The 7th Edition of the Kerala Literature Festival will Feature a Unique Cultural Feast as a Primary Attraction

Experience cultural brilliance at the 7th Kerala Literature Festival 2024, featuring Sufi dance, music concerts, poetry tributes, and acclaimed film screenings.

on Jan 08, 2024

The 7th Edition of the Kerala Literature Festival will Feature a Unique Cultural Feast as a Primary Attraction | Frontlist

An authentic Sufi dance, or whirling Dervish ceremony, performed by artists from Konya, Turkey, which is famous for being the birthplace of the 13th century Persian poet Rumi, will be one of the main cultural attractions at the 7th Kerala Literature Festival (KLF), which begins on January 11 at Kozhikode Beach. Turkish artists, this year's guest country, will perform on January 13 at 8:30 p.m.

Four-Day Festival
Several more unique cultural activities are part of the four-day festival organised by the DC Kizhakemuri Foundation. The event begins at 7 p.m. on January 10 with Aparna Rajeev, the poet's granddaughter, reminiscing the late O.N.V. Kurup's poems and melodies.

T.M. Krishna, a Carnatic musician and writer, will perform a concert alongside acclaimed drummer T.H. Vikku Vinayakram, violinist Akkarai Subbalakshmi, Swaminathan Selvaganesh, and K. Praveen Kumar on January 11 at 8 p.m.

Budhaditya Mukherjee, the sitar maestro, will perform at 8 p.m. on January 12. At 8 p.m. on the same day, M.T. Vasudevan Nair's daughter and Bharatnatyam performer Ashwathy Nair and her husband N. Srikanth will give a presentation of the premises and characters dad wrote. On January 14, the festivities will finish with a concert by the multilingual Indie-folk alternative band 'When Chai Met Toast' at 8.30 p.m.

The festival will feature the showing of a few notable films. The Turkish film Kelebe in Ruyasi, directed by Yilmaz Erdogan, will be presented at 10 p.m. on January 11. The Malayalam film 2018- Everyone is a Hero, directed by Jude Anthany Joseph and India's official entry at the 96th Academy Awards, will be broadcast simultaneously on January 12. The Malayalam film B32 muthal 44 vare, directed by Sruthi Saranyam, will be released on January 13.