T Shirt contest winner

The result of the 'Design a T Shirt' contest is just out.

Here is the prize winning design by Surendiren P.
The design will be on the festival T Shirt this. Grab one for you and you can gift it to your friends and family. The T shirt will be available for sale at the Festival Office (near Sri Kapali temple theradi) during the fest from Jan. 10 to 13, 2013

Prize winning entry by Surendiren P

The other two entries, that have won commendations are by Priya Natarajan and Divya Madhan.
These are their entries.

Commendation 1 : Design by
Priya Natarajan

Commendation 2: Design by Divya Madhan

Calling photographers to frame the best pictures

Photographers of all ages are invited to capture and submit their photographs of the Sundaram Finance Mylapore Festival 2013. 

Register at the Sundaram Finance Counter (at the Chess Square, Nageswara Rao Park) to cover the morning events from 6.30 am and at the Sundaram Finance Counter (outside Rasi Silks) from 5.30 pm. Participants are welcome to cover all other events held in other venues.

Photographers may submit their CD with their collection of the Festival images to Sundaram Finance Limited, Corporate Communications Department, No. 21, Patullos Road , Chennai – 600 002 on or before Jan 15, 2012. 

The best images will be on display at an exhibition planned during the course of the year 2013. 

Jan.12 kolam contest will start only at 4 pm.

Holding a festival in public open spaces is never easy.
Challenges, hurdles, queries can fly in your face all the time!

This morn, the Hare Krishna movement folks called - they read the promos of the Fest and said that the annual Rath Yatra starts at the theradi on Jan.12, Sat at 3pm . . so would we take it into account.

Sure we need to!

So we are pushing the Saturday Kolam Contest on North Mada Street to 4pm instead of 3.30pm with the hope that the rath will make its way down the veedhi by that time . .

Heritage Walks: By V. Sriram, Chitra Madhavan

Two of our Festival allies are back with us for the 2013 Fest.

V Sriram and Chitra Madhavan will offer Heritage Walks at the Festival.

Sriram decided to have a Walk that takes  a look at a few well known lawyers of the area.  Starting from the gate of M Ct M School on Luz Church Road to Luz and ending at a spot on South Mada Street. About 90mins.

Chitra will talk about Less Known Features of Mylapore's Temples with a Walk from Sri Kapali Temple to the Chitrakulam area.

Both Walks are on Jan.13, Sunday. No registrations required - just land up!

There may be one more Walk. . keep logging in. . .

New Fest web site is up!

Our web site is up, about and abuzz.
The man who did a quick, simple and smart job of it is R. Prasanna.

He volunteered while waiting for a call for a doctoral program abroad and the collaboration worked.
Thanks Pras. And all the best in your research.

We hope you like this new look site - we added more visuals and kept it simple.
Mail us your comments - mymylaporefestival@gmail.com

Also, volunteerism is at the core of this Fest. Every year, 20 to 30 people of all ages take charge of the many events and run them.

For the 2013 Fest, we want freshers - college students and young working folks. Seniors who can be active are also welcome. But sign in fast -m we have a meeting lined up soon.