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Two day- culture and heritage symposium held at Kochi

21-04-2018

The Culture, Heritage, and Our Future Cities Symposium is being launched today in Kochi by Travelling Exchanges: Theatres, Architectures, Heritage, A Fulbright-Nehru Research Project in affiliation with Madhavan Nair Foundation. The symposium will be organised in Edapally at the Kerala Museum. The event will feature an interactive installation apart from speakers, exhibits and performances.

This symposium is being co-facilitated by a team of elite persons from different segments including Kanta Kochar, a Fulbright Nehru research scholar, KK Gopalakrishnan, director for Kuttiyattam Kendra, and contributing scholars as well as artistes. It will explore how culture coupled with heritage could play a vital role in the ways people of the land shaped their future cities.

MOdels of South India's performing heritage would be investigated by the programme; particularly focussing Kerala. It would contemplate on the scope of Kochi as a port city as a space of transfer, renewal and vicibility concerning the performing arts. Special emphasis shall be laid on performing arts such as Kalaripayattu, Kuttiyattam and Daveli.

This symposium is expected to encourage discussions regarding how performances could be possibly made to blossom travelling through a range of venues including temples, museums, stages and kalaries. According to the organisers of the symposium 'Travelling exchanges' such as these could inspire fresh conours of performances which would help in making the heritage industries increasingly viable economically, visible culturally and empowering socially.

Kanta, Gopalakrishnan and GCS Biju, director of Centre for Performance Research and Cultural Studies in South Asia will be the speakers at the symposium. Following the speeches, the event will unfold its performances highlighted by Kalamandalam Raman Chakyar's Kuttiyattam associated by Kalamandalam Krishnendu, Kalaripayattu from Shree Narayana Kalari, Arjun, Jaleel Gurukkal, SRD Prasad Gurukal, Shree Bharath Kalari and Lubaina Kalari, and a presentation of Daveli by Haridas Pattimattom.