South Asian Folk Literature Festival

[Bijoy Misra]

Friends,

We are hosting a South Asian Folk Literature Festival, coming Sunday, Aug 22

by Zoom.  Indian time will be 7:30 PM.

We have about twenty entries including Sanskrit.  We still need Malayalam, Telugu,

Urdu and Nepali.  Please contact me privately if you have interest. 

The following protocol applies: 

5^th South Asian Folk and Oral Literature Festival, August 22

Festival protocol:

1.       We select a representative composition from the area that we come from or are familiar with.

2.       We introduce ourselves and introduce the poem with a five-slide introduction. 

The slides are:

(a)    A map indicating the location of the area – first slide

(b)    A representative picture of the area – second slide

(c)     A descriptive context of the song – third slide

(d)    Representative picture of the event, or the costumes of the area – fourth slide

(e)     An English interpretation or the translation of the song – fifth slide

3.       We present the song in the language.  We sing or recite.

Please send the song with a short English summary by Sunday, Aug 18.

Best regards,

Bijoy Misra

https://www.sapne.boston

https://www.indiadiscoverycenter.org