Festival of India 2012 celebrations – Day 2 at Gwinnett Center
August 14, 2012 in Email Newsletter, Headlines, IACA News
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| Exciting Booths – Vendor booths and Food booths | 11am to 7pm; lots of shopping |
| Seminars – General & Youth: 1pm to 7pm
Innovation to & From India – A Panel discussion by TiE Atlanta; Moderator : C N Madhusudan, Chairman TiE Atlanta Tax & immigration Forum – By Chugg Firm, Shailesh Patel : Exec Director, Avani Patel : Attorney, Kapil Handa : CPA Art of Living/ISHA/SAHAJ MARG – Abhay Joshi |
Health – Type 2 Diabetes among Asian – Indians & Prevention; Dr. Venkat Narayanan, Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Engaging Men – By Raksha Youth Panel – Sarung Tripathi & Chetan Hebbale |
| Kids Activities | 11am to 7pm |
| Art competitions – coordinated by Global Art:
2pm to 4pm Theme – India in 2047 (Imagine Independent India in its 100th year) On the spot competition: Show your creativity and win prizes Note: Contestants are required to bring their own drawing and coloring material |
4 to 6 year olds ——— Color the pre-drawn picture
6 to 9 year olds ———-Color the pre-drawn picture and add some elements relevant to the theme 10 to 15 year olds——–Draw and Color based on the theme |
| Special Invitees | Lt. Governor Casey Cagle & Consul General of India Mr. Ajit Kumar |
| Awesome Cultural Program | 11am to 7pm |
| Cultural Session 1: 11am to 2pm | |
| National Anthems & Ganesh prayer | Suma Yellamraju |
| Radha Krishna bhajan: Organized by Gaudiya Vaishnava Association USA, Vivek Shanbhag | Krishnadas, Siddhanth, Amrut, Aditi, Nivedita, Lavanya, Karthik Ji, Rajesh Ji, Pramodh Ji, Shrikala Mataji, Sitadevi Mataji, Shashimukhi Mataji, Anantapriya Mataji |
| Patriotic Songs by students of Sujatha Rayburn | Organized by Prashanthi Jella: Satya & Nitya |
| Made in India dance; Organized by Radhika Vangapally | Akshara Varaganti, Snigdha Vangapally, Shrida Venkatesh |
| Sare Jaha se accha song; Organized by Usha Mocherla,
Priya Chandrasekharan on Keyboard |
Varsha, Navya, Karthik, Manasvi reddy, Sanvi Kankipati, Sarvani Vinakollu, Vaibhavi Kotireddy, Akhila K, Anagha Kollapur |
| Song with live instruments;
Organized by Vijaya Lanka; Choreography by Mrs. Prasuna Vempaty: Instruments: Yasasvi Tadavarti on Tabla; Yagnik Tadavarti, Aarti Eechampati, Siddharth Satuluru on Violin; Debasri Dutta on Harmonium |
Vocal: Sandeep Kowtha, Mihika Lanka, Jayasri Tangirala, Keerthana Chennubhotla, Aditi Talkad, Aparna Pothukuchi, Bhanusri, Manjusha Mocherla, Shanti Medicherla, Kruthi Pillay, Meghana Pothukuchi, Sadhana Durbha, Theja Chennubhotla, Shruti Medicherla, Saket Medicherla, Pranav Mocherla, Pranav Tangirala, Adarsh Vavilikolanu, Pushan Dutta, Supraja Satuluru |
| Bollywood songs on Keyboard by students of Studio! Organized by Archith Seshadri & Ashwin Seshadri | Rohit, Samhitha, Hrishikesh, Ananya, Riya M, Aman, Rhea S, Krithi A |
| Telugu folk dance, Organized by Radhika Vangapally | Akshara Varaganti, Snigdha Vangapally, Shrida Venkatesh, Anish Guntreddi, Manish Chakka, Akul Sangam |
| Dance to Aaja Nachle, Organized by Ruchi Lodh, Directed by Kriti Lodh | Rhea Singi, Nikita Roy, Natasha Roy, Kriti |
| Dance by Nrupatuga Kannada Koota; Organized by Rekha Pradeep; Choreographer: Nisha Kashyap | Nisha Kashyap, Naksha Kashyap as Krishna,
Anushka Madwesh, Vishruta Arun, Priyanka Gokare |
| Jugalbandi – Drums & Dance; Organized by Sreedevi Dadithota | Ankitha Vayalapalli, Amoolya Vayalaalli, Sreedevi Dadithota |
| Matrubhoomi Maku Nandanam Telugu song;
Akash Ganga Surya Chandra Tara – Marathi song, Organized by Usha Mocherla; Priya Chandrasekharan on Keyboard |
Mahesh Nukala, Sweya Surapaneni, Harini Chenchalavahi, Pranusha Bethi, Swathi Budarapu, Meghana Madduri, Amrutha Kotlure, Naga Kotlure, Theja Chennubhotla, Keerthana Chennubhotla, Aditi Thalkad, Mihika Lanka, Pranav Mocherla |
| Karaoke Singing along with Dance for the “Chan Ke Mohalla” from movie “Action Replay” | Organized by Usha Mocherla: Sirisha Dara, Ratnamanjusha Mocherla, Sreedevi Dadithota |
| FOI segment: Special Invitees | IACA- Lt. Governor Casey Cagle & Consul General of India Mr. Ajit Kumar |
| Cultural Session 2: 2pm – 5pm | |
| Assamese Dance; Organized by Swapnali Das | Sohini Gupta, Prioska Baruah, Anisha Das Srivastava |
| Dance by Asha, Organized by Asha & Anjali | Asha, Anjali, Neha |
| Patriotic Dance: The song for this dance has been composed by Sri. Rabindranath Tagore. Organized by Natyanjali Academy of Dance; Choreography & Direction By: Chandrika Chandran |
Trisha Dalapati, Pragya Banerji, Pallavi Ekbote, Nidhi Kethineni, Priti Dutta, Adiva Dutta, Riya Gokhale |
| KA Academy of Indian Music & Dance is proud to present the KA String Ensemble. The String Ensemble will perform a composition in Raagam Kalyani, whose Hindustani equivalent is raag Yaman. The composition is in praise of Lord Krishna and combines a bhajan phrase along with the basic building blocks of Carnatic Music – the Jantais and then the Kalpana swarams - raga improvization within a specific tala (rythm) in which the musician improvises in the Indian music solfege – sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni | Kirti Subramanian, Harini Sridhar, Gowri Sudhir, Malu Nedumpurath, Keerthika Chavali, Kaushik Chavali, Nandhith Karthikeyan, Nikhil Kasaghatta, Rohit Khanna, Siddharth Kuppa, Pranav Murali, Pranav Nedumpurath, Gautam Krishnan, Rohan Shirur, Akshay, Jagan Santhanam, Karthik Kasaghatta, Karthik Srinivasamurthy, Arvind Shirur, Prasanna Rajagopalan, Padmanabhan Raman and Raja Rangarajan |
| Bollywood dance by Asura dance team from University of Georgia; Coordinated by – Kishore Vedala | Samir Gala, Parin Patel, Shruti Patel, Dilreet Kaur, Kishore Vedala |
| Disney Make Your Mark Dance Competition kids | Janeisha Cambridge & Kaylan Mary. They are multi-talented and they entered the Disney Make your mark dance competition |
| Fitness session by Aarti Patel | |
| Odissi Dance – This particular one is the “Mohana Pallavi” , an abstract dance with the movements reminding one of a peacock | Organized by Bikhipta Panda, Directed by Bikhipta Panda: Sapna Sarangi, Purbasha Mohanty, Monalisa Mishra, Monalisa Mohapatra, Ankita Das, Smita Mohapatra, Neeta Nayak, Bikhipta Panda |
| Special Patriotic item for FOI: The Program “LEGENDS OF INDIA” portrays our Indian National leaders and inspiring personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Jhansi Lakshmi bai, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Vivekananda, etc
Organized by Gopal Turaga, Directed by Aparna Turaga; Patriotic Dancers: |
Sesha Lakkakula as Gandhi, Ram kumar Yedavalli as Nehru, Raza Shah as Sri Krishna Devarayalu, Gopal Turaga as Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Sohini Ayinala as Sarojini Naidu, Prathima Dhumal as Jhansi Ki Rani, Revathy Lakkakula as Sucheta Kriplani, Kartheek Enaganti as Swami Vivekananda ,Karthik Yedavalli as Bhagat Singh, Deepti Sharma as Bharat Maata and Prajin Dhumal as guest appearance |
| Talent Show Finals: Organized by Navin Tyagi & Namrata Dewan | Hersh Mathur, Mihir Joshi, Preity Chavan, Nitya Jella, Rishi Gowda, Riya Manchanda, Mansavi Reddy Gaddam, Vansh Sharma, Rachita S Iyer, Krithi Ariga, Nikita Lokhande, Sonya Dannenberg, Ananya Terala, Satya Jella, Aman Garlapati, Yamini Chavan, Pooja Mayur, Aditi Bellur |
| Bollywood dance: Organized by Ekta Patel | Ekta Patel, Maanu Mansuria , Marika Shahid |
| Aslam Pervez – Nelaam Ghar (quiz show) | |
| Bollywood patriotic dance: “Des Rangeela” from the movie FANAA. This dance portrays the unity in diversity of our great Nation, Mother land – INDIA.
Directed and Organized by Shiva Turlapati |
Nithya Rajanala, Nithya Kasaraneni, Srishti Singh, Shriya Kantipudi, Akshita Surapaneni, Sarah Thangamani, Riya Chada, Rhea Nichani, Gargee Sathe, Sathvika Koduri, Meghana Menon, Divya Yendapally, Pritika Maddi, Neha Gulrajani, Suvarsha Reddy, Moulica Reddy |
| Cultural Session 3: 5pm – 7pm | |
| Pull You Through – Contemporary dance by The Royal Academy: Choreographed by
Sarah Johnson |
Hannah Cyr, Haley Hebenstreit, Samantha, Skinner |
| Medley dance: Organized by Sunita Thaliath | Jasmine Anickat, Tiffany Makkanal, Tanya Makkanal, Christine Makkanal, Maria Parayil, Sharon Mathew, Tagel Wilson, Anita Augusthy, Monisha Mammen, Sunita Thaliath, Juanita Joseph, Abel Augusthy, Austin Thomas, Cyril Lukose, Joel Joseph, Mathew Karivelil |
| Stand Up Comedy by Tushar Singh | |
| KINGSMEN- Hip hop dance by The Royal Academy: Choreographed by AJ Paug | Haley Jenkins, Song Li Yu, Paul Nguyen, AJ Paug, Kari Twyman, Deinard Wilson |
| Best Looking Couple | |
| Punjabi dance: A celebration of Indian Bollywood with culturally relevant selections from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and beyond! | Directed and Organized by Geeta Khanna, Sonia Thakare, Asheem Khondker: Asheem Khondker, Sonia Thakare, Geeta Khanna, Kelly Reese, Trishul Mallikarjuna, Sukanya Bhattacharya |
| Bollywood Dance; Organized by Victoria Kesler, Choreography by Ranjana Rathi with ALL STARS Performing Arts Academy |
Angela Agudelo, Emily Farmer, Sohia Farmer, Karina Gonzalez, Alyssa Gutierrez, Aili Sayles |
| Recitation of mantras by the youth group | Organized by Greater Atlanta Vedic temple’ Anup Chandora, Angad Joshi, Anila Kodukula, Havishkrit Arya, Rishi Bagga, Rohan Bagga, Sumita Hughes, Nilesh Hughes, Shruti Mishra, Siddhant Singh |
| Art competition winners announcement | |
| Talent show winners announcement | |
| TV winner announcement | |
| Best looking couple winner announcement | |
| Open dance floor |
