‘Kashi Flow’ Four-Day International Art Camp Planned on Ganga Theme in December

A four-day international art camp and exhibition titled Kashi Flow is proposed for the second week of December 2026 in Varanasi, with artists invited to work around the Ganga and Kashi’s spiritual-cultural heritage as part of a wider Uttar Pradesh culture calendar.

The Varanasi leg sits alongside two other announced city programmes. Ayodhya is to host a ‘Ram, Ramayana and Ayodhya’ national workshop and lecture series from 22 to 26 October with support from Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, linking sites such as Ram ki Paidi and Guptaar Ghat to studio work. Lucknow is to host a five-day ‘Lokdhara’ folk and traditional art camp from 18 to 22 November under the State Lalit Kala Akademi, bringing styles such as Gond, Bhil, Godna, Pithora, Rajasthani, Kohbar and Madhubani onto one practical floor with senior and student artists.

Additional Chief Secretary for Tourism, Culture and Religious Affairs Amrit Abhijat has described the three events as an effort to keep tradition, creativity and younger practitioners in conversation rather than locking heritage inside museums and files alone. On Lokdhara, he has also spoken of building artist–institution–community cooperation and of the possibility that the folk camp could grow into an annual fixture. The same framing covers why Varanasi’s December camp is being built around the river and the city’s living spiritual landscape instead of a generic indoor theme.

Exact venue lists, selected artist rosters and daily public visiting hours for Kashi Flow had not been locked in the information available when this brief was filed. What is firm enough to publish is the title, the four-day international format, the mid-December window, the Ganga–Kashi theme, and the administrative umbrella that also covers the Ayodhya and Lucknow dates.

For Banaras readers, a December river-facing art camp lands in the same broad season as other ghat cultural programming, so coordination on crowd and lighting will matter once venues are named. Art students from local colleges usually gain more from live studio access than from a single opening speech; that practical layer is part of why the culture department is pairing senior practitioners with younger hands across the three cities.

This desk is not inventing Tourism Minister quotes or claiming a finalised Ganga-bank pin-drop that officials have not issued. It is a culture calendar note: Kashi Flow, four days, second week of December 2026, Ganga–Kashi theme, ACS Amrit Abhijat’s stated aim of tradition-to-youth dialogue, and the companion Ayodhya and Lucknow dates that show Varanasi is one node in a three-city plan rather than a one-off announcement.

Ghat-side studios, if that is where the December camp finally sits, will need basic weather cover and crowd lanes that do not collide with evening aarti footfall. Those are production details for the organisers once pins are fixed. Until the culture department publishes a venue note, treat mid-December, four days, and the Ganga–Kashi theme as the firm public outline for Kashi Flow.