New Horizons Seniors Program
Deshantari’s NHSP project started on 14 March, 2016 and will continue until 13 March, 2017 and the following members will be organizing the various senior activities during this time complementing Deshantari’s other regular activities:- Prabir Neogi (Chair and Core-Member)
- Atulesh Nandi (Core-Member)
- Arun Roy (Core-Member)
- Angsuman Rudra
- Manas Dan
- Anindo Maiti
Event Calendar Agenda View
Sep
29
Fri
2017
Sep 29 @ 10:30 am – 10:00 pm
Maha Sasthi and Maha Saptami Puja
Friday, Sept. 29, 2017
Priest: Sushil Bhattacharya (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Tantra-dharak: Subhankar Pandit (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Priest: Nirmal Sinha (Saptami evening) | |
Tantra-dharak: Mita Das (Saptami evening) | |
Bhog: Shipra Chandra (morning) & Ila Datta (evening) | |
Puja Lead: Sharmista Roy (morning) & Shila Biswas (evening) | |
Timings | |
Maha Sasthi puja and Bodhan | 10:30 A.M. – 12:30 PM |
Maha Saptami puja | 12:45 P.M.– 3 PM |
Evening puja | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM |
Sandhya Arati | 7:00 PM – 7:15 PM |
Cultural Program (play by children) | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM |
Dinner | 8:30 PM – 10 PM |
Hall Closes | 11 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Sep
30
Sat
2017
Sep 30 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 pm
Maha Astami and Sondhi Puja
Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017
Priest: Sushil Bhattacharya | |
Tantra-dharak (Astami puja): Bonnie Chakraborty | |
Tantra-dharak (Sondhi puja): Subhankar Pandit | |
Bhog: Shibani Cherla (morning) & Chitra Ghosh (evening) | |
Puja Lead: Mita Das (morning) & Manoshi Kumar (evening) | |
Timings | |
Maha Astami puja | 8:30 AM – 12 Noon |
Anjali | 12 Noon |
Lunch | 1 PM- 2:30 PM |
Sondhi puja | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM |
Sandhya arati | 7:00 PM |
Dinner | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM |
Cultural Program (Bangla Natak) | 9 PM – 10:30 PM |
Hall Closes | 12:30 AM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
1
Sun
2017
Oct 1 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Maha Navami and Bijoya Dashami Puja
Sunday, Oct 01, 2017
Priest: Aditya Chakraborty | |
Tantra-dharak: Sumit Banerjee | |
Bhog: Hasu Ghosh | |
Puja Lead: Jyotsna Seal | |
Timings | |
Maha Navami | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM |
Anjali | 11:30 AM |
Dashami puja and Biswarjan | 12 Noon – 1 PM |
Sidur Khela, Kolakuli & Bijoya Greetings | 1 PM – 1:30 PM |
Sandhya arati | 1:30 PM |
Hall Closes | 7 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
8
Sun
2017
Oct 8 @ 4:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Lakshmi Puja and Cultural Events
Sunday, Oct 08, 2017
Priest: Nirmal Sinha | |
Tantra-dharak: Subhankar Pandit | |
Bhog: Ruma Bose | |
Puja Lead: Jayanti Roy | |
Timings | |
Laxmi Puja | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
Prasad distribution | 6 PM |
Cultural Program | 6:30 -7:30 PM |
Dinner | 7:30 PM |
Hall Closes | 12 AM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Apr
8
Sun
2018
Apr 8 @ 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Pre-AGM Meeting – April 8, 2018
Categories: Information Sessions
Apr
21
Sat
2018
Apr 21 @ 6:00 pm – 11:45 pm
Annual Dinner 2018 – April 21, 2018
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Categories: Gala Event
Apr
29
Sun
2018
Apr 29 @ 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Annual General Meeting – April 29, 2018
Categories: Information Sessions
Oct
19
Fri
2018
Oct 19 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Maha Sasthi and Maha Saptami Puja
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Priest: Sushil Bhattacharya (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Tantra-dharak: Subhankar Pandit (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Observer: Soumya Bagchi | |
Priest: Nirmal Sinha (Saptami evening) | |
Tantra-dharak: Mita Das (Saptami evening) | |
Bhog: Shipra Chandra (morning) & Hasu Ghosh(evening) | |
Puja Lead: Nandini Sengupta and Minakshi Sarkar (morning) & Gopa Bhoumik and Mabhin Ghosh Datta(evening) | |
Timings | |
Maha Sasthi puja and Bodhan | 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 PM |
Maha Saptami puja | 12:30 P.M.– 3 PM |
Evening puja | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM |
Sandhya Arati | 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM |
Cultural Program (play by children) | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Dinner | 8:00 PM – 10 PM |
Hall Closes | 10:30 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct 19 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Maha Sasthi and Maha Saptami Puja
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Priest: Sushil Bhattacharya (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Tantra-dharak: Subhankar Pandit (Sasthi and Saptami morning) | |
Observer: Soumya Bagchi | |
Priest: Nirmal Sinha (Saptami evening) | |
Tantra-dharak: Mita Das (Saptami evening) | |
Bhog: Shipra Chandra (morning) & Hasu Ghosh(evening) | |
Puja Lead: Nandini Sengupta and Minakshi Sarkar (morning) & Gopa Bhoumik and Mabhin Ghosh Datta(evening) | |
Timings | |
Maha Sasthi puja and Bodhan | 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 PM |
Maha Saptami puja | 12:30 P.M.– 3 PM |
Evening puja | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM |
Sandhya Arati | 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM |
Cultural Program (play by children) | 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Dinner | 8:00 PM – 10 PM |
Hall Closes | 10:30 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
20
Sat
2018
Oct 20 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 pm
Maha Astami and Sondhi Puja
Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018
Priest: Sushil Bhattacharya | |
Tantra-dharak (Astami puja): Bonnie Chakraborty | |
Observer: Soumya Baghchi | |
Priest(Sondhi Puja): Arnab Chatterjee | |
Tantra-dharak (Sondhi puja): Subhankar Pandit | |
Observer: Debasish Chakraborty | |
Bhog: Anjana Sen (morning) & Ila Dutta(evening) | |
Puja Lead: Mita Das (morning) Rekha Bhattacharya & Manoshi Kumar (evening) | |
Timings(Tentative) | |
Maha Astami puja, Arati | 9:00 AM – 12:30 |
Pushpanjali and Prasad | 12:30-1:00PM |
Lunch | 1 PM- 2:30 PM |
Sondhi puja | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM |
Sandhya Arati and Prasad | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM |
Dinner | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM |
Cultural Program | 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM |
Hall Closes | 11:00 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
21
Sun
2018
Oct 21 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Maha Navami and Bijoya Dashami Puja
Sunday, Oct 21, 2018
Priest: Aditya Chakraborty | |
Tantra-dharak: Sumit Banerjee | |
Observer:Debasish Chakraborty | |
Bhog: Mita Das | |
Puja Lead: Ila Dutta | |
Timings(tentative) | |
Maha Navami | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Pushpanjali and Prasad | 11:00AM -11:30 AM |
Dashami puja and Bisarjan | 11:30 – 12:30 PM |
Sidur Khela, Kolakuli & Bijoya Greetings | 12:30 PM –1:00 PM |
Lunch | 1:00 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
27
Sat
2018
Oct 27 @ 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Lakshmi Puja and Cultural Events
Saturday, Oct 27, 2018
Priest: Nirmal Sinha | |
Tantra-dharak: Subhankar Pandit | |
Bhog: Shibani Cherla | |
Puja Lead: Jayanti Roy | |
Timings | |
Laxmi Puja | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
Pushpanjali and Prasad distribution | 5:00 PM- 6:00PM |
Cultural Program | 6:00 -7:00 PM |
Dinner | 7:00 PM |
Hall Closes | 10:00 PM |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Feb
10
Sun
2019
Saraswati Puja
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Time: 10 am – 4 pm
Place: Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Rd, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4M3 Tel: (613) 798-8885
Tentative Schedule:
Puja and Pushpanjali: 10:00 am – 11.30 am (Hathekhori will be held after Puja)
Prasad: 11:30 am
Children’s Talent Show: 12:00 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch: 12:45 pm – 02:00 pm
Cultural Program: 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm
(Artists – Aditi Biswas & Anuja Dutta )
Cleanup: 04:00 pm – 05:00 pm
Kid’s Talent Show
For Saraswati Puja, we would like to invite children of all ages to participate in the kid’s talent show. If your child has a talent you would like to showcase, please send an email to deshantari.ottawa@gmail.com with their names, age and talent by Saturday 2nd Feb 2019. Priority will be provided to those who contact early as our total time is limited to 45 mins.
Transportation Assistance:
Transportation Assistance will be available to eligible seniors for the Saraswati Puja event.
Please contact Gour Seal (gmseal@hotmail.com ) if you are interested. A nominal charge of $5 – $10 per person will apply.
RSVP:
If for any reasons, you are not able to make it after RSVP’ed then please make sure to inform us by email at deshantari.ottawa@gmail.com to cancel.
Please confirm the attendance by Feb. 2nd, 2019 at this RSVP link RSVP
We look forward to seeing you all on Sunday, 10 Feb 2019.
Apr
6
Sat
2019
Apr 6 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Annual Dinner 2019 – April 06, 2019
We take immense pleasure of extending cordial invitation to you all for the Annual Dinner on Saturday, April 6th, 2019.
Please click on this link to: RSVP
Deadline for RSVP by: March 15th, 2019
Payment by: March 24th, 2019
Please check below for details:
Categories: Gala Event
Apr
28
Sun
2019
AGM 2019 – April 28, 2019
Categories: Information Sessions
Oct
4
Fri
2019
Oct 4 @ 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Maha Sasthi and Maha Saptami Puja
Friday, Oct. 04, 2019
Sashti Pujo and arti | 10:30am – 12:30pm |
Maha Saptami Pujo and Arti | 01:00pm – 04:00pm |
Maha Saptami Puja and Arti (evening) | 05:30pm – 07:00pm |
Prashad | 07:00pm – 07:30pm |
Children Instrumentals and Dance drama | 07:30pm – 08:30pm |
Dinner | 08:30pm – 09:30pm |
Closing | 11:00pm |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
5
Sat
2019
Maha Astami and Sondhi Puja
Saturday, Oct. 05, 2019
Maha Ashtami Pujo (Morning) | 09:00am – 12:00pm |
Pushpanjali | 12:00pm – 12:30pm |
Prashad | 12:30PM – 01:00pm |
Lunch | 01:30pm – 03:00pm |
Maha Ashtami Sondhi Pujo | 05:30pm – 07:30pm |
Prashad | 07:30pm – 08:00pm |
Dhunuchi dance/Temple dance and Jalsha | 08:00pm – 09:00pm |
Dinner | 09:00pm – 10:00pm |
Closing | 11:00pm |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
6
Sun
2019
Oct 6 @ 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Maha Navami and Bijoya Dashami Puja
Sunday, Oct 06, 2019
Maha Navami Pujo (morning) | 09:30am – 11:30am |
Dashami pujo and Bisharjan | 11:30am – 12:30pm |
Prashad | 12:30pm – 01:00pm |
Sindoor Khela | 01:00pm – 01:30pm |
Lunch | 01:30pm – 03:00pm |
Open Microphone | 03:00pm – 04:00pm |
Tear Down | 04:00pm – 07:00pm |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja
Oct
12
Sat
2019
Oct 12 @ 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Lakshmi Puja and Cultural Events
Saturday, Oct 12, 2019
Laxmi Pujo | 04:00pm – 06:00pm |
Pushpanjali and Prashad | 06:00pm – 07:00pm |
Drama NataSamrat (Toronto Bengali Drama Group) | 07:00pm – 08:30pm |
Dinner | 08:30pm – 10:00pm |
Tear Down | 10:00pm – 11:00pm |
Categories: Cultural Event Puja