Day 1:

📅 Origins & Light

Theme: Heritage, Blessings & Community
Date: 1st August 2025, Friday

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Cultural Procession
  • Gayan Bayan
  • Bodo Dance
  • Dimasa Performance
  • Karbi Dance
  • Tiwa Ritual Dance
  • Jhumur Folk Performance
  • Bihu Dance
  • Frog-Themed Props Parade
  • Choreographed Umbrella Dance

    🧉 Refreshments will be provided post-procession. Performers will then line the road to welcome the Guest of Honour.

10:00 AM | Gate Opening Ceremony
  • Lighting of the Lamp by Chief Guest Mr. Rupak Sharma, MLA, Nagaon
  • Gayan Bayan Ensemble
  • Invocation Ceremony

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Inaugural Stage Session
  • Borgeet Performance (6 mins)
  • Introduction to Project eXit by MC (5 mins)
  • Welcome Address by Utpal Nath and/or Barnali Hazarika (5–10 mins)
  • Festival Anthem Chorus (5 mins)
  • Festival Montage (5 mins)
  • Dais Formation & Felicitation Ceremony
  • Book Launch: “The eXit” by Utpal Nath
  • eXit App Launch
  • Speeches by Guests
  • Vote of Thanks

Festival Essentials
  • Gate Decor: Sarai, Tamul Thuk, Ghot, Aam Paat, Kol Puli, Flowers
  • Felicitation Items: Gamucha, Heirloom Seed Packets
  • Refreshments: Assamese Pitha Laru, Water Bottles, Tea

Event Flow:

Day 2:

📅 Rhythm & Roots

Theme: Soil, Songs & Belonging
Date: 2nd August 2025, Saturday

8:00 AM | Morning Rituals: Stories from the Soil
  • Story circles with elders, artisans, farmers

  • Tales of monsoon birth, flood survival, ancient loomsongs

  • Rituals of Rain, Pothar Puja, frog wedding folklore

9:30 AM onwards | Craft Demo & Eco Bazaar

  • Sualkuchi weaving, Riverbank pottery, Bamboo flute repair

  • Frog puppet making, rain drum workshops, leaf boat crafting

11:30 AM onwards | Folk Dance Parade

  • Mishing Gumrag

  • Karbi Chomkan

  • Tiwa Lalang

  • Bodo Bagarumba

  • Spiral Community Rain Dance

1:00 PM | Youth Anthem Hour

  • Collaborative medley & crowd-sourced lyrics

  • Multilingual chants in Assamese, Hindi, English

Afternoon | Mud Games Arena

  • Frog Hop Dash

  • Gamusa Mud Toss

  • Rain Graffiti & Bamboo Beats

  • Selfie Splash Zone

2:00 PM onwards | Xikhya Xorai: Theatre-on-Mud

  • Skits: Boroxunor Bondhu, Displacement Diary, The Soil Speaks

  • Live folk music with dotara, khol, rainsticks

4:00 PM | Monsoon Thali & StoryFeast

  • Assamese delicacies: Poita Bhat, smoked fish, banana-leaf parcels

  • Elder storytellers & food preservation demos

5:30 PM onwards | Monsoon Gaon Games

  • Buffalo Dung Frisbee

  • Banana-Stem Boat Race

  • Koloh Pot Balance

  • Monsoon Tug-of-War

6:30 PM onwards | Xobdor Kolong Music Mash-up

  • Rain Drum Circle with children

  • Neo Bihu x EDM sets

  • Baul meets Beatbox

  • Tribal Percussion Parade

8:00 PM | Dance of the Earth

  • Ecstatic rain-inspired movements

  • Guided folk-body rhythm rituals

9:00 PM | Fire & Rain Ritual

  • Soil offering, sacred chants, floating lanterns, sapling planting

9:45 PM | Roots Rock Night

  • Folk-electronica live showcase

  • Visual rain symphony & motion-triggered rain corridors

11:30 PM | Baul Fire Circle Farewell

  • Acoustic Baul storytelling

  • Seed ball planting by participants

Day 3:

📅 Dreams & Drizzle

Theme: Future, Youth & Transformation
Date: 3rd August 2025, Sunday

7:30 AM | Morning Mist Meditations: Breath of the Banyan
  • Barefoot breathwalk

  • Mudra flows & silence circles

  • Intention leaves on the Wishing Tree

9:00 AM | Future Forum: Youth Innovation Pitch

  • Solar Seed Backpacks

  • AI Weather Radio in Assamese

  • Floating Libraries

  • Winners receive micro-grants and mentorship

11:00 AM – 1:50 PM | Monsoon Medleys @ Gaax Ghor

  • Acoustic Poetry (Xondhiya Boroxa)

  • Hip-Hop Rain Cypher

  • Folk-Classical Fusion (Boroxa Baahon)

  • MudBeats & Rain Graffiti

  • Youth Anthem: "Aji Etiya" (1:50 PM)

11:00 AM – 2:30 PM | Chill & Chat Tents

  • Acoustic Jam Corner

  • Tea & Pakora Havens

  • Monsoon Vinyl Lounge

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Ohor Xaj – The Migrants’ Kitchen

  • Culinary storytelling by displaced families

  • Menus include Assamese fish curry, Kolkata Ghoogni, Mumbai Bhel with bamboo shoots

  • Rain Radio booths & chalkboard “Migration Wall”

5:30 PM | The Goodbye Rain Ceremony

  • Folk couplets by grandmothers

  • Youth poetry: “Letters to the Rain”

  • Floating seed-paper poems

6:45 PM | Boroxunor Swapna – Projection Spectacle

  • Digital Rain Goddess

  • Stories of Displacement by youth and elders

  • Harmonic cross-lingual chorus

7:30 PM | Closing Concert: Rain of Hope

  • Ensemble performance with flutes, jazz, EDM, Tiwa vocals

  • Song for the Rivers – Tiwa & electronic fusion

9:00 PM | Spark Farewell Ceremony

  • River of Gratitude: 100 diyas

  • Seed Bomb Exchange

  • Final Poem: "Nisina Boroxunor Logot Moi Jow"

10:00 PM onwards | RainCoat Dance – Youth Afterparty

  • Mist-sprinkled rave under the stars

  • DJ sets with trance, tribal, and lo-fi fusion

  • Eco-glow wristbands & mirror raindrop finale (11:30 PM whisper chant)