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India's Largest Participatory Art Festival
2,00,000 Lives Impacted | 1,000+ Renowned Artists | 10+ Festival Seasons | 20,00,000 Sq.Ft. Street Art

Art is everywhere. Find your color. Share your passion. Join Colorothon Community! Visit us at www.colorothonofficial.com

02/07/2026

The is now 10,000+ strong on Instagram 🫶 (...well 11K+ to be precise because y'all are so awesome ❤️)

We at are incredibly humbled, overwhelmed and inspired by your love & support to make sure we create more incredible spaces, more riverside activities, more museum murals and even more memories of painting together 🙌

24/06/2026

Meet Shareef Ahmad. Aka Shareef bhai. Aka Pappu Painter.

Shareef bhai has been painting everything, from Bollywood Movie Posters and Banners to slices of life on City walls for decades. DECADES. And he still does it with his nonchalant charm and incredible attention to detail, as if the days never passed. We found him lost in his work randomly near Lucknow College of Arts and we just knew we HAD to share his story...

Watch this reel and join us on a journey through his life as we kick off 's .

Did Shareef bhai's story inspire you on your Art journey, or for life in general? Let us know in the comments and tag friends who need to see this down below 👇

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13/06/2026

What’s expected at the Riverfront Art Project Community Art Activity?

Join us on Jun 27 for a massive celebration of creativity! Here is everything you need to know:

📍Where: Riverfront Park Gate, at the end of Old Chatori Gali (near 1090), Lucknow
📅 When: Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM Onwards
🎟️ Entry: Completely FREE & open to everyone (No registration required!)

What's waiting for you:
1️⃣ Open-for-all canvas painting guided by Professional Artists
2️⃣ All community art creation—no prior drawing skills needed!
3️⃣ Basic stationery, paints, and limited A3 sheets provided (subject to availability, or feel free to bring your own!)
4️⃣ Live Ambient Music to set the perfect vibe

Save the date and drop by to be a part of something extraordinary in a city historically famous for its love of art ❤️

Tag the friends you want to drag along with you down below! 👇

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09/06/2026

You didn’t just watch us paint at the
Riverfront - you asked to pick up the brush.

We heard you loud and clear. Now we're saying thank you the only way we know how -> by opening up the riverfront for an all-out, all-ages community art celebration.

Adwait in collaboration with Lucknow Development Authority and Colorothon invite you all to the Riverfront Art Project, a community art activity at the Gomti Riverfront Park.

Save the Date: Saturday, June 27, 2026
Location - Riverfront Park, Jiamau, Lucknow (at the end of Old Chatori Gali, near 1090)

Find more details in pinned comment and stay tuned for more details dropping soon. Tag the person you're bringing along! 👇

06/06/2026

A Guinness World Record built by thousands of hands.

On 1 March 2019, at the Kumbh in Prayagraj, the Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran set the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for "the Most contributions to a handprint painting" in 8 hours.

One wall. Countless hands. One message painted in the colours of the nation. Jai Gange. "Hail Mother Ganga".

Colorothon is proud to have collaborated with the Prayagraj Mela Pradhikaran to help make this record happen. Every handprint on this wall is a person who chose to be part of something far bigger than themselves.

This is what colour can do when a whole community shows up.

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26/05/2026

The Street Food Vendor who sets up before sunrise. The Sadhu who blesses passersby. The child who plays near the boundary wall. The rickshaw puller who carries the city on his back.

We saw them. We painted them.

This is — a public art initiative where the people who live and work near our walls become the subjects of the murals on those very walls. Not celebrities. Not fictional characters. Real faces from real neighbourhoods, immortalised in colour for everyone to see.

Because should reflect the people it lives among.

We believe a city's greatest art isn't in its galleries — it's in the dignity of its people. When you paint the faces of those who are often unseen, you don't just create . You create a monument. You say: you belong here. You matter. Your story is worth telling.

This is what Colorothon stands for — turning walls into mirrors, and communities into canvases.

Swipe through to meet the real people behind the murals. ➡️

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20/05/2026

We're hiring ✨

Colorothon is looking for a Social Media & Performance Marketing Manager to help us tell ten seasons of stories and bring the next ten to life!

You'll run:

→ Instagram
→ The Foundation's LinkedIn
→ The Founder's personal LinkedIn
→ Paid campaigns across Meta + Google
→ Our entire decade-deep photo archive

We're not a regular brand. We're a movement that turns cities into shared canvases. If that sentence makes
sense to you, you might be the one!

We're looking for 2–5 yrs experience and someone Lucknow-based or willing to move. Send your work + a short note on what Colorothon means to you after 10 minutes on this handle at [email protected]

Draw your imagination. Together we paint.
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08/05/2026

𝙆𝙮𝙪𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙞 𝙮𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙧?

When the Lucknow Museum of Heritage and Art .museum team asked us to capture the "soul" of Lucknow in a single mural, we knew we couldn't just paint buildings. We had to paint stories.

We were told "𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙮𝙚, 𝙖𝙖𝙥 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙚𝙞 𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙣", so we asked Lucknowites one simple question: "What makes this city smile?"

From 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙗𝙖𝙖𝙯𝙞 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙝𝙯𝙚𝙚𝙗 to the vibrant heritage, the answer is now immortalized on the walls of the city's newest most pristine Museum. Watch how turned a "peculiar request" into a living piece of history.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲? Tell us in the comments👇 and tag a Lucknowite who needs to see this!
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