Kritya 2012
Poetry Festival Program


Location

The poetry festival will take place in Vyloppilli Samskriti Bhavan, a multi purpose cultural complex under the Department of Culture, Government of Kerala, founded as a research, documentation, perfermance and preservation center of cultural traditions and art forms of Kerala. It is one of the few institutions of this kind in India and is a UNESCO approved center for cultural heritage preservation.
It is located in Nalanda, near Nandancode. It holds the personal belongings of Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, a famous Malayalam poet.
The atmosphere of the memorial is calm and soothing, with a well-designed landscape.


Day I (16/1/12)


10.00 am to 10.03 am – Invocation
10:03 am -10:10 am – Opening Speech – Rati Saxena-Festival Director
10.10 am -10. 30 am – Visual presentation of the Malayalam Poetry.
Lighting lamp
Inaugural Poetry Reading-
10.35 am To 10.55 am -ONV Kurup (India)

Special Reading -
11.00 am to 11.20 am -Wolsan, Kidong Kim (Korea)
11:20 am -11:50-am Inauguration of Odveig Klive's Photo Poetry exhibition
and K. Jayakumar's Painting Exhibition on Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali
-Inaugurated by Samil Yang (Korea).

Poetry Reading Session -1
12.00 am to 12.20 pm - Francisco X. Alarcón (Mexico/USA)
12.20 pm to 12.40 pm-- Raquel Lanseros (Spain)
12.40 pm to 1.00 pm- Khaleel Mamoon(Urdu-India)

Lunch break

Poetry Reading- Session 2
2.00. pm to 2.20 pm -Sayumi Kamakura (Japan)
2.20. pm to 2.40-pm -Francoise Roy (Canada)
2.40 pm to 3.00 pm- Ilda Poshi (Albania)
3.00 pm to 3.20 pm- Leeladhar Mandloi (Hindi-India)
3.20 pm to 3.40 pm -Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland/ Éire)
Poetry Reading- Session -3
4.00 pm to 4:20 pm- Harshad A. Trivedi ( Gujarat-India)
4.20 pm to 4.40.pm -Ataol Behramoglu(Turkey)
4.40 pm to -5.00 pm -K. Satchidanandan (Malayalam-India)
5.00 pm to 5.20 pm - Menna Elfyn ( Wales/UK)
5.20 pm to 5.40 pm- K. Jayakumar (English )
5.40 pm to 6.00 pm- Neela Padmanabhan (Tamil- India)
6.00 pm to 6.20 pm- Amir Or ( Israel)

Poetry Films
6.20 pm - Welcome speech by Rati Saxena
Address by Chief Guest- Shri.A.P. Anilkumar
Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes & Backward Classes and Tourism)
Director’s Voice- Odveig Klyve -Norway

A-Poetry - films based on poetry - Odveig Klyve & Kari Klyve Gulbrandsen
Poetry is not iron, Whoever wants, Embrace, The Moon in the Plate of Hunger,
Washing clothes, Immigrants, A Feather, Loneliness, Song of Nagaland, This
Time, Towards the market too, Cycle
B-Films which see poetry through lenses - Gitanjali Rao (India)
Printed Rain bow, Orange, Blue, Girgit

Day II (17/1/12)

Poetry Reading Session- 4
10:00 am -10:20 am- Davide Rondoni (Italy)
10:20 am -10:40 am- Manglesh Dabral- Hindi
10:40 am-11:00 am- Francesca Cricelli (Brazil).

Poetry Reading Session- 5
11:15 am -11:35 am- Zingonia Zingone -(Italy)
11:35 am-11:55 pm- Arif Raja – (Kannada-India)
11:55 am-12:15 pm-Hanane Aad (Lebanon)
12.15 pm-12-35 pm- Bengt Berg (Sweden)
12.35 pm to 12:55 pm-Kavi Yakoob (Telugu-India)

1:00 pm -2:00 pm Lunch break

Poetry Reading Session -6

2:00 pm -4:00 pm (Malayalam Poetry)
Session - A
Chair- Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri
Shri Anavar Ali
Shri. Sebastain
Smt. Vijayalakshmi
Gopalakrishnan PN
Session - B
Chair-Smt Sugathakumari
Shri D. Vinaya Chandran
Shri Rafeek Ahemed
Shri V Madhusudan Nair
Smt. Savithri Rajeevan

Session-C
Chair- Shri Vishnu Narayan Nambuthiri
Shri S Rameshan Nair
Shri Chemmanam Chacko
Shri P Narayana Kurup
Shri Indra Babu
Session -D
Chair- Shri Balachandran Chullikkad
Shri Ezhacheri Ramachandran
Smt Rose Mary
Shri Mahanakrishanan kalady
Smt Anitha Thampi
Poetry film projection-Part-two
7.00 pm to 7.30 pm
Kunjedathi by Prasad Noornad- -A Film on ONV Kurup's long
poem.

7.30 Onward

Day III (18/1/12)

Poetry painting live
10:00 am -10.30 am Poetry painting live By B.D.Dethan, Artist/ painter along
with reading of Malayalam Translation of Tagore’s Gitanjali by Lizzie Jacob
Poetry Readings Session -7
10:45 am -11:10 am-Ashok Vajpeyi (Hindi-India)
11:10 am – 11:30 am- D. Nurkse (USA)
11.30 am – 11.50 am-Shaista Yusuf (Urdu-India)
11.50 am -12.10pm-Manushyaputran (Tamil-India)
12:10pm-12:30pm- Odveig Klyve (Norway)
12:30 pm -12:50 pm-Leon Felix Batista (Dominican Republic)

1:00 pm -2:00 pm Lunch

Poetry Rading Session - 8
2:00 pm -2:20 pm-Tarini Shubhadayini (Kannada-India)
2:20 pm -2:40pm-Anna Lombardo (Italy)
2:40 pm-3:00 pm-Sukumaran (Tamil-India)
3:00pm -3:20pm- Rajendra Patel (Gujarat-India)
3:200pm-3.40pm-Shail Agrawal (Hindi – USA)

Poetry Prformance Session - 9
4.00 pm -4.40 pm
Peter Waugh
Rati Saxena

Poetry Reading Session – 10
4.40 pm to 6.00 pm Open Mike
Valedictory function 6.00 onward
Welcome speech - Shri.R.Gopalakrishnan
(Secretary -Kerala Sahitya Akademi)
Address by Chief Guest- Shri K.C.Joseph
(Minister for Rural Development, Planning and Culture)
Presidential Address- Shri Perumbadavam Sreedharan
(President Kerala Sahitya Akademi)
Felicitations - Shri.Ashok Vajpeyi (Hindi-India)
Shri.Ataol Behramoglu (Turkey)
Shri K.K.Gopalkrishnan
(Director- Kutiyattam Kendra, Thiruvananthpuram)
Vote of Thanks- Shri.Mohammed Kunju Mettharu
(Trustee, Kritya)
6.45Pm onwards
Kuttiyattam - BaliVijayam by Painkulam Ramchakyar Smaraka Kalapeedam
Sponsored by
Sangeet Natak Akademi, Center for Kuttiyattam , Trivandrum
Day IV (19/1/12)*
At Mahakavi Kumaran Asan Smarakam at Thonnakkal
Day V (20.1.12) & Day VI (21.1.12)
Sameeksha Ashram -Kalady (Near Angamali in Kerala )
Kritya 2012-Extension of poetry festival

Day V (20.1.12)*

6:00 am Journey from Chirayinkil Railway Station to Sameeksha Ashram Kalady by train.( Aprox. cost $10. -tickets will be booked by kritya in advance )

Ashram Kalady is a place with out boundaries dotted with rustic cottages, trees, shrubs and flowering plants all growing without too much care and cutting. The most fascinating and peaceful area is the river side. The Periyar flows so slowly and silently kissing the hedges. Meditation just happens here by the river side watching reflecting…… PEACE enters and drowns you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyaK0ZltvGk&feature=related

* for poets not wishing to stay at the ashram, hotels can be booked on payment basis, please inform the organizers.

Day VI (21.1.12)

Morning readings

The Kerala Tourist department can help make arrangements for those wanting to take a tour of Kerala.