About Event
Festember is the annual inter-college cultural extravaganza of NIT Trichy, the best of its kind in south India. Misconstrued as a ‘fest in september’ , the actual origin of festember is ‘A fest to remember’. Generally held in the end of September for around 3-4 days each year, this fest witnesses the participation of around 500 colleges and 10,000 participants from all over the country.
The highlight of the fest is probably the pro-nites that showcases bigshots in the field of entertainment and music like Illayaraja,Javed Ali, Salim-Sulaiman, Benny Dayal,etc. who sway the crowds with their instilling performances.
Around 40 events like Gigahertz, Shruthilaya, Tarangini, ChoreoNite, Lits, Arts, FashionShow, Showtime, etc. bring out the real spirit of competition in the college students to win the rolling festember trophy and the huge prize money it has to offer.
This 40-year old culture of NIT Trichy offers innovative workshops to enable the students to learn a variety of skills. Some of the workshops held were archery, dance(hip-hop and party),street magic,etc.. Besides this, fun events like paintball and water zorbing are also held. Major companies like Hero Honda, Adobe, etc. sponsor this fest enabling each edition of festember proving to be better than the previous one after every passing year.
Festember does not forget its social responsibility and the FSR team works throughout the year for the betterment of the society. A few major FSR events include Gold Dustbin, Udaan,Green Endeavour, Gift a Birthday etc..
The students of NIT Trichy work in various teams contributing to festember in their own little way. Each year, the ambience in the college is set to a particular theme and a theme-related event is generally held to bring out the mood of the hour. Some of the themes include Halloween, Retro, Las Vegas etc.. A promising fest it is, much awaited by students of and outside NIT Trichy, Festember truly proves to be “A fest to remember”.
Events
English lits:
Lone wolf quiz
SplintEnt quiz
Buzzer quiz
India quiz
AV quiz
JAM
Dabate
Dumb C
Pot Pourrie
Whats the good word
Crossword
Scrabble
PuzzleChamp
Hindi lits:
Hindi bollywood quiz
Hindi grammar quiz
Creative writing
Debate
Extempore speech
India quiz
Dumb C
Rochak Mantrana
Bluff master
Cinematics:
Short film making
Dance:
Western freestyle solo
Choreonite:
Western
Eastern
Drama:
Theatrix
Shruthilaya:
Carnatic vocal solo
Carnatic instrumental non percussion
Carnatic instrumental precussion
Carnatic music quiz
Tarangini:
Eastern music competition
GIG-A-Hertz:
Semi pro western music competition
Tamil lits:
Street play(Koothambalam)
Tamil quiz
Poem writing(Kavithidal)
Word play(Varthai vilayattu)
Dumb charades(Kaatrodu Kadhai Pesa va)
Pot pourrie(Sakalakala vallavan)
Cinema quiz(Kodambakkam)
Stand up comedy(Kalakal kalatta)
Debate(kuraloviyam)
Kolam
Online labyrinth
Event Guests
Sobhita Dhulipala, Former Miss India
Padmasri Ananda Shankar Jayant, renowned Bharatnatyam dancer and creative director of Shankarananda Kalakshetra
Padmabhushan Jatin Das, who has been infusing life into pictures and sculptures for more than fifty years now
Pro Nites
Avial-Rock band,
Sunburn DJ Candice Redding
Vishal-Shekhar
Karthick Iyer
Event Caption
A Fest to Remember
Departments:
Other
Event Sponsors in Tiruchirappalli
KDD Harvest,
Bru
KitKat,
Bevy.is,
Mak Lubricants [BPCL],
MTV,
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