Kalirai says that even with the growth of South Asian theatre, he wasn’t seeing shows about the people he grew up with.
This year’s Monsoon Festival will recognize the contributions of actor Nimet Kanji.
B.C.-based playwright, theatre director, and filmmaker Paneet Singh is at the helm of The Anandpur Experience (working title).
In October, Noronha will play the title role in Tarragon Theatre’s A Play for Rabia, which looks at three women’s lives in three centuries.
ਚੀਮਾ ਮਹਿਸੂਸ ਕਰਦੀ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਲੋਅਰ ਮੇਨਲੈਂਡ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਿੱਖ ਲੋਕਤੰਤਰੀ ਪ੍ਰਕਿਰਿਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਹਿਮ ਭੂਮਿਕਾ ਨਿਭਾਉਂਦੇ ਹਨ।
Bhangre Da Raja and Krystal Kiran will be at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus in Surrey for the Monsoon Festival’s “Sunday Funday”.
According to Cheema, a big part of Sikhi is seva—and she tells Pancouver that this concept goes hand-in-hand with democracy.
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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