The 2025 Indian Summer Festival was a pivotal year for our organization. We welcomed 19,033 attendees, a powerful reflection of the energy, curiosity, and connection that shaped this year’s festival.

Guided by our 2025 curatorial theme, Borderless Solidarities, the festival responded to a world marked by hardened borders, division, and uncertainty by making space for encounter, imagination, and collective possibility. Through performances, conversations, music, and installations, we invited artists and audiences to gather across difference and ask: how can we be together today?

This year’s festival was bold, vibrant, and deeply resonant, bringing together artists and communities in experiences that were thoughtful, joyful, and transformative. More than ever, 2025 affirmed the power of arts and culture to open doors, deepen connection, and imagine something new.

Here’s to a landmark year, and to the borderless solidarities that continue to move us forward.