POETRY "Kartoos 2016" The International Spoken Word Poetry Festival at Akshara Theatre, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Near Connaught Place > 5pm on 13th March 2016

Time : 5:00 pm Add to Calendar 13/03/2016 17:00 13/03/2016 19:30 Asia/Kolkata POETRY "Kartoos 2016" The International Spoken Word Poetry Festival Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/03/poetry-kartoos-2016-international.html Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 2 hours 30 mins

Entry : By tickets priced at Rs. 500, Available at :
Online : Insider.in

Offline : At the venue

Venue : Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001 
Landmark : Next to RML Hospital Emergency Gate 5
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Patel Chowk(Mandi House)Exit Gate - 3'

Parking : Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital public parking or Inside Akshara Theatre

Event Description : Bring Back The Poets  in association with Akshara Theater present "Kartoos 2016" The International Spoken Word Poetry Festival.

KARTOOS is a stage for expressing frustration, anger, joy, longing, revolution, protest through undoing the boredom of the written word, by bringing on stage the faces and voices and bodies of poets, through their poetry, spoken and sung. If there are words strumming the open veins of your spine, we invite you to share the stage and the backseat with us.

Spoken Word Poets :

Sam Reichman (Kansas City, USA)
Shakil Ahmed (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Samira Sadeque (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Grace Wickremasinghe (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Rupesh Bhattarai (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Nawaraj Parajuli (Kathmandu, Nepal)

Aditi Angiras (Bring Back The Poets)

Akhil Katyal (Poet, author of Night Charge Extra)
Jaya Sharma (The Kinky Collective)
Abhimanyu Verma (Urdu poet, Bring Back The Poets))
Himel Sarkar (Bring Back The Poets)
Riya Tilwani (Bring Back The Poets)
Divya Dureja (Performers' Consortium)
Aina Singh (Performers' Consortium) 
Arshmeen Baveja ( IP University)
Aisha Lovely George

Feat. Mildly Offensive Content

Sugandha Das
Ankita Naik
Ira Anjali Anwar
Ragini Lalit

The event is a part of the Cri de Femme International Poetry and Arts Festival 2016.

The Cri de Femme International Poetry Festival (Grito de Mujer/ Women’s Scream) is a worldwide cultural non-profit chain of events coordinated by the Movimiento Mujeres Poetas Internacional (MPI/ Women Poet’s International Movement), based in the Dominican Republic. The Cri de Femme festival to be held in New Delhi is going to be an Indo-French collaboration.

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