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Pearl
File:Pearl 2017 Logo.jpg
The 2017 logo of the fest
GenreCultural
WebsitePearl Website

Pearl is the annual cultural fest of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. It consists of a variety of events in music, dance, theatre, arts, photography, VFX, quizzing and literary activities. It had its inception in 2009 as an intra-college festival, a year after the foundation of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad.

History

The idea of a college fest for BITS-Pilani Hyderabad was initially conceived by its students in the second academic year of the campus, 2008-09. It was named Pearl in reference to the popularity of Hyderabad for its Hyderabad pearl. Initially envisioned as a cultural-cum-technical fest of the campus, the first edition of Pearl was organized in 2009 as a conglomeration of intra-college competitions. The following year, it turned into an inter-college festival with participants from 50 colleges across India attending it.[1] Since inception, the organization of Pearl has been solely the responsibility of the students of the BITS-Pilani Hyderabad. For the first four years, i.e. 2009-2012, Pearl consisted of both technical and cultural events. In 2013, however, the technical events were separated and began being organized as the technical fest of the campus, ATMOS.

Over the 9 years since its first edition, the fest grew into one of the biggest fests in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and a widely known college fest across India. National and international artists and bands including Farhan Akhtar, Grammy-winning Wolfmother, Vishal–Shekhar, Xandria, and Dark Tranquility have performed during the pro-shows of the fest. In each edition of Pearl since 2011, the organizing body bases the events and shows of the fest on a theme. The themes of the editions so far are:[2]

Edition Theme
Pearl 2011 Dreamscape
Pearl 2012 World 1-2
Pearl 2013 Hakuna Matata
Pearl 2014 Incredible India
Pearl 2015 Odyssey of Legends
Pearl 2016 Live Evil
Pearl 2017 The Carnivalesque Episode

Events

All the cultural clubs of BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, 13 in number, organize online and offline competitions in the weeks leading up to and during Pearl. The nature of events and the clubs organizing them are following:[2]

Each of the above clubs organizes multiple competitions in their domain. Popular among them include Till Deaf Do We Part (Music), Terpsicore[1] (Dance), Abhivyaktha[1] (Indian Classical Dance), Soul'O[1] (solo dance) Photog Fest (Photography), Sherlocked (English), and Q: Quiz Fest (Quizzing). The Photg Fest also includes an exhibition of as many as 500 photographs taken by the members of the club during the fest.[1] Many of these competitions have regional rounds in metropolitan cities including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Delhi. The winners of these regional rounds compete during Pearl for the final prize. The fest organizing body also organizes Food Fest, Glitterati (fashion parade) and Miss Diva (beauty pageant contest). Apart from the above, the fest's Informalz department organizes informal events like Bollywood quiz, Treasure Hunt, and Crossword.[1] The total prize money of the events during Pearl is usually about Rs.15 laksh.[2]

Pro-Shows and Celebrities

Pearl has hosted many celebrities of vernacular, national and international renown over years since its inception. Each of the three days of the festival ends with a performance by a celebrity performer or band. The people/bands that performed during Pearl are Farhan Akhtar[3], Vishal-Shekhar, Grammy-winning Wolfmother, Dark Tranquility[2] (the Swedish metal band), Xandria (the German metal band), Thaikkudam Bridge (Indian rock band), Bharat Jain, Javed Ali, Benny Dayal, Thurisaz (the Belgian metal band), Parikrama[1], Ganesh and Kumaresh, Karthik[1], DJ Nucleya, Amplifier (band)[4] (British psychedelic prog rock band), Kryptos (band)[2] and the Indian JAM Project.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "BITS Hyderabad student fest begins". The Hindu (in English). Hyderabad. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e "BITS Hyderabad student fest from Feb. 10". The Hindu (in English). Hyderabad. 9 February 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2016.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ^ "Hyderabadis get a taste of Farhan Akhtar mania". Time of India (in English). Hyderabad. Msrch 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ "Amplifier To Play In India". Rolling Stone (in English). India. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
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