Please find attached the report for cultural activities conducted during the academic year. We would request you to please read the report. We feel that this academic year has been fruitful for cultural activities with many good things happening in the institute and great performances at venues outside. There are other avenues where we may have fallen short, though not for lack of hard work. We would request you to contribute and provide feedback to ensure continuous improvement.

It is also our responsibility to provide the explanations that were asked of us at GBM, to the entire community, many of whom were not present at the GBM and are entitled to the answers their representative sought. There are two files attached with this mail. The ppt is a report of the work done by the Council over the past year, and the document contains an explanation for various points of my manifesto, and other questions received during the GBM.

We admit that while the manifesto has been used as a strong guiding tool, some decisions were taken in real time with opinions of the entire council. This was often to accommodate the new developments that were accounted for after the time the manifesto was initially made. To make up for the deficit, new initiatives were undertaken and past ventures consolidated that weren’t a part of the original manifesto.

Do accept our apologies for the delay in putting the report up.
Additionally, it is our humble request that you send your valuable feedback directly to the  respective secretaries and myself.

Report

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Best Regards,
–
Harsh Jhaveri
General Secretary, Cultural Affairs 2010-11
IIT Bombay.


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T-shirt painting:

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Junkyard Wars

Photography: 5 out of 6 positions have been taken by us.(Awesome Maxxx, i m infy happy )

The main dram GC in its new avatar – split into 2 days for the very first time to ensure longer rehearsal times with lights, definitely lived up to its expectations. 13 plays, each as good as the other. Well just to judge which one was better than the rest, we had a very distinguished panel of judges:
1. Mrs Rashi Bunny - a thorough veteran in the field of theatre, she has been a director, a writer and a very skilled actor for indeed a very long time. She has certain very distinguished accolades to her name including Top 50 emerging icons of India
2. Mrs. Aditi Sharma – a professional theatre actor for the last 12 years, she has been a co-writer and actor of the winning play at Thespo, one of the more prestigious theatre competitions with a Best supporting actress award to her name.
3. Mr. Saurabh Pathak – A professional theatre actor himself, he has been involved in training actors for theatre and cinema for the past 15 years at the Roshan Taneja foundation for Performing Arts.

Kudos to all the efforts put in by the hostels!! Their week long preparations could be surely seen on stage.

THE RESULTS!!

1st:
Mimansa – Hostel 9

2nd:
Hawaalat – Hostel 6

3rd:
He, Me and She – Hostel 13

4th:
Chui Mui – Hostel 10

5th:
Usne Kaha Tha – Hostel 2

Best Actor 1: Siddharth Gupta (Sid) [H9]
Best Actor 2: Aparna Malaviya [H11]

Congrats to all the winners!!
The dram GC ended with H6 as the overall winner.

The judges were completely astonished by the performances as they said that they did not expect it from us. Seeing the potential, the judges have left with some really good news for us:

1. Mrs Rashi Bunny has voluntarily agreed to conduct a workshop for us. Besides, seeing the potential, she is even interested in directing us for a play
2. Mr Saurabh Pathak, a theatre actor trainer, has agreed to give us 10-12 days of his time to help us out with a certain play in whichever way we want
3. Mrs. aditi sharma has said that she shall be available to IIT for whatever kind of help we require for developing dramatics here be it professional help or be it conducting workshops.

Looking forward to a more improved dramatics culture at IITB.

Up next:
IIT Bombay Theatre Fest 2011: 12-16 jan 2011

The judges of last year’s Main Dram GC had made a comment, “You’ll are a tech institute and almost all the plays messed up in technicals. Funny”. Keeping this mind, several measures were taken to ensure a better level of technicals this year at the Main Dram GC, the first of them being this session by Sameer Mishra.

Technicals in theatre basically involves the correct and efficient usage of lights, sounds and prod during a play. The session mainly concentrated on the use of lights and sound. Sameer started off with describing the importance of lights in a play and how they can be used to create different effects on stage, even without the presence of any kind of prod. He showed examples from previous IITian plays as to how light was and can be used to potray sometimes different moods, sometimes emotions and sometimes even various characters.

He moved on to sound where he mentioned about how much time in a play should there be background music, how does one choose which soundtrack to play and how can live music be put in effectively.

It surely was an insightful session and people attending it will definitely agree. The session certainly proved its significance as this session coupled with the extra time given to hostels for practicing by splitting the GC into 2 days, resulted in a much sound usage of technicals this year as compared to last time around!

Venue: OAT

Time: 27th October, Wednesday, 6pm

Make Some Noise…

1. Mukund , Surinderjeet, Mayur, Harshveer.
2. Kislay, Meghna, Mukul, Pranay.
3. Uttapam(Paddy), Shanbhag, Pulklit, Chirag.
4.Vinit, Priyank, Rushabh, Abhie.
5. Antariksh, Ritika, Baheti, Aditya Dongre.
6. Aviral, Raghavan, Dempo, Advait.

-Vinit Atal

Please carry as many rough a4 sheets as possible. We will start with a4 sheets and then towards the later part of the workshops, origami paper will be provided.