Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana in Bahrain

Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana in Bahrain

DH News Service Shimoga:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/oct42006/district18682006103.asp

Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana will be held in Bahrain on December 15th and 16th. More than hundreds of artists and litterateur from within and outside the state are going to participate in the sammelana, said Dr K V Ashok Pai, Honorary President of the Vishwa Kannada Samskruhti Sammelana and President, K P Manjunatha Sagara, on Tuesday at a press meet.

The sammelana is jointly organised by Hridayavahini, Kannada newspaper of Mangalore and Bahrain`s Kannada Sangha. About 10,000 kannadigas will participate in the sammelana. There would be a poets meet, a meet on media and also a meet of non resident kannadigas. Bharatnatya, folk dances, Yakshagana and various and other cultural programmes would be organised.

A book and photo exhibition portraying the Kannada culture would be organised outside the premises of the auditorium. Moreover prizes would also be awarded to the selected photographs, they added.

A person who has made invaluable contributions in the field of Kannada literature and culture will be chosen as president of the sammelana. And people who have rendered great services in the field of art, literature, medicine would be felicitated with ‘Vishwa Manyaru’ award, they said.

Dr Ashok Pai, a well known psychiatrist released the logo of the Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana during the press meet.

Interested participants need to send in their profile before October 12 to the following address : Hridayavani, Manjunath Associates, Raghu Building, Oorva Store, Mangalore -6.

For more details contact: 0824- 2455209, 9343343239.