Welcome to 2024 Festival of India Cultural Events

Greetings from the FOI 2024 Cultural Team:

The Festival of India, our flagship event of Richmond, is getting ready to bring you two fun-filled days of superbly organized, enchanting shows on September 28th and 29th, 2024 at Greater Richmond Convention Center.

We are delighted to prepare to whisk you away with another artistic and spellbound Cultural Program at Festival of India featuring talented artists and diverse creative minds. We invite the dance teachers, choreographers, dance directors, dance teams along with their families to come and show their amazing talents on the stage.

We are known to bring out the best "out of the box" creations to shine on the stage along with amazing props and costume choices. Put on your creative thinking caps and start preparing to present rhythmic dance beats and melodious instrumental performances to the vast audience.

We will have General categories and Competition Categories to showcase your amazing Talents.

In an effort to provide ample opportunity for creativity, we are offering the following competitions in addition to the regular performances. Please make sure to read Rules page for both general and competition entries carefully (please see Competition tab for more details):

  • It is a Jungle Out There!!
  • Oh, the Places We'll Go!
  • Live, Love, Dance
  • Folk dance (Two groups, Group A: Ages 9-13 years, Group B: Ages 14 years and up)
  • Ram Aayenge - Dance Drama

If you are a choreographer or a dance teacher or director and would like to receive our group emails, please send us an email, with a brief description about yourself. This is not for individual team members.

Website will be updated soon with all the detailed rules and regulations. Please pay close attention to these rules and fees before submitting the entry forms.

Important Dates to Remember:

  • All general and competition entries via online entry form by Saturday, 09/14/2024, 11:59 PM
  • Last date to submit (general entry only) with late fees is Friday, 09/20/2024, 11:59 PM

We reserve the right to stop taking entries before the last date

Please do not wait to submit entries till the last minute to avoid running into technical difficulties or get denied performing due to time constraints.

All of us on the Cultural Committee appreciate your hard work and enthusiasm in partnering with us to make this an outstanding year of performances.

With heartfelt gratitude and best wishes to all as we all prepare for the big event.

Bina Chetan Mehta (FOI Cultural Director)
Smita Jain, Murali Chemudupati, Sangeeta Patel, Ravi Tamma, Probodh Chiplunkar
Email:2024foicultural@gmail.com