On the eve of the Government of Canada's official apology for the Komagata Maru in the House of Commons, we're reflecting and questioning the real meaning of go... Read More...
Goodness Gracious Me returned after a hiatus of 13 years for a special reunion episode as part of the 50th anniversary of BBC 2 this past month.
While man... Read More...
We thought we'd seen it all when we found the Komagata Maru Bollywood movie, but then this historic comic book set in India and Canada came across our desk.
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White villains. Brown heroes and victims. Evil spies. The Komagata Maru story provided fodder for many artistic projects, including a little known, rarely seen ... Read More...
Weaving a story with film and textile, Deepa Mehta's adaptation of award-winning novel, Midnight's Children, takes the audience on a historic journey through In... Read More...
The myth of Michael Ondaatje: blasphemous or brilliant? Celebrated as one of the greatest Canadian writers of our time, Michael Ondaatje's newest book,... Read More...
Our relationship with hair is tenuous. Too frizzy, too short, too curly, too straight. But for many Sikh men and women, this relationship straddles between fait... Read More...
The art of making love through music and canvas. Hidden in the back of the Sir Michael Ondaatje Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum is Ragamala: Garland of... Read More...
The revolution was electric. Talvin Singh and Karsh Kale may have helped make Brit Asian Electronica famous, but it's electronic maestro Cheb i Sabbah who reall... Read More...
Parition is an experience that is branded on our collective minds, whether we have personal links to the time or not. While Bollywood and Canadian cinema have b... Read More...
Naveen Girn is a community engagement specialist + cultural historian whose work centres on intercultural dialogue and sharing history's untold stories.
Naveen co-curated and researched the award-winning Bhangra.me: Vancouver’s Bhangra Story (2011) at the Museum of Vancouver, and Spectacular Sangeet (2013) at the Surrey Art Gallery. In 2014, Naveen was Project Manager for the Komagata Maru 1914-2014: Generations, Geographies and Echoes project that brought together eight institutions across Metro Vancouver to collaboratively commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Komagata Maru. He has curated art and historical exhibitions across Metro Vancouver, and is a partner at Digital Handloom, a community storytelling practice that engages with and shares untold community stories. Naveen often speaks at public and private functions about intercultural dialogue, storytelling and community engagement.
