Thiruvananthapuram City to host State School Arts Festival from Saturday
The Hindu
State School Arts Festival in the capital after 9 years, featuring 15,000 students across 25 venues with various events and activities.
The State capital is gearing up to host the State School Arts Festival after a gap of nine years.
Nearly 15,000 students will take part in the festival across 25 venues. The Arabic Sahithyotsavam and the Samskritotsavam will also be held along with the arts festival.
The welcome song for the festival has been penned by Srinivasan Thooneri and set to tune by Kavalam Sreekumar. Its dance interpretation will be presented jointly by the students of Kerala Kalamandalam and State schools. Students of GVHSS, Vellarmala, Wayanad, will present a group dance on the theme of survival, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty said at a press conference here on Thursday.
Those reaching the festival inaugural as guests will be presented with books. Books have been collected for this purpose.
Director of General Education Shanavas S. will hoist the flag at Central Stadium, the main venue that has been named MT-Nila in memory of the late writer M.T. Vasudevan Nair at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will formally inaugurate the festival at 10 a.m.
Nineteen subcommittees have been formed for the smooth conduct of the festival.
Registration of participants will begin at SMV Higher Secondary School at 10 a.m. on Friday. Seven counters have been arranged for the 14 districts. A help desk too has been set up.
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