Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2022 brings you the opportunity to learn 1-1 from masters of Indian Poetry.

This poetry workshop explores at poetry as a tool of expression and transformation across languages and cultures. The multilingual workshop is open to participants from any linguistic background. Medium of the facilitation will be English.

Participants will be encouraged to explode their notions of poetry and text by using visual and performance art skills as well as experimental ‘translation’ and ‘transcreation’ possibilities.

This workshop is suitable for all, whatever your experience or background is. The workshop activities will include creative engagement towards crafting poems, exploring multilingualism, visualizing words and metaphors through audio and video work etc. Workshop activities will include individual and group participations. The workshop will culminate in a poetry presentation, a group reading/performance designed and produced at the workshop.

Requirements:

An urge to write poems in a language you are comfortable with.

You are welcome to bring in vocals and instruments if you are inclined to music.

Participant should be open to collaborate and create.

A mobile phone with camera.

Mamta Sagar is a poet, writer, academic and translator writing in Kannada language. She has four collections of poems, “Hide & Seek”, a collection of selected poems in English with the source text in Kannada 2014, “Hiige Haaleya Maile Haadu” (Like this the song) 2007, “Nadiya Neerina Teiva” 1999, “Kaada Navilina Hejje” 1992, four plays, an anthology of column writing, a collection of critical essays in Kannada and English on gender, language, literature and culture and a book on Slovenian-Kannada Literature Interactions to her credit.