Close on the heels of the State School Science Festival here, curtain will go up on the District School Arts Festival that will begin at Attingal on Tuesday.
More than 6,400 students will participate in 307 events at 14 venues at the four-day festival. Government Boys Higher Secondary School (HSS), Attingal, will be the main venue. The other venues include Government Girls HSS, District Institute of Education and Training (DIET), Town Upper Primary School, DEO Office, and the Government College grounds.
Students from upper primary, high school, higher secondary, and vocational higher secondary streams from the 12 sub-districts in the State will participate. The numbers may increase if students who have appealed the decisions at the sub-district level are taken into account.
Speaker A.N. Shamseer will inaugurate the festival at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. O.S. Ambika, MLA, will preside. MLAs Kadakampally Surendran, C.K. Hareendran, and K. Ansalan will be present.
Creative contests such as painting, oil painting, story-writing, poetry, and essay writing as well as Arabic and Urdu arts festivals will begin at Government Girls HSS at 9 a.m. Art contests will begin at all venues at 10 a.m. Some of the main events on the day include Thiruvathira, Mohiniyattam, Kathakali, Mappilapattu, light music, group dance, English skit, clarinet-bugle, instrumental music, and Hindi and Malayalam elocution.
Adoor Prakash, MP, will inaugurate the valedictory of the festival on Friday evening.
