Boi-Lit
Boi-Lit festival is our annual event originally started as Boishakhi literature festival to celebrate the Bengali New Year. We hold book fair, and present classic literature through performing arts form that include-
– Story telling and puppet making
– Poetry recital
– Musicals
– Theatre
– Live discussions
We also take part at the largest open air festival in East London, Boishakhi Mela and manage the festival’s literacy tent.
2004
2005
2006-08
2009-10
2010-13
BSK UK 10 Years Celebration (2012)
2014-16
Boi lit 2016 focusing on Bangla renaissance. A time when from social reformation to literature to entre into a new era . Europe played a huge part in this modernization although each reformer also played active part in anti colonization against the British empire and advocated for free India.
2017-19
2020-21
Shokuntola (শকুন্তলা): One of the performing art and cultural projects directed and delivered during lockdown was this international initiative from World Literature Centre (Bishsho Shahitto Kendro). This is a dramatised reading and presentation of Ishwarchandra Bidyasagar’s “Shakuntala” written circa 1854. 25 artists from 3 continents devoted their time and talent to produce this masterpiece which was shot on their individual mobile phones at home. We revisited the early years of Bengali Renaissance and connected our present time of uncertainty and chaos.
