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Festival of poetry Kritya2005
Kritya has taken her first step into the vast expanse of the
world of poetry in June -2005.To mark Kritya's achievement we
organized a "celebration of poetry" or poetry festival at the
Museum Auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Kritya has taken her first step into the vast expanse of the
world of poetry in June -2005.To mark Kritya's achievement we
organized a "celebration of poetry" or poetry festival at the
Museum Auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
As we know, poetry, the oldest form of literature, is always
kept alive in other art forms like drama, dance, music and even
painting. So we celebrated it by singing, acting, talking and
painting poetry
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poetry
in the world arena and brought the world literature to Malayalis,
inaugurated the function by reading poetry.
Kavalam Narayana Paniker who has given a new grammar to Indian
theatre, was the chief guest and he read his own, and Ayyappa
Paniker's poems.
B. D Dethan, a great painter from Kerala who has combined the
tradition of Indian and western painting, painted on the spot
while the poems were being rendered.
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Festival of poetry Kritya2006
We
celebrated IInd poetry festival by releasing Dogari special in
Abhinava (Jammu & Kashmir) in collaboration with the J&K Academy
of Arts, Culture and Languages on 4 July 2006.
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 JAMMU,
July 4; Art and literature unite the hearts so efforts should be
made to use them as a binding force to create a "new world"
imbuing only peace and prosperity -- was the underlying message
on the momentous occasion of release ceremony of the first ever Dogri poetry: A special number of web magazine www.kritya.in
here today.
The function was organized by Organization of Art, Culture,
Languages (OACL), Kerala on the occasion of "Kavita Utsav- II"
in collaboration with J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages
(JKAACL) at Abhinav Theatre. The Web magazine was released by
OACL 's founder Director Dr Rati Saxena, who was the guest of
honour in the function, while Chairman "The Kashmir Times" group
of publications Ved Bhasin graced the occasion as the chief
guest.
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International poetry Festival -Kritya2007
KRITYA--2007- An Introduction
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and
limitations, the latter - like the river banks - forcing
spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the
work for art or poetry.
- Rollo May
We believe poetry is more than words arranged in aesthetic form;
it is a quality, and a state of mind. And so in our search for
poetry we have also looked at visual art, theatre and dance
which contain the essential poetic ingredient. And while we
ventured forward thus, radical and experimental work came our
way from people willing to work for the cause of promoting
poetry. As a result of excellent response over the past two
years, it was decided to continue the adventure and help
establish the Kritya Poetry Festival with voices from different
parts of the world as well as from the local community.
The third edition of Kritya's Festival of Poetry held from
July 21 to 23, 2007; and this time it was an International
Festival of Poetry. To capture the Festival distinctively, a
number of poets and cultural activists from all over the world
participated. To promote the voice of poetry, we revived diverse
voices in art and culture. Nothing comparable is going on in the
south of India. While we aspire to create widespread interest in
poetry, we are also putting our emotional and financial necks on
the block...so to speak!
Kritya, has grown and thrived in the last few years in almost
every way - there are more events, bigger venues, larger
readership and audiences and more awareness --thanks to the
faith and hard work of the Kritya team.
Around 60 poets, from India and abroad will assemble in
Thiruvananthapuram to present their work. Performance poets and
artists will add to the Festival's cultural dimensions.
For further details and bookings, please contact the editors at
letters@kritya.in
editor@kritya.in
By Suma V S
A
story behind the curtain-kritya2007
Some
times I feel that Kritya has its own magic which reveals
itself in its name. In the Vedic age, people used Kritya as
word power. It saved them from all sorts of evil. It was a
weapon to save lives, also a weapon to destroy. Later,
Kritya changed its meaning as an evil power. In reality,
Kritya is a power which could also be used negatively by
some of us. Poetry has the same fate as it changes every
negative aspect of life in positive ways. That is why when
Kritya and poetry work together, they work as very strong
positive powers. Poetry filters the negative aspect of life
and makes it extensive, when gets concentrated, it changes
into Kritya.
That's why I feel that Kritya chooses its own path; I just
follow it and think ignorantly that I am following my own
dreams. The plan of Kritya 2007 was taking shape in the
month of February 2007 but I was unaware of its shape and
plan. While talking to friends, the idea of an international
festival came to my mind. I do not know, what was behind
this thought, but I decided to follow it like a child who
follows a butterfly without bothering about other obstacles
which could prevent her. Time passed, the festival was only
on paper. I talked to a number of people, but I wasn't sure
about its shape and plans. The message about the festival
reached a number of poets from different countries. This was
a very difficult time for me, as I felt that my dream has
reached a number of people, but my dream was yet to become
concrete. General Secretary of Kritya and I wrote a number
of letters to different institutions, and we also had some
hope. But soon my mail box was filed with negative
responses. I still had a hope. I was seeing huge boards for
advertisement of jewelers and clothes on the road side while
traveling between Trivandrum and Kalady. I thought that if
Kritya could manage to get a big Jeweler as a main sponsor,
things will be easy. I wrote to a number of Jewelers, but
positive reply was nowhere............ (see next link)
Rati Saxena
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International poetry Festival Kritya2008
Kritya 2008, the fourth poetry festival celebrated by the Kritya
organization, was held in Chandigarh (Punjab) in collaboration
with the Punjab Arts Council and with the support of the Sahitya
Akademi, CILL Mysore and other literary bodies in different
countries.
During the three days of this Poetry Festival, we had readings
of almost 50 prominent poets.
I started from Kerala all alone with a lot of worries, and
books. Amit, the young poet and artist joined me in Delhi. When
I reached Chandigarh, a young energetic writer Kripal joined me
in my mission. Vijendra Vij was regularly working from Delhi.
Shalbha, the Trustee of Kritya, joined us on 13th evening, and I
must say that these four young supporters were the pillars of
the success of Kritya 2008.
The guests of Kritya started coming to Chandigarh from the 12th
evening itself. And by the 14th morning, we had poets from all
over the world. Our inaugural session started at 10 a.m at the
Punjab Art council. It was inaugurated by a great Indian poet
Kunwar Narain ji, who had recently received the Jnanpeeth Award,
which is considered the biggest award in India. The function was
presided over by Dr. Swarn Singh, the Principal Secretary of the
Punjab Government.
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Kritya in Europe
2009
Binario 7 theatre - magic evening
'Pagliarani, Matarrese and Saxena, poetry has no boundaries'
www.poesiapresente.it
The evening goes on with a reading by Eleonora Matarrese with
music by Ryck Valli: a long poem called "Die Welt", that the
young poet (born in 1976, with origin from Puglia) read with
music. A "memento mori" disquieting and powerful, made even more
touching to the intensity of the music.At the end, guest of
honor of the evening, the indian poet Rati Saxena (in the
picture), introduced and traduced by Federico Federici. Rati
Saxena dressed an elegant black sari and she read her poems in
the original language. Poems in hindi, that are music,
placidity, levity, quiet. And life. Poems, traduced by Federico
Federici, that are words of love and friendship. The love and
the friendship that we can find in the small things, for example
insects and objects. This joyful poetry from Rati Saxena made
the international also the evening of CReO: "An important
evening - said Dome Bulfaro -that draw, through the English
language, a bridge between Italy, United Kingdom and India". An
important evening ad the end of an important day that made
global the local reality.
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International poetry Festival
Kritya2010
The Festival was organised in
collaboration with the CIIL, Mysore, which is a Central
Government body for the promotion of languages.
The fifth Kritya 2010 Festival concentrated on the poetry of
exile, trauma and survival.
The known poets of exile all around the world who had assembled
for the festival expressed exile in different individual terms.
We had renounced poets from other countries; Zingonia Zingone (Italy),Osvaldo
Sauma, Peter Waugh (Austria ), Dieter Berdel (Austria ), Enrique
Moya , Maria Elena Blanco (Cuba), Victoria Slavuski (Argentina),
Bernhard Widder (Austria), Hanane Aad (Lebanon), Alicia Partnoy,
Diti Ronen (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Helen Dwyer ( Ireland), Nguyen
chi Strung (Vietnam) , Odveig Klyve ( Norway), Behzad Zarrinpoor
(Iran), Maryam ala Amjadi (Iran), who participated in the
festival. Their poetry was well received by the other poets &
artists.
Indian poets who took part in this festival were Vivek Narayan,
Prayag Shukla, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Agnishekhar, Tenzin
Tsundue, Shyamala nair, Jayasree Ramakrishnan nair, Rati Saxena,
Umesh Chand Chowhan,, Alka tyagi, Shailey, Bijay Kumar Shaw (
Nishant), Dushyant, Aruna Sharma , Amit Kalla, Prantik Banerjee.
Kritya's engagement with arts and the aesthetic experience
through poetry and allied art forms has always manifest itself
in the blending of the visual and the poetic.
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Kritya2011
International Poetry Festival
Realizations of Gender through Poetry
Kritya2011 ( Tentative Dates- 19th, 20th
& 21st January 2011) at Nagpur-Maharashtra
Expressions/ (Manifestations) and Realizations of Gender
in/through Poetry
Kritya's mode noveau since Kritya2010 is to anchor its Festivals
to a theme for better impact. Thus Kritya2010 focused on the
poetry of Exile, Trauma and Survival. Kritya2011 will focus on
the manifestations and realizations of gender through poetry.
Every language brings with it its own baggage of gender codes. Expressions of gender transcend pronouns
to cross over beyond love and beauty to patriotism, homelands,
justice, ideals and ideas, sound and silence, nature, life/birth
and death/murder, light and shadow, art, animate and inanimate
objects to typhoons and cyclones and other natural and unnatural
disasters. For the poet gender associations and metaphors
fulfill a wide range of innovative possibilities. The excesses
are disguised through aesthetics often even hiding the gender of
the poet through a deliberate and contrived stance. Even the portrayal of Gods through an
excess of devotion spills over in deciding finalities of gender.
Often absolute neutrality of a subject demands a carefully laid
out foil for gender. Interestingly also the use of personal
pronouns by numerous poets explores several possibilities of
gendered readings. Gender is closely related to the question of
identity and superscriptions of gender defines an abiding
pleasure principle through poetry.
Main events-
Poetry Reading
along with translations
Photo Poetry
Poetry in
theater
Poetry in
painting among young
mind
and
Poetry Films
Place: Nagpur ( Maharashtra) INDIA
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Kritya 2012
Kritya 2012
will once again take place in its home town 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.
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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 [a2] 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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