ARCHITECT
Meera Nair
Cities that stay up
Draws for the hours a neighborhood is actually awake, not the hours on the plan.
SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER · DUSK
LanternYard
One night of talks, a long supper table, and live sound under paper lanterns. A temporary court off Golf Links Road, Kowdiar.
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103 places still open across three tiers. Supper is nearly gone.
01 / TICKETS
Three ways into the yard
A hold on this device, not a charge. Show the code at the arch. Late arrivals lose the hold at 18:15.
STANDING
Yard
Free
The courtyard, the lantern walk, and the live set from the ground.
- Lantern walk at dusk
- Standing room by the stage
- Chai at the bar
86 of 220 left
MOST ASKED FOR
Gallery
₹890
A numbered riser with a clear line to whoever is speaking.
- Reserved riser seat
- Printed night program
- Priority at the gate
14 of 90 left
- Few left
SUPPER
Long Table
₹2,600
A place at the communal supper, served while the program runs.
- Supper for one
- Wine or buttermilk
- A seat that stays all night
3 of 28 left
Nothing is charged here. Gallery is ₹890 and the long table is ₹2,600 when you arrive — this page only keeps your name, party size, and code on this device.
02 / AGENDA
Dusk until the path is empty
Doors at 17:30. The program starts at 18:30 and does not wait. All times are IST.
17:30
Gate opens
Names and codes at the lantern arch. Late holds are released at 18:15.
17:40
Lantern walk
Follow the banyan path in. Take a paper light if you want one.
18:30
Cities that stay up
A short walk, told from the stage, through Kowdiar after the shops shut.
Meera Nair19:00
Supper is served
The long table sits. Gallery and yard stay with the program.
Yard kitchen19:20
Live set
Twenty-five minutes. No encore, on purpose.
Arun Dev19:55
Feeding a night market
Light, hunger, and what a cook needs from the street around the stall.
Lila Thomas & Kabir Shah20:40
Yard stays open
Last pours. Lanterns stay up until the path is empty.
03 / SPEAKERS
Four voices, one court
An architect, a drummer, a food writer, and the person who decides how dark the yard should be.
PERCUSSION
Arun Dev
Live set
Hand drums, a borrowed brass line, and one song the yard will not see coming.
FOOD WRITER
Lila Thomas
Feeding a night market
Writes about what a street owes the people who cook on it after dark.
LIGHTING
Kabir Shah
Feeding a night market
Lights rooms the way a city lights a junction: enough to gather, not to glare.
04 / VENUE
A court, not a hall
The Lantern Yard is a one-night layout off Golf Links Road. This plan is the program, not a street map.
Schematic of the yard. Not to scale. Tap a zone to see what happens there.
ON THE PLAN
Stage
Talks and the live set. Low platform, no rake.
18:30
Cities that stay up
19:20
Live set
19:55
Feeding a night market
Off Golf Links Road, Kowdiar, Thiruvananthapuram 695003
- Eight minutes on foot from Kowdiar junction.
- City buses that stop at Kowdiar. The arch is down the lane, not on the main road.
- Autos from Statue or East Fort. No large parking — two-wheelers along the service lane.
05 / RSVP
Put your name on the arch
Tell us who is coming and which tier you want. You’ll get a code to show at the gate. It stays on this device.
- Yard
- 86 left · Free
- Gallery
- 14 left · ₹890
- Long Table
- 3 left · ₹2,600