Indian Summer Festival 2013 | Reclamation/Exclamation

Co-presented by Indian Summer Festival and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

Behind the official stories of the nation live the silenced histories of the past. Poet Renee Saklikar’s Children of Air India engaged with a personal and political remembrance of the past that brings together powerful imagery of loss and memory.

Gurpreet Singh shed light on the centennial of the Gadhar Party, an anti-imperial movement that sought to overthrow the British Empire, and how its Vancouver roots inspired the imagination of social justice revolutionaries around the world.

As part of the first Bhangra team in North America, Dr. Kanwal Singh Neel has seen first-hand the transformative power of art in bridging cultural divides.