Exploring interdisciplinary engagement across creative arts, music, dance/movement, theatre, storytelling, visual arts, and more, the festival creates non-clinical pathways for expression, grounding, connection, and healing.
While conversations about mental health and wellbeing are increasing across Bengaluru, they often remain limited to clinics, institutions, and formal environments. BAHF shifts this paradigm by bringing arts-based, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded wellbeing experiences into the everyday spaces where people live, work, wait, and navigate stress.
From police stations and hospitals to petrol pumps, ration shops, post offices, markets, schools, and community centres, the festival transforms Bengaluru into a living creative health lab. By meeting people in the rhythms of their daily lives, BAHF makes wellbeing visible, accessible, and deeply human.
Exploring interdisciplinary engagement across creative arts, music, dance/movement, theatre, storytelling, visual arts, and more, the festival creates non-clinical pathways for expression, grounding, connection, and healing.
Through collaborations with cross-sector institutions, mental health practitioners, artists, public health professionals, educators, cultural workers, community groups and more, BAHF expands access to creative wellbeing and cultivates moments of joy, reflection, belonging, and restoration across the city. The festival is rooted in the belief that wellbeing should not be a privilege, but something people can encounter where they already are.
