UDCN : DEEPAVALI AND INDIAN CULTURAL NITE '09

3rd October 2009,marked a very significant and great success for
UTP Deepavali And Indian Cultural Nite 2009 (UDCN09), an event organized by
Village 5 Student representative (V5SR) in collaboration with UTP Indian Orchestra
and International Cultural Club (ICC).

Almost 1200 people attended 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.
And yes,indeed we managed to achieve our all our objectives through this event:

1. To introduce and share with others unique and versatile Indian culture

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

3. To show the unity among Malaysian through cultural performances- Gamelan &
Chinese orchestra & Indian Orchestra

The event was first started with Indian Cultural Dances like :

1. Kollatam




2.Kaaragatam



3. Bharatanatyam



4. Mayel Attam



5. Indian traditional drums



Continued with UTP students performances:

5. Star-D (All Malay students) performed for Indian song



6. Attaradiee Dance with folk song



7. Bhangra performance



8. Song by Adonis ( Chinese student sung Tamil song)



9. One Malaysia Performance ,where Gamelan ,Indian Orchestra
and Chinese Orchestra performed together







10. As our social responsibilty to surrounding community,we also had award giving ceremony to celebrate Top 10 UPSR achievers from Tronoh Tamil School.





Finally the event come to an end around 10pm,and everyone enjoyed their dinner at the Chancellor Foyer,delicious traditional Indian food .

OBJECTIVE

The objectives of UTP Deepavali and Indian Cultural Nite are :

~Bringing together all students of UTP regardless of race, ethnic, religion & nationality to participate and organize an event.

~Introducing the Malaysian style of Indian culture, arts & music.

~Platform for V5Com and ICC to get close with students & create a better bond.

~Platform for students to show their talent to their fellow UTP mates.

~Platform for UTPO to reach out to students besides strict & official events.

~Platform for UTP Indian Orchestra ,UTP Chinese Orchestra and Gamelan team to get to know each other and appreciate the uniqueness of each one of them.

~Join hand with the government’s urge of unity and ‘1 MALAYSIA CONCEPT'.

~Introducing the Indian cultural games and martial arts to other ethnics in UTP

~Promoting UTP to public and students from other universities.

~To promote UTP students’ social responsibility-portion of profit earned from this event, will be donated to SJK (TAMIL) TRONOH and other charitable organization.

FINAL DESTINATION

CHANCELLOR COMPLEX


CHANCELLOR HALL:ENTRANCE VIEW


CHANCELLOR HALL:INTERNAL VIEW

INTRODUCTION

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Orchestra Indian Musical (UTPOIM) a.k.a 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 and 2008 and 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.