{"id":8406,"date":"2018-01-02T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=8406"},"modified":"2018-01-02T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:19:07","slug":"chennai-literary-festival-is-back-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=8406","title":{"rendered":"Chennai Literary Festival is back with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8419 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf.jpg\" alt=\"clf\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>5th edition to be held in the city from\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_283292334\">8th\u00a0to 10th January 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>To be inaugurated by Vice Chancellor of University of Madras<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Competitions and Workshops to be conducted in more than 30 colleges across Chennai<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7654\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"Faceinews Logo - Copy\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8421 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-2.jpg\" alt=\"clf 2\" width=\"287\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-2.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-2-284x158.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/clf-2-128x72.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>Chennai, Jan 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The city is all set to host the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of the mega Chennai Literary Festival (CLF) from\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_283292335\">8th\u00a0to 10th January 2018<\/span>. University of Madras and over 30 colleges in and around the city have joined hands with Chennai Literary Association (CLA) to conduct the Festival. Thiru P. Duraisamy, Vice Chancellor, University of Madras, is inaugurating the 3-day carnival at University of Madras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have conducted four successful editions in the past. It is heartening that students\u2019 response to all these editions was significant and noteworthy especially in the scenario of today\u2019s world dominated by electronic media. The objective behind Chennai Literary Festival is to make more and more people experience the pleasure of reading and add value to their lives. We hope this fifth edition will also witness amazing literary gathering as the previous editions,\u201d said Mr. R.J. Kumaravel, President, Chennai Literary Festival, during a press meet organized to announce on the details of CLF. Mr. Sudhakar, Secretary, Mrs. Latha Rajan, Past President and Mr. G. Olivannan, Founder, CLF, were present during the announcement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Various literary events happened as a prelude to main festival on the 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0December 2017 at Dr. MGR-Janaki College of Arts &amp; Science, where more than 1500 students from several colleges from Chennai and Bengaluru participated. The activities featured Picture Story Writing, Quiz (Tamil and English), Mono-acting, Story\u00a0Writing, Stage a Scene, Sing a story, Sing your Lyrics, Oratory, Identify the Writer, Dramatic Monologue, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the Vice Chancellor\u2019s address, the inaugural day of the festival (8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0January 2018) will witness an English play by the students of University of Madras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_283292337\">Tuesday, the 9th January 2018<\/span>, a Tamil Oratorical competition titled `Samakaala Nigazhvugal\u2019 is slated to be held at\u00a0Shri\u00a0Krishnasamy College for Women at Annanagar and to be anchored by Mr. Ravi Subramaniam. Students from various colleges will participate. Concurrently, various literary workshops will be held in several participating colleges of the city. `Digital Literature\u2019 at St Thomas College for Arts and Sciences, `Journalistic Writing\u2019 at Loyola College, `Shakespeare in India\u2019 at Madras Christian College, and \u2018Thiraikalaiyum Ilakiyamum\u2019 at Pachaiyappas College are to name a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_283292338\">Wednesday, the 10th January 2018<\/span>, Valedictory function is scheduled to take place at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai. Speeches by prominent speakers, cultural events and prize distribution\u00a0to the winners of the competitions and literary events are to mark the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News Courtesy by <strong>CATALYST PR<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th edition to be held in the city from\u00a08th\u00a0to 10th January 2018 To be inaugurated by Vice Chancellor of University of Madras Competitions and Workshops to be conducted in more than 30 colleges across Chennai Chennai, Jan 2018 The city is all set to host the 5th\u00a0edition of the mega Chennai Literary Festival (CLF) from\u00a08th\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","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=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}