Pondicherry Events Calendar - 2014

FEBRUARY

Heritage Car Rally - 1st & 2nd

Kite Festival - 21^st

MARCH

Painting Exhibition - 1st & 2^nd

National Art & Craft Fest - 15th to 30^th

APRIL

Antique Exhibition - 5th & 6th

Magic Show - 12th & 13th

Light/Sound/Water Show - 14th & 15th

Puducherry Carnival - 18th, 19th & 20th

Pondy EDM & Beach Fest - 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th

Celebrity Show/Star Night - 27th

MAY

Puducherry Dance Festival - 1st - 4th

Entertainment and Shopping Expo - 1st - 30th

Adventure Sports Festival - 16th, 17th, 18th

Western Music Fest - 24th & 25th

Treasure Hunt - 25th

Theatre Fest - 28th - 31st

JUNE

Food Festival - 5th – 9th

Art, Design and Fashion Week - 14th – 20th

Pondy Marathan - 15th

Film Festival - 21st – 25th

Sand Sculpture Fest - 21st & 22nd

World Astrological Conference at Karaikal - 27th – 30th

JULY

Tour de Pondy - 12th & 13th

Photography Exhibition - 18th - 20th

Sufi & Gazal Music Fest - 25h & 27th

AUGUST

Indo-French Festival - 30th July to 5th August

Wine Festival - 11th to 14th

Puducherry Classical Music Fest 15th – 17th

Record Break Event - 23rd & 24th

World Band Fest - 30th & 31st

SEPTEMBER

Festival of Colours - 12th – 14th

World Tourism Day - Puducherry Carnival - 26th, 27th & 28th

OCTOBER

Festival of lights - 2nd to 5th

Crackers Fest - 18th & 19th

Pondy Oktober Fest - 24th to 26th

NOVEMBER

Puducherry Shopping Festival

Petanque Tournament - 13th to 16th

World Music Concert - 20th & 23rd

DECEMBER

Pondicherry Bike Week - 12th – 14th

Masquerade Fest - 20th

Street Carnival - 20th – 25th

New Year Celebration - 25th – 31st

JANUARY

21st International Yoga Festival. - 4th – 7th

Yanam People’s Festival - 8th – 10th

Karaikal Carnival - 13th – 16th

Freedom Jam - 24th & 25th

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It's a sushi thing - Try Japanese Food @The Promenade - Puducherry

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Mehendi Night @ Sita cultural centrer on April 6th - Pondicherry

Pique Nique @ Beach (in front of Maison Colombani) on 23rd March from 7 pm #Pondicherry

Something Fishy @ Hotel Atithi - Pondicherry from 6th - 14th Oct

Open Air Sunset Party on 15th September @ Auroma Garden - Auroville

Japanese Food Fest @ Ocean Spray

Smash the dance floor :) on 19th Aug @ Ocean Spray

Andhra Food Festival @ Atithi Hotel, Pondicherry from 11th August

Taste the Chettinad dinner @ Sita cultural center - Pondicherry on 26th July

Rangeelo Rajasthan - a vegetarian food festival @ Atithi on 20th to 28th July

Gourmet 2012 Pondicherry Food Festival @ Old Port on 18th to 22nd July

Auroville "Holi" Tango Festival 8th to 11th March 2012

We are very glad to announce the coming of the four day AUROVILLE ‘HOLI’ TANGO FESTIVAL featuring international maestros Pino & Caterina, from Turin (Italy); Antonella, extremely talentuous teacher and dancer from Tuscany (Italy) with Hubert from France, and Jorge (Ecuador) with Aurevan from Auroville!

After Delhi and Mumbai, Auroville, an international township of 2200 inhabitants, will be hosting South India’s very first Tango Festival in March 2012.

Join us on this green plateau, 10km north of Pondicherry, for four days of fun, workshops and Milongas every night!

Workshops will be offered throughout the day; putting a special emphasis on the fundamental basics which allow one to dance anywhere, with anybody – the quality of the embrace, the posture and the interpretation of the music.

Classes of milonga, vals and tango nuevo will be proposed as part of the programme.

Be you from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai or anywhere else on this blue planet come and join us for four days of intensive tango experience.

For more info check our website: http://aurovilletango.org/

Festivals

The 10 days annual bhramothsavam of Manakula Vinayagar temple is celebrated by the devotees from 1957. The festival of Drowpathiamman temple is celebrated for 22 days in the month of July-August. Fire walking ceremony attracts large crowds on the 18th day of the festival.

The car festival of Sri Tirukameeshwarar in Villianur gathers large number of devotees in Pondicherry and its neighboring state Tamilnadu. The car festival of this temple is celebrated in the month of May. The veerampattinam Car festival is also famous in Pondicherry.

The Maasi magma festival is celebrated on the sea shore near Kurusukuppam a little away to the north of Pondicherry. Deities from various temples in Pondicherry and Tamilnadu are brought in the car to participate in this annual celebration. The images of various God brought in a procession with Nadhaswaram music accompanied before every car, is taken around the town and finally to the sea shore. Here the deities are dipped in the sea and rituals are conducted. Later, the images are once again fixed to the car and taken back to their respective temples. The deities that come long distance from Mailam, Gingee, Deevanaur stay for two or three days in the town to enable the devotees to offer worship.

Yoga Festival

Pondicherry is well established for Yoga. It has various Yoga centre in and around this modern town. These centers train as well as teach yoga. Every year in the month of January International Yoga festival is celebrated by State Tourism Development Corporation to promote Tourism.

Apart from this, the State also celebrates other festivals like Fete de Pondicherry, Food festival, every year.