ISHQ Festival brings you into the music, poetry, dance, and film of South Asia, Central Asia, Persia, North Africa, and beyond. From Qawwali to classical, devotional to contemporary, the festival brings together artists from across the world who share one language: the language of ishq.
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Throughout the festival, you will encounter sacred, traditional, spiritual, and contemplative forms from across cultures and disciplines. These works are living artistic experiences that carry memory, devotion, imagination and love. You may arrive with a deep connection to the forms being presented, or you may be meeting them for the first time.
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ISHQ invites you to listen closely, feel deeply, and experience art not only as performance, but as a way of remembering, reflecting, and becoming more connected to what you carry within.

This is an invitation to experience art that reaches the heart before it asks to be understood.