Art Nagar 2026: All Pakistan Performing Arts Festival in Islamabad

After a long wait, Islamabad’s theatre community has a big festival to look forward to. Art Nagar, the All Pakistan Performing Arts Festival and Inter-University Performing Arts Competition, returns for its second edition on 23 and 24 October 2026. Organised by Team Revenant, this festival to celebrate art will fill the Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai Auditorium in H-8, Islamabad, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on both days, and it invites young artists from across the country to take the stage.

The festival brings together a wide range of performing arts. The expected categories are:

• Theatre / Drama

• Monologue

• Mime

• Stand-Up Comedy

• Music Performance

• Make-up / Styling

• Script Writing

• Dance

Day one will open with a ceremony, followed by theatre, comedy, mime, and monologue performances. Day two will continue with those events and add music and a makeup display before the closing ceremony.

Team Revenant is an Islamabad-based performing arts group founded by Saad Ahmed Kayani, who has worked in theatre since 2018. The group has won several awards at competitions across Pakistan, and its mission is to promote theatre as a creative and empathetic form of social expression. For students, artists and audiences alike, this festival is a chance to see the country’s young performers share one stage and to celebrate why live art still matters.