Surya Festival Trivandrum

Soorya is a leading Stage and Film society
in Kerala. Soorya has 11 chapters all over
the world including New York, London,
Zurich, Geneva, Middle east etc. Total
members include 20000, of which 7000 in
India and 13000 abroad.

Soorya has been adjudged as the
largest cultural society and the 75 day long
Surya festival as the largest cultural
festival of Asia by the Limca Book of World
Records.

Activites
75 day long Soorya India Festival
Soorya India Festival is held every year
from 21st September .
The programme pattern is as below:
21st to 30th September: Festival of
Indian Feature Films and Documentaries,
Artists' Village for Painters and
Sculptors, Group Discussion and Open Forum.

1st to 10th October: Classical Music and
Dance Festival, Workshops,Lecture
Demonstrations,Folkarts Festival.

10th October: Gurupooja

11th to 20th October:Theatre
Festival,Talk Festival,Choreography
Festival, Handicrafts Festival, Story
hour, Poetry Hour, Folk Theatre Festival,
Book Fair and Ethnic Food Festival

21st to 27th October: Ramayanam Festival

28th to 30th October: Mohiniyattam
Festival

1st to 10th November : Parampara - An
Unique Festival held every year from 14th
November to spot and to promote young
talents in Classical Music and Dance . The
disciples of illustrious Gurus are
presented as artistes of the next generation
. Such a festival is likely to be the only
one of its kind in the country .

Followed by The East and the West , a
twenty four day long festival where the
hollywood and the Bollywood films meet .

Parampara

A unique Dance & Music Festival held
every year from 1st November to spot and to
promote young talents in Classical
Music and Dance. The disciples of
illustrious Gurus are presented as
artistes of the next generation. Such a
festival is likely to be the only one of
its kind in the country.

Light & Sound Shows

THAMASO MA JYOTHIRGAMAYA on temples,
temple arts and temple rituals
VELUTHAMPI DALAWA a programme on the
great freedom fighter
NEELAVELICHAM on Vaikkom Mohammed Basheer
and his characters
STHREEPARVAM on atrocities against women
DEEPASIKHA on the plight of genuine
artistes
ANJALI on the 4 Madras WLI of the Indian
Army
SURYAKANTI on the sorrows of flowers of
Kerala
THUDAKKAM probing into a writer's mind
through his characters
AVATHARAM a programme on image building
in Indian epics and politics
MURIVUKAL on the last wish of a great
writer
SAMAVAKYAM on the life of nuns in an old
age home
PULARI on those who have someone to wait
for and those who have no one to wait for.
PRANAMAM a tribute to Mohammed Rafi
THUDARCHA a sequal to thudakkam

Monthly programmes

There are about seven programmes every
month open