Param Foundation presents 3 – 18 Oct 2026 · Bengaluru
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Sixteen days, sixteen events and fourteen venues later — thank you, Bengaluru, for watching, learning and celebrating the living traditions of Bali with us.
Sharing Stories | Connecting Cultures
Festival calendar
Every performance, workshop and conversation of the sixteen days — tap one to see its photographs.
A festival in numbers
Bali in Bengaluru was Param Foundation’s first international festival. Over sixteen days, master artists from Bali and Karnataka shared stages, studios and classrooms across the city — and Bengaluru filled them.
An Evening of Kecak lit up Orion Mall — a free public performance that opened the festival to the whole city.
Students at Kumarans tried Balinese movement, masks and music in a workshop made just for them.
The full Kecak Performance drew 300 ticket-holders for the chant that made Bali famous.
Balinese dance and Karnataka’s Yakshagana shared one stage — 528 tickets, the festival’s biggest house.
Sixteen days closed with a celebration of everything the two cultures made together.
What we celebrated
Kecak, Legong, shadow puppetry and the gamelan — not as museum pieces, but as they are lived in Bali today.
Yakshagana beside Balinese dance, Indian and Indonesian shadow puppets in one story — two traditions finding their common roots.
Cultural institutions, venues, schools and hundreds of volunteers — workshops where anyone could learn the moves, the masks and the music.
Event by event
At the heart of the festival
Padma Shri awardee & team
A renowned Balinese artist, scholar and choreographer known for connecting Balinese and Indian performing traditions. With over 150 choreographic works and seven books to his name, his work draws deeply from the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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A platform dedicated to encouraging, organizing and elevating the essence of Indian arts and culture by connecting practitioners, and academicians, through research, immersive experiences, engaging storytelling, and innovation for contemporary acceptance.
Made possible together
Cultural institutions, venues, schools and partners across Bengaluru opened their stages and studios to the festival.
Partner with us
This edition was made possible by partners who believed in it. Help Param Foundation bring the next one to Bengaluru.
Param Foundation invites contributions from corporates, individuals, philanthropic organisations and patrons of art. Beyond money, you can partner in kind — hospitality, travel, venue, printing, publicity.
Festival calendar
Sixteen days across Bengaluru, 3 – 18 October 2026. Thank you for being part of it.
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Download the calendar (PDF) One page, printed on paper — dates as confirmed today.
Stay in the loop
The festival may be over, but the conversation isn’t. Sign up for photographs, recordings and first word of what Param Foundation brings to Bengaluru next.
Get involved
The volunteering opportunity for this festival is now closed.
Thank you to everyone who signed up. You can still join us at the shows.
