Name: In Search Of the Soul of Sylvia Plath |Saudha International Literature Fest
Start: 2024-11-09T05:45:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-09T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Rich Mix

In Search Of the Soul of Sylvia Plath |Saudha International Literature Fest

The festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination, languages from different cultural heritages through talks, reading, performances.
About this Event

As part of Saudha International Literature Festival, poet Ahmed Kaysher presents a hypnotic theatrical combination of spoken word and haunting music, re-interpreting the heart-piercing poetry and tragic life of this iconic poet.The session has been supported by the Mayor's Small Grant Programme of Tower Hamlets Council and A Season of Bangla Drama.

The production features musical performances by the incredible Yijia Tu on the guzheng – an ancient Chinese zither – and the powerful violinist Basia Bartz. The musicians will provide a captivating soundscape for Sylvia Plath‘s work, performed by three prominent performance poets – Sophia Blackwell, Amy Neilson Smith and Shree Ganguly.

Saudha (www.saudha.org) is bringing new literature from different languages and different cultural heritages through this unique festival happening all around the UK.

Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other. Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other.

Saudha's production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.
Saudha's lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.
During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through social media platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe