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ANNUAL FUNCTION
Arena Chandigarh 17, celebrates it’s XII Annual Function
Another year has passed by where we were able to help some more creative people find their vocations. Like every year, Arena gathered to celebrate another successful year of its presence in Chandigarh. We have completed 12 years of presence in 
Chandigarh on 30th Nov, 2008. Arena had organized an annual function for their students. The function was celebrated in the Govt. Museum Auditorium, Sector 10, Chd.
Beneign presence of parents and Guardians made the function more glorious. The event began by the welcome speech by Mr RAJESH, followed by “deepanjali” by Mr S.L Kapoor, Managing Director Arena Animation Academy. Various dance items and games were held in which students took part whole heartedly. . Students performed on different themes which were Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Western, Classical, Mono – acting and Skits. Punjabi Bhangra and Gidda rocked the crowd.
Each and every item was up to the mark. The leading attractions of the evening were “SINGH IS KING”, solo dance by Dheeraj, “Zindagi me koi aye na Rabba”, solo song by Sahil Dhiman, “Desi girl” by Nitti, “Buhe Bariyan”, solo song by Rachita.
The boys blast the stage with the traditional bhangra item presented by Gurwinder and party, there was a stupefying performance by Arenaites in the Ramp show. Beside this there was a group dance by Ranbir and Nitti, Group bhangra by Parminder Singh and students, “Bhagat Singh”, skit by Mr Rajesh and students, “Dance par chance marle”, solo dance by Anjali, “Shikwa bhi tumse”, solo dance by Pankaj. There was a rocking performance by vicky on the traditional all time hit ‘‘Maa Sharda’’ . . Audience enjoyed all the items. After the grand, mind-boggling performances by Arenaites, there was the prize distribution ceremony, in which all the students who had shown their best in academics were honored. They include Atul Sethi (who was awarded Best in BSC ), Jasmine(awarded as Best in AAASP), Simranpreet Kaur Virk (Best in DAE), Young Faculty Award was given to MR Aayush Chopra. Presentation of annual report was also given by Mr. Vineet Raj Kapoor, Director of Arena Multimedia.
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Arena Animation Academy sponsored the 7th IAD (International Animation Day) Function with ASIFA, Picasso and Frameboxx on 14 November, 2008 at the English Auditorium at Panjab University.
The event premiered select animation movies from around the world, and provided essential training sessions in “acting for animation” by Paresh Parekh, “sketching for animation” by Sushree Sunita Das, and “clay modeling” by Ganesha.
Students from all animation institutes took part in the workshop and contest held. Sunny, DAE student of Arena Animation Academy, Sector 17, won the first prize in Clay Modelling, Vivek Bhardwaj, AAASP student of Arena Animation Academy, Sector 17, won the first prize in Sketching competition. 
About 150 students and animation aficionados attended the workshop.
Tribune, Dainik Bahskar and Indian Express covered the event besides the Siti Cable Network.
Jasmine Kaur was spotted by Student Guidance Cell, Panjab University during an all-college study on creativity. Luckily her name was recommended to Arena Chandigarh and after undergoing counselling, she was convinced that this was her call. She immediately joined AAASP and in no time she started to shine. The result was that she was North India Topper in her first semester itself.
Jasmine’s talent was very obvious even in the first “Creative Mind” competition where she submitted a beautiful portfolio for a product packaging.
Arena Chandigarh was Invited to hold a 3 Day Workshop on Maya at IIT Roorkee from 28-30 March 2008.
When the Arena Faculty Team of Senior Faculty Sushree Sunita Das, Lab assistants Deepak and Vijay Pratap reach the IIT Campus on 28 morning, there were around 60 curious students waiting anxiously for them. It was a pleasant change from the laidback normal student who comes to learn animation. The attendees had never seen Maya and the target was to get them working on Maya. The students went on to create their cartoon character models by the end of the 3rd day.
More than 25% of the students reached a stage where they could work on their own in the software. They were able to use materials, lighting, paint effects, basic rigging, character modelling, and basic animations by the end of the workshop.
Yogesh the co-ordinator of the workshop and also a Final Year student, was very happy with the feedback he recieved from the attendees.
Sushree, I was overjoyed when some students expressed their interest in taking up Animation as their career after finishing with IIT. A lot of students wanted repeat Workshops to happen as soon as possible.
Overall, the IITian language they’d say they were “Zapped” by the workshop. We’d say “Wait we’ll Zap the World”!!
Today on 16th March 2008, Arena Animation Academy has celebrated its 11th Annual function. Dr. Mahender Kumar, Chairman, Dept of Indian Theatre was the honorable chief guest at 11th Annual Function that was held in Bal Bhawan Sec 23, Chandigarh. The event began by the welcome speech by Mr Parminder, followed by “deepanjali” by Mr S.L Kapoor, Managing Director Arena Animation Academy.
The older students of the institute, which are currently working in leading companies, were invited to grace the event. At the genial event arenaites had given stupefying performances. Each and every item was up to the mark The leading attractions of the evening were “Tau Hat Ja”, solo dance by Dheeraj, “Dil kya kare”, solo song by Vivek, “Kahin Aag Lage”, by Deepa, “Tinka-Tinka”, solo song by Rachita, The boys blast the stage with the traditional bhangra item presented by Gurvinder and party, there was a stupefying performance by Arenaites in the Ramp show. Beside this there was a group dance by Anjali and Dhiraj, Group bhangra by Parminder Singh and students, “Rangela Ramu”, skit by Mr Jagdeep singh and students, “Aaja Nache Le”, solo dance by Parul, “Jine Mera Dil Lutiya”, solo dance by Pankaj. There was a rocking performance by Sunaiyna on the traditional all time hit, Maye-ni-Maye.
Arun was titled as Mr Arena and Megha as Miss Arena based on the Ramp show presented by Areniates, followed by the questioning round by the chief guest.
After the grand, mind-boggling performances by Arenaites, there was the prize distribution ceremony, in which all the students who had shown their best in academics were honored. They include Atul Sethi (who was awarded Best in BSC ), Mridul (awarded as Best in AAASP), Vijay (Best in DAE), All rounder award was given to Gurwinder Singh. Beside this, Mrs Anjali S. Aggarwal, working as lecturer in Arts College, sector 10 was honoured with female designer recognition award, she is also the current recipient of Lalit Kala Akademi’s award for her art photography.
All the participants of creative mind (An Inter Arena Center competition), which was held in Delhi, were given the participation certificates. Mr. Vineet Raj Kapoor, Center Academic Head of Arena Animation Academy Chandigarh spoke about the emerging opportunities to the various students with the upcoming Film cum Multimedia City. He advised the students to work hard to make their mark in the industry. He said, “I would advise you to stay positive if you want to win. Remember, Dissatisfaction and discouragement is not caused by absence of things, but by the absence of vision. Coal and diamond are made of same stuff, only the diamond took on more pressure and came out shining!”
After the encouraging report by the Director, Chief guest Dr. Mahender Kumar, Director Indian Theatre and recent winner of the highest award in Theatre given by Sangeet Natak Academi New Delhi given on 26 February 2008. Chairman, Dept of Indian Theatre, spoke a few words of encouragement for the students. Dr. Mahender said, “Today Arena and VirtualSoft are 2 very important landmarks and pioneers in Chandigarh. And their attempt to capture a piece of action in the animation Arena would go a long way in establishing this field in the city”
The function ended up with the vote of thanks presented.
A special placement drive was held at SPICE VAS (Value Added Services) Campus at Parwanoo. The need was their target driven project of more than 1,00,000 ringtones/ songs for their new Song-on-Demand Service.
After an exciting ride up the hills with the Academics Head, Vineet Raj Kapoor, the students landed at SPICE VAS Office near 11 AM. immediately the interviews were held by Vineet Singh and his team (quite a few of them were the Senior Passouts from the same centre, and that did help). Except for technical issues with a foreigner candidate Henry regarding the work permit requirements, immediate offer letters were doled out to the complete students team.
After that the entire team was invited to sample the sumptuous meal served hot in the Spice cafeteria, and boy were we hungry? We dug into the food as fast as we could as all of the students discussed the cool environment of the office amongst the hills. This was surely a company to work for…
