Poetry with Prakriti Festival (2013)

About

‘Poetry with Prakriti’ is an annual festival featuring 25 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 LogoThe 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 festival has featured poets such as Keki N.Daruwalla, Charles Stein (USA), Arundhathi Subramaniam, Denis Mai R(USA), Sudeep Sen, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Bina Sarkar Ellias, Anne-Marie Kenessey (Switzerland) Kalki Subramaniam, Anupama Raju, Jeremy Woodruff, Raghavendra Madhu, to name a few.

 

As part of the festival, a Poetry Slam Contest has been conducted. The top three poems are awarded cash prizes.

As one newspaper review stated: “It’s a quiet revolution but certainly one that is gaining momentum.” It is a practical attempt to make poetry available and for everyone rather than it being a privilege for just a few. This festival aims to liberate poetry from being condemned as elitist, obscure or abstract.

This year, for the 7th edition, we had poets from different poetry groups such as Kabir Kala Manch Poetry Panel, Telugu Resistance Poetry Panel and The Great Indian Poetry Collective participate. For the closing, we had a performance by Theatre Nisha of Anis Mojgani’s poems from the collection ‘Songs From Under The River.’ The performance was directed by V. Balakrishnan of Theatre Nisha.

 


Schedule

The festival took place from 10th to 19th December, 2013. For further details regarding the venue, time and synopsis on each day, kindly select the date from the drop-down menu.


10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 09:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Smita Sahay.

10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 09:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Samudra Kajal Saikia.

10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:00 AM Venue: Madras Christian College

Reading by Kabir Manch.

10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women.

Reading by Smita Sahay.

10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 01:15 PM Venue: Hindu Senior School.

Reading by Samudra Kajal Saikia.

10-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Spaces

Reading by Kabir Manch.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College.

Reading by Boey Kim.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College.

Reading by Ankur Betageri .

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:45 AM Venue: Kalakshetra.

Reading by Kabir Manch.

11-12-2013

Inauguration of Poetry Festival
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Stella Maris College for Women.

Reading by Kabir Manch.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:45 AM Venue: Madras Christian College.

Reading by Smita Sahay.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:45 AM Venue: Madras Christian College.

Reading by Samudra Kajal Saikia

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Asan Memorial College of Arts & Science.

Reading by Boey Kim.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women.

Reading by Ankur Betageri.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 12:00 PM Venue: Asian College of Journalism.

Reading by Kabir Manch.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Apparao Gallery.

Reading by Ankur Betageri.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Apparao Gallery.

Reading by Smita Sahay.

11-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Apparao Gallery.

Reading by Samudra Kajal Saikia.

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College.

Reading by Margaret Mascarenhas.

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women.

Reading by Margaret Mascarenhas.

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 09:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women.

Reading by Ankur Betageri

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:00 AM Venue: Madras Christian College.

Reading by Boey Kim.

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 12:00 PM Venue: Asan Memorial Senior Secondary School.

Reading by Ankur Betager

12-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 01:15 PM Venue: Hindu Senior Secondary School.

Reading by Boey Kim.

13-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:45 AM Venue: Kalakshetra.

Reading by Margaret Mascarenhas .

13-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Madras Christian College.

Reading by Boey Kim.

13-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:45 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women.

Reading by Minal Hajratwala, Ellen Kombiyil, Shikha Malaviya .

13-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women.

Reading by Minal Hajratwala, Ellen Kombiyil, Shikha Malaviya .

14-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 05:00 PM Venue: Viswas Kaapi House (Cholamandal Artists’ Village).

Reading by Minal Hajratwala, Ellen Kombiyil, Shikha Malaviya.

16-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 09:00 AM Venue: MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women.

Reading by Nirupama Dutt.

16-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:00 AM Venue: The School KFI.

Reading by Nirupama Dutt.

16-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 02:00 PM Venue: Madras University.

Reading by Nirupama Dutt.

17-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women.

Reading by Rangeet Mitra.

17-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 11:30 AM Venue: Ethiraj College for Women.

Reading by Nirupama Dutt.

17-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 04:00 PM Venue: Samastha.

Reading by Nirupama Dutt.

17-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 03:30 PM Venue: Madras University.

Reading by Rangeet Mitra.

18-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 09:30 AM Venue: Anna Adarsh College for Women.

Reading by Telugu Resistance Poets.

18-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:00 AM Venue: DAV School.

Reading by Rangeet Mitra.

18-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 03:00 PM Venue: Madras University Telugu Dept.

Reading by Telugu Resistance Poets.

18-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 06:00 PM Venue: Amdavadi.

Reading by Rangeet Mitra.

19-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 08:00 AM Venue: Women's Christian College

Reading by Telugu Resistance Poets.

19-12-2013

Poetry Reading
Time: 10:30 AM Venue: SDNB Vaishnav College for Women.

Reading by Telugu Resistance Poets.

19-12-2013

Performance
Time: 07:00 PM Venue: Spaces.

Theatre Nisha performance: "Songs from Under the River" .

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