Austin Marathi Mandal
BMM Convention 2009

 Ganeshotsav 2010


Event Details
Date September 18th, 2010
Venue (To be Confirmed) Murchison Middle School
3700 North Hills Dr.,Austin, TX 78731
Time 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Program Schedule
4:30pm - 5:30pm Shree Ganesh Puja
5:30pm - 6:30pm Aarti-Teerth Prasad (Ganpati Atharvashirsha)
6:30pm - 7:00pm Impromptu Games / Quiz / Competitions
7:00pm - 8:00pm Dinner
8:00pm - 9:00pm Entertainment Program
Ticket Details
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For Members (with RSVP) $10
For Members (without RSVP and at gate) $12
For Non-Members $15
For Kids & Students(5 to 15yrs) $6
Last Date to RSVP September 10th, 2010
Ticket buying options :
Option 1: Buy online by clicking here
Option 2: Send check in favor of "Austin Marathi Mandal" c/o Aruna Badrayani, 5024 Barlow Drive,Round Rock, TX 78681
Option 3: Pay at the Gate on the event day
Annual AMM Membership 2010-2011
The annual period for membership is August 2010 - August 2011. Membership rate is $5 for individuals and $10 for families.
  • The membership has several benefits, some of which have been listed below:
  • a) Discounts on admission fees to all events
  • b) Free copy of AMM “Diwali Anka” (magazine), "Snehadeep"
  • c) Discounted advertisement rates in AMM magazine and on AMM website.
  • You can Pay Online at http://www.austinmarathimandal.org using paypal
  • You can send check to “Austin Marathi Mandal”, C/O Aruna Badrayani, 5024 Barlow Drive, Round Rock, TX 78681
  • You can Pay to your nearest AMM committee member
Kids Fancy Dress Competition (On religious or cultural theme)
Please send your entries by Friday September 3rd, 2010 to eventcoordinator@austinmarathimandal.org
  • This competition will be judged on the depth of information, understanding of the character by the participant and make-up effort along with other logistics
  • By religious and cultural theme, we mean that we are looking for fancy dress characters from Ramayana / Mahabharata and /or our culture / History etc
  • This way our community kids will get to know about our culture and heritage. And hence the parents are requested to teach their participant kid about the character
  • We request parents to prepare their Kids to talk about their Fancy dress character for few seconds
  • Please note that we are not looking for characters such as Spiderman, Batman , Michael Jackson etc..nothing filmy at all
Ganpati Drawing Competition: (This is open to Kids and Adults both)
Please hand over your picture/sketch at the entrance by 4:30 pm.
  • Hand drawn picture/sketch of “Shree Ganesh” : You can draw this picture/sketch before attending the program and bring it to display at the program
  • Recommended size is A4 paper.The Pictures awarded at the program, will be published in “Snehadeep”
  • Please mention your name / email address / age and Phone on back side of picture
Dance participation: (This is open to Kids and Adults both)
Please send your dance entries by Friday September 3rd, 2010 to eventcoordinator@austinmarathimandal.org
  • We are accepting entries for regional dances like Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Koli dance etc
  • Since this is a Ganeshotsav event, the choice of song for the dance needs to be appropriate for the occasion
  • If you have questions about the song choice, please contact event coordinator at eventcoordinator@austinmarthimandal.org to discuss more
Singing participation: (This is open to Kids and Adults both)
Please send your song singing entries by Friday September 3rd, 2010 to eventcoordinator@austinmarathimandal.org
  • We are accepting entries for devotional songs such as Bhav-geet, Bhakti geet and Bhajan
  • Even film songs which are appropriate for the occasion will be accepted, but at the discretion of the Committee
  • You will need to arrange the accompaniment of Tabla, Peti, Keyboard etc. If you would like to sing on the Karaoke track, we can provide you CD player, but you will need to bring your own CD
  • If you have questions about the song choice, please contact event coordinator at eventcoordinator@austinmarthimandal.org to discuss more
Diwali Magazine – “Snehadeep”
We have started accepting entries for our Diwali magazine – "Snehadeep"
  • If you have softcopies of the articles, paintings, stories, poetries etc then please email those to secretary@austinmarathimandal.org
  • If you have these articles handwritten, then please give it to any AMM Committee member so that they can forward it to the person-in-charge
Event Volunteering:
  • If you are interested in volunteering for the event, then please send an email to amm@austinmarathimandal.org
  • Volunteering can include but not limited to Food preparation, food stall setup, food serving, order pickup, inventory purchasing , backstage help, program setup help etc
  • For any questions / concerns / suggestions, feel free to contact us on amm@austinmarathimandal.org
Upcoming Event : Diwali 2010 - November 13th, 2010
 
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