Small Talk

Dance on
The Shiamak Davar Institute For Performing Arts (SDIPA),is organising a unique event in the city to celebrate the International Dance Day. SDIPA will conduct free dance workshops for Puneites. Based on the theme Dance Republic,the Special Friends’ Class will have those who may have never attended a dance class or cannot afford to enroll for a dance class. For instance,everyone including the driver,maid,a child with special needs and so on. The workshop,that will cover dance styles like Salsa,Hip hop and Bollywood Jazz will be held on April 29,from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Prabhat Road,Khadki,Mukund Nagar. Kalyani Nagar and Aundh branches.

Joomla Hoopla!
The Joomla User Group held their first ever Joomla Day on April 27. The main aim of organising the event was to popularise Joomla in India,build an active community around Joomla and increase its contribution to open source. Toby Patterson,CEO,Green Mountain Information Technologies and Consulting and also a core member of the Joomla development team says,“Joomla is an open source web-based Content Management System,used worldwide with a varied business-vertical fan following,and managed entirely by a group of volunteers.” The event was held at the International Institute of Information Technology,(I Square IT) and was attended by 300 members.

Crowning glory
The season of May Queens is round the corner and pre-empting that was the Royal Connaught Boat Club that held its Summer Queen show last Saturday. Fifteen finalists walked down the ramp in three sequences that were interspersed with some energetic dance numbers and an all-men fashion show. The girls oozed confidence and X factor as they took on questions from the judges. While Shweta Yeole ended up as the first runner up and Rutuja Kibe was chosen as the second runner up,the crown was bagged by the vivacious Pooja Shah who incidentally also went home with a load of other sub-titles. Put together by Modsquad,the event has set the ball rolling for a host of such events that promise to rock the month ahead in the city.

The May Queen Pooja Shah,flanked by first runner-up Shweta Yeole and second runner-up Rutuja Kibe