Get unlimited access to Ubud Writers and Readers Festival’s main programme across four days of the 2026 Festival, with over 100 sessions to enjoy. With an Early Bird 4-Day Festival Pass, you can come and go as you please.
Early bird tickets are available until 18 August.
The four-day programme will be guided by the theme Samarasā: Awareness. Empathy. Action., which comes from Sanskrit philosophy and emphasises the harmony between Citta (mind), Rasa (heart), and Karsa (action). It invites reflection on how thought, feeling, and action can exist in harmony.
We explore the forces that shape us to find a perfect balance of awareness, empathy, and action. From the technological to the spiritual, the personal, and the environmental, we trace the cycles of our existence, not just to understand where we have been, but to guide humanity toward where we must go: a future defined by compassionate response