2022 Archive

Ghar:

Hindi Workshop on Poetry

Description: The Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2022 brings to you the opportunity to learn 1-1 from masters of Indian Poetry.

Home is a powerful metaphor of our roots, language, and memories. Search for one's home also makes us confront the larger horrors of today: displacement, refugee crisis, and climate change. With home as the central idea, Uday Prakash will discuss the role of poetry and the poet. The workshop will include writing activities and feedback sessions.

Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator, short story writer, and novelist. His work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, and several Indian languages. He received the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Mohandas in 2010, which he returned in 2015, to protest the murder of rationalist academic M. M. Kalburgi. Prakash’s career as a writer, educator, administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director spans several decades. It includes roles such as Assistant Professor at JNU, Assistant Editor of the Hindi literary journal Poorvagraha, Subeditor of the Hindi news weekly Dinmaan, Assistant Editor of the Sunday Mail, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Journalism, and head of the PTI TV Concept and Script Department. Since 1993, he has been a full-time freelance writer.

Language: Hindi

Duration: 120 mins

Ticket Price: Rs.500

Writing Ghazals in English:

A Workshop for Beginners

Description: The Bengaluru Poetry Festival in it's 6th edition brings to you some wonderful opportunities to learn 1-1 from masters of Indian Poetry.

Ever wondered what the rules of a Ghazal are? Do you know what a radif, qafiya, sher, matla, maqta and takhallus are? How do they come together to make a ghazal? And did you know that a ghazal can also be written in English? Come join this 2-hour workshop to learn the preliminary rules of writing an English ghazal. We will be doing some writing together so bring your writing pads.

Akhil Katyal is the author of 'Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems' (Westland-Context) and 'How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross' (TGIPC). He was the 2021 Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellow. He lives in Delhi.

Language: English

Duration: 120 mins

Ticket Price: Rs.500

A Multi-lingual Poetry Workshop

Description: The Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2022 brings you the opportunity to learn 1-1 from masters of Indian Poetry.

This poetry workshop explores at poetry as a tool of expression and transformation across languages and cultures. The multilingual workshop is open to participants from any linguistic background. Medium of the facilitation will be English. Participants will be encouraged to explode their notions of poetry and text by using visual and performance art skills as well as experimental ‘translation’ and ‘transcreation’ possibilities. This workshop is suitable for all, whatever your experience or background is. The workshop activities will include creative engagement towards crafting poems, exploring multilingualism, visualizing words and metaphors through audio and video work etc. Workshop activities will include individual and group participations. The workshop will culminate in a poetry presentation, a group reading/performance designed and produced at the workshop.

Mamta Sagar is a poet, writer, academic and translator writing in Kannada language. She has four collections of poems, “Hide & Seek”, a collection of selected poems in English with the source text in Kannada 2014, “Hiige Haaleya Maile Haadu” (Like this the song) 2007, “Nadiya Neerina Teiva” 1999, “Kaada Navilina Hejje” 1992, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of critical essays in Kannada and English on gender, language, literature and culture and a book on Slovenian- Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit.

Language: English

Duration: 120 mins

Ticket Price: Rs.500