Durga Puja in California USA

Sanskriti's "Annual Festival 2008" is scheduled on October 11 and 12, 2008 in the same familiar venue of Smithwick Auditorium at Foothill college. Like every year, this event also will be full of fun, frolics, and entertainment by professional artists. This year is the 10th anniversary of this organization. What that means is that it has been serving the community for the past ten years and promises to do so in the year ahead. It received your patronage over all these years and expects to receive the same kind of support and encouragement from our patrons and audiences.

The Annual Festival is closely aligned with "Durga Puja", Bengal's biggest festival extravaganza. So, on one hand this Annual Festival means showcasing the cultural aspect and on the other hand an opportunity to celebrate Durga Puja and all the nuances that comes along with it. Please check out the Puja and Program schedule and keep an eye on any update at a regular interval.

Annual Festival is also our annual fund raiser event. Sanskriti arranges top of the line professional artists for entertainment programs which is open to the entire community. We also foster local talents and host local cultural programs which are also of great quality. Unfortunately, because of severe time constrains, we will not have any cultural show by the local artist this year. This is needed to accomodate five professional artists from India on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Please review the artists' profile of this year festival. We are sure you will be amazed at the variety of artists we have been able to line up.

We have received a good number of entries for our Annual Magazine. We appreciate your effort and thank you for your valuable time. However, for obvious reasons, we will not be able to accomodate all of them. We honor your creativity and look forward to the same response next year. Unpublished entries may be considered next year unless you indicate otherwise.

Come one and all and enjoy the Annual Festival - 2008!!!!!!!!!!

You can contact the following persons for the ticket:

• Milly Roy (408-206-3435)
• Ranjan Basu (408-266-9343)
• Shelly Roy (408-265-5182)
• Gopal Chotani (408-431-2897)
• Soumen Chatterjee (408-219-6125)
• Annapurna Chandra (510-565-5047)
• Amitayu Das (814-880-3603)
• Rajib Bhattacharya (408-705-3837)
• Pradosh K Sarkar (510-656-5803)

Alternatively, you can send a mail to tickets@sanskriti.org with the subject as "Annual Festival - Ticket" and your preference. Once we receive your payment, we will reserve your seat immediately.

Executive Members

Name	E-Mail	Phone
Amitayu Das	amitayu@sanskriti.org amitayudas@yahoo.com	814-880-3603
Kaushik Roy	kaushik@sanskriti.org kaushikr@netapp.com	111-111-1111

Sanskriti's Mission: Sanskriti is a non-for-profit 501 (C)(3) community organization serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area since 1998 and engaged in charitable, social, cultural and community development activities through donations and fund raising events with the benevolent support from its well wishers and patrons. All donations to Sanskriti are tax-deductible. Sanskriti’s primary mission is to take an active role in serving the needs of the large Indian Community - socially, culturally and charitably. It is to help develop the community, and to help our younger generations become responsible citizens – respectful of their roots and heritage. Our other objective is to support the noble causes of social and educational organizations in America as well as in India.

Our specific goals are to:

• Provide a platform for community development through social and cultural interaction among various American and Indo-American groups.
• Focus on cultural and intellectual development of children.
• Provide a platform for social and business networking.
• Help and support charitable cause of selected American and Indian organizations.

Vission:

Sanskriti wants to evolve as an organization that can make a tangible difference to the community it is embedded within – the American and the Indian community. An isolated organization can only gather moss, but Sanskriti intends to transform into a cultural and social melting pot that embraces and respects a multitude of cultural traditions, fosters creative growth, extends help and support to the needy.

Sanskriti's History

SANSKRITI is a cultural and educational community facing non-profit organization launched in Milpitas, California on August 1, 1998. It started with a fund raising annual festival and Durga Puja celebration in its first year. Sanskriti has never looked back but has steadily kept on growing and expanding to include members from our diverse Indian subcontinent. Today, in addition to hosting a mega annual festival, it can boast of another pioneering effort – a one day Drama Festival (Natya Mela) in California which has been gaining momentum and wide acceptance from the patrons in and around the Bay Area.

Sanskriti has no annual membership fees and anyone can get involved, support and be a part of the ongoing activities and events. The only pre-requisite is motivation and commitment, which will help the organization achieve its mission and objectives. Our volunteers would also be a part of Sanskriti’s efforts to generate revenue through corporate sponsorships, donations (tax-deductible), advertisements for the magazine, and helping with the fund raising events.

Sanskriti prides itself in being an organization that welcomes everyone into its fold and believes in growing with the community and their support.

for more details visit: http://www.sanskriti.org