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Kritya 2012 will once again take place in its home land Kerala.
We are getting back to our roots to enrich our selves. We are
here to sing the song of Rabindranath Tagore.
We know this is the time of terror and unrest; we want to make
friendship with peace and sing out in the great poet's voice:
Peace, my heart, let the time for
the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain
into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end
in the folding of the wings over the
nest. ( Rabindranath Tagore)
We want to celebrate peace without treaties and without
demagogy.
We know that a poem cannot stop a war, or an earthquake. But a
poem can give us courage to face them.
We know that a poem cannot quench hunger, but satisfy our mind
and soul, and show an ideal way to live.
Poems are keys that can open for us the treasure house of our
common riches - human love, wisdom, creativity and beauty:
riches that are made abundant when shared.
We are here again to celebrate poetry along with other art
forms, singing these lines of Rabindranath Tagore.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the
earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
We are here with 25 voices from around the world, we are here
with 25 Indian voices, and we are here to give you a taste of
the sweetness of the Malayalam language through the offerings of
at least 25 Malayali poets.
Poetry Painting
As century ahead Simonides said-
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks”
by Plutarch in his De Gloria Atheniensium, III, 346.
We will read poetry in silence but in colours.
Poetry Film
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the
head of a poet. Distributors, naturally, are all of the opinion
that poets don’t sell seats. They do not discern whence comes
the very language of the cinema. Without poets, the vocabulary
of the film would be far too limited ever to make a true appeal
to the public. The equivalent of a babble of infants would not
sell many seats. If the cinema had never been fashioned by
poetry, it would have remained no more than a mechanical
curiosity, occasionally on view like a stuffed whale."
-Orson Welles, from "Ribbon of Dreams"
We once again come to you with film on poetry, poetry in films
or poetry as film.
Twenty-five poets from around the world will take part in this
event.
Artists fromAustria and India will paint
Filmmakers from Norway and India will screen their films.
Friends, let us invoke the powers of poetry.
Hail, poetry!
Rati Saxena
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