• Date: Sunday 18th March 2012
• Start Time: 5.00pm (Sharp)
• Venue: Strathfield Girls High School, Albert Road, NSW 2135

Agenda:

1. Confirmation of the minutes of last AGM
2. Committee Report – 2011 – 2012 (Presidents Speech / Secretaries Report)
3. Presentation of Annual Accounts 2011-2012
4. Report from the Public Officer
5. Report from the Building Committee
6. Other businesses (to be) raised without notice
7. Dissolution of Outgoing Committee
8. Election of New Committee / Auditor / Returning Officer
9. Introduction of Newly Elected Committee

Please advise if your group would like to go for the trip and how many are interested pick up will be from Parramatta and Pennant Hill and Hornsby stations.

Contact : Madhu Chaudhuri (0425341086) & Arnab Ghosh Dastidar (0433216150)

Venue: Redgum Function Centre, Lane Street, Wentworthville NSW 2145 (Free Parking available)

Ticket Prices: $10 (adults), $5 (children upto 12 years)

Prebooking of ticktets is available through our webmail : info@bansw.org.au

Or by phone : 0407905822 / 0431056831 / 0401690844

“RITURANGA” (Season’s galore) – a production with narrations and songs of Rabindranath Tagore woven together describing the six seasons choreographed in beautiful and innovative choreographies by Guru Smt. Thankamani Kutty (one of the celebrated Indian Classical Dance Choreographers of the country) and presented by Somnath G. Kutty. The young, beautiful and energetic dancers will take the audience through the different seasons like The Summer, The Monsoon, The Early Autumn, The Late Autumn, The Winter, The Spring. The programme involving a variety of dance forms ranging from Kathak to Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam and Mohiniattam. The highlights of the production is the superb song rendition by the most sought after singers like Indrani Sen, Rohini Roy Chowdhury and Prabuddha Raha. The narration in English is by none other than the celebrated and respected Bengali actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty and supported by the wonderful musical compositions of Debashish Saha. BANSW is proud to present a top class programme involving the Kalamandalam troupe from Kolkata. Tickets will be on sale during Saraswati Puja and at the venue.

Major Sponsors for the programme are: Government of India, ACT Govt. Canberra and Bengali Culutural Association Canberra.
 
We hope to get your wonderful support to make this programme a grand success.

Dear Friend,

It gives me great pleasure to invite you to celebrate the Republic Day of India (January 26) at my residence (No. 2 Pleasant Avenue, East Lindfield, Sydney, NSW 2070) from 0900 hrs. As in earlier years, there would be a flag hoisting ceremony, singing of the National Anthem and reading of the speech of the Hon. President of India.

 This is an auspicious occasion for all Indians and persons of Indian origin to gather together and I look forward to welcoming you all with your families. As I do not have contact details of all Indians or persons of Indian origin,I hope I might count on your assistance in getting the word out to members of the Indian community, including Indian students, to come in large numbers to celebrate Republic Day.

With regards,

Amit Dasgupta

Consul General of India

Sydney

Please note: Free parking at East Lindfield shopping centre which is adjacent to the house

BANSW is proud to present an unique and quality programme for the benefit and enjoyment of its members:

“RITURANGA” (Season’s galore) – a production with narrations and songs of Rabindranath Tagore woven together describing the six seasons choreographed in beautiful and innovative choreographies by Guru Smt. Thankamani Kutty (one of the celebrated Indian Classical Dance Choreographers of the country) and presented by Somnath G. Kutty. The young, beautiful and energetic dancers will take the audience through the different seasons like The Summer, The Monsoon, The Early Autumn, The Late Autumn, The Winter, The Spring. The programme involving a variety of dance forms ranging from Kathak to Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam and Mohiniattam. The highlights of the production is the superb song rendition by the most sought after singers like Indrani Sen, Rohini Roy Chowdhury and Prabuddha Raha. The narration in English is by none other than the celebrated and respected Bengali actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty and supported by the wonderful musical compositions of Debashish Saha. BANSW is proud to present a top class programme involving the Kalamandalam troupe from Kolkata. Tickets will be on sale during Saraswati Puja and at the venue.
 
Time duration : 1 hour             Music : Recorded

Friday 10th February 2012, 8.00 pm

Venue: Lotus Theatre, Macquarie University, North Ryde

New Building – W6D (Entry via Culloden Rd off Epping Rd)

Ticket Prices: $10 (adults), $5 (children upto 12 years)

Prebooking of ticktets is available through our webmail : info@bansw.org.au

Or by phone : 0407905822 / 0431056831 / 0401690844

We hope to get your wonderful support to make this programme a grand success.

Kind Regards

BANSW Executive Committee

Monday 12 December 2011

11am – 12.30pm

Building W6A, Outdoor Courtyard, Macquarie University, NSW 2109

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. The first non-European Nobel laureate, Tagore transformed Bengali art and penned the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Macquarie University is honoured to receive this bust as a gift from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to honour the legacy of Tagore.

RSVP: Monday 5 December 2011

Andrew Ramsay

P: (02) 9850 4275 E: andrew.ramsay@mq.edu.au

Complimentary parking will be available in W4 and X3 car parks pending the display of the event’s parking permit.

This permit will be emailed to you upon confirmation of attendance via phone or email

This year we are initiating a new programme to formally recognise and reward the highest achievers in HSC 2011 from within our community. We need your cooperation in selecting the best candidates for this years nominations. If your sons or daughters have appeared in HSC examinations this year they will be eligible for nomination. If you are interested for your children to be considered in the award selection process please forward a copy of their HSC results to info@bansw.org.au within 5th January 2012.

The criterion for applications is as follows:

• The student must have appeared in HSC 2011 examinations
• The parents must be members of BANSW
• They must forward a copy of their HSC results to be eligible for selection within 5th January 2012

We will be recognising our highest achievers during Saraswati Puja celebrations in January 2011

Thanking all our members for their continuing support during 2011 and wishing all members and their families a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

We remain yours sincerely,

BANSW Executive Committee 2011

Monday 12 December 2011

11am – 12.30pm

Building W6A, Outdoor Courtyard, Macquarie University, NSW 2109

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. The first non-European Nobel laureate, Tagore transformed Bengali art and penned the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Macquarie University is honoured to receive this bust as a gift from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations to honour the legacy of Tagore.

RSVP: Monday 5 December 2011

Andrew Ramsay

P: (02) 9850 4275 E: andrew.ramsay@mq.edu.au

Complimentary parking will be available in W4 and X3 car parks pending the display of the event’s parking permit.

This permit will be emailed to you upon confirmation of attendance via phone or email

Venue: Concord High School, 3 Stanley Street, Concord

Every year between the months of January/February, Basant Panchami heralds the beginning of spring. As the sun makes it’s northerly ascent and nature awakens to a spectacular dance of regeneration, the pure and new dawn expresses the beauty, grace and magnitude of the great Prakriti as Goddess Saraswati.
This Shakti, this expression of Prakriti, is celebrated as Saraswati Pooja (Puja) having sattwik qualities and no different to Devi Durga during the Navaratri or Devi Lakshmi during Diwali. She is the cosmic intelligence, the divine repository and expression of knowledge.
The festivity occurs on the fifth day (Panchami) in the Hindu month of Margh. The golden colour of the ripened maize grains is reflective in the bright yellow garments which is customarily worn for the celebration. It is this yellow (Basant/Vasant) colour which gives the festival its name.

Puja Timetable:

10.30 am – 11.30 am . Lecture on Swami Vivekananda’s 150^th birth anniversary celebration 

Pushpanjali – 12.30 pm 

Writing initiation for school starters 

Bhog distribution – 2.00 pm

There will also be a cultural programme by our children on the day.