Kerala Tourism\u2019s seven-day-long Onam celebrations will begin on August 25 at the Capital city.<\/p>\n
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the state-level celebrations at Nishagandhi Auditorium on August 25 by honouring renowned artistes. The week-long Onam Celebrations will witness a cultural extravaganza of music, dance, painting and martial arts. The celebrations will see the participation of 5,000 performing artistes and will be hosted at 29 venues.<\/p>\n
“The city will come alive in a cultural extravaganza of music, dance, painting and martial arts programmes in the modern, traditional, folk and classical genres of Kerala,<\/em>” said State Tourism Minister A P Anilkumar.<\/p>\n The Onam Week celebrations venues include the Nishagandhi Auditorium, the Central Stadium, Poojapura ground, Museum Hall and Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan. Shankhumukham is also a key new venue this year.<\/p>\n Shankhumukham is also a key new venue this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The inaugural function at the main venue, Nishagandhi, is a ‘Magical Melodies’ music performance by a team led by K S Chithra and Sudeep, which will be followed by a tourism theme-song dance performance, and a dance performance by Rajasree Warrier.<\/p>\n A festive procession, jointly organised by the Tourism Department and the Kerala Sports Council, will march through the city on Thursday as a prelude to the Onam celebrations.<\/p>\n Additionally, trade fairs and exhibitions will be conducted at Suryakanthi ground with the participation of Kudumbasree and government units, along with a food festival.<\/p>\n The celebrations will get a mega closing with a procession, exhibiting art forms from Kerala and other states, that starts at Vellayambalam and goes up to East Fort on August 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kerala Tourism\u2019s seven-day-long Onam celebrations will begin on August 25 at the Capital city. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the state-level celebrations at Nishagandhi Auditorium on August 25 by honouring renowned artistes. The week-long Onam Celebrations will witness a cultural extravaganza of music, dance, painting and martial arts. The celebrations will see the participation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-23869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869"}],"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=23869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}