Citywide Weekend Arts and Culture Festival

Mumbai’s Alti Palti festival is spreading art shows, dance, theatre and film across 13 venues over four April weekends in Mumbai. (altshows.com) The festival runs from April 3 to April 26, 2026, and Alt Shows lists 38 shows across Fort, Bandra, North Mumbai and Andheri. (altshows.com) The venue map breaks the month into neighborhood clusters: South Mumbai hosted April 3-5, Bandra April 11-12, North Mumbai April 18-19, and Andheri closes the run on April 25-26. (altshows.com) That format turns the festival into a rolling circuit instead of a single-site event, with four South Mumbai spaces, three Bandra venues, three North Mumbai venues and three Andheri venues. (altshows.com) Alt Shows says the lineup spans music, theatre, dance, film, visual art and workshops, with curators assigned by discipline rather than one central programmer. (altshows.com) The festival’s own pitch is that it is “entirely grassroots,” with no corporate sponsors or institutional backing, and that ticket revenue covers core costs. (altshows.com) Passes are sold two ways: a ₹750 weekend pass for one Friday-to-Sunday cluster and a ₹1,200 festival pass for all 12 days. Workshops require separate sign-up. (altshows.com) Time Out Mumbai included Alti Palti in its April listings and described it as a citywide arts festival running every weekend this month, alongside larger commercial concerts and gallery events. (timeout.com) For this weekend, the official programme lists events on Friday, April 24, Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26, with Andheri venues including Harkat, Kitaabghar and A la Carte hosting the closing stretch. (altshows.com) The month ends where the festival began: with audiences moving neighborhood to neighborhood, using one pass to build a weekend out of smaller rooms and mixed-format shows. (altshows.com)