Oct 16 – Oct 18, 2026
Ankur DFW Durga Puja 2026 at The Bliss in Aubrey
Ankur DFW lists Durga Puja October 16–18, 2026, at The Bliss in Aubrey. Named sets: Iman on the 16th, Somlata on the 17th, Cactuss on the 18th. Daily hours and a street address are not on the org page.
Ankur DFW is listing Durga Puja Friday through Sunday, October 16–18, 2026, at The Bliss in Aubrey. The org page calls it the biggest event of the year and leads with a warm invitation to join. Venue line on ankurdfw.org/durga-puja-2026 is The Bliss at Aubrey, Aubrey, Texas. That is the map pin they gave the public.
Live music is the named draw. The page bills Iman on October 16, Somlata on October 17, and Cactuss (Band) on October 18. Those are first-name and band labels as Ankur printed them. Treat each night as a different concert card inside the same three-day puja, not as one continuous set with published stage times.
Daily hours are not posted. A street address is not on the org page. Do not invent either from a map pin you found elsewhere. Register through the Register Here button on ankurdfw.org and ask for the gate clock and the driveway before you promise a carpool. Registration is the planning path Ankur put on the page.
Aubrey sits in Denton County, north of Frisco and the Plano corridor most DFW Diwali pages use. That is why this card feels like a ranch-and-hall weekend for families who already drive north for Bengali community events, not a walkable Town Square evening. If your group lives in Frisco or McKinney, budget the drive and a real confirm-hours text before Friday.
Other DFW Bengali halls also use this October 16–18 window. Treat Ankur as the Aubrey Bliss card, not as the only puja in North Texas that weekend. We are keeping this as the drafted DFW puja listing here. If you need a second hall's hours, get them from that organizer, not from this page.
The metro calendar around it is not empty. Assembly Park Diwali is already October 11 in Plano. HKMKT NightMKT lands October 23–25 in Grand Prairie. Southlake DiwaliFest is October 24. Ankur is the mid-October Bengali puja weekend between those civic and plaza cards. It is not a substitute for a free Diwali mela later in the month.
Who this is for: Denton County and North Dallas Bengali families who already follow Ankur and care about the named music nights. Skip it if you need a printed hour tonight, a street address on the org page, or a Plano lawn Diwali. Those are different weekends and different planners.
Our take: go if The Bliss is already your map and you have registration confirmation. Confirm hours and the exact driveway before you drive north. The artists are the reason to pick a night. The missing clock is the reason not to guess.
When: October 16–18, 2026 (hours not posted)
Where: The Bliss, Aubrey, TX (street address not on the org page)
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