{"id":3529,"date":"2016-08-13T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2016-08-13T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T09:25:30","slug":"odyssey-to-host-series-of-events-for-madras-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Odyssey to host series of events for Madras Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image003\"<\/a>Odyssey Bookstore<\/strong> has organised a series of events that include competitions, story telling sessions,\u00a0 book launches, talks etc \u00a0between\u00a0August 13 and 28<\/span><\/span>, to celebrate Madras Week 2016.<\/p>\n

Saturday 13th Aug\u00a0At Odyssey Adyar store\u00a0\u00a03-4 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nDrawing competition – MADRASCAPES \u00a0\u00a0In association with Y PLUS \u00a0Theme \u2013 \u2018Madras’
\nFor Ages 8 years and above. Drawing sheet and color pencils will be provided.
\nThe drawing has to be of people or locations or life as it was in MADRAS in earlier times.
\nGift hampers for winners and participation certificates for all.
\nFor registration call 24453191\u00a0At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a05-6 PM<\/span><\/span>
\nStorytelling – “MADRAS NALLA MADRAS” – A celebration of our city with stories!
\nStories narrated by Chennai Storytellers Asha, Banu & Sharanya
\nFor ages 3 years and above. Participation free.
\nFor registration call 24453191<\/p>\n

Sunday 14th Aug \u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a06-7 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nBook launch – \u2018YAMAS LIEUTENANT\u2019 – by Chennai Author AnujaChandramouli.\u00a0In association with PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA
\nSpecial guest Mr. Sudhir Srinivasan, THE HINDU will be in conversation with the author<\/p>\n

Saturday 20th Aug \u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a07-8 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nMEMORIES OF MADRAS \u2013 A Chennai Game launch by Mr. R. Muthiah, Historian\u00a0In association with KREEDA
\nGame intro, Game launch, Talk about Indian \/ Chennai traditional games, Game workshop
\nSunday 21st Aug \u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a04-5 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nBook launch – CONTRACTOR – CRUSADE FOR THE DRAGON CONTRACTS by Chennai Author Sai Prapanch
\nPublisher- Creative Workshop
\nBook Release by\u00a0Mr N Murali, Co-Chairman, The Hindu,\u00a0Guests of Honour: Mr V. Sriram, Music Historian & Author & MrKalidas Jayaram, Cine Artist
\nAt Odyssey Adyar store \u00a0\u00a06-7 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nAUTHORSPEAK – 3 Chennai authors in conversation
\nAuthorsV Rajesh, Abhishek Krishnan, Naqiyah Hasan will be talking about themselves, their books and ofcourse about Chennai.<\/p>\n

Friday 26th Aug\u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a07-8 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nBook launch \u2013 MADHWAS OF MADRAS \u2013by Chennai Author Mrs. Meera Raghavendra Rao
\nIn association with Palaniappa Bros, Book Publishers.
\nChief guest – Padmabushan N.Vittal, IAS (RETD)
\nSaturday 27th Aug \u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a07-8 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nTHE BLISS CATCHERS – MADRAS WEEK special \u2013 August 2016
\nTalk show curated by AVIS Viswanathan
\nFeaturing Chennai\u2019s most famous voice and RJ,Niladri Bose and popular actor-producer-director MathivananRajendran of Stray Factory.<\/p>\n

Sunday 28th Aug \u00a0<\/span><\/span>At Odyssey Adyar store \u00a0\u00a05-7 PM<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nThe MADRAS WEEK Sports Quiz Presented by Partab Ramchand, veteran Indian Sports journalist.
\nGet quizzed on Sports events and personalities of MADRAS over the years.
\nFor ages 12 years and above. Participation as a team of 2.
\nPre- registration required. Entrance Free.
\nFor registration call 24453191
\nAt Odyssey Adyar \u00a027th and 28th Aug<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nSpecial products display cum sale by Chennai based NGOS – ARVIND FOUNDATION and RASA
\nSocial media promotions for MADRAS DAY 2016 by Odyssey
\n13th Aug to 28th Aug<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nDaily Contest in ODYSSEY Facebook page \u2018odysseybookstore\u2019 and TWITTER \u2018@odysseypost\u2019
\nContest based on Chennai authors and their books.<\/p>\n

1 lucky winner<\/strong> every day gets a signed copy of that Authors book and a book voucher from Odyssey.
\nFor details\/registration call: 2445 3191<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Odyssey Bookstore has organised a series of events that include competitions, story telling sessions,\u00a0 book launches, talks etc \u00a0between\u00a0August 13 and 28, to celebrate Madras Week 2016. Saturday 13th Aug\u00a0At Odyssey Adyar store\u00a0\u00a03-4 PM Drawing competition – MADRASCAPES \u00a0\u00a0In association with Y PLUS \u00a0Theme \u2013 \u2018Madras’ For Ages 8 years and above. Drawing sheet and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}