Journeying Across The Himalayas is a first-of-its-kind multidisciplinary festival that celebrates stories of and from the Himalayas.
Bringing together travellers and communities through installations, exhibitions, and experiences, the festival spans visual and performing arts like music, dance, theatre, culinary journeys, conversations, and more. Offering immersive ways to engage with the region’s natural, tangible, and intangible heritage, it opens a window into the distinct voices, experiences, art and culture that shape the region.
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The theme for the second edition of the Journeying Across The Himalayas festival, “Ours to Tell” ventures into the Himalayas not only as a landscape, but as a living archive of stories, identities, and traditions that are reclaimed, reinterpreted, and carried forward by those to whom they belong. What unfolds is an invitation to experience the region through first-person narratives: voices of communities, practitioners, and storytellers whose lived realities shape the cultural landscape.
The festival reflects this spirit in all its diversity—whether through music and dance, visual arts and material culture, language and oral traditions, culinary heritage, or conversations on conservation and indigenous knowledge systems. Each encounter offers a perspective that resists singular narratives, instead revealing the layered histories and contemporary expressions of the Himalayas.
Whatever you encounter at the festival—on stage, in exhibition halls, or over shared meals—opens up perspectives that resist a single story, revealing instead the layered histories and contemporary expressions that define the Himalayas today.
Whatever you encounter at the festival—on stage, in exhibition halls, or over shared meals—opens up perspectives that resist a single story, revealing instead the layered histories and contemporary expressions that define the Himalayas today.
These stories are “Ours to Tell”; let’s tell them together.
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