tibet
 Agni Shekhar (Kashmir)
 Jayasree Ramakrishnan Nair- (India)
 Zingonia Zingone- (Italy)
 Maryam Ala Amjadi – (Iran)
Coordinator- Shyamala Nair- (India)

Break

Session IV- 7.00 PM to 9 PM

Film shows-

"The Poet and the World"
On poets from Romania, Belgium, Austria, England, India and Norway and from other countries.
Directed by Odveig Klyve & Kari Klyve-Gulbrandsen
Producer Bjorn Gulbrandsen
"Labyrinth: self, nature and dreams" - A film by Akash Gaur
"At The Midnight Hour" by Samit Das
"Breathing Without Air" by Kapilas Bhuyan
"Ramta Drig" by Daniel Connell & Amit Kalla

Day II, Thursday, 4th February 2010

Session I- 10.00 AM to 12 AM

Poetry Reading

 K Satchidanandan - (India-Malayalam)
 Arundhathi Subramaniam (India-English)
 Diti Ronen (Israel)
 Bernhard Widder (German)
 Odveig Klyve (Norway)
 Alka Tyagi (India-Hindi)

Tea Break

Session II-12.15 Noon to 1.20PM

 Poetry Reading
 Peter Waugh (Austria)
 Vivek Narayan (India-English)
 AgniShekhar (India-Hindi)
 Dushyant (India-Rajsthani)

Lunch 1.30 PM to 2.00 PM

Session III- 2.15 PM to 3.30 PM

 Maria Elena Blanco (Austria)
 Behzad Zarrinpoor (Iran)
 Shyamala Nair (India-English)
 Shailey (India-Hindi)
 Umesh Chand Chowhan (India-Hindi)
 Aruna Sharma (India-Hindi)

Tea break

Session IV-4.00 PM to 6.00Pm
 Prantik Banerjee (India-English)
 Nishant (India- Hindi)
 Victoria Slavuski (Argentina)
 Rati Saxena (India-Hindi)
 Amit Kalla (India-Hindi)
 Kirpal Singh (Punjabi)

Session V- 7.00 PM to 9 PM

Poetry Films by Sadho
Sadho is a voluntary organization that aims taking great poetry to people from all walks of life through the innovative use of arts, media and social action. Sadho is coming with a number of good poetry films for full one session. Kritya and Sadho are working in same direction with different objectives. So this collaboration will really good for poetry lovers

Day III, Friday, 5th February 2010

Session I -10.00 AM to 12.00 AM

Poetry Reading- Regional Poetry/Kannada Poetry

 Prof. C Naganna
 Prof. Sidda Sharma
 Prof.Arvinda Malagatti
 Dharani Malagatti
 Prof. Mahadeva
 Prof. O.P Ravi Chandra
 Prof.Padma Shekar
 Prof. Somashekhar
 And many others……

Session II -12.00 noon to 1.20 PM

Open mike

Lunch

Session -III .3.00pm to 4.00 pm

Chat session: Response of the poets, a discussion.

Session -IV .4.00pm to 4.00 pm
Cultural expressions by poets and artists


Painting Work shop shall continue all through the festival. The Artists who will take part are

 Amit Kalla – Jaipur
 Daniel Connell - Australia
 H.K. Vishwanath- Mysore
 Mustak Khan choudhuri- Gwaliar
 Neeru Singh - Baroda
 Swapan Bhandari- Shanti Niketan
 Sharad- Bengaluru
 Vijendra Vij – Delhi
 Vdya Sagar Singh- Allahabad
 Vishal Bhuwaniya- Indore
 Wagay Billal- Kashmir

The Artists are been sponsored by Gwalior based Pranjal Arts. PRANJAL ARTS represented by SARVJEET SINGH AND NEIRU SINGH known for their patronage and promotion of Indian Contemporary Art is a non-profit making organization founded in the year 2002 with the view to promote Indian Contemporary Art.


The Artists are been sponsored by Gwalior based Pranjal Arts. PRANJAL ARTS represented by SARVJEET SINGH AND NEIRU SINGH known for their patronage and promotion of Indian Contemporary Art is a non-profit making organization founded in the year 2002 with the view to promote Indian Contemporary Art.


Contact
Dr. Rati Saxena
Director -Kritya
saxena_pr@asianetindia.com

Dr. Y Sridhar Reddy
Coordinator

+91 821 2345096