2 to 6 December 2026 | Delhi, India
Delhi Arts & Health Festival
Reimagining Delhi as the Capital of Care through arts, health, wellbeing, creativity, and community.
The Delhi Arts & Health Festival (DAHF) is a city-wide initiative exploring the role of arts and creativity in health, wellbeing, care, and social connection.
The festival brings together artists, healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, policymakers, organisations, and the public to imagine healthier futures for individuals, communities, and cities.
- workshops
- performances
- exhibitions
- panels
- talks
- art installations
- research
- community experiences
- conversations
Part of a Growing Global Ecosystem
In Association with
The Delhi Arts & Health Festival is inspired and co-produced by the Global South Arts & Health Initiative (GSAH), established by the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship (GAIMF). DAHF joins a growing ecosystem of arts and health festivals, conferences, healthcare programmes, and community initiatives across India and the world, including the Pune Arts & Health Festival, the Mumbai Arts & Health Festival, and arts and health gatherings, networks, and research collaborations taking place across Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific.
Festival at a Glance
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What is Arts & Health?
Across the world, artists, healthcare professionals and communities are working together to improve health outcomes, strengthen social cohesion, and create more humane systems of care.
The Delhi Arts & Health Festival aims to make this growing field visible, accessible, and relevant within the Indian context.
Why Arts, Health & Community?
Creativity
Creativity helps us make meaning of our experiences, express ourselves, process change, and imagine new possibilities.
Care
Health is shaped by more than medicine. Care lives in our relationships, environments, cultures, and communities.
Community
Connection, belonging, participation, and collective wellbeing are essential to healthier societies.
Why Delhi?
Delhi is a city shaped by memory, migration, diversity, resilience, and reinvention. It is also home to some of India's leading healthcare institutions, universities, cultural organisations, researchers, artists, policymakers, and community initiatives. Few cities are as uniquely positioned to bring together conversations around health, culture, education, public life, and wellbeing. For DAHF, Delhi is not simply the location of the festival. It is both the context and the collaborator.
Cultural Density
Home to artists, performers, museums, cultural centres, festivals, and centuries of living traditions.
Healthcare Infrastructure
A city anchored by major hospitals, public health institutions, medical colleges, and healthcare innovators.
Policy & Systems Influence
Where conversations around health, education, culture, and social development can influence national discourse.
Global Connections
Embassies, international organisations, universities, foundations, and cultural networks make Delhi a uniquely connected city.
Help Shape Delhi's First Arts & Health Festival
Whether you are an artist, researcher, healthcare professional, organisation, volunteer, funder, or simply curious, there is a place for you in this growing movement.
