{"id":13716,"date":"2013-09-13T00:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T18:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13716"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:51:39","slug":"trivandrum-all-set-to-welcome-onam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-all-set-to-welcome-onam\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum all set to welcome Onam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trivandrum is gearing up for the <strong>Onam Week Celebrations<\/strong> to be held from September 14 to 20<sup>th<\/sup> in a big way. The inaugural ceremony will take place at <strong>Central Stadium<\/strong> on 14th of this month with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy lighting the lamp. The weeklong celebrations will be orchestrated by the Department of Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural evening will be made special with the presence of Bollywood Diva <strong>Sreedevi<\/strong> and youth icon <strong>Prithviraj<\/strong>.\u00a0 In connection with Onam Week Celebrations, Central Stadium will witness Mega Shows everyday held under the auspices of various visual print media.<\/p>\n<p>You can witness the musical and dance recitals presented by famous playback singers and dancers and also comedy shows by noted comedians, every evening. Pro-shows on each day will be presented by visual media viz Jaihind, Jeevan, ACV, Mathrubhumi, Amirta TV, Mangalam Daily and Kerala Kaumudi.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, you can also enjoy Air Swimmer\u2019s Carnival taking place at <strong>Kanakunnu<\/strong>. Venue at <strong>Shangumughom<\/strong> will offer an experience of a different kind like laser shows, rock show by Avial band and kite flying mela. This time Vylopilli Samskrithi Bhavan will also be a major venue for the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Poojapura Ground<\/strong>, musical nights by noted playback singers like Venugopal, Madhu Balakrishan, Sithara and others will entertain the crowds. Inside the Kanakunnu Palace, exhibitions of contemporary paintings and photography have been arranged. Gandhi Park and VJT hall will become the venues for drama, poetry recitals and Katha Prasangam.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations will come to a finale on <strong>20<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>September<\/strong> with a vibrant pageantry consisting of colourful floats, performances by various artistes, caparisoned elephants etc designed to enthral the spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trivandrum is gearing up for the Onam Week Celebrations to be held from September 14 to 20th in a big way. The inaugural ceremony will take place at Central Stadium on 14th of this month with Chief Minister Oommen Chandy lighting the lamp. The weeklong celebrations will be orchestrated by the Department of Tourism. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[388,452],"class_list":["post-13716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-onam-2013","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}