{"id":376,"date":"2019-12-10T02:37:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T02:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=24262"},"modified":"2019-12-26T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T05:26:29","slug":"minister-of-culture-presides-at-the-neilson-hays-literature-festival-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/minister-of-culture-presides-at-the-neilson-hays-literature-festival-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Culture Presides at the Neilson Hays Literature Festival Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/events\/festivals\/minister-of-culture-presides-at-the-neilson-hays-literature-festival-opening\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival Opening_Group PHOTO_112019\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Neilson-Hays-Bangkok-Literature-Festival-Opening_Group-PHOTO_112019-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Culture Presides at the Neilson Hays Literature Festival Opening\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Bangkok (Thailand) \u2013 December 10, 2019 (<a class=\"autohyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travelindex.com<\/a>) \u2013 The Neilson Hays Library, led by President <strong>Ms.<\/strong> <strong>Nalin Vanasin<\/strong> (3<sup>rd<\/sup> from left), in collaboration with the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) under the Ministry of Culture, recently kicked off The Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival at an opening ceremony presided over by<strong> H.E. Mr. Ittipol<\/strong> <strong>Khunpluem <\/strong>(5<sup>th<\/sup> from left), <strong>Minister of Culture,<\/strong> and <strong>M.R. Sukhumband Paribatra <\/strong>(4<sup>th<\/sup> from left), Chairman of Suan Pakkad Palace Museum and Chairman of the S.E.A. Write Organising Committee, at the Library. The two-day Literature Festival, which attracted more than 1,200 attendees and staged on the occasion of Neilson Hays Library\u2019s 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, featured insightful talks, panel discussions, and poetry readings by more than 40 renowned Thai and international writers and moderators from around the world, as well as film screenings and other entertainment for the family such as art and craft market and workshops at the Library and the nearby British Club stages.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured from left are<strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>Mr. Zakariya Amataya;\u00a0 Ms. Shelley Bragg, International School of Bangkok;\u00a0 Ms. Nalin Vanasin; M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra; H.E. Mr. Ittipol Khunpluem; Dr. <em>Vimolluck<\/em>\u00a0Chuchat, OCAC Director-General;\u00a0 Mr. Adam Johnson, speaker from the US; and Mr. Jeffrey Senior, Charg\u00e9 d\u2019 Affaires a.i., Embassy of Canada to Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok (Thailand) \u2013 December 10, 2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">travelindex.com<\/a>) \u2013 The Neilson Hays Library, led by President Ms. Nalin Vanasin (3rd from left), in collaboration with the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) under the Ministry of Culture, recently kicked off The Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival at an opening ceremony presided over by H.E. Mr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}