UDCN : DEEPAVALI AND INDIAN CULTURAL CELEBRATION '10

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

    It is an Indian Cultural event with diversity of acts and performances to show variety of colors. This event mainly focuses on Indian Culture and the Celebration of Deepavali; The Festival of Light, is organized by Village 5 Student representative (V5SR) in collaboration with UTP Indian Orchestra and International Cultural Club (ICC).

    In 2009 Celebration, over 1200 viewers were estimated during the event which was held in Chancellor Hall and the crowd composed of UTP students,school students
as well as general public from Ipoh and surrounding area.

    Our objective to be achieved during this event are:

    1. Bringing together all students of UTP to participate and organize the event.  

     

     2. To introduce UTP to public especially school students and its broad education opportunities and other privileges to public.

    3. To show the unity  amongst the performers and participate in cultural games and martial arts to other ethnics in UTP.

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INTRODUCTION

    Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Orchestra Indian Musical (UTPOIM) also known as "Sangeeth" in collaboration with Village 5 Committee(V5COM) and International Cultural Club (ICC) are in effort of organizing a cultural event which mainly focus on Indian Culture and the celebration of Deepavali festival, and at the same time the event also will be comprised of performances from other races in Malaysia, this is a noble attempt to emphasize the cultural diversity in our country.


    Previously,UTPOIM had successfully organized “UTP Deepavali Nite” twice. Past events were held in the year 2007, 2008 and 2009 were attended by UTP students, staffs and management. However, in 2009,there are few changes and ideas to be introduced in order to improve this event. 


    First, the name of the event will be changed from “UTP Deepavali Nite” to “UTP Deepavali and Indian Cultural Nite ”.


    Second, since this time onwards we will be emphasizing more on Indian Culture, we will be inviting legal Indian Culture based associations around Perak as a part of performance team, for example Persatuan Silambam Negeri Perak.


    Third, we will be having UTP Chinese Orchestra,UTP Modern Music and UTP Gamelan team to perform together with UTP Indian Orchestra as the finale performance.


    Forth, since this event will be held in Chancellor Hall ,we will be inviting public and also students from other universities as audience.


    Fifth, two days before this event, we will be having exhibitions, competitions, talks, games and other relevant activities both at Pocket D and also V5 court. We also will be inviting shops which will be selling Indian traditional clothes, ornaments and anything else which related.

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ACTIVITIES OF THE EVENT

GAMES AND ACTIVITIES DEPARTMENT

1) FUTSAL AND BAZAAR


Date: 25th and 26th September 2010
Venue: V5 futsal court
Name: Futsal Furious 10’
Group : 8 people per team


RM 80 per group.


Certificates are given to all participants.



2) Ponggal

Date: 2nd October 2010
Venue: V6 car park
Group: 2 people per team


RM 10 per group



3) CARNIVAL


Date: 6th and 7th October 2010
Venue: Room 9 (Pocket D)

Planned activities:

• Booth

• Traditional Clothes Exhibition

• UTP Indian Orchestra Perfomance

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FINAL DESTINATION

                                  CHANCELLOR COMPLEX

                                  CHANCELLOR COMPLEX: ENTRANCE VIEW

                                  CHANCELLOR HALL: INTERNAL VIEW

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