JOIN USAura 2013’, an intercollegiate fest, was recently held at Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for Women.
Through the fest, students could explore their various talents and showcase them to a larger audience. Around 1,000 students, representing 30 colleges from all over the City, took part in the fest.
There were a variety of events on the agenda, including collage-making, movie spoofs, ‘Mad Ads’, a fashion show and more.
As the name suggests, the theme of the fest was ‘Aura’ — the Roman goddess of breeze. “‘Aura’ refers to the distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround every individual, and that is what our fest was based on,” informs Anagha N Bharadwaj, the PU
cultural secretary of the college.The other events included face-painting, sketching, group dance, t-shirt designing and a treasure hunt.
“There were about 12 teams that participated in the treasure hunt and nine clues were given to them. Tasks like push-ups for the boys and sit-ups for the girls were also included,” elaborates Anagha.
The fest also included ‘JAM-Just A Minute’, which had two rounds. In the first, the judges checked the fluency and language of the participants and in the second, they were asked to talk about different topics like item songs and social networking. In the tie-breaker round, the participants had to present simple topics in a comic style.
Another interesting event at the fest was ‘Adaptune’. Songs were played and paused — with a different song each time — and the participants had to dance to each and change their style accordingly,” says Anushri R, one of the organisers of the fest.
“It was interesting to see that events like ‘Nail Art’ saw a lot of male students participating eagerly. One participant even depicted different dance styles on the nails. Some Roman designs were explored too,” adds Anushri.
The event also included musical acts by bands like ‘Brim River Bridge’ and
‘Velvet Trap’.
The intercollegiate fest ended with an ethnic day, which was for the college students only.