Welcome to "Tiffin Talks – Zanani / Zamana / Zameen", the final episode of our #ISF2020 season!

Presented in partnership with Surrey Art Gallery

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

Listen to some of the most powerful thinkers in the world: Ben Okri, Anita Anand, Sanjay Kak, Marianne Nicholson, Aza Raskin and Kritika Pandey. They take us through complex histories and call on us to fight for and imagine better futures.

5×15 is a speakers series that originated in London and has featured speakers like Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem and Brian Eno. ISF has hosted the only Canadian iteration of 5×15 every year. This special global edition of 5x15 is jointly curated and hosted by Eleanor O’Keeffe (co-founder of 5×15) and our own Co-Founder and Artistic Director Sirish Rao.

Presenting in Partnership with 5x15

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

In our new podcast episode, Joseph Stiglitz and Arjun Jayadev, two of the world’s most renowned economists, explore whether the pandemic offers an unprecedented chance for a new social contract to emerge. What would it take to build a kinder and more equitable economic world on the other side of this, and what can we do to get the next decade right? 

Event Community Partner: Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP and Global Reporting Centre

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror. 

In the third and last episode of our “It could be verse” series, you’re going to listen to poems that talk about the “Natural World, our Inner Worlds, Containment and liberation”. 

Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror.

We’ve turned our original two hour event into three separate episodes for the purposes of this podcast, with each episode featuring poems grouped around a common theme.

In this episode of our three-part “It could be verse” series, you’ll hear poems that broadly speak about Love / Reunion and being in the world. 

Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library.

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror. 

We’ve turned our original two hour event into three separate episodes for the purposes of this podcast, with each episode featuring poems grouped around a common theme. 

The first episode of our three part ‘It Could be Verse’ series features poems that broadly speak about ancestors, inheritance and the stories we remember. To start us on our journey is Christie Lee Charles, a poet from the Musqueam Nation who is the current ‘Poet Laureate of Vancouver’.

Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library. 

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP 

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

Legendary environmental warriors Vandana Shiva and David Suzuki, come together in this rare conversation across continents. Both are past winners of the ‘Right Livelihood Prize’ often referred to as the ‘alternative Nobel’, and have had enormous local and global impact through their work.

Now, in the middle of a global pandemic, they invite us to consider the opportunity we have to change our ways of being as a species, and how we must truly be “all in this together”.

Event Presenting Partner: Nature's Path

Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of:

- Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University

⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia

⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC

⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠

⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC

⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada

⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC

⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation

⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP 

⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM

⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver

⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society

⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

Theatre is a shapeshifting experience – for performer, stage, and audience alike. The stage and the rituals of theatrical placemaking can, in a moment, create startling intimacy or vast distance, can evoke sudden memory, while calling to possible alternate futures. Join contemporary playwrights Rohit Chokhani, Paneet Singh, and Renae Morriseau, whose works transcend conventional understanding of placemaking in theatre by shapeshifting stages, gymnasiums, halls, and even homes. The conversation is moderated by Anoushka Ratnarajah, playwright, performer and Artistic Director of Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

Event Presenting Partner: Vancity

Clothing, storytelling, expression and identity have always been woven together. In South Asian culture, and in Indigenous Turtle Island, clothing and regalia are crucial forms of cultural and personal expression, exploring the beauty, story, spirit, and belonging. In both cases, the history of colonization and industrialization has had long-lasting and destructive effects on traditional ways of making and wearing textiles.

What we see now is a resurgence. Contemporary Indigenous and South Asian fashion mix modern day glamour, high regalia and street styles, raising up clothing as an art form and a statement. Join acclaimed Musqueam weaver and knowledge keeper Debra Sparrow in conversation with Nep Sidhu, artist and creator of the clothing line Paradise Sportif. Moderated by Mita Naidu, this talk will examine philosophies of contemporary regalia, fashion, and adornment, and what it means to walk in our finest.

This talk is curated by Joleen Mitton, founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week.

Tiffin Talks is a five-part ideas series showcasing a diverse group of thought leaders, artists, innovators, and changemakers, gathering to share ideas and a meal together. Every Tiffin Talk features South Asian and Indigenous people in conversation with each other on a wide range of topics. 

Event Presenting Partner: Vancity

Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Her latest novel is its sequel, Trickster Drift. Listen to our new podcast episode with Eden Robinson on ‘Tricksters Forever’

Event Presenting Partner: SFU Library