PRESENTING PARTNER Moving Still: Performative Photography in India explores themes of migration, gender, religion and national identity through the lens of performative photography. The exhibition focuses on the photo-based practices of contemporary artists who are rooted in the diversity of cultures within the country, while at the same time engaging in a global dialogue. Participating artists include Nikhil Chopra, Anita...
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Nep Sidhu: Medicine for a Nightmare (they called, we responded)
PRESENTING PARTNER Nep Sidhu is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is concerned with the reverberations of form, antiquity, myth, and history with an affinity for community. Through material investigations that use textiles, sculpture, video, and sound, Sidhu’s work seeks moments of knowledge. Medicine for a Nightmare (they called, we responded) explores how memories persist in the present, especially when related...
Sara Khan: Suraj Kinare
PRESENTING PARTNER Immerse yourself in intriguing watercolours exploring vulnerability and identity. Sara Khan’s sumptuous watercolours invoke a magical realm where personal memories mix with exotic plants and outlandish characters, all spread across organic fields of pattern and colour. Imagined through a series of poetic paintings, Suraj Kinare evokes the artist’s own sense of identity, suspended between the cultures of her...
ISF 2019 featured-artist: Sara Khan
Indian Summer Festival is delighted to announce Sara Khan as this year’s featured artist. Each year, the festival invites an inspiring artist to create a commissioned artwork in response to the festival theme. The work they make then sets the visual language of the entire festival. Khan responded to the 2019 theme of “Tricksters, Magicians & Oracles.” with a painting...
Parag Khanna: global futurist, best-selling author, and Dinner by Starlight Guest of Honour
We are so thrilled that Dr. Parag Khanna will be a part of the Indian Summer Fest 2019 as our Dinner by Starlight Guest of Honour! The futurist and author has some incredible achievements. One of the “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century” In 2008, Dr. Parag Khanna was named one of the 75 Most Influential People of...
Visit PAUSE IN THE PARK on Saturday & Sunday
Don’t miss the final weekend at PAUSE! Contemporary art to check out, art you get to make with our artist in residence, Sandeep Johal, and make and fly a kite! PAUSE IN THE PARK Free Programming Series PAUSE PAVILION PARTNER Saturday, July 14 Sita Sings the Blues @ Museum of Vancouver, 12pm CO-PRESENTED BY VIFF & MOV A noontime screening of Nina Paley’s contemporary...
PAUSE IN THE PARK — Recap from JULY 8
UPDATE: Last weekend was such a wonderful time at PAUSE! Make sure to join us this weekend for more fantastic daytime events! More info: PAUSE IN THE PARK — Don’t miss an amazing chance to see a preview of the Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Show today at 1pm at PAUSE. And all the amazing events today, beginning with Jhalaak at Noon! LOCATION: PAUSE...
ISF 2018 Artist-In-Residence: Sandeep Johal
Every year, Indian Summer Festival invites a visual artist to be the festival’s Artist-In-Residence. Artists in this role define the festival’s visual language for the year by creating a work of art in response to the festival’s annual theme. They also create large-scale public artworks, interact with other festival artists and with the public at several events during the festival....
Museum Bhavan — July 5-15
A ‘pocket’ museum that defies definition “It unfolds, one page after the other, like a dream.” – Teju Cole, The New York Times Co-presented by LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY Dayanita Singh is among the most renowned contemporary photographers in the world. Her latest project, Museum Bhavan, is a beautiful boxed set of nine intimate concertina books. It is a marriage...