Spicmacay

SPICMACAY

SPICMACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) is a non-political nationwide voluntary movement that organizes programs of classical music and dance, folk arts, crafts, yoga, classic cinema screenings and much more inside the schools and colleges throughout the world to make students more aware about the Indian and world heritage. It was founded by a renowned professor of IIT Delhi, Dr. Kiran Seth in 1977.

SPICMACAY in NIT Kurukshetra, is an official club which provides a great platform for all the talented performers. The club is not just an exquisite platform to showcase the talent but also an opportunity to grow and learn from other fellow performers and enhance their pre-acquired skills. It also organizes various workshops where famous and approachable artists are invited to learn more and improve.

The Team of SPICMACAY at NIT Kurukshetra

Faculty:

1. Prof. Mahesh Aeidapu (Faculty In-charge SPICMACAY Club)
2. Prof. Karan Sharma

Students:

Sr.	Name	Contact No.	Email Id
1	Anupriya Gupta	7206539267	anupriyagupta9596@gmail.com
2	Nalin Agarwal	9728430593	nagrawal327@gmail.com
3	Himanshu Gambhir	9971594360	himanshugambhir@outlook.com
4	Harmanjot Singh	9780880893	harmansingh3001@gmail.com
5	Lakshay Makkar	8059705375	lakshaymakkar1997@gmail.com
6	Aastha Chawla	9996337132	aasthachawla1997@gmail.com
7	Anahita Garg	9416205180	anahitagarg98@gmail.com
8	Hardik Sachdeva	9996531501	hardiksachdeva98@gmail.com
9	Eshan Pratim Mishra	8901215426	ep.mishra10@gmail.com
10	Harshit Singhal	8923710404	harshsinghal97@ gmail.com

Many SPICMACAY artists have showcased their knowledge and skills in our college in the past years. Some of them are

1. Ms. Geeta Mahalik – Odissi (2012)
2. Ms. Monisa Nayak – Kathak (2012)
3. Padmabhushan Dr Guru Saroja Vaidyanatha – Bharatanatyam (2013)
4. Ms. Kavita Dwibedi – Odissi (2013)
5. Padmashree Dr Kiran Seth – Founder of SPICMACAY (2014)
6. Padmashree Guru Singhajit Singh – Manipuri (2014)
7. Ms. Charu Sija Mathur – Manipuri (2014)
8. Shankar brothers – Shehnai vadak (2014)
9. Ms. Sonia Sharma – TV and Film artist (2015)
10. Ustad Mujtaba Hussain – Flute (2015)
11. Ms. Mahua Mukherjee – Vocalist (2015)
12. Ms. Moumaia Nayak – Kathak (2016)
13. Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt – Mohan Veena (2017)

Apart from this SPICMACAY has organized and been a part of many events and workshops namely

• Performances for Independence day, Republic day, Women’s day, Unity day and Inaugurations for various fests
• Workshop on music, dance and drama
• Organised a workshop conducted by some devotees of LORD KRISHNA, from ISKON. They chanted many success mantras throughout and motivated youngsters for promoting work responsibilities and entrepreneurship

Event organized by SPICMACAY for Talent Show

• NIT’s Got Talent- an approach to bring out an amalgam of all the new and unique talents

The club has its own you tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCav3u4EWFKY_LdXfI2QVomg

Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/spicmacaynitkkr/.

SPICMACAY performs on inauguration of various fests. This is the performance (a combination of Sri Lanka’s folk dance, classical, lavani, bollywood and bhangra all in one go) on inauguration of talent show.

The Facebook page is updated with all the regular events of the club.

Some of the Performances given by our students on various occasions:

SPICMACAY also gave a performance in NIT’s market during ‘utkarsh’ fest, where many melodious voices mesmerized the audience.

A member of Spicmacay playing drums during utkarsh fest in NIT’s market.

Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt during Inauguration of Confluence’17

Performance on inauguration of annual technical fest of the college.

Instrumental performance.

Members of SPICMACAY performing on Independence day and Republic Day.

Performance on inauguration of Confluence 2017.