Married women returning to their parental home receive clothes and other gifts from their parents and other male kins.
Virinder Grewal took the initiative of celebrating Teeyan in Australia after witnessing Teeyan celebrations in Canada (Vancouver in 2004). She teamed with three other resourceful ladies to organise Teeyan event to keep this Indian tradition alive in Australia. It was through the efforts and hard work of the team that Teeyan was successfully celebrated in Australia for the first time in August 2005. More than 700 women and children attended Teeyan 2005 and the size of attendees increased up to 1200 during Teeyan 2006.
Every year ladies from Indian, Pakistani and Fiji background look forward to attending Teeyan Festival. Preparations start way ahead to take part in competitions like Giddha (famous dance of Punjab also known as sister of Bhangra), Charkha (spinning wheel), Mendhi (Henna Art), Sidhni (satire), Bholiyan (ode) and Miss Teeyan.
Dressed in their best and decked by traditional ornaments, women gather on this day and look a medley of color and beauty. They are in festive mood to enjoy the events of the day specially organised for them.
About Us
TEEYAN SOCIETY
With the pressing demand from number of Indian Community members to take Teeyan to another level, Teeyan Society members took the initiative to establish a Teeyan Society. Thus the Teeyan Society came into extistence with the objectives of developing partnerships to promote and seek better understanding of Indian Culture, Indian Cultural Activities, Indian Cultural Beliefs to all Australian Communities; and organising various activities to promote Indian Culture and Indian Women’s health and wellbeing. Membership of the Association is open to all who share this goal. Teeyan Society is a non profit, non political and non communal women’s organisation.
Dedicated bunch of people who make Teeyan Society succesful
Amardeep Kaur Grewal Teeyan Society Patron who has wealth of experience in dance, drama productions; and event management and organising cultural shows. Holds masters degrees in Public Health & Community Medicine (UNSW); and Economics.
Virinder Kaur Grewal Patron of Teeyan Society and a highly successful Businesswoman who owns and manages two fashion boutiques in Sydney.
Kamal Preet Kaur A Beauty therapist, young and enthusiatic dedicated worker. She has strong community sense and values and keen to focus on cultural and heritage promotion. She brings in great wealth of knowledge and skills of punjabi heritage and culture especially gidha, Bhangra and Lok Geet.
Ritu Chaudhary A successful Business woman who runs and
manages her travel agency. Has been actively involved in Organising Teeyan since last 2 years.
Dr Nighat Nasim A Doctor by profession, a prominent urdu
writer who has published many books in urdu
literature. She is a dedicated community worker
who also runs a weekly radio show for urdu,
punjabi and hindi speaking community.
Sukhwinder Dhanoa A very enthusiastic community worker has
punjabi literature and heritage. Has been actively involved in Organising Teeyan since last 2 years.
Paramjit Kaur Khera Has great input in making Teeyan 2007 & 2008 successful. She is a Librarian by profession.
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