It’s all set for Mega Navratri 2009 Garba festival to be commenced on September 19 in 2009. Diplomats from 84 countries will visit Gujarat to witness the grand event which will be held at GMDC ground in Ahmedabad. Gujarat government is estimated that they will spend more than 9 crore rupees for Grand Navratri 2009 Garba Festival event. Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event.
Press Trust of India reports:
- Gujarat government in partnership with industry associations has organised a grand Navratri festival to be inaugurated on September 19 in presence of foreign diplomats from 84 countries. “The Navratri Garba festival has been organised at GMDC ground here, which will be daily visited by over one lakh people,” Tourism secretary D K Rao, who is in charge of the event, said.
- According to Mr. Rao, apart from Garba and other cultural programmes, many theme pavilions on a wide range of issues like global warming, green energy among others have been set up at the venue.
- Rao added that local artistes and those from Delhi, Haryana, Manipur, Goa, Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and some others states will participate in the cultural events to be held simultaneously with the traditional street Garbas.
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Navratri Raas Garba, a cultural festival dance of Gujaratis, is celebrated with much enthusiasm in Australian places like New South Wales, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, where most of the Indian communities live. For this year, 2009, Navratri will be celebrated in tremendous atmosphere. In spite of so called racial attacks and some unfortunate incidents occurred in Australia, 2009 Navratri will be more passionate year for Raas Garba lovers. The calendar of the events of Navratri 2009 Raas Garba is given below:
- Gujarati Association of NSW presents Garba 2009:
- 25th, 26th, 27th Sept and 3rd, 4th Oct 2009
- Navratri Cultural Group presents
- Venue: Menai High School Community Hall
- Gerald Road, ILLAWONG 2234
- Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009
- Time: 6:30 pm (sharp) to 11:00 pm
- Navratri 2009 Raas Garba in Melbourne :
- Gujarati Association of Victoria presents Navratri 2009
- Dates and time: September 19th, 25th, 26th : 8pm to midnight
- Venue: Oakleigh Recreation Centre [ ORC ], Park Road, Oakleigh
- September 20th, 27th 5pm to 8pm [ Members Only ]
- St Judges Hall, 53 George Street, Scoresby
- Navaratri 2009 Raas Garba in Brisbane:
- Gujarati Association of Queensland presents Navratri 2009
- 19th – 20th , Centenary High state School, Jindalee
- 21st – 24th , Oxley State High School, Oxley
- 25th – 27th, Centenary High State School, Jindalee.
- Navratri Raas Garba 2009 in Perth :
- Dates:
- Friday 18th Sept 2009
- Saturday 19th Sept 2009
- Friday 25th Sept 2009
- Saturday 26th Sept 2009
- Sunday 27th Sept 2009
- Venue: Herb Graham Recreation Centre
- Chesterfield Rd, Mirrabooka
- Courtesy: Desisdownunder
The Great Indian Navratri Utsav 2009 is the biggest festival in Dubai. The Country Club Hotel, Dubai, is proudly presenting the celebrations of Navratri in their own style. Durga Navratri 2009 begins on September 19 and ends on September 28.
Ameninfo writes:
- True to the innate trend of being a cultural ambassador, this CCIL venture will bring in pure traditional gaiety; the pulse of Indian festivities – packaged to meet the style of Dubai’s residents.
- The Country Club Hotel, Dubai invites you to come participate and enjoy this exciting event with Bollywood celebrity Arati Chabbria and other famous TV stars and enjoy the explosive performances by Tushar Sonigra’s ‘Beats 16′from 8.00p.m onwards at Al Mamzar Park Amphitheatre. The pass admits a family of four with children below the age of 25 years over three completely rocking nights, 24th, 25th & 26th September 2009.
- Mr. Rajeev Reddy, CMD, The Country Club Group said, ‘The Country Club Group is known for top class entertainment provided to all its members. We regularly organize events that are looked forward to by our members and their guests on occasions like Navratri, Eid, Dasara, Diwali, Christmas, Lodi, New Year etc. The Great Indian Navratri Utsav 2008 a huge success attracted more than 15,000 people participating over three days.’
- He further added, ‘This year we look forward to organizing The Great Indian Navratri Utsav 2009 which promises to be a great show all about glitz, glamour, song and dance for three consecutive festive days.’
- Navratri is a Hindu festival of worship and dance celebrated across the world.The beginning of spring and autumn are two very important junctions of climatic and solar influence which bring in the celebration of Navratri as the triumph of good over evil.
- This event has been organized for the members of The Country Club Group and their guests and is exclusively available to all individuals registering their name and contact details for the Country Club Dubai membership. There will be a separate VIP enclosure enclosure for The Country Club Group Members at the venue.
