Delhi Arts & Health Festival
Five Days. Multiple Perspectives.
One Shared Conversation.
The Delhi Arts & Health Festival unfolds through workshops, performances, exhibitions, conversations, installations, research exchanges, and community experiences across the city.
Festival Experience Pathways
○ Reflect
Listening, Thinking, Exchanging
Panels & Talks
Conversations
Roundtables
Research Exchanges
Symposia
Open Q&A
“What can I learn here that I cannot learn anywhere else?”
◎ Immerse
Making, Moving, Experiencing
Workshops
Movement Practices
Creative Exploration
Participatory Art
Labs & Studios
Making & Craft
“What happens when I stop watching and start doing?”
◈ Discover
Seeing, Exploring, Encountering
Exhibitions
Public Art
Interactive Spaces
Installations
What will you find when you look more carefully?
◉ Energise
Performing, Celebrating, Gathering
Performances
Music
Dance
THEATRE
CELEBRATIONS
COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES
When did you last feel genuinely moved?
◎ Refresh
Resting, Restoring, Connecting
Wellbeing Spaces
Resource Hubs
Community GATHERING Areas
MARKET PLACES
What does connecting feel like with self and others?
Thematic Areas
Festival Thematic Areas
The festival is organised around eleven thematic areas, each exploring a distinct dimension of arts, health and community life. These themes cut across all five pathways — you may encounter any of them in a workshop, a performance, a conversation or a public installation.
01
MENTAL HEALTH & EMOTIONAL WELLBEING
Exploring resilience, healing, emotional literacy, and wellbeing.
02
CREATIVITY & SELF-EXPRESSION
Art as a tool for reflection, identity, expression and growth.
03
COMMUNITY & COLLECTIVE CARE
Building belonging, connection, and mutual support.
04
ARTS IN HEALTHCARE
Creative practice within healthcare and care settings.
05
PUBLIC HEALTH & SOCIAL CHANGE
Arts-based approaches to advocacy, awareness and systems change.
06
GENDER, SEXUALITY & QUEER WELLBEING
Exploring identity, inclusion, visibility, and care.
07
DISABILITY, ACCESS & INCLUSION
Creative approaches to accessibility and participation.
08
ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE
Traditional practices, cultural memory, and living knowledge systems.
09
NATURE, ECOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY
Relationships between wellbeing, environment, and ecological care.
10
PLAY, JOY & CELEBRATION
Creativity as pleasure, connection and collective celebration.
11
RESEARCH, EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Learning, evidence, training, and professional development.
Programme Calendar
What’s Coming
AUGUST 2026
First programme announcements
SEPTEMBER 2026
Workshops, speakers, and performances revealed
OCT — NOV 2026
Full Festival Schedule Released
DECEMBER 2026
Festival takes place across Delhi
The programme is being shaped now. Join us.
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