Poetry with Prakriti Festival (2017)

About

‘Poetry with Prakriti’ is an annual festival featuring eminent and emerging poets, each presenting four different readings of their poems to small, intimate audiences at several venues across the city – schools, colleges, cafes, IT parks, green public parks, shops, galleries, boutiques, banks and other commercial establishments. The festival is scheduled everywhere, to coincide with the famed ‘Chennai Season’.

Poetry with Prakriti Festival Logo The aim of the Poetry with Prakriti festival is to get poets from varied backgrounds to read and share their poetry in various languages at different locations across the city. This allows multiple groups of people to enjoy creative expression rendered through poetry.

Over the years, we have presented 200 poets from across India, and from countries such as Spain, France, Canada, U.K, Denmark, Switzerland and the U.S.A.

This year’s festival features poets such as Allan Sealy, Jayanta Mahapatra, Brian Turner, Erik Lindner, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Ashwani Kumar, Ramu Ramanathan, Perumal Murugan, Anand Thakore, Saima Afreen, Navkirat Sodhi, Sonnet Mondal, Renuka Narayanan, Sharanya Manivannan, Parvathi Nayar, Ajinkya, Poorna Swami and Ishvar Krishnan. The festival also includes performances by various artistes like TM Krishna, Archana Venkatesan, Sikkil Gurucharan and Sofia Ashraf. We are also presenting the ensemble Akadêmia, in association with Bonjour India.

Venue Partners: The Brew Room, Writers Cafe, Secret Society Bar and Wandering Artist.

Photo Blogging Partner: Madras Photo Bloggers

Annual Sponsors: Axis Bank (Mutual Funds) and L&T Financial Services (Mutual Funds)

Entry to all performances are by registration only. Call or WhatsApp 7338733190.

Schedule

The two week long festival starts from 3rd December, 2017 and concludes on 17th December, 2017. For further details regarding the venue, time and synopsis on each day, kindly select the date from the drop-down menu.

03-12-2017

Performance - A Poet & A Musician by Perumal Murugan & T M Krishna.

Time: 06:30 PM Venue: TAG Center

An evening of poetry reading by Perumal Murugan along with a Carnatic music performance of his poems, by vocalist TM Krishna.

04-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:30 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women

Reading by Navkirat Sodhi and Ishvar Krishnan

04-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner and Brian Turner

04-12-2017

Poetry Readings in General Venue

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Amdavadi

Reading by Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner & Brian Turner.

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 08:30 AM Venue: Kalakshetra

Reading by Ashwani Kumar, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Navkirat Sodhi

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 PM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women

Reading by Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner and Brian Turner

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College for Women

Reading by Ashwani Kumar and Navkirat Sodhi

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women

Reading by Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner and Brian Turner

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 12:00 PM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College

Reading by Priya Sarukkai Chabria

05-12-2017

Poetry Readings in General Venue

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Writer's Cafe

Reading by Navkirat Sodhi, Ashwani Kumar & Ishvar Krishnan.

06-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 08:30 AM Venue: Kalakshetra

Reading by Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner and Brian Turner

06-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Stella Maris College for Women

Reading by Priya Sarukkai Chabria

06-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Ashwani Kumar and Ajinkya

06-12-2017

Poetry Reading

Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Sonnet Mondal, Erik Lindner and Brian Turner

07-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College for Women

Reading by Ajinkya and Ishvar Krishnan

07-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Saima Afreen and Poorna Swami

07-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 12:00 PM Venue: Madras Christian College

Reading by Ajinkya, Ishvar Krishnan and Parvathi Nayar

07-12-2017

Poetry Readings in General Venue

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: The Brew Room, Besant Nagar

Reading by Ajinkya, Saima Afreen, Poorna Swami and Parvathi Nayar.

08-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women

Reading by Saima Afreen and Poorna Swami

08-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women

Reading by Saima Afreen and Poorna Swami

08-12-2017

Book Launch

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Amdavadi

The launch of the book 'The Altar of the Only World' by Sharanya Manivannan.

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 AM Venue: MOP Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Perumal Murugan

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College

Reading by Renuka Narayanan and Parvathi Nayar

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: Madras Christian College

Reading by Allan Sealy and Ramu Ramanathan

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Jayanta Mahapatra and Anand Thakore

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: University of Madras

Reading by Perumal Murugan

11-12-2017

Poetry Readings in General Venue

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Amdavadi

Reading by Allan Sealy & Jayanta Mahapatra.

09-12-2017

Peformance – Rhyme and Reason by Sophia Ashraf.

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Secret Society Bar

Rhyme and Reason is a slam-poetry and rap performance where Sofia will rap her heart out on a range of topics from patriarchy, neurodiversity to corporate hate politics.

10-12-2017

Peformance – Rhyme and Reason by Sophia Ashraf.

Time: 06:30 PM Venue: Phoenix Market City (subject to change)

Rhyme and Reason is a slam-poetry and rap performance where Sofia will rap her heart out on a range of topics from patriarchy, neurodiversity to corporate hate politics.

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College for Women

Reading by Perumal Murugan

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:30 AM Venue: MOP Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Jayanta Mahapatra and Ramu Ramanathan

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:30 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women

Reading by Allan Sealy and Anand Thakore

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: Madras Christian College

Reading by Sharanya Manivannan and Renuka Narayanan

12-12-2017

Poetry Reading

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Jayanta Mahapatra and Ramu Ramanathan

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Stella Maris College for Women

Reading by Perumal Murugan

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 12:00 PM Venue: University of Madras

Reading by Allan Sealy and Anand Thakore

12-12-2017

Poetry Readings in General Venue

Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Wandering Artist

Reading by Anand Thakore, Ramu Ramanathan and Renuka Narayanan.

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:00 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women

Reading by Allan Sealy and Sharanya Manivannan

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 09:30 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women

Reading by Jayanta Mahapatra and Parvathi Nayar

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 10:00 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women

Reading by Perumal Murugan and Renuka Narayanan

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Stella Maris College for Women

Reading by Allan Sealy

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 12:00 PM Venue: University of Madras

Reading by Jayanta Mahapatra and Ishvar Krishnan

13-12-2017

Poetry Readings

Time: 03:00 PM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women

Reading by Perumal Murugan

16-12-2017

Performance - Lullabies and Laments: Experiments in Music and Poetry by Sikkil Gurucharan and Archana Venkatesan.

Time: 06:30 PM Venue: TAG Centre

Lullabies and Laments is an experiment on translation, in translation, of a translation process informed by Indic reading, interpretive and performative practices. Contrary to most translation practice, which fixes the text, in our performance, it is rendered fluid, flexible, supple—words can be split, rearranged, excised, built upon. Our translation today moves between melody and word, between Tamil and English, and is guided by dialog and improvisation. The performance brings together a male and female voice to explore how male poets use the female voice and female genres such as laments and lullabies, to speak of love, longing, desire and devotion.

17-12-2017