Fastest growing completely free art and cultural festival of GTA. Mosaic once again brought cultural excellence to the City of Mississauga with exciting programming and electrifying main stage acts from UK, India, USA and other parts of Canada. Rock the Coliseum presented 18 performances in 3 days with record attendance of visitors. TELUS Mosaic 2009 presented Bazgasht-The Visual Art exhibition of contemporary miniatures at the Art Gallery of Mississauga which received rave reviews from art lovers. Artist workshops conducted by miniature artists proved a great attraction. Main stage performances included UK based SWAMI, UK/Canada based RDB, Abhimanyu and Vidha Lal from India, Kreuger Singh and Cassius Khan from Vancouver, Canada, Burning Brides from Los Angeles, USA, Bad Flirt from Montreal, Canada and many other acts on 2 festival stages. Over all Mosaic presented over 50 hours of programming during the fourth year including outdoor flim screening, FILMI film festival at Noel Ryan Theatre and 2 month long Visual Arts show at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. New addition included fire works, mid way rides and Canadian Citizenship oath re-affirmation ceremony.
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Abhimanyu and Vidha Lal (India)
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Cake cutting ceremony
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Citizenship re-affirmation ceremony
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Opening of the festival by the Hon. Hazel McCallion, Mayor of Mississauga. Flanked by the Dr. Colin Saldanha, reception M.C.
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Screening of "Singh is King" on Friday night.
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RDB rocks the Sunday crowd.
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Capacity crowd on Sunday 21st June, 2009 enjoy RDB.
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Spirit of Mosaic festival.
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Mosaic festival prove to be the largest outdoor south asian event.
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Tanveer Ubhi
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RDB and Nindy Kaur
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Diya dancers
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Sonay Gabroo Punjab De
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Shiamak Indo Jazz
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Shiamak Indo Jazz
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SWAMI from UK
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Lianna wows the crowd as SWAMI performs on Saturday night.
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Sups from SWAMI energized the dancing crowd.
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Team Intro
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Cassius Khan from Vancouver.
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Kreuger Singh and Belly dancers.
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Kreuger Singh and Belly dancers.
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Airline ticket draw by Ivan D'Lima of Etihad Airways.
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Winner of the Etihad Airways draw Mr. Shyam Sunder Desai of Mississauga with Ashish Gandhi of CIBC and Director CCAI with Ivan D'Lima of Etihad Airways.
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Tabla House from Brampton
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Performers from Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lankan performers.
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Sri Lankan dance troupe.
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Bharatnatyam dancers from Sri Sanskriti Dance.
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Popular music band.
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Sudhir Anand from Weekly Voice, Imtiaz Syed from RBC among other dignitaries.
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Mangat Amrit, MPP, Judge Mina and Harinder Thakar, MPP
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SWAMI debut performance in Canada as a full band.
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Fireworks liteup the Civic Square on Saturday night.
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Fireworks
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More fireworks...
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Yoga by Rinita Lobo.
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Bazil Samba dancers.
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Shield presented to Ontario Arts Council rep Janice Lambrakos.
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Shield presented to Tami Lisson from RBC.
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Ustad Irshad Khan and Ensamble.
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Arial view of Mosaic festival.
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Cassius Khan
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Kamal Ahuja, Director CCAI presents shield to Promod Israni of ATN for their outstanding support of Mosaic festival.
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Nindy Kaur sings her latest numbers to the appreciative crowd.
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SWAMI audience on Saturday night.
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The Information booth.
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Underground Garage Sale, young artists and vendors.
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Rock the Coliseum.
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Rock the Coliseum.
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Shweta from Edmonton.
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FILMI presents short films on Friday 19th June, 2009 at Noel Ryan Theatre.
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SWAMI from UK.
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Ali Adil Khan, Director CCAI with artists Sumaira Tazeen, Reeta Saeed, Tazeen Qayyum and Arshad Khan during the minisature workshop.
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Melissa Bhagat presents the message of Prime Minister of Canada.
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Gurbax Singh Malhi, Liberal MP speaks at the opening reception of TELUS Mosaic 2009.
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Liberal MPP Amrit Mangat with festival director.
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Saluja Gilani from TELUS.
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Liberal MPP Harinder Thakar with Arshad Mahmood, Founder Mosaic Festival.
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Shweta Subramaniam with Diya dancers.
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Raj Girn, Publisher Anokhi magazine flanked by her team and admirers.
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Sups, lead vocalist from SWAMI moves the crowd to his tunes.
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Shiamak Indo Jazz grand finale on Saturday night.
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Vendors at the festival.
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Festival MC tries to lift the Olympic torch at RBC booth.
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The cast and crew of Sawitri presented a play by Zohra Zuberi.
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Brazil Samba dancers brought energy and excitement to the afternoon on Sunday.
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Oath re-affirmation ceremony.
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Nachange Saari Raat jury members Vidha Lal, Mitul Kadakia of SIJDM and Saluja Gilani of TELUS.
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Divya Kumar Dance Academy performs on main stage.
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Ivan D'Lima of Etihad Airways speaks at the main stage.
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Sonay Gabroo Punbjab De hands down the best Bhangra performance
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Have you evern seen crowd like this in Mississauga? Only at TELUS Mosaic.
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TELUS Mosaic 2009 team intro and see you all in 2010.
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RDB arrives in style.
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Crowd enjoys the performance.
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RDB rocks Mississauga.
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RDB on stage.
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Sonia Gill hosts an MC for Mosaic festival.
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Nachadi Jawani.
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Gustavi Neme, Director CCAI introduces Latino performers along with festival MC Tushar Unadkat.
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Mayor cuts cake at the Gala.
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JT & MC JD roadshow
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JT & MC JD roadshow
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Midways rides in North Square.
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Gala reception at Art Gallery of Mississauga.
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Mayor speaks at the Gala reception.
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Mosaic team with Mayor at Gala.
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Bankers at Gala.
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Traditional miniature workshop.
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Tazeen Qayyum.
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Reeta Saeed
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CNE mascot Alex with Mosaic mascot Tushar.
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Arshad and Asma from CCAI Board with Mayor.
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Mayor McCallion visits Rock the Coliseum.
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Rock the Coliseum.
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Dignitaries moving towards the stage for the Opening Reception.
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Dr. Colin Suldanha greets the Mayor.
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Viresh Mathur guides the Mayor to the stage.
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Melissa Bhagat with Dr. Colin Suldanha, Reception MC.
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Dr. Colin Suldanha.
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Nain Amyn, Director CCAI and Hemali Gandhi assist Lata Pada inlighting the ceremonial lamp.
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Opening reception audience on Saturday.
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Sampradaya Dance presents a special tribute to Lata Pada.
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Specially prepared gift bags from Bangladesh carried gifts by TELUS and commissioned art pieces by Mosaic festival.
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Miniature workshop specially designed tent by Bean Bag Factory.
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Visitors re-affirming the oath of Citizenship of Canada.
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Introducing the OTF representative.
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Etihad Airways booth at TELUS Mosaic 2009.
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TELUS booth at TELUS Mosaic 2009.
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The festival apparel provider DesiWear booth.
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RBC booth at TELUS Mosaic 2009.
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SAVAC presented kite making workshop.
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Arshad Mahmood with trade attache of Pakistan.
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Saluja Gilani of TELUS communicates with the audience.
