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Ontario 2nd Annual Dance Festival 2007
"Giving Rhythm to your Life"
Lester B Pearson Theatre
150 Central Parkway Dr, Brampton ON L6T 2T9
Saturday May 05, 2007 @ 5:00 PM
 
A Message from High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Canada
His Excellency W J S Karunaratne


Results and Awards
1st Place - Hon. C S Poolokasingham Trophy and Gold Medals
Chi Ping Dance Group - China
2nd Place - Mrs. Aloma Yapa Trophy - Silver Medals
Sri Abiramy Dance Academy - Sri Lanka 
3rd Place
OIDA Trophy - Bronze Medals
Kalaimanran Acedemy of Fine Arts - India
Best Costume Award and Trophy
Cracovia Dance Group - Poland
Excellence Performance
The Orient Dance Company Toronto - China
Nupura School of Music and Dance - India
Indonesian Arts and Culture Group - Indonesia
MaryFer Cardinass - Arabesque Dance Studio - Egypt
OIDA Civic Service Award 2007
Mr. Esa Para Esananda
Volunteer Appreciation Awards
Nilanthi Hettige - Nilanthi's Dance Group
Lathika Abeysekara - Lathika's Dance Group
Nadeeja Wijesekara - Mandakini Dance Group
Board of Judges
Mrs Devi Rajkumar (Sri Lanka), Mrs. Saroj Puri (India), Mrs Irene Oliveira (Portugal), Mrs. Jyoti Sood (India)

Ontario 2nd Annual Dance Festival 2007 organized to support Child and Youth Development Centre, Sri Lanka. On behalf of Government of Canada Hon. Navdeep Bains MP, QC participated for the event and opened the concert. Mr. Ananath Rajkumar, Director Corporate and Public Relations delivered the welcome speech. More than 250 performers from Sri Lanka, India, China, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, Egypt participated for the event. Mrs. Aloma Yapa from Canadian Multicultural Council also attended festival as a Gust of Honour. Dr. Neville Hewage President and CEO delivered the thanking speech and concluded the event. All proceeds from this project go to Child and Youth Development Centre, Sri Lanka.