mangalore st aloysius college is all set to host national level aloysian fest 2013 for threedays from january 31 it encompasses fests of diverse streams such as art beat acme imprints spin out astitva and the newly introduced aloyisiad while the first five fests are academic in nature aloyisiad a sports fest will see mens and womens teams take part in events such as throwball basketball and football at the college ground here rev fr swebert dsilva principal told reporters here on tuesday that hitherto the various faculties used to organise their fests separately however in a change college management has decided to organise all these fests under the title aloysian fest he said while around 15 colleges including eight from bangalore have confirmed their participation for the five academic fests 27 colleges have done so for the aloyisiad fr swebert noted events in art beat include toon ads fin min youth parliament and a photography event while imprints will encompass tech guru yodha model making biocatalyser and so on entry of around 60 models has been confirmed so far spin out has events such as sin city chase loud mouth gambling commission to name a few acme will renew trends this year with events likely to surprise participants and elevate the challenge level he noted astitva cultural fest is common to all streams and will be held on february 2 it has events such as jam variety entertainment painting and turn coat while p jayaram bhat ceo and managing director of karnataka bank will be the chief guest at the inaugural function n balakrishnan deputy general manager central bank of india will be the chief guest for the valedictory rev fr joseph ignatius rodrigues will preside over both these functions