Noni Kaur
SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (CSACH) are pleased to welcome Noni Kaur as the winter 2024 artist-in-residence at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). Over...
Forbidden Images: art and resistance under occupation
Recorded on February 24, 2024 What role can art play in contexts of war, apartheid, and settler colonialism? What makes expressions of resistance and solidarity so powerful as to be heavily censored? For decades,...
Fan Out
October 18 & 25, 7-9pm ESTat Gallery 44 (Suite #120)401 Richmond Street West October 28, 2-4pm ESTat the Commons (4th floor)401 Richmond Street West Accessibility: Closed captioning, chat, and reactions will be enabled in...
THREE PROMISES الوعود الثلاثة
Co-presentation with Toronto Palestine Film Festival Tickets can be found here 29 September 2023 In-theatre: TIFF Lightbox at 8:00pm – 10:00pm Online launch: 8:00pm Online screening will be available for on-demand viewing from the...
SAVAC COMMUNITY FIELD TRIP
Saturday, 12 August 2023 10:00am-5:00pm Free event, registration required Looking for something fun to do outside of Toronto? Join our SAVAC Community Field Trip! We’re thrilled to offer a day trip to four amazing...
DOORS OPEN TORONTO
Community Vibrations curated by Kelly Lui and Kaitlynn Tomaselli Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, The Commons @ 401 4th floor, 401 Richmond Street West 52 minutes One weekend a year, dozens of sites open their doors for...
Passages
Co-presenting with Images Film Festival Parastoo Anoushahpour, Rojin Shafiei, Naghmeh Abbasi,Siavash Yazdanmehr Passages foregrounds the work for four Iranian filmmakers: ParastooAnoushapour, Naghmeh Abbasi and Siavash Yazdanmehr, and Rojin Shafiei.The works examine the political positioning...
Writer in Residence: Aaditya Aggarwal
Our writer-in-residence Aaditya Aggarwal produced four texts that responded to SAVAC’s 30 year archive. These texts have culminated in a beautiful publication that we are excited to share with our community. Aaditya received editorial...
Leena Manimekalai
Leena Manimekalai is a published poet and award-winning filmmaker from the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu whose works promote human rights, particularly those of marginalized people, such as the Dalit, Refugee, LGBTI+ community....
