The A&K (Annasi&Kadalagotu) Literary Festival will take to the stage for the 5th year, today at the Mount Lavinia Hotel.
Bringing an exciting line up of local literature every year, the festival is set to continue its streak in creating a platform that sheds the spotlight on everything that is ‘Simply Local, Simply Literature’.
This year’s program opens up with Shakthika Sathkumara, no better person than to discuss if literature should be censored. Two book launches will brighten up the morning, followed by a panel on Sports and Literature.
Kingsley Rathnayake, Prof. Neluka de Silva and Prof. Arjuna Parakrama will speak about ‘The flavour of Sri Lankan Literature’ while two workshops for children and a creative workshop for adults are on the pages as well.
One panel would be Anduru Lowin Eliyata, a discussion with visually impaired writers, talking about their journey towards writing and publishing. The first time published writers will be included this year as well and an award winning panel consisting of writers who have won national level literary awards sharing their tips on what went right for them. Towards the afternoon would be ‘The Dot Com Games’ bringing together two aspects, women and digital in literature.
There will be a performance discussion on HitiwanaKavi, a socio-cultural literary aspect that usually is not given due limelight.
The evening will wrap up with ‘LankaweHina’ looking at humour in the popular local literary mediums, along with the local folk rock band Bambaroo, adding musical entertainment.
A&K Literary Festival has had a Love Letter writing competition running parallel to the festival this year and the winners will be announced at the closing ceremony on today evening.