May 4th, 2012 - pittsburgh tamil sangam

May 4th, 2012 - pittsburgh tamil sangam

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May 4th, 2012
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About Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam
On Jan 23 2010, an announcement was made about the inception of "Pittsburgh
Tamil Association". Since then Pittsburgh Tamil Association has been organizing
events in Pittsburgh such as Summer Picnic, festivals like Deepavali, Pongal and
New Year for the last two years.
On Friday, Feb 24 2012,"Pittsburgh Tamil Association" has been officially registered
as a non-profit organization named "Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam".
Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam (PTS) is devoted to preserve and promote the rich Tamil
heritage and culture among people of Tamil origin in the greater Pittsburgh region.
Check us out @ http://www.pghtamils.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/pittsburghtamilsangam/
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Officers
President – Prabhakar Iyer
Secretary – Sudha Krishnasamy
Treasurer – Madhavan Srinivasa
Officer – Events – Giridhar Raghavan
Officer – Education – Nandakumar Govindasamy
Officer – Membership – Raji Govindarajan
Vijayasree Sooriamurthi
Saravanan Ketharam
Vijaymurugan Chokkalingam
Youth Coordinators
Abirami Rajaram
Ramita Ravi
Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam – Membership
Benefits:
Members can vote for Board elections and also run for board positions
To run for board positions one must be a member for at least one year with
volunteer work for 2 events at the minimum
Members' child(ren) 12 to 18 yrs of age shall be eligible for youth coordinator
positions
Members can be part of various committees to drive Sangam programs across the
Greater Pittsburgh region
Terms and Conditions:
18 years and above will be considered as Individual
One year membership fee per Individual is $10
Lifetime membership fee per Individual is $100 (10 times the prevailing yearly
membership fees)
Yearly membership is valid for calendar year (membership expires on Dec 31st
irrespective of the date/time it starts during the year)
Membership fees is non refundable and non transferable (cannot be transferred to
other family members)
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● Membership fee is subject to change at the discretion of board
VENKATA3
Story & Script:
Chitralaya Sriram
Dramatization & Direction:
Y.Gee. Mahendra
Cast
Y.Gee.M
Mani
Ranga
Raj
Ranjani
Sriram
Deepa
Ramesh
Aravind
Karthik
Technical Crew
Back Stage & Properties:
Sriram
Props Design:
Ramesh
Audio-Lights and Special Effects:
Kalai Ravi (India)
Makeup & Costumes:
Deepa
Administration & Logistics:
Raghuram, Ramesh, Mani, Raj, Aravind
Event Coordination:
Ranga
Y.Gee.Mahendra [www.ygeem.com]
A famous actor, dramatist, playwright and musician with over 50 years of
experience in theater, movies and television. His theater organization – UAA – is one
of the leading theater groups in India that has been staging plays for well over 60
years. A crowd puller who has enthralled thousands of audience all around the
globe, Y.Gee.M has won several awards, titles and accolades, including prestigious
lifetime achievement awards for his contributions to tamil theater.
Triveni Arts, Chicago [trivenichicago.wordpress.com]
Triveni (meaning confluence of three art forms) is an organization dedicated to the
cause of promoting Indian arts including theater, classical music and dance to the
Indo-US community. Triveni seeks to produce and showcase cultural events
pertaining to Indian theater, music and dance that are entertaining as well as
educative. Triveni is composed of individuals, volunteers and professionals
passionate about theater and Indian arts.
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Immigration, Business, family, Real Estate, Litigation and Tax
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Enjoy the experience of the art of spices by “The Mintt”
Fine Indian Restaurant
Open Tue-Fri 11:30 am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm;
Weekends 12pm-3pm, 5pm-10pm
3033 Banksville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15216
http://www.themintt.com
http://www.facebook.com/minttpa
(412) 306-1831
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Sponsor Guest*
Madhavan Thuppal
Vasumathy Thuppal
Usha Chandrashekar
Revathi Pennathur
Lakshmanan & Uma Krishnamurthi
Mani Manoharan
Dr. Srini Vasagam
Balakumar
VIP Guest*
Raja Ganesh
Dr. Swetha Ganesh
Madhavan Srinivasa
Sudha Vatsan
Giridhar Raghavan
Swaminathan
Balasubramaniam
S.K. Sekaran
Geetha Manian
Dr. Ravi Balu
Indu Poorima
Ravi Vasudevan
Daks & Hema Murthy
Vasudevan
Vaidyanathan
Govinda Rao
Ravi Sundaram
Vasudevan Jagannathan
Satheesh Kumar
Subramanyan Natarajan
Shantha Muthappan
Sivaraman Balan
Muralidhar Kannan
Nalini Velpari
Mahendran Natarajan
Rajaram Nataraj
Ramgopal Srinivasan
Gopinath Kalavar
Dr. Kanakathara
Eswarakrishnan
Lalitha Srinivasan
Venkat Narayanan
Nandakumar
Govindasamy
Dr. R. Gopalakrishnan
Latha Chandrasekaran
AR Ravi
Venkat K.
Venkataraman
Dr. S.P. Rajan
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Krishnasamy
Karuppiah
Rajan Govindarajan
Seetha Mahadevan
Ramya Mohan
Vasantha Pillai
Dr. Usha
Sivakumar
Jag Jagannathan
Dr. Sunder Rao
Raghavan
Srinivasan
Sivagami Subbiah
Malathi
Nandakumar
Gowri Nayagan
CP Natarajan
Pulenthiran Kirupa
Saravanan
Ketharam
Sekar
Ananthanarayanan
Bharadwaj
Sridharan
Seshadri
Guest*
Asha Sharma
Girish Srinivasan
Deepa Maheshwari
Pattuswami
Sujata Lalith
Nithya Vaidhyanathan
Sucheendran
Madhav Iyengar
Ravi Sampath
Laxmi Gopi
Vish Iyer
Sunthar
Tharmalingam
Pushpa Viswanathan
Preetha
Padmanabhan
Shiva Anumalachetty
Govindan
Venkatakrishnan
Gandhi Subramanian
Jeyakumar
Sundararaj
Sandhya Krishnan
Anand Seshadri
Perumal Krishnan
Abiraman
Vidya Krishnan
Latha Satish
Vaishnavi
Krishnamurthy
Shanmugam Nagarajan
Sathya Prakash
Rajagopal
Thulasiram Rajan
Ranjith Babu
Vallikannan & Senthil
Venkataramanan
Seshadri
Balaji Thirugnanam
Kamakshi
Mannivannan
Narasimhan
Dr. Ravi
OmPrakash
Suresh Natarajan
Sannasie
Chandrasekaran
Soundar Srinivasan
Prabhakar Nitya
Vidya Ravishankar
Bharathi Ram
Damodaran
Arun Sundaram
Sundararaman
Viji Sooriamurthi
Rahul V Chandrasekaran
Mukund Narasimhan
Ketan Shah
Thilaka Paluswamy
Vasu Vasudevan
Vijayamurugan
Anu Chandrasekar
Ganesh & Meera
Vishwanathan
Vinoo R. Ganesan
Gowri Renganathan
Anusha Gopal
SaravananPadmanabhan
Vanitha Swaminathan
Sujatha Premkumar
Usha Karmudi
Meera Mahadevan
Gopal Krishnamoorthy
Chinusamy Kumaravel
Note : *All names are based on ticket purchases as of May 1st, 2012
PTS would like to Thank its sponsors for supporting the event!
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