News Release: January
21, 2007
Lohri
Night 2007
Kansas City: The Punjabi community of
metropolitan Kansas City celebrated the Lohri festival on a
grand scale on Saturday, January 20th, at the Shawnee Civic
Center in Shawnee, Kansas. The Punjabi Cultural Society of
Heartland organized the Lohri celebration event. Despite bad
weather, over 300
people attended this celebration featuring traditional Bhangra
(Punjabi folk dance) Dance, traditional Gidha (Punajbi folk
dance of women) Dance, and other dances with Punjabi songs
& Hindi Songs. The community participation and quality of the
performances were outstanding!
The highlight of the evening
was seeing people of all ages sharing and celebrating
the traditional culture together through music and dancing in
harmony. This, in fact, was a great family event as children,
uncles, aunts, relatives, parents, and grandparents attended
it together.
Satrang DJ Entertainment and Jamey provided the traditional Desi music.
The catering service was provided by India Palace Restaurant. All
participants of the dance competition received PCS T-Shirts.
Four of the performances chosen from the competition were
awarded prizes.
First
Prize: $500 awarded to Gidha Group "Nachdiyan Mutiaryan"
Names:
Shevy, Swetha, Bindi, Jeeta, Hela, Roshy, Vinur, Harleen
Second
prize: $200 awarded to Group Dance
Names:
Mohni Garg, Ruchi Goyal, Juhi Thaman, Vibha Aggarwal
Second
prize: $200 awarded to Bhangra Group "Blazer Bhangra"
Names:
David Frazier, Billy Pelkey, Sundeep Singh, Jaskirat Singh
Third
Prize: $200 awarded to Shaina Kotwani (Solo Dance)
Door
Prizes were also awarded.
A
20"
Flat Screen TV (Provided by the PCS of Heartland)
$100 Gift Certificate AAMCO
Transmission (Provided by Amarjit Singh)
4 Gifts @ $50 Ea. (Provided by Sohan Singh and Sukhvinder
Singh Nijjar)
PCS of Heartland recognizes and thanks
everyone for all their contributions. PCS of Heartland also
would like to thank all the participants.
Volunteer work was performed by: Amarjit Singh, Uttam Garg, Sohan
Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Navneet Singh, Balwinder Singh, Manpreet
Singh, Ramlal, Piara Singh, Shevy, Bryan Gump, and Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal.
The Punjabi Cultural Society of Heartland is a non-profit
society devoted to promoting Punjabi Culture, Literary,
Language, Arts, and Educational interests throughout the
Greater Kansas City and surrounding areas.
Information on PCS of Heartland membership, and upcoming
cultural events in the area, is available by contacting PCS of
Heartland by e-mail at info@pcsofheartland.com, or by phone:
Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal at 913.268.8284.
News Release: May
29, 2005
Vaisakhi
Night Event
Kansas City: The Punjabi community of Kansas City
metropolitan area celebrated Vaisakhi Night on a grand scale
on Saturday, May 28, at VFW Hall in Lenexa, Kansas.
Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal welcomed the audience. The celebration
went on from 7:00pm till midnight. The Punjabi Cultural
Society (PCS) of Heartland organized this traditional Punjabi
Cultural program. Approximately 450 people attended this event
featuring Bhangra (Punjabi folk dance) and individual and
group dances to the tune of Hindi & Punjabi music. Also,
the Gidha (a kin of Bhangra) team mesmerized the audience and
it was the highlight of the event. The community participation
and quality of the performances were
outstanding!
It was a scenic view to observe people from all age groups
dancing, sharing, and celebrating the traditional event
together in harmony. It was especially heartening to see a
great number of non-Punjabi people. This, in fact was a great
family event as children, uncles, aunts, relatives, parents,
and grandparents attended it together.
DJ Apana Sangeet played Punjabi and Hindi music. Taj Mahal and
Sawagat Restaurants provided catering services along with
Karnail S. Dulku. Jasbir Singh Sidhu of "Mr. Goodcents"
provided paper plates and Sitkaar Foods of Shawnee helped with
logistics.
The success of this event can easily be attributed to
following volunteers: Karnail Singh Dulku, Uttam Garg, Binder
Singh Sangha, Amarjit Singh, Jasmine K. Dhaliwal, Daljit K.
Dhaliwal, Darshan K. Dulku, Simi Grewal, Budh Singh, Mandeep
Singh Sidhu, Kalwinder S. Atwal, Paramjit Kaur, Sohan Singh,
Pritpal Singh Grewal, Harjinder Singh of Taj
Mahal, Larry, Piara Singh, and Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal.
The PCS of Heartland is a non-profit organization devoted to
promoting Punjabi cultural, literary, linguistic, artistic,
and educational interests throughout the Greater Kansas City
and surrounding areas. We are now looking forward to celebrate
Lohri in January, 2006.
Additional information about the PCS of Heartland membership
and upcoming cultural events is available at www.pcsofheartland.com,
by e-mailing to info@pcsofheartland.com,
or by calling Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal at 913.268.8284.
News Release: January 16,
2005
Lohri
Celebration Event
Kansas City: The Punjabi community of
metropolitan Kansas City celebrated the Lohri festival on a
grand scale on Saturday, January 15th, at the Shawnee Civic
Center in Shawnee, Kansas. The Punjabi Cultural Society of
Heartland organized the Lohri celebration event. Over 325
people attended this celebration featuring traditional Bhangra
(Punjabi folk dance) Dance, Punjabi songs, Hindi Songs, and
poetry. The community participation and quality of the
performances were outstanding!
The highlight of the evening
was seeing people from all age groups sharing and celebrating
the traditional culture together through music and dancing in
harmony. This in fact was a great family event as children,
uncles, aunts, relatives, parents, and grandparents attended
it together.
DJ Apana Sangeet provided the traditional Desi music. Taj
Mahal and India Palace Restaurants prepared food along with
Karnail S. Dulku. Pritpal Singh Grewal of G & S Convenient
Store provided the soft drinks; Jaswinder S. Sidhu of
"Mr. Goodcents" provided the paper plates, and
Sitkar Foods of Shawnee helped with logistics.
Punjabi Cultural Society of Heartland recognized and thank
everyone for all their contributions.
Volunteer work performed by: Amarjit Singh, Karnail Singh
Dulku, Uttam Garg, Hardeep Singh Dosanjh, Mandeep Singh Sidhu,
Pritpal Singh Grewal, Kalwinder S Atwal, Kalla Bains,
Balwinder Singh Grewal, Pardeep Singh Atwal, Kulvinder S Dulku,
Paramjit Kaur, Sohan Singh and Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal.
The Punjabi Cultural Society of Heartland is a non-profit
society devoted to promoting Punjabi Cultural, Literary,
Language, Arts, and Educational interests throughout the
Greater Kansas City and surrounding areas. The PCS of
Heartland is now looking forward to celebrate Vaisakhi in late
April.
Information on PCS of Heartland membership, and upcoming
cultural events in the area, is available by contacting PCS of
Heartland by e-mail at info@pcsofheartland.com, or by phone:
Sukhdarshan Dhaliwal at 913.268.8284.
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