North Bay Indo-America Association (NBIAA)

NBIAA Vaping Awareness and Health and Wellness event Sunday, May 30, 10 am -11:30 am. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86316037564 Two topics will be presented and discussed;... 1) Teen vaping and tobacco sales to youth in our community. 2) Why do South Asians have a higher prevalence of heart disease and diabetes? Please join us for this dynamic presentation about our local nicotine epidemic and heart disease and diabetes among South Asians. Find out how we can better protect our youth from nicotine addiction and take steps to improve our health and well-being through nutrition and exercise.

NBIAA Vaping Awareness and Health and Wellness Event Sunday. May 30. 10 am https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86316037564 Do you want to know how vaping companies target youth and how Indian retail stores get manipulated by them? ... Are you interested in knowing the link between fermented foods and heart diseases? Then, please join NBIAA on 30th May, this Sunday at 10 A.M with your morning tea Presenters: Riya Ramakrishnan. Greg Damron Vijaya Parameswaran See more

NBIAA Vaping Awareness and Health and Wellness event Sunday, May 30, 10 am -11:30 am. Two topics will be presented and discussed; 1) Teen vaping and tobacco sales to youth in our community.... 2) Why do South Asians have a higher prevalence of heart disease and diabetes? Please join us for this dynamic presentation about local nicotine epidemic and heart disease and diabetes among South Asians. Find out how we can better protect our youth from nicotine addiction and take steps to improve our health and well-being through nutrition and exercise.

We just donated to Covid-relief in India! Please join us. https://www.sewausa.org/Covid-19-India Covid-relief in India... India's healthcare system is overwhelmed by the second wave of Covid-19. There is widespread and urgent need for oxygen, oxygen concentrators and hospital beds. NBIAA just donated $5,000 to Sewa International Bharat toward their Covid relief work in India. Sewa International has helped us in Sonoma County in our times of need during the wildfires and lockdown. They are now working to get life-saving medical equipment to hospitals across India. 2,584 oxygen concentrators have been shipped and food and medicines are being provided for thousands of senior citizens and families. Please join NBIAA in giving back to India in her time of need. https://www.sewausa.org/Covid-19-India

TODAY at 6 pm. Join us for a showcase of cooking by community members. Bonus trivia! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6248968893 #homecooking #northbayindia #communityevents #sonomacounty

Do you cook? Do you like food? Do you eat food? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you must join us this Saturday for the NBIAA Cooking Skills Showcase! Watch cooking videos submitted by some adorable community members, get tips and stories and play culinary trivia. Everyone welcome!

NBIAA is hosting our next Karaoke Night. Join us with your family and friends and, hear some of the great local North Bay singers. No safer way to be with the community you love than to join us for this online Karaoke. Saturday, 10 April, 2021 7:30 pm to 10 pm... https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88549456929 See more

Our next Karaoke event is planned for Saturday, April 10th @ 7:30pm. Join us for evening of music and great Melodies performed by local North Bay singers. Join us and support your friends and family members. See you soon!

Drive-thru Holi was a blast! Thanks to all who came by to pick up their Holi swag bag! Let us know how you enjoyed the mithai, thandai, colors and bonus cookies from Coffee and Cumin @bhavyamehtaaa Share pictures with us of how you enjoyed Holi with your pod.

20 March, 2021. 3 pm to 4:30 pm Facebook live at facebook.com/NBIAA Join us for NBIAA Chai Time as Vipul Sheth chats with Janani Ramachandran over a cup of chai. Janani is running for the California State Assembly. Join in and support her fight for housing, safety, healthcare, living wage and clean air. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jr2022chaitime

Chirag Tilara stuffed gulab jamun

Kiran Patel Dhuliram pedha

Anish Shah carrot halwa

Shrey Dhiman chocolate barfi

NBIAA Virtual Diwali 12- 15 Nov, 2020 Diwali will be here in a few weeks and like every year, we want to make this a festive celebration of light, joy and blessings. If you would like to showcase your talents during our celebrations, please sign up before slots fill up! It could be any cultural program such as dance, singing, music or skits by adults and/or kids. You're also invited to share your puja and other at home Diwali celebrations. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e044aadaa28aaf58-nbiaa1

Our community is once again dealing with wildfires and resultant evacuations and lost homes. We are strong and resilient and we’re better because of strong and kind people like Jasdeep Sihota. Jasdeep was able to save his and his neighbors’ homes in Skyhawk. He is our hometown hero! Thank you, Jasdeep Sihota! Thank you firefighters and police who put their lives on the line to save and protect our towns and cities! #heroes #northbay #shadyfire #glassfire https://www.pressdemocrat.com//mountain-hawk-neighbor-sta/

NBIAA Diwali 12 - 15 Nov, 2020 Drive-in Movie UPDATE on Drive-in movie night: Due to an increased chance of rain in the forecast this weekend, we'll be CANCELLING the event on Sunday, Nov 15. Let's take a rain check and drive in to a movie at a later date!

It's finally here, our SaReGaMaPa - US Nationals Event. We have great singers from San Francisco, Boston and Colorado singing their best melodies, all to entertain you!!! Not just that, to top it, we have Aniruddh Joshi as our opening Celebrity Guest. He is an awesome musician and a singer in Bollywood. See you all at 5pm PST!!!

NBIAA Diwali 12 - 15 Nov, 2020 FREE Drive-in Movie ***cancelled due to rain You voted in our community survey and we counted! On Nov 15 at 5:30 pm***, we plan on a FREE drive-in movie night at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds. We're limited to 50 cars so HURRY and register BEFORE Nov 7! https://crm.nonprofiteasy.com/1302/Pages/Events/ *** Please note that this event may be cancelled due to rain and/or if we do not have 50 registered cars. We will keep you informed as the registration data and weather for next weekend become clearer.

SaReGaMaPa US Nationals 26 September, 2020 Team order picked fair and square! That’s a fact. No spin. Ever wonder how we pick team order? We literally leave it to chance. Here’s a snapshot of our Vegas-approved spin wheel in action. You’ll see Boston Bandish come up to the mic first in Round 1 followed by San Francisco Sureele then Colorado Concerto.

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NBIAA SaReGaMaPa US Nationals: Sept 26 at 5 pm The natural progression in our SaReGaMaPa singing competitions was to take it national. That’s exactly what we ha...ve planned! Three teams representing the East Coast (Boston Bandish), West Coast (San Francisco Sureele) and the South ? (Colorado Concerto) will compete in the SaReGaMaPa US Nationals. Will we get to witness some of the legendary East Coast West Coast rap rivalry in our SaReGaMaPa competition too? If we do, we sure hope the rivalry will be friendly, good-natured and true to the spirit of SaReGaMaPa! See more

This afternoon at 4 pm, grab your cup of chai and join us for a conversation with two prominent families from the #northbay community. #northbayindianfriendship #chaitime #chaitimewithNBIAA https://www.facebook.com/NBIAA/posts/10220618597086098

Here in the North Bay, it has been dark outside, like it is time for chai all day long! Lucky for us, chai is one of those simple pleasures we can indulge in ANY time of the day. Brew yourself a cuppa and join us for ChaiTime with NBIAA (en-bee-aiy-double-eh) THIS Saturday at 4 pm. Catch Vipul Sheth in conversation with Sukhwinder Lamba and Rumka and SumanMandeep Kaur Singh Nagra on their journey from North India to North Bay and other tid-bits. https://www.facebook.com/NBIAA/posts/10220618597086098

NBIAA - SaReGaMaPa - Battle of the Bay LIVE

Mahesh Raghavan - A very talented and groundbreaking musician will be opening our Battle of the Bay event tonight, August 1st @ 7:30pm. Check out this short pro...mo of his talents with iPad. He create Indian Classical Fusion Music in contemporary ways for modern audiences and his work has been experienced by millions of viewers. See more

Excitement is building up... SaReGaMaPa Battle of the Bay is tomorrow and I want to introduce the *East Bay: Kolkata Kalaakar* team!!! Please take a moment to watch the promotional video of the team!!! See you all tomorrow (August 1st) at 7:30pm PST!

We are thrilled to have a celebrity guest grace our stage opener tomorrow. Mahesh Raghavan is one of India's premier Carnatic Music Fusion artists. His goal is ...to present and create Indian Classical Fusion Music in contemporary ways for modern audiences. He plays new electronic musical instruments and is part of two bands Carnatic 2.0 and the Thayir Sadam Project. His experiments with Carnatic Music on the iPad have millions of views on social media. Enjoy this "Carnatic adaptation" of AR Rahman super hit number Urvashi on an iPad, yes an iPad. This innovative presentation has over 5M views on youtube. It's going to be a thrilling evening. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, August 1st, 2020 @ 7:30pm.