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 Pixels is a platform for the budding directors and movie producers of College to
screen their short films to a larger audience.
 College was issued a license to host the TEDxSJC Bangalore, which was
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eventually held on 6 January, 2017.
 The English Department has organized a festival of literature titled META since
2013 which has brought prominent authors, scholars, intellectuals, theatre-persons
and poets to share their insights about the writing process, to conduct workshops, hold
book readings and to participate in panel discussions.
 The English Department has also collaborated with the NGO Headstreams since
2014 to hold Tackle Fest—a unique experiment which brings hundreds of students
from government schools to College where they tour the labs, attend lecture-
demonstrations, and examine exhibits in science and arts put up by student volunteers
from the institution. This is done to spark curiosity about higher learning.
 Language festivals are organized by the French, German, Kannada, Hindi and
Tamil departments where eminent and budding authors, journalists and educationists
are invited for book reviews, book readings, panel discussions and debates on current
affairs.
 The undergraduate Communications Department has organized a media fest titled
Allura since 2012 which draws participation on account of its varied extra-curricular
activities from both students of media courses and other degree courses across the
city. The department also partners with the Bangalore International Film Festival
(BIFFES) and encourages its students to volunteer at BIFFES every year.
 An Intra- and Intercollegiate Science and Arts exhibition (Singularitas) is open to
the public and organized by students under the guidance of teachers.
 Intra-College exhibitions in creative skills, hobbies, philately and numismatics for
students and teachers are held every year.

This is just a small sampling of the many extra-curricular activities on campus. Given
in Tables 5.9 and 5.10 below is a representative listing of some of the unique cultural
activities of the last few years.

Table 5.9: List of Cultural Activities Available to Students
Event Participation Range
Interclass Kite Flying Competition Intercollegiate
Pongal Celebrations Intercollegiate
Onam Celebrations Intra-collegiate
Ethnic Day Intra-collegiate
Pratibha Literary Events Intra collegiate
Indian Dance : Solo And Group
Western Dance : Solo And Group
Indian Vocal : Solo And Group
Western Vocal : Solo And Group
Ethnic Fashion Show
Christmas Celebrations Intra-collegiate
Footprints Intra-collegiate
Visages Intercollegiate
Nirvaan Intercollegiate
Independence Day Intra-collegiate
Republic Day Intra-collegiate

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