23rd Anniversary of Folkland

Established in 1989, Folkland celebrates its 23rd anniversary this year.Over the years,Folkland has grown far and wide with performances in several places including a performance in Fete De Geneva, Kullu Dussreah Festival at Himachal Pradesh, Theyyam at Delhi INTACH office, a month long Theyyam  performance at Kingdom of Dreams, Gurgaon, etc. Folkland also coordinated  a ten day festival at Trivandrum in connection with a Book festival.In Jan-2012 we even had an occasion to teach Kerala culture to students of Otago university, Newzealand under a week long Teaching program with workshops and study tours.

Another achievement in the growth of Folkland is the  invitation from UNESCO ICH to attend its VI General Assembly held at Bali.

This is also the occasion to release our annual report for the period 2011-12. I will be putting up a detailed report of all the workshops, festivals and major stage performances conducted by  folkland during this period, in the following posts. I will also cover International events participated by Folkland and the UNESCO meeting at Bali. 

Kathakali Workshop in May.2012

 A 14 day workshop on kathakali was conducted at Folkland centre, Payyanur from 15th to 28th May, 2012. 

 It was a production oriented workshop and the director was eminent kathakali artist/teacher Guru Sadanam Balakrishnan .  The production was Magdalanamariyam, scripted by Shri T T Krishnan. 

There were around 25 students and 7 teachers who attended the workshop.

Natyaratnam Kana Kannan Nair memorial award was given to Shri Chemencheri Kunhiraman Nair on the final day of the workshop.

Folk land is a non governmental non profit organisation registered under societies registration act, is dedicated to the promotion of folk arts and culture, located at Thrikaripur, the northern tip of Kerala state, India.