Mangalore, November 19: The Lions club District 324-D5 organised a special event under the title “Folk fest amongst Lions, 2011” at Town Hall on Saturday.
District In-charge Minster Krishna J Palemar poured rice grain into a wooden container and inaugurated the function. Prior to this there was an invocation in the form of Yaksha dance.
In his inaugural address he said that Lions clubs are doing wonderful things as the concept is very socially centred. Indian culture is being forgotten fast and thus the club must organise more of such fests, he said.
In India we have so many cultures but everything is localised and hence people do not exchange aspects of their culture, he said.
This is also a good platform to take up sensitive issues like environmental awareness, he said.
Mr Palemar also commended the club's effort in having planting 100000 trees.
The objective of the fest was to encourage folk music and arts amongst the members of Lions club and also the general public.
The competitions were begun in the afternoon and many PU College students sang folk songs in groups. AIR announcer Shakuntala Kini, ameature poet Jayashree Aravind and Music artist Murlidhar Kamath were amongst the panel of judges. According to the organisers students from six colleges took part in the competitions.
Registrar of Mangalore University Dr Chinappa Gowda, Dharmadarshi Harikrishna Punaroor, President of District 324-D5 Dr Kishore Rao, General Manager of Corporation Bank B R Bhat and members of the Lions club Yogish Kumar Jeppu, Prasad Rai, Aravind Shenoy, Aravind Rao, K C Prabhu, J K Rao and Lion M B Sadashiv were also present.
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