Spic Macay
SPIC MACAY is a society for the promotion of Indian classical music and culture amongst Youth. It is a is a non-political, nationwide , voluntary non-profit movement founded in 1977 by Dr. Kiran Seth, Professor-Emeritus at IIT-Delhi who was awarded the'Padma Shri' for his contribution to the arts in 2009. The aim is to conserve and promote Indian culture and introduce the rich cultural tapestry to the youth of this country. It is a movement with chapters in over 300 towns all over the world.
Spicmacay Chapter of Daulat Ram College has been working with the same vision and carrying the initiatives of the main chapter forward. Spicmacay Daulat Ram College has organised a lot of mega and mini-events focussing on classical Dance, Indian Architecture, supporting the artist initiative etc. The spicmacay unit of Daulat Ram College organised a Kathak session with Renowned Classical Dancer and Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Purushkar by Sangeet Natak Akademi recipient: Ms Gauri Diwakar before the pandemic.
Daulat Ram Chapter of SpicMacay organized July's meet and greet session 2022 - 2023. In the orientation, the Union Members Puranjani, Nidhi Jha and Geetika Kaur, and Deepika Sharma, delivered about the initiatives and events which SpicMacay's main chapter promotes and organizes. The event was then taken forward by the introduction session, which began with our Convener ma'am, Dr. Sonika's introduction followed by a fun icebreaking session with the entire team of 50 participants.
Similarly, in November an online orientation session was held with respect to guidelines by the main chapter which enlightened the freshers about the workings of Spicmacay all over India and the kind of impact it creates followed by the recruitment session which made our entire team to be a group of 65 members.
These events were followed by various offline and online meetings, team building sessions, and weekly meets at Miranda house with the entire DU circuit of Spicmacay. We are planning to have our Flagship event ‘Virasat’ in March and other engaging activities as well.
Convenor: Dr. Sonika Sharmahttps://sites.google.com/dr.du.ac.in/spicmacaydrcchapter/home
