BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//KnowAFest//Campus Events//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:eventsphere-66580@www.knowafest.com DTSTAMP:20261008T133855Z DTSTART:20260923T183000Z DTEND:20260927T182959Z SUMMARY:Festember 2026 LOCATION:NIT Tiruchirappalli\, Tiruchirappalli DESCRIPTION:

Festember is the annual flagship inter-college cultural fest ival of NIT Trichy\, running for three days every September and now in its 52nd year. It started in 1975 with nothing but a bunch of students willin g to build something from scratch\, and has since grown into one of India' s largest college fests\, pulling in close to 18\,000 participants from 50 0+ colleges across the country.
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\nThe fest runs across nine c lusters — Music\, Dance\, Fashion\, Arts\, Gaming\, Dramatics\, Literary Arts and Photography — competing for a prize pool of over ₹16 lakh\, along with the Festember Rolling Trophy (originally named the Ilayaraja Tr ophy\, after Ilaiyaraaja performed at the very first edition in 1978). Bey ond competitions\, there's a guest lecture circuit — Carpe Diem\, Vox Po puli\, Talks by The Firelight\, and Ad Meliora — that's hosted names lik e Dhruv Vikram\, Adah Sharma\, Sid Sriram\, Jonty Rhodes and Viswanathan A nand.
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\nThe nights belong to the proshows at the Golden Jubil ee Convention Hall (capacity 5\,000+)\, which have seen performers like Il aiyaraaja\, Sunidhi Chauhan\, Benny Dayal\, Amit Trivedi\, Jonita Gandhi a nd Karthik take the stage over the years. It's part competition\, part car nival\, part concert — three days that NIT Trichy builds all year for an d empties out completely once they're over.

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