2018

Saaral 2018

November 17, 2018

Meet & Greet Trishaon Nov 16, 2018

Oasis Palace, 35145 Newark Blvd

Newark, CA 94560

CIF hosted a meet & greet event and the annual Saaral Tamil light music show with Ms. Trisha Krishnan. We thank our community partners Bay Area Tamil Manram and Bharati Tamil Sangam for their support. Local talented band VDAZE entertained the crowd. We thank all our sponsors, donors, patrons and volunteers who made these events a success. Funds raised from these events will be used for Cancer Screening Center at Thiruvannamalai. Learn about project for setting up Cancer Prevention Centers in every district of Tamil Nadu and donate generously.

Kitchen Khiladi 2018

October 06, 2018

Shastha Foods

2205 Ringwood Avenue

San Jose, CA 95131

Preliminary round of cooking competition for Adults was held on September 22, 2018 at Centerville Junior High. To celebrate 10th year anniversary of the competition kids’ cooking, kids’ speech and kids’ dance competitions were also held. A record number of teams participated in these competitions.

Following are the top 3 winners of Kitchen Khiladi 2018 Adult Cooking Competitions!

Place	Team Name	Participants’ Names
First	Rottu Kadai	Alagammai Al, Unnamalai Annamalai
Second	Heha	Vanitha, Tamilselvimurthyraajan, Sino Vijay
Third	Samayal Thozigal	Vanitha Pitchaimalai, Geetha Pathinga Raja, Gayathri Selvaraj

Following 8 teams were selected by the judges for the final live cooking round. They are listed here in no particular order.

Team Name	Participants’ Names
Rottu Kadai	Alagammai Al, Unnamalai Annamalai, Al Laxman
Heha	Vanitha, Tamilselvimurthyraajan, Sino Vijay
Beyond the Team	Geetha, Vanee, Deepa
Hearty Kitchen	Vanita Gurnani, Asma, Swathi
Samayal Thozigal	Vanitha Pitchaimalai, Geetha Pathinga Raj, Gayathri Selvaraj
Maanja	Elangovan Kulandaivelu
Sampoorn Ahaar	Sudha Bhaskar
Kathukkutti	Nithya Prabhakaran, Prabhakaran Ganesan

Here are the results of Kids’ Cooking Competition (Age group 5-10)

First Place	Srijith Abhyuday
Second Place	Kamalesh Aravind Kumar
Third Place	Armaan Singh Pelia

Here are the results of Kids’ Cooking Competition (Age group 11-15)

First Place	Akhash Arjundayal
Second Place	Jagannath Prabhakaran
Third Place	Aatikah Fatima

Here are the results of Kids’ Speech Competition (Age group 5-10)

First Place	Ashrithaa
Second Place	Huzaifa Ahmed
Third Place	Saara Diwane

Here are the results of Kids’ Speech Competition (Age group 11-15)

First Place	Chandrasekar Kamaraj
Second Place	Parth Diwane
Third Place	Aatikah Fatima

Here are the results of Kids’ Dance Competition (Semi-Classical Round)

First Place	Dazzling Girls (Deeksha Bharath, Rohita Chandramohan Anitha, Parnithaa Sureshchandar, Darshika PraveenKumar)
Second Place	Nritya Bhakthi (Chaanakya Bowrisetti, Aditi Meti, Vedha Shiju, Teresa Joseph, Sahasra Boddu)

Here are the results of Kids’ Dance Competition (Freestyle Round)

First Place	Shining Stars (Sankaraguru Periasamy, Tanish Boorgula, Indruthi Markuk, Ashvi Verma, Niyuta Gandrapu, Sai Achintya)
Second Place	Little Stars (Yashnik Markuk, Vaishnavi Mogillapally, Sripad Bhavi, Ashmita Vivekraj, Savith Pasupunoori, Gurusmaran Catna, Siddiksha Reddy Endoori, Afrah Sayed)
Third Place	Swinging towards the Careness (Ameya Shankar, Sahana Sathyagiri, Subiksha Shri Palanisamy, Akhilan Theiventhiran, Shaanvi Mahesh, Joshya Pinnapu, Tejal Anandan, Diya Chandramouly, Ishaani Pillai, Alina Agarwal, Akshita Badrinath, Akila Senthilkumar)

Congratulations to all the winners!

Admission is free for live cooking final round for adults. Please join us to encourage the participants.

Geethanjali (Boston)

June 16, 2018

Trottier Middle School Auditorium

49 Parkville Road

Southborough, MA 01772

Boston chapter of Cancer Institute Foundation presented Geethanjali, a tribute to Late Smt. Geetha Murali.

Audience enjoyed an evening of divine music. Vocal and instrumental music segment was performed by local music teachers and the finale will be performed by Smt. Rasika Murali.

Checkout the event flyer for details. Proceeds from the show go to treat underprivileged cancer patients in India and also in setting up Cancer Screening & Prevention Centers in every district of Tamil Nadu. Learn about this cause and donate generously!

We want to take this opportunity to thank all the artistes, volunteers, patrons and donors for your kind support.

veLLOttam

February 18, 2018

Dublin High School,

8151 Village Parkway,

Dublin, CA 94568

Cancer Institute Foundation staged veLLOttam (வெள்ளோட்டம்) a Tamil play by Abirami Fine Arts. The play was produced and staged by local Bay Area talents. Abirami Fine Arts has staged many successful plays including mega productions Ponniyin Selvan and Sivakamiyin Sabatham. In 2016 Abirami Fine Arts staged Sivakamiyin Sabatham for CIF as one of the key fundraiser events for the year.

The play was very well received and the audience were very appreciative of the acting, costing, music, script & direction. veLLOttam was about happy times of Pandian rulers in Madurai during Tamil Sangam period and is centered around the golden period of Nedunchezhian (நெடுஞ்செழியன்) II and Ukkirap Peruvazhuthi (உக்கிரப் பெருவழுதி). The play is written and directed by Bagirathi Seshappan, Music & Assistant Direction by Sridharan Minor and Stage Management by Venu Subramaniam.

Proceeds from this event will be used to fund operational costs of Cancer Screening Centers. Please donate generously.