May 06 2008
FOKANA Convention 2008 coming to H-town!
FOKANA, Federation Of Kerala Associations in North America, will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary and yearly convention at the Hilton Americas in Downtown Houston. FOKANA is considered one of the biggest Malayalee events in the nation. The FOKANA convention and celebration will begin on July 1st, 2008 and continue through July 5th, 2008.
Here is a little bit more background on the FOKANA organization:
FOKANA (Federation Of Kerala Associations in North America) is an umbrella organization of Malayalee Associations in United States and Canada. FOKANA’s long history in the United States as an organization fostering the values of Kerala culture and heritage finds its formal beginnings in the early 1980s. The need for an umbrella organization that would unite the increasing number of Kerala Associations throughout theU.S. and Canada was identified far earlier as the number of Indian Americans grew rapidly.
So, what does this mean for Houston? Well, it’s gonna be crazy! FOKANA is filled with various events throughout the 5 day period. You can count on various seminars to be held during the day, and also events to be held nightly throughout the week/weekend. The YOUTH organization will also be hosting various competitions, which allow the young FOKANA guests to show off some of their talents in different categories.
To learn more about the FOKANA event, please visit the FOKANA event listing on SABAsearch.com.
To learn more about the Youth activities planned for the FOKANA event, please visit the FOKANA YOUTH website.
The SABAsearch Blog staff welcomes all FOKANA guests to Houston! We encourage all FOKANA guests to leave their comments on this blog or leave questions for other FOKANA guests. See you in H-town!
FOKANA 2008 CONVENTION: Houston, TX
Location: Hilton Americas Downtown
Dates: July 1st, 2008 - July 5th, 2008
http://www.fokanatoday.org
I am very excited for this! This will be my first time attending, and I am very happy to know that my city Houston, Tx will be hosting this joyous event. I hope that the turnout will be good. Do you know where will the parties be?
There are gonna be tons of parties….not sure where yet, but we’ll definitely keep you in the loop.
Also, what’s the deal with the basketball tournament? How do we register for that?
Question: Can someone please confirm if Fokana is still on?
Rumor on the street it’s been cancelled due to some court order!!
Hi uhoh-
If you click on the link http://www.fokanatoday.org, listed above it will tell you all the information. So the rumor is they are having a court order placed on this?
Sorry but I stand corrected, FOKANA will not be happening this year, due to the ridiculous court ordered handed down.
Look here: http://www.fokanaonline.com/FOKANA-OrderMay-2008.pdf
ya, this really sucks! What, did we not pay our taxes or something????
Wait…this doesn’t say anything about cancelling the event. This is about the election of the FOKANA officers or something.
Can somebody from FOKANA please tell us if this thing is really still on or not???? Because it seems on the website as if the event is still on..and also from the FOKANA youth site.
Those people who did not win the election in Orlando,2006 went on a secret law suit
against the elected executives Sasidharan Nair and group. That is why, nun of the elected members knew about this law suit. Dr Parthasarathy played a great roll in keeping this law suit a secret.
The convention in Houston even if it is not under the banner of FOKANA, we will try to make it a great success.
In future the new federation should accept morally acceptable leaders and not those type of leaders who get their divorce order on the stage of the convention