BLR Hubba
Cultural Festival
BLR Hubba is an annual arts and cultural festival held in Bengaluru, India, anchored by the UnboxingBLR Foundation, a not-for-profit that has been documenting Bengaluru’s journey over the years and helping citizens and people engage better with the city.
The festival presents a range of cultural programming, including music, dance, theater, visual arts, food, walks and heritage-related events, and is conducted across multiple venues in the city. These have included cultural institutions, public parks, and street locations.
The festival’s name, “Hubba” rather than “Habba”, is a deliberate reference to Bengaluru’s identity as a hub for artists, performers, storytellers, and creative communities, alongside its long-standing reputation for technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Conceived as a city-wide cultural initiative, BLR Hubba utilizes both conventional and non-traditional public spaces as performance and exhibition sites. Since its inception in 2023, the festival has expanded in scale and duration.
History
In 2023, the UnboxingBLR Foundation launched BLR Hubba as a platform to showcase Bengaluru's arts and culture and encourage public participation in the city's creative spaces. The festival was developed with an emphasis on decentralizing cultural programming by hosting events across multiple neighborhoods rather than at a single centralized venue.
Over successive editions, BLR Hubba broadened its scope to include additional artistic disciplines and formats, such as curated walks, thematic programs, and sub-festivals. The festival has featured a mix of local practitioners and participants from outside Bengaluru, and, in some cases, from international contexts.
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