Incident (festival)
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| Type | Student Run, Non-Profit Organization |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cultural |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Place | Surathkal, Mangalore, India |
| Institute | National Institute of Technology Surathkal |
| Website | www.incident.co.in |
Incident is the annual cultural festival of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) in Surathkal, Karnataka, India. The fest is a five-day-long event during the even semester of the NITK Calendar held in the month of March. The fest was started by the students of the college led by Umar Teekay during the 1980s, and has been continued and amplified every year since. The fest brings together students from different colleges all over India and is composed of several competitive events as well as pro-shows by big artists including Sunithi Chauhan, Salim Suleiman and Javed Ali.
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History
Incident first began in 1980, with a budget of Rs 10,000. The fest was spearheaded by Convener Umar Teekay, who was also invited as the guest of honour at Incident 2012.[1]
Organisation
Incident is a non profit organisation managed entirely by the Students of NITK Surathkal. The Dean(Student Welfare) is the Chairman of the fest. The organising team consists of Incident Core, Committee Co-Coordinators and Executive Members. The core includes the Incident Convener, Joint Convenor, Secretaries and Treasurer who are directly elected by the Students as a part of the Student Council of NITK. The rest of the core team is appointed by the Incident Convener, and the Committee Co-ordinators are appointed around 4 months before the actual event.
Events
Incident hosts a variety of events and workshops.[2][3]
Musical Events
Amateur and semi professional bands are provided an opportunity to showcase their talent in the various competitive musical events. The most popular events are Bandish, the eastern rock competition and Pulse.,[4] the western battle of the bands competition. Other events include solo singing, acoustic and instrumental events in classical eastern and western genres.
Dance
The competitive dance events at Incident include solo dance, duet, street dance, Tandav and Promenade (western group dance).[2]
Beach events
NITK's private beach hosts beach volleyball, beach football and Sandemonium[clarification needed] events. The 2012 edition also included adventure sports like zorbing, rappelling and parasailing.[2]
Slam Dunk
Slam Dunk is the college level basketball competition which hosts over 100 colleges from all over the country in an event that spans all five days of Incident.
Literature
The literature program includes several quizzes as well as word games, spelling bees and short story contests, held in English, Kannada and Hindi. Quiz events include general quiz, India quiz, lone wolf (individual quiz event), potpourri, sports quiz and entertainment quiz. The general quiz is hosted by a guest quiz master every year and has been sponsored by Myra school of business and Nexus consulting. A variety of Kannada and Hindi events [2] are also organized including Antakshari, debates, and Dumb Charades
Workshops
A variety of workshops are held during Incident about various subjects such as juggling, B-boying,[clarification needed] Bhangra, martial arts, theatre, balloon modelling, HDR photography and portraiture in 2012.[2] Previous editions included workshops on kite flying, Salsa, Jive, chocolate making, tai chi, kick boxing, wildlife photography and animation.[citation needed]
The 2012 event included a vintage auto expo[2] for the first time, including more than thirty vintage cars, motorcycles and mopeds.[citation needed] as well as a Marathon run.[2]
Incident also hosts gaming events including DOTA, NFS, FIFA 11 and Counter-Strike.[citation needed]
Proshows
Incident Proshows feature various national and international artists spanning various genres of music including rock, heavy metal, pop, electronic and Sufi music. The festival's Pro-Nite event has featured top Indian artists including Parikrama in 2005,[citation needed] Euphoria in 2006,[5] Raghu Dixit[citation needed] and Indian Ocean[6] in 2007, KK in 2008[citation needed] and again in 2010,[citation needed] Nikhil Chinapa and Kunal Ganjawala in 2009,[citation needed] Motherjane in 2010,[citation needed] Sunidhi Chauhan in 2011,[7] Javed Ali in March 2013,[8] Salim Sulaiman,in March 2014 [9]
Sponsors
Incident 2012 was powered by Namma Metro as title sponsor, and associate sponsors, NICE. Reliance[citation needed] led Incident 2014 as title sponsors. Incident has had several other sponsors including Zappstore.com, Himalaya Herbals, Quest, Syndicate Bank,Flipkart.com, KPCL, Tata Tea, KSFC, T.I.M.E, 98.3 Radio Mirchi, City Center, Channel [V], ONGC MRPL, AIRCEL, Chevrolet, Cocacola and The Ocean Pearl.[citation needed] The Hindu supported Incident as media partner in 2011.[10]
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