Nepalese Cultural Evening 2009

Dear members,

The meeting held with all our members last Sunday had decided to organize Nepalese Cultural Evening along with food festival and exhibition in the 28th of March, 2009. The program will comprises of cultural dances, songs, documentary showing life in Nepal, exhibition of Nepalese culture, art, architecture, landscapes followed by dinner with Nepalese Food.
To make the event more entertaining and successful, the meeting had also decided to form an organizing committee with sub-committees to handle the different tasks.

Program Highlights:

1. Nepal Exhibition: Architecture, Sculpture, lifestyles, Photographs, Landscape, major animals, Art and musical instruments
2. Food Festival: Taste of food items (Complete set of Nepali Dinner) for around 200 individuals
3. Cultural Evening: Nepalese dances and songs (based on different regions and festivals), Documentary about Nepal and others.

Organizational Set up
Organizing Committee:

1. Hari Shankar Shrestha –Coordinator
2. Krishna Kanta Pantha
3. Hari Neupane
4. Umesh Thapa
5. Kiran Kumar Shrestha
6. Bimal Pokharel
7. Coordinators of sub- committees
8. Members of NeST Executive committee.*

*NeST Executive committee works as a secretariat.

Sub-Committees:

1. Food Management Committee
Finalize food items, shopping plan, cooking and managing cooking stuffs and food serving.
1. Laxmi Panthi – Coordinator
2. Usha Adhikari
3. Radhika Neopane
4. Ruby Shah
5. Geeta Yadav
6. Aruna Baidhya
7. Preeti Gurung
8. Shiva Man Tamang
9. Pema Dorje

2. Audio-Visual and System Control Committee
Photography, sound system control, computer animation, translation, documentary finalization, coordination with cultural items preparation committee.
1. Surya Kathayat – Coordinator
2. Subarna Shrestha
3. Taranath Subedi
4. Prajwalan Karanjit
5. Sandeep Tamrakar

3. Exhibition, Transportation and Hall Management Committee
Exhibition, hall setting for cultural show, listing of exhibition materials, Transportation management of family members and food items to hall.
1. Pranita Shrestha-Coordinator
2. Bibek Thapa
3. Ganga Prasad Yadav
4. Sunil Ghaju
5. Binod Bhandari
6. Trond Harstad

4.Cultural Items Preparation Committee
Finalize the cultural items in coordination with program organizing committee, Rehearsal and dress management.
1. Kuber Lama – Coordinator
2. Selina Thapa
3. Kabita Thapa
4. Alan Mishra
5. Abha Dudhraj
6. Kishan Buddhacharya
7. Sudeep Shrestha

5.Ticketing and Publicity
Ticket printing and selling, posture printing and publicity.
1. Abha Dudhraj- Coordinator
2. Kishan Buddhacharya
3. Ram Narayan Yadav
4. Rishi Sharma
5. Ina Lama
6. Hari Kishor Shah

The coordinator of each subcommittee shall be responsible for coordinating and managing all activities related to the respective subcommittee.
The members of the sub committees are based on the suggestions we obtained in the discussion with our members. The coordinator can choose the members they feel comfortable to work with.
We expect the support and involvement of all our members to make the event successful.

Regards,
NeST Executive committee-08/09