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London Peace Festival 2026
From Tolerance to Hope: A Journey of Acceptance, Resilience, & Peace
The Centre for Peace & Performing Arts, CPPA, presents an evening dedicated to celebrating arts, humanity, and the shared longing for a more compassionate world.
London Peace Festival is a first-of-its-kind arts-led festival that brings together artists, cultural practitioners, the diplomatic community, and the wider public to engage with and explore arts for a cause.
Featuring specially curated choreographies that seamlessly blend Eastern and Western traditions, the festival reimagines a shared cultural language for peace.
Featured Artists: The legendary flute maestro and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, a Padma Vibhushan awardee, whose music transcends geographies and generations.
An acclaimed production by the Centre for Peace and Performing Arts (CPPA), the festival brings together distinguished artists from across the globe. The result is a breathtaking confluence of artistic excellence where diverse traditions don’t just coexist, but come alive in a powerful, unified expression of global culture.
With thoughtfully crafted performances, the festival brings together the grace of Eastern traditions and the dynamism of Western forms, creating a shared cultural language that speaks of harmony, dialogue, and peace across borders.
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Samagam 2026
From Tolerance to Hope: A Journey of Acceptance, Resilience & Peace
The Centre for Peace and Performing Arts (CPPA) presented Samagam 2026, its flagship annual online convening bringing together artists, practitioners, and changemakers from across the world.
Centered on the theme “From Tolerance to Hope,” the event explored the journey from coexistence to acceptance, highlighting how resilience and creativity can shape more peaceful and inclusive societies. Through engaging discussions and artistic perspectives, participants reflected on the role of the arts in fostering dialogue, connection, and collective understanding.
The session featured distinguished speakers, including Dr Bautista Logioco, and created a dynamic space for exchange, collaboration, and reflection.
Samagam 2026 stood as a meaningful step in advancing CPPA’s vision of using the arts as a catalyst for peace.
Delhi Peace Festival 2026
The Delhi Peace Festival 2026 emerged as a powerful artistic and cultural confluence centered on the theme of “Acceptance”—a call to move beyond mere tolerance towards a deeper embrace of plurality, compassion, and shared humanity. In a world often marked by division, the festival sought to create a space where differences were not simply endured, but celebrated as essential to collective peace.
Held at the iconic Stein Auditorium, the festival brought together some of the most distinguished voices in the arts, using performance as a medium to foster reflection, dialogue, and connection.
The evening featured the celebrated danseuse Rama Vaidyanathan presenting Swaroopa—a deeply introspective work that explored the essence of self through movement, philosophy, and spiritual inquiry. Acclaimed Odissi exponent Sujata Mohapatra also graced the stage with a tailored choreography Shabari, offering a performance rooted in meditative expression and the timeless pursuit of inner and collective peace.
The CPPA production, Peace Anthem, composed by Aastha Mohapatra, acclaimed Opera Artist, was a unique collaboration that brought together artists and influences from the East and the West. Blending different styles of music and performance, it created a simple yet powerful message of unity and peace, showing how the arts can connect people across cultures.
Through these artistic expressions, the festival invited audiences to engage with acceptance not as a passive ideal, but as an active, transformative practice—one that nurtured empathy, bridged divides, and reimagined coexistence. The Delhi Peace Festival stood as a testament to the enduring power of the arts in shaping more inclusive, compassionate, and peaceful societies.
Rome's Artists for Peace Networking Event
Artists and art enthusiasts from across Rome gathered together at Arciliuto Jazz Club and Restaurant for an evening of networking and artistic expression. Interpretations of peace through art and personally curated experiences were shared with an international community. 20€ passes included an aperitivo formula, access to featured performances, a photography installation viewing, and a live painter.
Trialogue 2025: The Interplay of Shringara and Shanta in Indian Performing Arts
How do performing arts convey the idea of peace? This online symposium invites scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore the notion of peace as it emerges through the aesthetic languages of performance. We will delve into this theme by examining the dynamic relationship—be it one of tension or harmony—between the rasa Shringara (love, beauty, desire) and Shanta (peace, serenity) within the framework of Indian performing traditions.
Samagam 2025
Samagam serves as the foundation for CPPA’s year-round engagement, featuring in-person events, workshops, advocacy efforts, and collaborations.
This year's theme, ‘Art and Interconnectedness’, explores art’s potential to bridge divides in a world marked by pervasive conflict.
How can art unite people across different cultures? What does interconnectedness mean within the realm of the performing arts? These are just a few of the questions Samagam seeks to address.
Europe Peace Festival 2024
The 2024 Europe Peace Festival happened in several European cities: The Hague, Netherlands; Paris, France; and Rome, Italy. With over two years of research and engagement across communities in conflict regions, CPPA presented its own production, "Nari – HER STORY," which explored the dance-drama aspects of Indian classical dance and music, delving into how gender issues intersect with peacebuilding efforts and highlighting the arts' role in creating inclusive and equitable societies. This further underscores our commitment to using the performing arts as a catalyst for addressing gender disparities and advancing global peace.
DELHI PEACE FESTIVAL 20, India
Anekata, an initiative by the Centre for Peace and Performing Arts (CPPA), was a pioneering cultural event that brought together practitioners and exponents of various performing arts to create a powerful platform for dialogue and expression. The event focused on the themes of gender, peace, and community building, addressing these critical issues through the lens of artistic performance.
Trialogue Session I Gender, Arts and Peacebuilding: How do we interpret peace and conflict?
‘Gender, Arts and Peacebuilding: How do we interpret peace and conflict?’, explored how performing arts allow for multi-dimensional thinking on peacebuilding, moving beyond gender constructs. The session brought a diverse community together to discuss different perspectives on conflict and how the performing arts are linked to the expression of ourselves in pursuit of peaceful action.
SAMAGAM 2024
CPPA launched an evening of classical dance choreographies by exponents exploring, challenging, and curating performing arts to engage and initiate conversations on peacebuilding!
Guru Sujata Mohapatra, renowned Odissi danseuse and choreographer, shared her journey of exploration and practice in the performing arts.
The session concluded with remarks by Dr Karine Leblanc on arts engagement in academia.
Peace Festival, Spain
The European peace festival in its second chapter brought forth performing artists from across Madrid to call on support for peace missions. It was joined by stalwarts and practitioners of performing arts.
Peace Festival, Italy
This peace festival was a pioneering event whereby practitioners and art connoisseurs came together to celebrate the power of performing arts to foster global peace. The proceedings were contributed to ongoing humanitarian responses in Europe.
Indian Arts Festival (online)
The virtual art session brought performing artists under one platform to express their understanding and interpretation of peace. Engaging with the humanitarian community, the session started off with a briefing from the Humanitarian Advisor to the United Nations World Food Programme in Yemen on the values of engaging performing arts for fostering peace.
Performing Arts Workshop, rome
Led by the renowned classical dancer and performer, Ileana Citaristi, the session focused on engaging performing arts enthusiasts in a proactive session around the value of dance drama. The session was divided into two segments: chhau and odissi dance.