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Saudha International Literature Festival | Senedd the Welsh Parliament
Thursday 2 October 2025 at 12 noon to 13:30
The Welsh Parliament, Neuadd, Oriel, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF99 1SN
The festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination, languages from different cultural heritages through talks, reading, performances.
This is part of Saudha’s critically acclaimed literature Festival that contemplates re-reading/ re-interpreting the works of literary giants of the world and explores the philosophical insights on many unconventional literary themes and movements through reading, performances, poetry-theatres, talks etc.
In collaboration with a Cardiff based art-organisation Club 1400, sponsored by the cabinet secretary for finance Mark Drakeford MS, our event at Senedd will feature a few leading contemporary poets, writers, performers – a leading poet and an acclaimed academic Fiona Simpson, very acclaimed and award-winning poets Peter Finch, Taz Winkel-Opleir, Helen McSherry, Clare Potter, a prominent academic and philosopher Peter Salmon, spoken-word artist Sonali Dasgupta, national award-winning social justice campaigner Cllr Jasmin Chowdhury, a prominent dancer and choreographer Aleksandra Jones who will re-define both intellectual, political, emotional and spiritual discourses of the word PEACE through a series of insightful and haunting presentations followed by a Saudha production of spoken-words, classical music and classical dance called IN THE QUEST OF PEACE WITHIN.
Saudha’s production is being presented by a leading Indian classical vocalist Chandra Chakraborty, poet T M Ahmed Kaysher, a very powerful performance poet Shree Ganguly, talented classical dancers Asmitha Keer and Ishika Biswas, Tagore devotee Monju Chakraborty and a music-connoisseur, ethno-musicologist Dr Siddartha Kargupta.
Free registration:
Venue: From Oct 2, 2025 to Oct 2, 2025 in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF99 1SN
