Sharjah: Vishwa Kannada Samskruti Sammelan from Nov 19-20

By Shodhan Prasad
Bellevision Media Network

Sharjah, 18 Nov 2015: Karnataka Sangha – Sharjah and Hrudayavahini Karnataka are planning a extravagant celebration of the twelfth Visha Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana and thirteenth Annual Day and Mayura Award presentation of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha in Sharjah from November 19 to 20. The venue for the event is Al Boom Tourist Village which is near Wanderer’s Club Playground, Sharjah. This mega event is expecting a foot fall of thousands of Kannadigas.

 

Various Poets, Musicians, Writers, Leaders & Dignitaries will arrive all the way from Karnataka and other parts of Gulf along with President of the Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana committee, K P Manjunath Sagar, to attend the twelfth Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana programme.

 

The inauguration programme will take place on November 19 at 7.30pm at Fortune Grand Hotel, Al Ghusais, Dubai as per president of Karnataka Sangha Sharjah, Satish Venkataramana.

 

The main programme will be on November 20 at Al Boom Tourist Village near Wanderer’s Stadium, Sharjah with whole day variety cultural shows starting from 10.00am onwards.

 

 

Professor S G Sidhramayya, who was president of Karnataka Government Books Committee for the year 2005-08 and who served as Principal for Shri. Sidhaganga College, Tumkur and some other Colleges in Karnataka has agreed to grace the occasion as president of twelfth Vishwa Kannada Sanskrithi Sammelana at Sharjah.  Professor Sidharamayya who served as a writer, poet, dramatist all these years have been bestowed with ’PuThiNa’ Kavya Prashasthi, ’Rashtrakavi G S Shivarudrappa’ Kavya Prashasthi, ’Maasthi’ Kavya Prashasthi, Karnataka Sahithya Academy Prizes & Karnataka Rajyotsava Prashasthi for his great works in Kannada.

 

Praveen Kumar Shetty to be bestowed with coveted Mayura Award

Karnataka Sangha Sharjah every year identifies an outstanding Kannadiga in UAE and felicitates the person with the prestigious "Mayura Award" during its annual day celebration.  This year Karnataka Sangha Sharjah is proud to announce that 2015 - 2016 Mayura Award will be bestowed upon Praveen Kumar Shetty, Director, Fortune Group of Hotels for his contribution to the society.

 

Various other programmes

On the Literary front there will be Kavi Goshti, Hasya Goshti, Madhyama Goshti, Meet for Kanandigas residing abroad as planned.  On the cultural front there will be Bharathanatyam, Folk dances, Yakshagana, Mimicry and dance dramas. Further there will be Exhibition, Book fair; stalls will be arranged outside the venue.

 

Under the leadership of Manjunath Sagar, Vishwa Kannada Sanskrithi Sammelan Samithi ’Hridayavahini’ Karnataka has been hosting these programmes in different parts of the world for over 12 years with association of various Kannada Sanghas in those places, mostly in the months of November/December every year.  This started from Abu Dhabi Karnataka Sangha and then Singapore, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Dubai, Kenya, Canada and now in Sharjah for the twelfth annual celebrations.

 

Prestigious Awards

With pride those Kannadigas who have highly contributed for Kannada will be honoured with ’Vishwa Manava’ Prashashti (Global Man Award), ’Vishwa Kannada Sammelana’ Prashashti (World Kannada Convention Award) & ’Karnataka Hirimey’ Prashashti (Pride of Karnataka Award) at the venue during the convention.

 

Sammelans

There will be various sammelans during the convention comprising of ’Hanigavana Goshti’, headed by B R Lakshman who along with the invited Poets from India and UAE will conduct the sammelan.  The participants include Irshad Moodabidri from Dubai, Arati Ghatikar from Dubai, Bindiganavile Bhagwan from Bangalore, Priya Harish from Mangalore & Yaqub Khader from Gulwady.

 

The ’Kavi Goshti’ will be presided by Prof. M.B. Kudari Gokak from Belgaum and participation by Prabha Suvarna from Mumbai, Prakash Rao Payyar from Dubai, Gopinath Rao from UAE, Eranna Moolimane from Dubaiand Manohar Melmane from Sirsi.

 

The ’Anivasi Kannadigaru & Madhyama Goshti’ will be presided by Sarvotham Shetty from Abu Dhabi, with participation of Raj Kumar from Bahrain, B V Nagaraj from Canada, Dr C K Anchan from Muscat and Veerendra Babu from Dubai.

 

Valedictory function

TV 9 artistes will present ’Halli Katte’ comedy skit while group dancers from various places of Karnataka will arrive and present group dances, dance dramas, music, mimicry, comedy skits etc. during the convention.

 

The formal stage programme will be in the evening with all the Guests participation with honours and felicitations.

 

Free entry & free lunch for all Kanndigas

The president of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha and president of Vishwa Kannada Sammelana have announced free entry and lunch for all those Kannadigas of UAE and here invite them to come in large numbers along with their family and friends to make this event a memorable one.