Mumbai April Weekend Arts Festival (13 venues)

Mumbai’s Alti Palti festival is spending every April weekend across 13 venues, turning a month of arts programming into a neighborhood-by-neighborhood crawl. (timeout.com) Time Out Mumbai says the festival runs over four April stops: South Mumbai on April 3-5, Bandra on April 11-12, North Mumbai on April 18-19, and Andheri on April 25-26. Weekend passes are listed at ₹750 and a full festival pass at ₹1,200. (timeout.com) The official programme describes Alti Palti as a 12-day run with 13 venues and 38 shows spanning music, theatre, dance, film, visual art and workshops. The venues stretch from Fort to Kandivali rather than staying inside the usual South Mumbai-Bandra circuit. (altshows.com, altshows.com, altshows.com) That geography is central to the pitch. Time Out says a “typical Mumbai Arts Festival” is concentrated in South Bombay galleries, while Alti Palti moves into North Mumbai and Andheri with exhibitions, dance performances and film screenings. (timeout.com) Mid-day reported that the organizers built the festival around local access, with each weekend anchored in a different part of the city so audiences do not have to cross Mumbai for every event. The same report said most participating artists are from Mumbai, with only a small number coming from Pune and elsewhere. (mid-day.com) The venue list shows how that plays out on the ground. South Mumbai includes Artisans, Fulcrum, The Go-Go House and JOJO Library & Bookstore; Bandra includes Indifferent, Mad-o-Wat and Bonobo; North Mumbai includes RASA, NIRMIK and Yellow Door Studios; Andheri includes Harkat, Kitaabghar and A la Carte. (altshows.com) The curatorial mix is broad by design. The artists page says music is curated with Some Good Gigs Mumbai, visual art by Ayesha Aggarwal of Fulcrum, theatre with the Bhasha Centre, dance by Sugandh Lamba, and film by Karan Suri Talwar of Harkat Studios. (altshows.com) The pass system is simple but not unlimited in practice. The official ticket page says festival and weekend passes cover performances across the run, but seating is first come, first served, and workshops require separate sign-up. (harkat.in, altshows.com) For anyone planning the last stretch of April, the programme page shows the current weekend focused on Andheri venues including Harkat, Kitaabghar and A la Carte. The schedule and passes remain live through the festival’s official pages and Time Out Mumbai’s April guide. (altshows.com, timeout.com)