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Bengaluru Art Weekend returns for its second edition from 28 March to 6 April, celebrating the city’s deeply embedded creative spirit. With the theme 'Second Nature', the festival spans workshops, performances, and conversations across venues like Sabha, BLR, and the Museum of Art and Photography. From fireside chats with industry voices to live music performances, the event highlights how art in Bengaluru exists Bengaluru art sceneas part of everyday life, inviting residents to pause and rediscover the city’s cultural rhythms.
Bengaluru is the Silicon Valley of India — a place where tech bros gather to come up with the next Swiggy or the next PhonePe. The city has long been synonymous with innovation in the IT sector. But innovation and creativity have always gone hand in hand, and Namma Ooru is no exception.
You just have to look a little closer to find the art. People coming together to paint and read on a Sunday morning in Cubbon park. A guitarist strumming his guitar along Church Street as the sky gets darker moving from day to night. The intricate work of the garland makers in Malleshwaram as they thread one flower after another. Or the annas with rapt attention and technique ladling in the dosa batter onto the hot griddle, the continuous movement almost looking like a choreographed dance, Bengaluru has art bursting out of it that has never felt forced.
Bengaluru Art Weekend is back for its second edition, from 28 March to 6 April, in the same vein. With this year’s theme, ‘Second Nature’, the festival reinforces that art in Bengaluru is simply lived. Spread across the city with workshops, panel discussion, performances and immersive experiences, through these nine days Bengaluru Art Weekend plans to take you to the very pulse of the city.
Even though the festival has events occurring in small pockets around Bengaluru, it is centred at Sabha, BLR. A restored 160-year old school, the space has been an art and cultural hub in the city for decades, bringing together the traditional and contemporary stories that flourish in the city. The other venues for the festival are an eclectic bunch: from a walkthrough inside Danny Mehra’s home, housing a collection of 1500 carpets to a mixology workshop at Bar Cameo in the Museum of Art and Photography, the additional venues bring out the second nature of art and its expressions found throughout the city.
The festival is also hosting a series of fireside chats at Sabha with experts across fields like film, design and other artistic disciplines. With Anurag Kashyap and Suman Kumar discussing storytelling and the importance of writing, and Sanjay Garg, the founder of Raw Mango and Sridhar Poddar, the founder of Kaash Space and Evoke London speaking about handloom traditions and cultural continuity in the design industry, the weekend has something in store for everyone.
Beyond conversations, Bengaluru Art Weekend will also feature homegrown musicians like Parimal Shais, Karun x Nanku, and Roy Bangla, performing at Kazé, Bengaluru, on 3 April.
The Bengaluru Art Weekend gives Bengaluru and its people a chance to pause for a moment, to find and notice the routines and practices that have been prevalent in the city since time immemorial. The festival itself moves between the intimate and the expansive, between lived practices and curated experiences, blurring the line between the two.
Bangaloreans are notorious for their loyalty to this city, in spite of its unending metro work and the temporary flooding that arrives every monsoon. But this weekend offers an opportunity to look around and truly marvel at what the city has given us — and its potential to grow.
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