23rd October 2026 - 17th January 2027

Introducing Sui Dhaga 2026, curated by Manjari Nirula, Oroon Das, Sujata Prasad, and Kamayani Jalan, whose long standing engagement with material culture and artistic traditions anchors the vision of this platform.

Sui Dhaga 2026 brings together embroidery traditions from across the Asia-Pacific region. At its heart is a museum-scale exhibition, The Continuing Threadline, accompanied by a wider public programme of conversations, performances, residencies, and a curated bazaar, collectively celebrating and reframing embroidery as both a vital inheritance of women's artistic labour and a living source of design innovation.

October sees the opening of this collaborative showcase by Ahad Anhad, Asia Pacific Crafts Alliance, Crafts Council of India and Delhi Crafts Council.

The keynote exhibition aims to build empathy and a deeper human context for the diversity of masterful embroideries on display, to enable appreciation of innovative responses coded within traditions of craftsmanship, to connect the practice of embroidery to the history of our world, and to invoke our shared sense of value to uphold, to protect and to hand down.

Sui Dhaga begins on the 23rd October in New Delhi, and ‘The Continuing Threadline’ exhibition opens on the 25th October at Arthshila Delhi. Public viewing is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am – 7pm.

Related Links:

• Arthshila Delhi website

• Arthshila Delhi Instagram

• Crafts Council of India events

• Crafts Council of India Instagram

• Ahad Anhad Instagram

Opens 25th October 2026 to 17th January 2027

In collaboration with Ahad Anhad, Asia Pacific Crafts Alliance, Crafts Council of India, and Delhi Crafts Council, Arthshila presents The Continuing Threadline, the keynote exhibition of Sui Dhaga. Curated by Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das, the exhibition celebrates embroidery as a living inheritance and a document of cultural history, the exhibition invites audiences to explore extraordinary craftsmanship, time-honoured making rituals, and diverse design sensibilities, tracing the threads of continuity and innovation across civilisations, regions, communities, and individual identities.

The opening programme will feature an exhibition walkthrough by textile and crafts scholar Sitthichai Samanchat, alongside Navtej Johar’s somatic response to Arpana Caur’s Yogi and The Water Weaver. The programme will also include Feminine Fables: Stories and Songs from the Asia Pacific, bringing together diverse perspectives, embodied practices, and traditions around embroidery.

Related Links:

• The Continuing Threadline exhibition page

• Arthshila Delhi website

• Arthshila Delhi Instagram

13th - 20th December 2026

Serendipity Arts Festival returns to Panjim for its 11th edition. Eight days of visual arts, craft, music, dance, theatre, culinary arts, film, and ideas, unfolding across the city’s most iconic spaces.

The Festival has always been about what happens when artists, audiences, and a city come together with openness. That has not changed. If anything, it keeps getting better. Join us and see all the places art can take you.

The stages are set. The city is ready. See you in Goa.

General attendance registrations open through their website, and you can find the latest updates on their Instagram and Facebook pages.

Related Links:

• Website

• Instagram

• Facebook

12th to 13th January 2027

Bihar stands at a pivotal moment in its development journey, characterised by a young population, rising aspirations and strong linkages with labour markets across India and beyond. As India advances towards the vision of a developed nation by 2047, Bihar’s progress will significantly shape the country’s future.

The Global Convention on Transforming Bihar 2027 seeks to bring together scholars and experts, policymakers, industry leaders, civil society members, development practitioners, and members of the Bihar diaspora from India and abroad to deliberate on pathways for transforming Bihar into a prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable economy.

The Convention is being organised by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) and Bihar Foundation (Department of Industries, Government of Bihar) in collaboration with Nalanda University.

Pre-Convention:

Prior to the Global Bihar Development Convention 2027, a two-day International Conference on “Bihar’s Development: Evidences, Perspectives, and Emerging Development Pathways” will be organised on 10–11 January 2027. The Conference will provide a platform to present research papers and deliberate on issues addressing Bihar’s key development challenges.

Find out about the both the Pre-Convention and the main conference on their website. You can also download an information here.

Registration:

Participation in both events is by invitation and registration only. Secure your place early to join the conversation on Bihar’s development.

The deadline for registration for participants requiring accommodation is 30 November 2026. Other participants are requested to register by 15 December, 2026.

5th November to 23rd December, 2027

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Theme: At Play

The Indian Ceramics Triennale was established in 2016 to address a critical gap: despite India’s deep ceramic and craft histories, contemporary clay practices historically lacked sustained national visibility and international dialogue. The nomadic format relocates each edition to a new city and venue, allowing local context and community to shape the platform anew each time.

The Indian Ceramics Triennale supports ceramics as a contemporary artistic language — one that moves fluidly across art, craft, design, architecture, ecology, and technology. Through exhibitions, research initiatives, public programming, and education, the Triennale nurtures a growing and diverse ecosystem of artists working with clay across India and beyond.

In this third edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, the exhibition is seen as an incubator of possibilities. Artists are invited to hold this undefined and unknown moment filled with potential, to dare to play through inventiveness, provocation, humour, satire, meaning, absurdity, performance and color. To use play as an institution of and for disruption, dreaming into existence the unexpected and unacknowledged. To question, through play, the forces at play.

Read more on their website and apply to their open call for artists here.

You can also follow ICT on Instagram.