600 artists from North-East to participate in Surat Octave 2009

Around 600 artists from eight states of North-Eastern India will participate in five-day event – Octave 2009 in Surat during November 7 to 11th.

A series of events under Octave 2009 will be held in Surat at Indoor stadium and Gandhi Smrutibhuvan.

‘Octave’ has been conceptulized to connect eight north-east states to the rest of India. The states are: Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagalend, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur and Sikkim. In 2006, Delhi hosted the first Octave followed by Hyderabad in 2007 and Thiruvananthpuram, Goa, Mumbai, Patna in 2008.

Octave-2009 includes rock band performance, costume show, musical instruments exhibition, theatre sows, painting show, writers talk, seminar, traditional dresses show, chorus songs, vegetarian food stalls and lots of other activities.