P.A. Aziz College of Engineering and Technology, Karakulam, Trivandrum is organising PAACET festival – a national level technocultural fest from the 11th of March 2010 – 14th March 2010.

The technical and cultural competition are open to the students of colleges affiliated to universities particularly in the Southern states. The 151 sovereign 22 carot Gold Rolling Trophy in the fond memory of late P.A. Aziz is  being offered to the College securing the overall championship.

The main attraction of this years festival is the live Musical concert by the singing sensation of bollywood – Shaan & His band on 14th of March 2010 at the Nishagandhi open air auditorium

Trivandrum is hosting the national theatre festival 2010. The festival will be inaugurated on the 10th of March 6.30 pm at Tagore theatre vazhuthakadu. The festival will span 8 days from 10th march to 17th march 2010

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Schedule

The celebrations commence with a first time presentation of paintings by Pragati Chattopadhyay, whose focus is on “woman in her soft, sombre and ambiguous moods “.The exhibition will be inaugurated by famous actor and director Madhupal on 8 March at Art gallery, Alliance Française de Trivandrum.

The highlight of the celebrations is the “ASIAN WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL” at Kalbhavan Theatre on 13 and 14 March, which  showcases an incredible package of more than 20 documentary films by some of the most famous Women directors.

University College of Engineering,Kariavattom is organising a techno cultural fest Yuva 2010 on the 3rd and 4th of March 2010. Techzilla – The project presentation, Fashion Show, Auto Expo and Stunt Show are the main attractions of Yuva 2010.

10 cultural events like Mr and Mrs Yuva, Voice Hunt, Catch the beatz, Resonant Rythm, Adzap, Crack the min, Choreo Junk, Split Persona, Nerves out, Frame the face and 10 technical competitive items like are also there as part of the event. For more information on Yuva logon to their website

The tweeps in Trivandrum are gathering at the thampanur central railway station today(23rd Feb 2010) evening for the first tourism specific Tweetup in the country. The tweeps will engage themeselves in taking the pictures of the branded Rajdhani express to participate in the Shoot and Tweet contest organized by Keralatourism.

This tweetup is initiated by the keralatourism’s twitter account @keralatourism as a part of promoting the shoot and tweet contest and the Go kerala campaigns. Keralatourism has taken a whole new branding idea by branding all the 17 coaches of the Rajdhani Express with Kerala Images.This Rajdhani Express will journey through almost all states of India till June 2010. It is expected to reach out to more than 3 crore people.

The Shoot and Tweet contest is a simple contest where twitter users can take photos of the branded Rajdhani express and upload it anywhere in the web and tweeting the link to them.

Attukal Pongala celebrations, the much awaited 10-day festival at the Attukal Devi Temple is starting this weekend on February 20, 2010. The Pongala is on February 28, Sunday.
Various cultural programmes will be held on all days of the festival at the two venues inside the temple complex. Malayalam film actor Jayaram will inaugurate the cultural programmes on February 20. Kappukettu will be on February 21.

Purple Lounge which is fast turning out to be the best party spot in Trivandrum is out with a new event this weekend. Dance Revolution featuring DJ Mahi on 20th February 2010 from 8pm onwards. Free entry for couples so all you fresh off the valentines day celebrations, you know where to go

So folks, will you be there? If yes, lets catch up!

Crossroads one of the best Techno cultural fest in Kerala is back.This techno cultural fest organized by Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology Nalanchira. Crossroads ‘10 will be inaugurated at 5.30 pm today the 18th of February. Cine Star Indrajith Sukumaran will be the chief Guest at the event. The inauguration will be followed by Fashion show judged by the international fashion designer manuel albraan.

Crossroads provides a platform for college students to showcase their talents and it also provides an arena to compete against the best in the country. Crossroads is a remarkable example of a student organized event in South India. It is conducted entirely by the students.

MegaNite by Benny Dayal and Stephen Devassy on 21st is the main attraction of Crossroads this time.

This time Crossroads comes with almost 40 events and the total prize money is around 5 lakhs.

The list of Cultural Events

List of Technical evnts

Tech a Break is back. In order to have rejuvenation, fun, frolic and thrill for the IT professionals in the Campus, TECHNOPARK is organizing the six edition of “Tech-a-Break 2010“, the annual celebrations in the month of February 2010.

Nest is the title sponser of the event this time.The one week long event will start on the 19th of February.The six days of events include inter – company Music ,Dance and sports competitions. The six days of fun thrilled events and competitions will culminate with a ‘never seen before’ Mega event with Benny Dayal concert on 26th evening.

The Event schedule is as follows

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Marian College of Engineering Kazhakuttom is organizing Technoblaze 2010 a technical symposium on the 25th of February 2010 at their college.

They are conducting different competitions like Coding,Quiz,paper Presentation as part of Technoblaze 2010. The events are as follows

Calypso :  Paper Presentation :

First Prize      : 4000

Second Prize : 2000

Technoquest : Quiz

First Prize      : 3000

Second Prize : 2000

Codechef : Coding

First Prize      : 2000

Bugbytes : Debugging

First Prize      : 2000