{"id":39324,"date":"2018-08-04T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=39324"},"modified":"2018-08-04T01:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:29:42","slug":"art-literature-festival-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/08\/04\/art-literature-festival-starts-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Art &#038; Literature festival starts today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 3:<\/strong> Over the next two days, young minds and artists will rendezvous at IG Park here to widen the horizons of their creativity as the Arunachal Literature &amp; Art Festival (ALAF) &#8211; The Prelude gets underway on Saturday.<br \/>\nThe festival is featuring 65 creative artists, writers and publishers.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a festival by writers and artists for the people of Arunachal Pradesh, to open the doors of creativity and the<br \/>\nbeauty of art and literature for them,&#8221; ALAF director Karry Padu explained.<br \/>\n&#8220;The generation has forgotten about picking up a book, or a pen to sit down and write how they actually feel. They have forgotten to learn how to draw and express with the brush,&#8221; Padu added.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are opening our gate to see us and meet us and be part of creativity, art. It is high time that art and creativity received a lot of support.&#8221;<br \/>\nPadu said the festival would help make the potential of the state in literature and arts known to people near and far.<br \/>\n&#8220;It will also open the door to creativity and self-awareness by involving them in recreational events,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nThe festival is also an effort to put Arunachal Pradesh on the literary map, and to make the state a destination for art and literature aficionados. It would also seek to introduce the artists and the people of the state to a wide range of new forms of art and literature from across the globe.<br \/>\nThe festival will feature, among other things, a writers&#8217; panel discussion, a book fair, an art exhibition, an open mic poetry session, installation, and musical performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Aug 3: Over the next two days, young minds and artists will rendezvous at IG Park here to widen the horizons of their creativity as the Arunachal Literature &amp; Art Festival (ALAF) &#8211; The Prelude gets underway on Saturday. The festival is featuring 65 creative artists, writers and publishers. &#8220;This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}