Deepavali Festival Village, Campbell Lane

A short street, a month of evenings and a great many marigolds.

Go after dark on a weeknight, with small notes and an appetite, and you get Little India's Deepavali bazaar at its most enjoyable. The Festival Village runs on Campbell Lane from 7pm nightly until Deepavali itself on Sunday 8 November, and it is free to walk in. The compromise is space: it is a short street, and the closer the festival gets, the more people want to be on it, so earlier in the run is better.

Campbell Lane is the short street beside Little India Arcade, and for the season it becomes a bazaar. Stalls sell traditional clothing, festive snacks, handicrafts and decorations, and the shops along the lane push their displays out into the street: marigold garlands, glittering lamps and sweets bought for the week ahead. Overhead, the Serangoon Road light-up, switched on by the Little India Shop Owners and Heritage Association (LISHA) on 3 October, is lit every evening until 29 November and has its own page.

There is a programme beyond the shopping, though we have the details second-hand, so confirm with LISHA before you plan around them. Free live music, Sangeetham Under the Stars, is billed for the Campbell Lane open stage on the evenings of 17 and 31 October. Small paid workshops cover brass lamp engraving and clay diya painting at Tekka Place, and a spice blending masterclass on the lane itself. A free self-guided photo trail runs to 8 November, with shopping-voucher prizes drawn weekly.

For the view from above, LISHA runs short open-top bus tours of the lights on Saturday evenings from Orchard Hotel until 28 November. The tours and workshops need booking; the lane does not.

Come hungry and come after 7pm, when the lane gets going and the heat has eased a little; Tekka Centre is round the corner when the snacks run out. Wear shoes you don't mind having stepped on, and let the children choose the garland (they will choose the biggest one).

Good to know Festival Village nightly from 7pm, 10 Oct–8 Nov 2026, Campbell Lane, a short walk from Little India MRT. Free to walk in. Workshops and the bus tour are paid and need booking through LISHA; our programme dates and prices come from a secondary report, so check LISHA's pages.

Deepavali Festival Village, Campbell Lane | Campbell Lane, Little India, Singapore | Nearest MRT: Little India