The CPI(M) will be organising the Safdar Hashmi memorial folk arts festival from Saturday to February 3 in the run-up to its 21{+s}{+t}national congress to be held in April.
The festival would highlight the need to protect and nurture the folk art forms which are facing a slow death, the party has said.
A poster on the festival was released on Thursday by party leaders A. Ajay Sarma, V.S. Padmanabha Raju, D. Nageswara Rao, and K. Arunjee.
The festival, comprising ‘pulivesham’, ‘tappetagullu’, ‘kolatam’, ‘chekka bhajana’, ‘saamu garidi’, ‘seva garidi’, would be organised from 4 p.m. every day near the Gandhi statue opposite the GVMC main office.
First seminar
Meanwhile, the first of the series of seminar being organised as part of the national meet would be organised in Gajuwaka on Friday. CITU all-India president A.K. Padmanabhan would speak on ‘Attack on the working class’ at the seminar.
On Saturday, economic analyst and JNU professor C.P. Chandrasekhar, Mr. Padmanabhan, and VPT Chairman M.T. Krishna Babu would participate in a seminar on industrial development in Navyandhrapradesh to be held at AU Platinum Jubilee Guest House.
