Five Days. Five Themes.
Many Conversations
The Delhi Arts and Health Festival unfolds across the city through workshops, performances, exhibitions, conversations, and shared experiences. You can follow a single thread through the week or wander between them.
Festival Pathways
Reflect
Panels, talks, conversations, roundtables, and research exchanges.
Immerse
Workshops, movement practices, expressive arts, creative exploration, participatory experiences, and skill-building sessions.
Discover
Exhibitions, installations, public art, storytelling projects, and interactive spaces.
Energise
Performances, music, theatre, dance, community celebrations, and collective experiences.
Refresh
Community spaces, wellbeing zones, resource hubs, marketplaces, and opportunities to pause, connect, and recharge.
Shape of the week
Day 1
(Identity)
We begin with the self. Who are we, underneath the roles we carry and the pace we keep?
Day 2
(Expression)
What happens when we give that inner world a voice, through art, movement, and story?
Day 3
(Longing)
The things we hope for, the things we grieve, and everything we are still reaching toward.
Day 4
(The Journey Together)
Care is not a solo act. This is the day we turn toward community.
Day 5
(Joy)
We end in celebration, because joy is not the opposite of care. It is part of it.
Festival Thematic Areas
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
- Resilience, healing, and learning to name how we actually feel.
- Creativity and Self-Expression
- Art as a way to reflect, understand ourselves, and grow.
- Community and Collective Care
- Belonging, connection, and looking after one another.
- Arts in Healthcare
- Creative practice inside hospitals, clinics, and care settings.
- Public Health and Social Change
- Using the arts to raise awareness and shift systems.
- Gender, Sexuality and Queer Wellbeing
- Identity, visibility, inclusion, and care.
- Disability, Access and Inclusion
- Designing participation so that more people can take part.
- Arts, Culture and Heritage
- Traditional practice, cultural memory, and living knowledge.
- Nature, Ecology and Sustainability
- The link between our wellbeing and the world around us.
- Play, Joy and Celebration
- Creativity as pleasure and shared delight.
- Research, Education and Professional Practice
- Learning, evidence, and training for the field.
Full Programme Schedule
Coming Soon!