Chhandayan Diwali Celebration: featuring music, dance and other types of performances.

Sitting: Mostly sitting on chairs.
Dress Code: Festive.
Food and beverage: There will be meals, snacks, and beverage available for purchase.

The event will start at 2 pm and end at 8 pm.

There will be fun activities set up in the adjacent room for youth, we encourage children to please participate in Rangoli decoration, craft and games. 

Program in the main hall:

2.00 pm: Welcome - Light Diya candles - A few words about Chhandayan

2.07 pm  Chhandayan Vocal students - Aishani Singh and Nikita Trivedi, accompanied by Adarsh Tolat on tabla
2.25 pm Vocal duet - Maitryi and Aarushi Mehta, accompanied by Naren Holla on tabla                                                               
2.50 pm Chhandayan NJ Tabla Ensemble - Keyur Thakar, Shiv Gandhi, Achal Vadlapatla, Shiv Sharma
3.00 pm Chhandayan NY Tabla Ensemble - Aditya Kumar, Aditya Prasad, Arjun Shah, Aiza Aslam 
3.15 pm Tabla Solo - Penny Brill
3.30 pm  Tabla Solo - Harshal Joshi,

3.40 pm Tabla Solo - Vedant Deshpande,
3.50 pm Tabla Solo - Pehlaaj Bajwa,
4.05 pm  Tabla Solo - Aneesh Joshi and Aditya Joshi,
4.15 pm Tabla Duet - Rahul Modi and Adarsh Tolat,
4.25 pm Tabla Duet - Naren Holla,
4.35 pm Tabla Solo - Sagar Laud,
4.50 pm  Tabla Solo - Brandon Ram,

5.00 pm  Vocal music - Syed Islam
5.15 pm Debate: a) Deliberate Practice VS b) Dedicated Practice 

               o Moderator - Pehlaaj Bajwa
               o Participants: a) Penny Brill, Sagar Laud, Naren Holla, Rahul Modi, b) Adarsh Tolat, Aditya Joshi, Brandon Ram, Keyur Thakar,
               o Each participant will be given 2 minutes to speak - Moderator will give a round-up of the discussion - two speakers chosen                      as representative of each group will speak for one minute each.


Children's Activities
Rubik's cube - Sagar Laud

Deepsankar Bhattacharya - sitar,
Rohan Dasgupta - sitar.
Subrata Bhattacharya - tabla