Kaleidoscope Festival, Sophia College

Sophia College for Women, located on Pedder Road (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) holds an annual inter-collegiate festival called "Kaleidoscope", also referred to as K'scope by students. The first Kaleidoscope Festival was held in 1977 as an intra-college festival with the gates being opened to other colleges in 1985. The festival is celebrating its 31st anniversary in 2016 with the theme 'The Millennials' and is now one of the largest college festivals held in Mumbai with a footfall of over 20,000 people.

Sophia College celebrates its all female student body, and uses Kaleidoscope as a platform to help them show what they are capable of doing in today's world. There are a total of 20 teams with around 200 students in what is known as the 'Workforce' of Kaleidoscope Festival. The teams consist of a variety of students from different courses and ages- First Year, Second Year, Third Year students all working in collaboration to organize K'scope. Some of the teams include Public Relations, Performing Arts, Security, Informals, Pre-K, Fundamentals, Marketing, Photography, Literary Arts,Souvenirs etc. and are managed by a four member body called the Executive Committee or EC. These students (workforce and EC) are responsible for every aspect of the festival, from gathering the funds and advertising to organizing all the events that take place.

Kaleidoscope has been sponsored by many major companies with Idea, Blackberry, Reliance, Forever21.com being a few.

The events of the festival fall into one of the four categories- Performing Arts, Literary Arts, Fine Arts and Informals. This year, the festival will take place on 17th and 18th September, 2016.

Competing Festivals

Though over 230 college festivals are organized in Mumbai, Kaleidoscopes main competitors are Mood Indigo and Malhar.