Vibha Vibe 2010 - Complete Success!!!

After months and endless hours of planning, organizing, and marketing, we finally put on our second annual Vibe show, the evening of April 17th, 2010. After the long months of flooded email boxes, phone calls off the hook, driving booths, organizing 12 different style of dance... it all came down to one evening. Plans for one venue that included a delicious dinner from Mayura, and the endless dedication of over 30volunteers, Vibha Vibe 2010, topped last years event.

Check out our Vibha Milwaukee Video Presentation shown at Vibe
zSHARE video - Vibha Video v5.mp4.flv

On April 17th, 2010, Vibha Milwaukee held it's second year running multicultural extravaganza, Vibha Vibe. What started in 2009 as a one time event, soon spread and was in demand for 2010. Vibha Vibe is a multicultural program and dinner event. Proceeds go to Milwaukee Public School Homeless Education Program, as local beneficiary, and also projects that we have in India. Vibha currently supports over 190 projects in US and in India to date with over 500 volunteers in US, spreading across 15 action centers.

Vibha’s vision is to ensure that every underprivileged child attains his or her right to education, health and opportunity. Vibha’s mission is to educate, empower and enable every individual who wishes to make a positive difference in the life of an underprivileged child.

Vibha Vibe 2010 was held at the same venue as last year, the Centennial Hall, Milwaukee Downtown Library. The time frame of the event was held from 5-9pm. 5 - 7 PM is dinner and 7 - 9 PM is program.

Artist/Performance Program Consisted of:

Bailando Dance Company - Latin Performance
Hyperformance Dance Company UWM and Marquette University Hip Hop
Adonai Arts Center - Ballet and Modern Dance
Siempre Flamenco - Spanish and Flamenco Performance
Chandini - Bollywood Dancing
Grupo Capoeira Nagô Milwaukee - Samba and Brazillian Martial Art
Rakhshanda - Tribal Bellydance
McMenamin Academy - Irish Dance
Miltown Bhangra - Bhangra
Anila Sinha Foundation Dance Company - Kathak Story Telling Folk Dance
Zumba by Luis and UWM team

Event Sponsor: Wisdom Info Tech
In Association with: Little India Groceries and Spices, Zeon Solutions, & Zee TV.
This years dinner is from Mayura

Event Lead: Leena Ghosh - Vibha Milwaukee ACC
Performance Leads: Mukta Joshi & Marie Yang
Marketing Leads: Manju Shah, Aparna Sen, & Meenal Atre
Sponsorship Leads: Meenal Atre and Manju Shah
Volunteer Organizer: Mukta Joshi
Planning Leads: Raj Pati & Sid Syam
Financials: Soumya Pochiraju
Food and dinner room Organizer: Abraham Emmanuel
AV, Pictures, Vibha Video Leads: Parag, Balaji PR, & Santosh
Masters of Ceremony: Aparna Sen and Ritwick Dar

Heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers that came on event day to help. It would not have been possible with out the support of all the volunteers and all who came to the Vibe event. Special thanks to all the UWM Students, Marquette University Students, family, friends, and significant others.

Thanks to all the vendors, grocery stores, HTW, Gurudwara's, in supporting our event by allowing us to have booths, sell tickets, and marketing our event.

Thanks to Ashish Rastogi, for follow up support of Vibha Milwaukee and for driving all the way from MN to support his team.