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May 4th, 2012

ஒய் ஜி மகேந்திரனின்

முழுநீள நகேச்சுகை நாடேம்

பெருகமயுடன் அளிக்கும்

பைங்ேடா 3

ெிட்ஸ்ெர்க் தமிழ் சங்ேம்

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About Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam

On Jan 23 2010, an announcement was made about the inception of "Pittsburgh Tamil Association". Since then Pittsburgh Tamil Association has been organizing events in Pittsburgh such as Summer Picnic, festivals like Deepavali, Pongal and New Year for the last two years. On Friday, Feb 24 2012,"Pittsburgh Tamil Association" has been officially registered as a non-profit organization named "Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam". Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam (PTS) is devoted to preserve and promote the rich Tamil heritage and culture among people of Tamil origin in the greater Pittsburgh region.

Check us out @ http://www.pghtamils.org/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/pittsburghtamilsangam/

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Officers President – Prabhakar Iyer

Secretary – Sudha Krishnasamy Treasurer – Madhavan Srinivasa

Officer – Events – Giridhar Raghavan Officer – Education – Nandakumar Govindasamy

Officer – Membership – Raji Govindarajan Vijayasree Sooriamurthi Saravanan Ketharam

Vijaymurugan Chokkalingam

Youth Coordinators Abirami Rajaram

Ramita Ravi

Pittsburgh Tamil Sangam – Membership

Benefits: Members can vote for Board elections and also run for board positions

To run for board positions one must be a member for at least one year with

volunteer work for 2 events at the minimum

Members' child(ren) 12 to 18 yrs of age shall be eligible for youth coordinator

positions

Members can be part of various committees to drive Sangam programs across the

Greater Pittsburgh region

Terms and Conditions: 18 years and above will be considered as Individual

One year membership fee per Individual is $10

Lifetime membership fee per Individual is $100 (10 times the prevailing yearly

membership fees)

Yearly membership is valid for calendar year (membership expires on Dec 31st

irrespective of the date/time it starts during the year)

Membership fees is non refundable and non transferable (cannot be transferred to

other family members)

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● Membership fee is subject to change at the discretion of board

VENKATA3

Story & Script: Chitralaya Sriram

Dramatization & Direction: Y.Gee. Mahendra

Cast

Y.Gee.M Mani Ranga Raj Ranjani

Sriram Deepa Ramesh Aravind Karthik

Technical Crew

Back Stage & Properties: Sriram

Props Design: Ramesh

Audio-Lights and Special Effects: Kalai Ravi (India)

Makeup & Costumes: Deepa

Administration & Logistics: Raghuram, Ramesh, Mani, Raj, Aravind

Event Coordination: Ranga

Y.Gee.Mahendra [www.ygeem.com] A famous actor, dramatist, playwright and musician with over 50 years of experience in theater, movies and television. His theater organization – UAA – is one of the leading theater groups in India that has been staging plays for well over 60 years. A crowd puller who has enthralled thousands of audience all around the globe, Y.Gee.M has won several awards, titles and accolades, including prestigious lifetime achievement awards for his contributions to tamil theater. Triveni Arts, Chicago [trivenichicago.wordpress.com] Triveni (meaning confluence of three art forms) is an organization dedicated to the cause of promoting Indian arts including theater, classical music and dance to the Indo-US community. Triveni seeks to produce and showcase cultural events pertaining to Indian theater, music and dance that are entertaining as well as educative. Triveni is composed of individuals, volunteers and professionals passionate about theater and Indian arts.

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For all your

Immigration, Business, family, Real Estate, Litigation and Tax

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Enjoy the experience of the art of spices by “The Mintt”

Fine Indian Restaurant

Open Tue-Fri 11:30 am-2:30pm, 5pm-10pm;

Weekends 12pm-3pm, 5pm-10pm

3033 Banksville Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15216

http://www.themintt.com http://www.facebook.com/minttpa

(412) 306-1831

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Sponsor Guest* Madhavan Thuppal Vasumathy Thuppal Usha Chandrashekar Revathi Pennathur

Lakshmanan & Uma Krishnamurthi Mani Manoharan Dr. Srini Vasagam

Balakumar

VIP Guest* Raja Ganesh Dr. Swetha Ganesh Krishnasamy

Karuppiah Madhavan Srinivasa Sudha Vatsan Rajan Govindarajan

Giridhar Raghavan Swaminathan Balasubramaniam

Seetha Mahadevan

Indu Poorima S.K. Sekaran Ramya Mohan Ravi Vasudevan Geetha Manian Vasantha Pillai

Daks & Hema Murthy Dr. Ravi Balu Dr. Usha Sivakumar

Vasudevan Vaidyanathan

Vasudevan Jagannathan Jag Jagannathan

Govinda Rao Satheesh Kumar Dr. Sunder Rao Ravi Sundaram Subramanyan Natarajan Raghavan

Srinivasan Shantha Muthappan Muralidhar Kannan Sivagami Subbiah

Sivaraman Balan Nalini Velpari Malathi Nandakumar

Mahendran Natarajan Eswarakrishnan Gowri Nayagan Rajaram Nataraj Lalitha Srinivasan CP Natarajan

Ramgopal Srinivasan Venkat Narayanan Pulenthiran Kirupa Gopinath Kalavar Nandakumar

Govindasamy Saravanan Ketharam

Dr. Kanakathara Dr. R. Gopalakrishnan Sekar Ananthanarayanan

Latha Chandrasekaran AR Ravi Bharadwaj Sridharan

Venkat K. Venkataraman

Dr. S.P. Rajan Seshadri

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Guest*

Asha Sharma Girish Srinivasan Mannivannan Narasimhan

Deepa Maheshwari Pattuswami

Nithya Vaidhyanathan Dr. Ravi

Sujata Lalith Vaishnavi Krishnamurthy

OmPrakash

Sucheendran Shanmugam Nagarajan Suresh Natarajan Madhav Iyengar Sathya Prakash

Rajagopal Sannasie

Chandrasekaran Ravi Sampath Thulasiram Rajan Soundar Srinivasan

Laxmi Gopi Ranjith Babu Prabhakar Nitya Vish Iyer Vallikannan & Senthil Vidya Ravishankar Sunthar

Tharmalingam Venkataramanan

Seshadri Bharathi Ram

Pushpa Viswanathan Balaji Thirugnanam Damodaran Preetha

Padmanabhan Kamakshi Arun Sundaram

Shiva Anumalachetty Sundararaman Rahul V Chandrasekaran Govindan

Venkatakrishnan Viji Sooriamurthi Mukund Narasimhan

Gandhi Subramanian Ketan Shah Vasu Vasudevan Jeyakumar Sundararaj

Thilaka Paluswamy Vijayamurugan

Sandhya Krishnan Anu Chandrasekar Ganesh & Meera Vishwanathan

Anand Seshadri Sujatha Premkumar Vinoo R. Ganesan Perumal Krishnan Usha Karmudi Gowri Renganathan

Abiraman Meera Mahadevan Anusha Gopal Vidya Krishnan Gopal Krishnamoorthy SaravananPadmanabhan

Latha Satish Chinusamy Kumaravel Vanitha Swaminathan Note : *All names are based on ticket purchases as of May 1st, 2012

PTS would like to Thank its sponsors for supporting the event!