What if the world was your canvas and all the colours merely players? Would you paint it the with the hues of your dreams or the tones of your madness?

Here is you chance to do both. Presenting Parking Walls – a graffiti competition with no rules or regulations.

We will provide you with the spray cans and assign you a wall, so get yourself registered on-the-spot and go on crazy!

Prizes: some awesome goodies

Date: Oct 30

Time: 12 noon

Venue: Parking Lot

Product Placement, for you literary purists, is a form of advertising previously restricted to the famously whorish mediums of television and film.

The business of writing books: Unfortunately it’s not enough just to write them; they must be marketed as well. Without marketing, fewer people know about your book. When fewer people know about your book, fewer buy it. When fewer people buy your book, you’ll soon be looking for a new job. Thus the crass consideration.

The event involves you, the author, to submit a piece of fiction with the most organic and holistic product placements that befits your narrative. The winner will be judged on the ingenuity of the product placements, logical relevance in the narrative and the usual fictional tropes (language, grammar and your ability to keep your reader engrossed)

Rules:

Entries – On the Spot

Maximum Word Limit – 1000 words

Language – English

Prizes – goodies worth Rs. 12,500

SplaT

Like to wear your heart on your sleeve and your style on your tee? Here’s your chance!

MICANVAS 2010 brings to you two t-shirt designing events. It is time to get those creative juices flowing and let the ideas loose. So grab those colours and get started on -

1. Design a t-shirt that represents you, AND/OR

2. Design a t-shirt for MICANVAS 2011

No boundaries. No specifications. Only make sure all t-shirts designed have the MICANVAS logo on it.

Prizes in store? Goodies worth Rs. 7,500 for each event.

This is an online submission, single round event. Entries close: Oct 28^th. Mail entries to micanvas@micamail.in with the subject splaT_ParticipantName_Institute

This is our crazy take on the original show, only far kookier and, if we may say, a lot more fun! While it was introduced into our roster of events just last year, the excitement it generates precedes it. With everyone vying for a spot in the final six who get to go on this journey, there will be a preliminary round to help choose those we think are up, to take on the dust, and the heat of aapno Ahmedabad and have their wits in place to decipher the clues to find the seven locations spread across the city. The fastest team to return back home will be the proud winner of insane goodies and of course the much coveted title of Amazing Race winner. If you think you and a partner have just that right mix of resourcefulness and amazingness, we suggest you be here on October 29th and leave the fun to us. All registrations will be done on the spot.

Aircel presents Rural Marketing – Roti, Kapda aur Mobile!

Its hard these days, to think of a person without a mobile phone! Everyone, even your local sabji wala seems to be ‘walking and talking’.The number of Indian wireless users is growing at an unprecedented growth rate specially the rural subscribers, providing abundant opportunities to mobile service providers to expand their market share. ‘Roti, Kapda aur Mobile’ is an event which is aimed at providing strategies for Aircel to expand its operations in rural areas effectively.

All participants will be reimbursed for their travel (return, minimum) and will receive a free pass to the Kailasa Concert on the 30th of October 2010.

Prizes:

1st Prize: Rs. 30,000 + goodies worth Rs. 5,000
2nd Prize: Rs. 20,000 + goodies worth Rs. 5,000

Deadline for 1st round: 11:59 p.m, 20th October 2010

For more log on to www.micanvas.in

They say you need to have the gift of the gab for this one. They say you need to have the most melodious voice to be the best. But we say, all you need is a smart wit and the guts to participate in the ultimate battle of being the RJ the world loves. And of course there is also the introductory workshop that will help you reach the top.

Date: 29th October

Time: 11 a.m. onwards

Venue: MICAvaani

Prizes: TBA

Slide Rules

Do the call you the king of presentations in your peer group? Do you wake up right before submission time, read nothing and still manage to come out as the most impressive? Do you have the natural talent to become the pfaff master of the world? Then Slide Rules is the contest for you! Presentations will never again be so much fun again!

Date: 29th October

Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Venue: SH2

Prizes: TBA

Prizes: TBA

Scheduled on: 28th October

Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Rules:

• Individual Participation
• Participants will be given a topic 5 minutes before their slot
• Each participant speaks FOR the topic for 30 seconds, then AGAINST for 30 seconds, then FOR against for 30 seconds.
• The speech has to be continuous, and participants will
• Negative points for speech defects and other standard faults

Prizes: TBA

Scheduled on: 29th October

Time: 2 a.m. to 5 a.m.

The object of the game is for panelists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, “without repetition, hesitation or deviation”. The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules (which are easily broken, despite their apparent simplicity) and the banter among the participants.

Objections:

1. 1. Late start
   2. Jumping the gun (early start)
   3. Grammatical error
   4. Stammering
   5. Repetition of ideas
   6. Time wasting tactics
   7. Pause
   8. Standard format
   9. Lack of clarity in speech
   10. Modulation
       

Rules:

1. Moderator a.k.a Jam Master is God

2. In case of doubt, refer to rule 1

Prizes: TBA

Scheduled on: 30th October

Time: 10 a.m. to 12 noon

Rules:

• Teams of two
• One participant speaks for, and the other against
• Each speaker gets 90 seconds to speak
• There will be 60 seconds of rebuttal
• Topics for the 1st round will be given one hour before the commencement of the event
• Six Teams will qualify for the final round

Are you looking for a night of intellectual stimulation, trivia and TONS of prizes? Look no further – the all night quiz is here!

In a first ever at MICANVAS, we bring to you the All Night Quiz!

Hosted by renowned Quizmaster Avinash Mudaliar (you can find his profile here), the all-night quiz promises to be a night of plain unending enjoyment.

Registrations : On the spot

Date : 30th October

Time: 1 a.m.

Venue : Open Air Theater

Prizes : LOTS of them. Trust us, all we’re saying is we’ve got more prizes than questions

Did you know that Pepsi makes beer called “Mug Root Beer”?

Did you know that the Tata SUMO is named after Sumant Moolgaonkar, the ex-MD of Tata Motors?

Do you read the Economic Times and not the The Times of India?

(Because The Times of India prints, er, lets not talk about it. If you do read that, you’ll probably do well at The All Night Quiz)

If you answered “Yes” for one (or more!) of the above, you’d better attend the Business Quiz!

In its fourth year, the business quiz promises to be even better, and far more difficult.

Hosted by the talented Avinash Mudaliar (you can find his profile here) , it also promises to be entertaining and of high quality.

Be assured, the business quiz at MICANVAS will set benchmarks in terms of quizzing quality, both in terms of questions as well as participants.

Date: 30th October

Time: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Venue: Auditorium

Have you heard of the Newton Heath LYR Football Club?

(If you knew that its Manchester United that we are talking about, then you should attend this)

Presenting the SPENT (SPorts and ENTertainment) Quiz!

For those who prefer spending time discussing off the field, if not on the field. Also hosted by Avinash Mudaliar (you can find his profile here)

Registrations: On the spot

Date: 29th October

Time: 12 noon to 2 p.m.

Venue: Auditorium

Prizes: To Be Announced

The crowning glory of all our quizzes, the General Quiz this year promises to be a melange of sports, entertainment, trivia, and you-name-it. Hosted by the famous quizmaster Avinash Mudaliar (you can find his profile here), this years gen-quiz promises to take quizzing to the next level.

Registration : On the spot

Date : To Be Announced

Venue : Auditorium

Prizes : To Be Announced

Bored of answering questionnaires to consumer researchers at malls or over the phones? Be the one to find the new innovation in understanding consumer insights.

Check attached PDF for more information.

PDF Link: Insight

Welcome to the age of industry consolidation and mobile workforces, where strong communication strategies can help increase customer loyalty. Understanding the importance of implementing communication strategies does not only require recognition of the P’s but also several other factors like creative concept clarity, STP, positioning etc

‘Bank Strat’ is one such event which is aimed at providing Union Bank of India with communications strategies through which it can communicate its brand and services more effectively to the consumer. If you think you can give a bank a makeover, then we suggest you participate!

Prizes:

1st Prize: Rs. 30,000

2nd Prize: Rs. 25,000

Deadline for 1st round (Final and will not be extended): 18th October, 2010 11:59 p.m

Endorse is a freestyle event , the first of its kind which has been specifically designed to question the effectiveness of celebrity endorsements and the prize will go to the one who will answer our burning question in the most creative and efficient manner!

Don't keep those 'live concerts in my car' to yourself, go ahead make some fantastic money off your playlist and random musings! Welcome to random play,an event which gives you an opportunity to 'brand' your music 'band'. Now play the music out through your thoughts and words..we bring to you 'Random Play' - the music marketing event.

Deadline for first round entries : 15th October 2010.
For more details visit the MICANVAS 2010 website.