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04/24/2026

Evolution of Indian Diaspora Cinema: From Nostalgia to New Identity 🎞️🌍

The journey of Indian diaspora cinema is a powerful shift from protecting the past to owning the future. 📽️ In the early years, movies acted like a cultural shield, preserving traditional values in a foreign land. As time moved on, this shifted into a raw and realistic look at the “twice-removed” experience—the struggle of feeling like a stranger in both worlds. 🛤️ Today, the narrative has evolved beyond just “missing home.” It’s about Spectral Sovereignty—building a new, confident identity that exists everywhere at once. We’ve moved from pining for a lost coordinate to celebrating a hybrid reality where we don’t just survive the transit; we define it. 🌏✨

03/30/2026

Long before the modern maps of Canada, this land was already Kanata—a village, a settlement, and a shared responsibility. 🇨🇦

Multiculturalism is often described as a mosaic, but the philosophy of the village goes much deeper. It’s not just about co-existing; it’s about belonging to a story that started long before we arrived. 🛶

Whether you’ve been here for generations or you’re just starting to build your home, the “village” reminds us that we are all stewards of this land’s history and its future. It’s time to look past the borders and back at the community we’re building together. 🏘️✨

03/27/2026

For many, home isn’t a straight line. It’s a story of being “twice removed.”

Think about the British legacy in the Caribbean. Between 1838 and 1917, over half a million Indians were moved to Guyana and Trinidad as indentured laborers for sugar plantations. They spent a century building a life there, only to be uprooted again to find a third home in the West.

You see this history in the rhythmic island lilt of an accent and in the food—like a Trinidadian “double,” which is the evolution of Indian chana and puri that traveled across the ocean twice.

To be twice removed is to carry two departures and two survivals. It’s a reminder that home isn’t just where you landed; it’s the long, winding map of how you got there.

03/12/2026

1947: A Legacy of Home & Diaspora 🌏🕊️

The Partition of 1947 was more than a border, it was the world’s largest mass migration. For the South Asian diaspora, it is a living history of lineage, loss, and resilience.

The Great Migration: Millions were uprooted, abandoning homes as a new divide separated “two brothers”. This history isn’t just in books; it lives in our family recipes, shared songs, and collective memories. Whether in India, Pakistan, or across the Western world, the diaspora carries a “living consciousness” of where we came from.� From South Asia to the world, the story of 1947 lives on in every heart that yearns for “home”.

Keywords: Partition 1947, South Asian Diaspora, Indian History, Pakistan Independence, Ancestry, Migration Stories, Transnational Culture.

02/09/2026

Why do people move?
Is it just for better jobs? Or are we enacting something deeper — something timeless?

In this episode, we explore migration not as a statistic or policy issue, but as a profound human condition.

From ancient tribes to modern-day immigrants, our stories of movement have shaped economies, cultures, religions — and the idea of home itself.

🎥 The Ghar Home Project
Episode II — Why Do People Move?

02/03/2026

Where is home — really?
Is it a place, a memory, a story, or a symbolic return?

From Jung’s archetypes to Rumi’s guest house, from spiritual longing to housing crises in the age of AI — this episode traces how the idea of home has evolved across time, thought, and experience.

🎥 The Ghar Home Project begins here.
Episode 1: Where Is Home?

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09/26/2025

✨ Where is Home? ✨
 A group exhibition exploring the shifting and intimate meanings of home — how it is carried across borders, rooted in memory, and shaped by relationships.

Featuring work by Anushray Singh (UFV SoCA), alongside talented SoCA alumni + students: Yukun Lin, Zee Coulter, Eddy Rubi, Piper Hornall, Yamel Olivan, Shaevi Khatri, Mithil Dedhia, and Kay Ber.

📅 On view: Oct 10 – Nov 7, 2025 📍 S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery, UFV Abbotsford
 🎉 Reception: Wed, Oct 15, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Free + open to all — come experience photography, installation, and immersive video works that ask us: Where is home?

Poster design by

05/06/2025

Community Board. Spring 2025.
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South Asian Creative Project is an independent project run by with roots in Canada and India. But, luckily, the project has been able to celebrate works from South Asian community from all over the world, that’s the intention going forward.

The aim is to highlight work and initiatives by South Asian creatives and small scale organizations are doing.

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03/17/2025

From March 28th until March 31st 🗓️
👉🏽We’re showing Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimism🍿📽️

Directed by Mahera Omar
South Asian Doc Fest 2024 I 8 Films Across South Asia: Reflections on 🌏🎬
The festival features 8 films free to watch throughout this and continues to next year 🍁❄️

Register on our website 🔗

It is FREE and available online, but you must click on the register button on the festival website below. It will redirect you to a Google form. Register once to automatically receive passwords each month to access these award winning films.
You can also see the full schedule and film descriptions on the website too 📋
This year’s festival is sponsored by Department of Media Communication and Film, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences and The Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network | York Centre for Asian Research | Windsor Film Society

The festival films are part of the Traveling Film South Asia’s Climate Change + Environment Collection

02/25/2025

From February 28th until March 3rd 🗓️
👉🏽We’re showing Floating Life (Phum Shang) & The Secret Life🍿📽️

Phum Shang Directed by
The Secret Life Directed by
South Asian Doc Fest 2024 I 8 Films Across South Asia: Reflections on 🌏🎬
The festival features 8 films free to watch throughout this and continues to next year 🍁❄️

Register on our website 🔗

It is FREE and available online, but you must click on the register button on the festival website below. It will redirect you to a Google form. Register once to automatically receive passwords each month to access these award winning films.
You can also see the full schedule and film descriptions on the website too 📋
This year’s festival is sponsored by Department of Media Communication and Film, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences and The Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network | York Centre for Asian Research | Windsor Film Society

The festival films are part of the Traveling Film South Asia’s Climate Change + Environment Collection

01/21/2025

This November 29th until December 2nd 🗓️
👉🏽We’re showing God’s Buffalo and Natari🍿📽️

God’s Buffalo Directed by
South Asian Doc Fest 2024 I 8 Films Across South Asia: Reflections on 🌏🎬
The festival features 8 films free to watch throughout this and continues to next year 🍁❄️

Register on our website 🔗

It is FREE and available online, but you must click on the register button on the festival website below. It will redirect you to a Google form. Register once to automatically receive passwords each month to access these award winning films.
You can also see the full schedule and film descriptions on the website too 📋
This year’s festival is sponsored by Department of Media Communication and Film, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences and The Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network | York Centre for Asian Research | Windsor Film Society
The festival films are part of the Traveling Film South Asia’s Climate Change + Environment Collection

11/12/2024

This November 29th until December 2nd 🗓️
👉🏽We’re showing Bamboo Stories🍿📽️

Directed by Shaheen Dil-Riaz
South Asian Doc Fest 2024 I 8 Films Across South Asia: Reflections on 🌏🎬
The festival features 8 films free to watch throughout this and continues to next year 🍁❄️

Register on our website 🔗

It is FREE and available online, but you must click on the register button on the festival website below. It will redirect you to a Google form. Register once to automatically receive passwords each month to access these award winning films.
You can also see the full schedule and film descriptions on the website too 📋
This year’s festival is sponsored by Department of Media Communication and Film, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Sciences and The Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network | York Centre for Asian Research | Windsor Film Society
The festival films are part of the Traveling Film South Asia’s Climate Change + Environment Collection

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