Enabling Lives Festival 2026

Enabling Lives Festival 2026

If your weekend plans usually stop at brunch and a mall walk, the Enabling Lives Festival is a good excuse to go a little further. On 28th and 29th November 2026 , the annual festival by SG Enable spills out of Enabling Village and into the Redhill neighbourhood, with more than 70 activities spread across Redhill MRT, a nearby plaza, and Delta Sport Centre.

Here’s the lobang: admission is free . You can get your portrait sketched live by artists with disabilities, try blind football with a ball you track by sound, or lock into a training wheelchair for a fencing bout. The idea is simple. Instead of reading about inclusion, you play, shop, and chat alongside persons with disabilities in spaces you already pass through.

What’s happening at Enabling Lives Festival 2026?

The festival starts before you even reach Enabling Village. ARTRA’s Festive Plaza, right next to Redhill MRT, hosts the pop-ups this year, so you can tick off a few activities straight off the train.

Get a free portrait sketched live at Portrait Café

Image adapted from: Enabling Village

At Portrait Café, 4 artists with disabilities sketch you while you chat, café-style. The line-up includes a Deaf artist and artists with ADHD, autism and cerebral palsy, each with their own drawing style.

You pick a conversation prompt off a “café menu”, and the chat happens through gestures, visual cues or whatever way of communicating suits each artist. Best part: the portrait is yours to keep, for free . With only 2 sessions a day, it’s worth turning up early.

Venue: ARTRA’s Festive Plaza, next to Redhill MRT

Date: 28th-29th Nov

Time: 12pm-1.30pm & 2.30pm-4pm

Admission: Free

Guiding Steps – Walk Redhill with a white cane & meet guide dogs

Image credit: Enabling Village

Run with Guide Dogs Singapore, this 1-hour route shows you what a familiar neighbourhood feels like with visual impairment. After a briefing at Redhill MRT, you pair up with a volunteer or another participant, learn how a white cane works, and put on special eyewear that simulates different kinds of vision loss.

The walk ends at Enabling Village with a twist: you guide your facilitators with visual impairment to the Cabana using what you just learnt. Along the way, you also get to meet guide dogs and their handlers.

Slots are limited, so sign up in advance.

Venue: Starts at Redhill MRT

Date: 28th-29th Nov

Time: 1-hour sessions starting at 11am, 11.30am, 12pm, 1pm, 1.30pm & 2pm

Admission: Free, registration required

Chit Chat Sing Song – Musical improv by Ask Aunties

Image credit: Enabling Village

This improv show by Ask Aunties turns everyday moments on the MRT, in shops and at the playground into on-the-spot songs and scenes. Its inclusive cast builds each bit from personal stories and audience suggestions.

So yes, your daily commute complaint could become a musical number. Throw one in.

Venue: ARTRA’s Festive Plaza, next to Redhill MRT

Date: 28th-29th Nov

Time: 2pm-2.30pm & 4pm-4.30pm

Admission: Free

District of Care walking tour with The Urbanist Singapore

If you’d rather wander with a guide, The Urbanist Singapore leads a learning tour across several stops on the way to Enabling Village, pointing out local stories and the small design details that make a neighbourhood easier to get around. Check the festival website for timings.

Try wheelchair fencing, blind football & inclusive pickleball at Delta Sport Centre

Over at Delta Sport Centre, para-sport coaches and Special Olympics athletes take you through adaptive sports you don’t usually get to try on a random Saturday. No experience needed for any of them.

Inclusive pickleball for beginners

Image credit: Enabling Village

If you’ve been eyeing the pickleball craze but never found a kaki to play with, here’s your chance. This 1-hour session covers the basics before you team up with Play Buddies of different abilities in a friendly doubles mini-game, with adaptive gameplay thrown in.

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