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City-based civic and taste level UnboxingBLR (UBLR) has announced 3 large initiatives aimed astatine strengthening Bengaluru’s taste vibrancy, technological legacy, and climate-focused innovation ecosystem.
The announcements see the motorboat of BLR Hubba 2026, India’s archetypal start-up and tech museum, and an expanded variation of the Namma Bengaluru Challenge start-up accelerator.
The 3rd variation of the BLR Hubba, scheduled for January 16 to 25, is acceptable to beryllium the festival’s astir ambitious instalment yet. Aiming to presumption Bengaluru connected the planetary taste map, the 10-day lawsuit volition diagnostic implicit 250 performances crossed much than 12 genres, including planetary acts from Japan and Malaysia and a peculiar quality by guitar fable Marty Friedman.
With 80% caller programming crossed 20 venues, the festival seeks to alteration nationalist spaces into accessible taste zones. “The BLR Hubba 2026 is our committedness to bring the metropolis live done its nationalist spaces. We are moving beyond a curated arts festival to a existent nationalist celebration, offering Bengalureans a accidental to rediscover their metropolis done divers and off-the-beaten-track taste experiences. This is astir gathering the psyche of our metropolis together.” said V. Ravichandar, main facilitator of the BLR Hubba.
The UBLR besides unveiled the Start-up and Tech Museum plan, a first-of-its-kind initiative, which volition beryllium developed successful concern with the Department of Electronics, IT/BT. Set wrong the repurposed NGEF campus, the depository volition chronicle Bengaluru’s improvement into India’s exertion capital.
“It volition beryllium an inspiration, connecting our affluent past with a aboriginal of limitless possibilities,” said UBLR co-founder Prashanth Prakash.
The Namma Bengaluru Challenge returns successful 2026 with a sharper absorption connected clime solutions, offering grants of ₹25 lakh each to 5 winning start-ups. With implicit 600 entries, the situation volition code municipality issues including aerial pollution, waste, water, and sanitation.
The UBLR besides announced advancement connected respective ongoing city-focused projects, including Church Street upkeep, the upcoming Nandi Rail Museum, a caller communities platform, 1,000 garbage kiosks, and the Hasiru Junction micro-green project.
