Sheila Ki Jawani and Munni’s Badnaam story were not the only topics of discussion at Mount Carmel College (MCC) as participants kickstarted Cul-Ah! 2011, their three-day cultural fest.
The fest promises to be a tad different this year. The theme chosen for this year’s fest is ‘elements’.
“Considering that this year is the year of ‘biodiversity’, we have begun a number of campaigns in the college that encourage students to be more eco-friendly and to save the earth,” says Andrea D’Souza, general secretary. “For Cul- Ah, therefore, we chose the five elements of our planet to define and categorise our events.”
Fire will include high energy events like dance, mad ads and mock rock, whereas music and poetry are in the category of Air. Water, with its characteristic intelligence, will include events such as quizzes and pictionary that test your intelligence and creativity while events such as vegetable carving, cooking without fire and flower arrangement fall in the category of Earth.
“All these events will be conducted in the element of space, which in this case is MCC,” says D’Souza. There are 72 different events in which participants can take part.
“We have added events like Kannada folk song, Tamil group as well as solo songs, human puppetry, web designing, online treasure hunt, spelling bees and many such games that other fests do not have, in order to encourage the immense talent that is around us.”
New events such as Emotional Golmaal, Light it up (designing light fixtures using bending wires, old fabrics paper, bottles), Build up (designing your own building from glasses, gunny bags, ropes and so on), Green Game (blind folded participants are asked to identify spices from touch and smell) are some of the newer events that will test the creativity and expertise in the competitions.
“The competition at Cul- Ah! is much better this year,” says Allan Sam Paul, student of East Point Academy.
“A number of new events are added that will encourage students who cannot sing or dance, to take part in extra- curricular activities.”
The standard of competition this year also promises to be much higher with some colleges beginning their preparations two months ago.
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