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.
It’s open to beginners with and without disabilities, including families and caregivers. Do note you’ll need to move around the court on your own, so the session isn’t suitable for those who use a wheelchair or walker.
Venue: Pickleball court, Delta Sport Centre
Date: 28th-29th Nov Time: 2pm-3pm, 3pm-4pm & 4pm-5pm
Admission: Free, registration required
Blind football try-out
Image credit: Enabling Village
In Listen, Dribble, Score, facilitators show you how blind football players rely on sound, communication and spatial awareness. You’ll practise ball control, dribbling and shooting at goal with a ball that makes noise as it rolls.
Blindfolds may come into play, but the drills can be adjusted to your comfort level. Zero football skills needed, which is good news for those of us who peaked at primary school PE.
Venue: Delta Sports Hall, Delta Sport Centre
Date & time: 28th Nov 10am-1pm | 29th Nov 1pm-5pm
Admission: Free
Wheelchair para-fencing taster sessions
Image credit: Enabling Village
This is the one to bring your friends to. You sit in a real training wheelchair, get locked into Italian-made Olympic fencing frames that hold 2 wheelchairs in place, then cross blades in full protective gear.
Coaching comes from Alvin Teo, a former Team Singapore fencer and SEA Games medallist, and Chloe Chew, a para-fencer with the Singapore Community Para-Fencing Programme. Para-fencers from the programme also fence alongside first-timers.
Venue: Delta Sports Hall, Delta Sport Centre
Admission: Free, pre-registration required
Bocce try-out with Special Olympics athletes
Image credit: Enabling Village
Bocce is one of the core sports of the Special Olympics, and the rules are simple: roll or throw your ball as close as possible to a small target ball called the pallina. If you’ve played petanque on holiday, you’ll pick it up fast.
Special Olympics athletes teach you the basics before you jump into friendly games. This one runs on Sunday only.
Venue: Delta Sports Hall, Delta Sport Centre
Date: 29th Nov
Time: 1pm-5pm
Admission: Free
What’s happening at the Festival Hub?
All roads lead to the Festival Hub at Enabling Village, which packs in over 50 activities, workshops and performances across the weekend. These are the ones worth planning your day around.
Hu木an: a sensory forest adventure for kids aged 3-5
Parents, take note. Hu木an is a multi-sensory theatre show where little ones feel textured leaves, sniff unusual scents, spot the Owl and help the Kingfisher look after her eggs, all to live music.
Inspired by the National Museum of Singapore’s William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, it premiered at the museum in 2022 and has since toured Perth’s AWESOME Festival and Adelaide’s OzAsia Festival.
The show is designed for neurotypical and neurodivergent children aged 3-5, as well as persons with disabilities of any age whose developmental age is around 3-5. It’s in English.
Venue: Caregivers Pod, UOB Ability Hub, Enabling Village
Date: 28th-29th Nov
Time: 10.30am-11.30am, 2pm-3pm & 4pm-5pm
Admission: Free, with a $10 refundable deposit per child-and-caregiver pair.
One-handed close-up magic & cardistry with Jackie Chionh
Image credit: Enabling Village
Cardistry is tough enough with 2 hands. Jackie Chionh does it with one, flipping and fanning an ordinary deck through sleight-of-hand moves usually designed for both hands.
You get to watch at close range, and he’ll share how he reworked the classic techniques to suit himself. Bring your phone, you’ll want to slow-mo this.
Venue: Grandstand, Nest, Enabling Village
Date: 28th-29th Nov
Time: 11am-11.30am
Admission: Free
Live music by inclusive band Zelotones
Image credit: Enabling Village
Zelotones is a 4-member Singapore band with musicians of different abilities, including members with visual impairment. Expect a mix of familiar tunes and original songs for a chill lunchtime set.
Venue: Grandstand, Nest, Enabling Village
Date: 28th-29th Nov
Time: 1.30pm-2pm
Admission: Free
Feel the beat with Deaf dancer Ameezy
Image credit: Muhd Ammar Nasrulhaq
Led by Deaf dancer and choreographer Ammar “Ameezy”, this workshop gets you moving to rhythm through visual cues and vibration rather than sound alone. It’s beginner-friendly, so even those with 2 left feet can join in.
Venue: Grandstand, Nest, Enabling Village
Date & time: 28th Nov 2pm-2.45pm | 29th Nov 4pm-5pm
Admission: Free
Live caricatures by Deaf illustrator Isaac Liang
If you missed Portrait Café, here’s a second shot at a free sketch. Deaf illustrator and storyteller Isaac Liang draws quick, expressive caricatures of visitors, with art doing most of the talking.
Venue: The Terrace, Playground Block, Enabling Village
Date: 29th Nov
Time: 12pm-1pm
Admission: Free
Take on para-chess player Edwin Tan at tactile chess
Image credit: Lion City
If you fancy yourself a chess whiz, this is your test. Team Singapore para-chess player Edwin Tan plays several opponents at once on a tactile chessboard, using touch, memory and spatial awareness. You can also try the specialised boards used by players with visual impairment.
Venue: The Terrace, Playground Block, Enabling Village
Date: 28th-29th Nov
Time: 2pm-3pm
Admission: Free
Get your Christmas shopping done early at the i’mable Collective Market
Image credit: Enabling Village
The i’mable Collective Market returns for its biggest edition yet, with more than 50 brands including social enterprises, caregiver-run small businesses and independent artists. Everything on sale is made by creatives with disabilities and their caregivers.
Think original art, handmade goods and everyday essentials, which makes it a solid spot to tick off your Secret Santa list. Each stall comes with a story, so it’s worth chatting with the makers before you pay.
Venue: UOB Ability Hub, Enabling Village
Date: 28th-29th Nov
Time: 10am-6pm
Admission: Free
Collect stamps on the ELF Passport trail for limited-edition plushie keychains
For the kiasu collectors among us, grab an ELF Passport at Redhill MRT Station Exit B, Delta Sport Centre or Enabling Village when you arrive. The self-guided trail features motifs designed by artists with disabilities. There’s the Caring Lemon by Douglas Koh, who calls it “the only sweetest lemon”, and the 8-Pointed Star by Ong Xin Min, which stands for the inclusion of different personalities.
Complete activities at different touchpoints to collect stamps, then redeem limited-edition merch featuring both characters at Enabling Village. Based on the preview photos, think fluffy plushie keychains that will look very cute on your tote.
Spend a free weekend at the Enabling Lives Festival 2026
With free entry and most activities walk-in, the Enabling Lives Festival is an easy, wallet-friendly weekend out that’s a lot more hands-on than your usual mall trip. Book the activities with limited spots first: Guiding Steps, inclusive pickleball, wheelchair para-fencing & Hu木an.
If you want to do it all, start at Redhill MRT for the pop-ups, swing by Delta Sport Centre for a game, then end at Enabling Village for the market and performances. Sunday has the fuller sports line-up, with bocce and 3 of the 4 fencing sessions.
Find out more about Enabling Lives Festival 2026
Locations: Festival Hub at Enabling Village, ARTRA’s Festive Plaza, Delta Sport Centre
Dates: 28th-29th November 2026
Time: 10am-6pm
Admission: Free | Registration is required for selected programmes
Cover image adapted from: Enabling Village