Shiamak Vancouver will be performing on October 13 at Diwali in Vernon Photo contributed
Diwali in B.C. is going to be bigger and better this year with programming from October 3 to November 17.
"In our second bold and ambitious year, we respond artistically to racial tensions and gender abuse that continues to threaten the safety of the world in which we live, with the theme of New Horizons," says festival artistic director and 2017 Jesse Award winner Rohit Chokhani in a news release.
Diwali in B.C. features dance, theatre and culturally specific workshops in Vancouver, Coquitlam, Vernon, Maple Ridge and Nanaimo.
A Vancouver Guldasta is on from October 2 to 21 at the The Cultch's Vancity Culture Lab and is an examination of common experience, identifying home and processing trauma.
A Vancouver Guldasta Photo contributed
The story focuses on a family living in Vancouver in the early 1980s navigating through the experience of violence in Punjab and their daughter's complicated friendship with a Vietnamese refugee who lives in their basement.
A Vancouver Guldasta takes place during the Indian government's armed invasion of the "Golden Temple," the holiest shrine of the Sikhs.
The Believers Are But Brothers runs from October 30 to November 10 at Vancity Culture Lab. The one-man show, written and performed by Javaad Alipoor, explores the world of online extremism, anonymity and hate speech taking a deeper look at toxic masculinity.
Catch Shyama, a Bharatanatyam interpretation of Tagore’s epic Bengali dance drama with original choreography by Jai Govinda on October 27 at the York Theatre.
Shyama Arno Kamolika Photo contributed
"With Shyama we explore different colours of love, the price of desire, forgiveness, and morality through one of India’s most celebrated playwrights – Rabindranath Tagore," says Chokhani.
The Hindu festival of lights falls on November 7 this year and the full schedule for Diwali in B.C., including information about how to buy tickets, is available online.
