Ahmedabad Cultural Week 2025

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The city of Ahmedabad is known to have a rich history, cultural heritage with iconic landmarks like Adalaj Stepwell, Jama Masjid, the Calico Museum of Textiles as well as preserving an exquisite archive of handicrafts and culinary traditions. It has also a lineage of patronage with important families that form the cultural foundation and has witnessed tracks of brilliant minds such as B.V Doshi, Buckminster Fuller and Le Corbusier.

Over the last couple years, there has been an increased number in Contemporary Art spaces that are dynamic with their programming and outreach. Hence, recognising the growing potential to execute a larger, more comprehensive occurrence that may activate all spaces, simultaneously leading to the initiation of Ahmedabad Cultural Week Edition 1 (ACW Ed.1).

ACW Ed.1 aims to invite an audience of diverse calibres targeting cultural hosts, enthusiasts, critics and patrons.

ACW are honoured to have local leading cultural organisations as part of
ACW Ed.1, including :
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- Archer Art Gallery
- Arthshila
- Basera
- Conflictorium
- Darpana Academy of Performing Arts
- Hutheesing Visual Arts Centre
- Iram Art
- Kanoria Centre for Arts
- Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum
- Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum
- Mehnat Manzil
- Samara Art Gallery
- Shreyas Foundation
- Vastu Shilpa Foundation

ACW Ed.1 is purely designed for the city of Ahmedabad and its people. It is for the people of Ahmedabad to look forward to interacting with and learning about Contemporary Art and artistic practices. The idea is to activate cultural spaces in sync, so the city and its people have a diverse palette to look forward to every year, ensuring that there is ‘contemporary’ conversation, pedagogy and interaction within and around the sphere of the arts.