Celebrate motherhood with Team DD

Sunday May 10

At Payal Banquet Hall, Mississauga

 

Toronto: Dancing Damsels Inc., a non-profit multi-cultural arts promotions company for women empowerment, is organizing a greet and treat party to celebrate Mother’s Day with dinner and dance on Sunday, May 10 at Payal Banquet Hall (3410, Semenyk Court, Mississauga).
This event will start at 5 p.m.and is scheduled to wrap up at 10 p.m. with multi-cultural entertainments, games, dinner, dance and more.
Dancing Damsels is conducting a photo contest as a part of the Mother’s Day celebrations. The theme of the photo contest for this year will be “Mom and Baby”. The entry deadline is May 1.
Winners will be selected through public voting and the voting period will be May 1 to 10.
The winner will get gifts from Sitara Jewels (Custom Diamond Jewellery) – and she will get the chance to inaugurate the “Cutting the Mother’s Day Cake” at the event. For more information, rules and regulations, visit their website: www.ddshows.com
There will also be a dance competition for adult women and the winners will be given cash awards. The interested groups can send their videos to: ddmothersday@ gmail.com for the preliminary audition.
All mothers attending the event will cut the Mother’s Day cake along with the photo contest winner to honour motherhood and appreciate their contribution in raising a family. Each of them will be presented with a gift basket as a parting gift put together with love and the generous contributions from well-wishers and supporters of Dancing Damsels Inc.
DD Women Achievers for the year 2015 – Dipika Damerla MPP (Associate Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, responsible for Long-Term Care and Wellness) – Politics, Asha Vishwanath (President of Kannada Sangha Toronto) – Community Leadership, Brandy Leary (Founder Anandam Dancetheatre) – Arts & Cultural Integration, Thresia Thomas (Woman behind the success – through various Associations) – Community Service, Ramneek Singh (Indian Classical Vocalist) – Music, Ravinder Malhi (Founder of Toronto Aesthetics & Hair Academy – Business, Malavilly Varatharajan (Provincial and Regional record holder in cross-country) – Sports, Puja Amin(Owner and Director of Sanskriti Arts in Toronto and President of Bollycore! ) – Performing Arts, Dr. Arthy Saravanan (Mrs. India International 2014) – Volunteering, Angie Seth (On Air Reporter Global News Toronto) – Media & Communication, Reena Deon (South Asian creative still Photographer, Photo Journalist) – Photography, Lata Menon (Barrister and Solicitor ) – Law and Mary David (the first woman in the Seiwa Kai (“Say wa keye”) GoJu Ryu Organization in Canada to earn her 5th Degree Black belt) –for the excellence in the Martial Arts – will be honoured with a reception party on this occasion as well.
The Fashion Show sponsored by Divya Raj of Redknot fashions will be the major attraction of the entertainment section. The organizers are planning to have a live band and variety entertainments to spice up the event.
The kick-off of the DD Dance Festival 2015 will also be held in the presence of esteemed guests, sponsors and supporting organizers.
Tickets for the Mother’s Day celebrations are available online to purchase from their website: www.ddshows.com. Tickets rates are: Adults: $30, Kids (6-12): $15, and children under 5 are free. If you take a table of 10, you will get a discounted rate of $25 per person.
Under the leadership of Mary Ashok (Managing Director), Team DD – Asha Vishwanath, Sinthujaa Jeyarajah, Manjula Das, Aayesha Arshad, Shobha Shekar, Smarty Merin, Bhavna Bhatnagar, Suganya Sivaraja, Shalini Bharadhwaj, Brindha Muralidhar, Minu Jose, Fawzia Khan, and Joemol John are working hard behind the scene, for the success of this event.
For more information, sponsorship, tickets you can contact the Team DD members. For the immediate contact, you can call: Mary Ashok (416.788.6412), Asha Viswanath (647.389.8555 ), Shobha Shekhar (416.371.9942 ), S. Martin (647.761.3552 ) or E-mail:ddmothersday@gmail.com

 

Report by: Suganya Sivaraja (Sonia)