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À propos de l'artiste
A movie director from 2014. Having worked in the media arts since 1993, shaped by the NSI, NFB, FAVA, and top industry professionals. My heritage is shaped by the lived experience of a Bengali immigrant family in Alberta since the 1960s and the communities we serve.
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Origines ethniques
Sud-asiatique
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Langues
Anglais
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Mes Disciplines
Danse, Arts médiatiques
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Déclaration de l'artiste
A story transforms into art when it hits the right notes to stir a shift in the listener's perspective and transforms life patterns from that moment. To make it happen is also an art where all the craftspeople pull together with a design that gets it rolling.
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Ce que je crée
A coalition to unlock a system to enable equity seeking Asian heritage artists and stakeholders engaged with the Thousand Faces Festival as a diverse platform together with Chinatown Transformation Collective, Council of India Societies of Edmonton, Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation, Canadians for a Civil Society and the communities they serve.
Où j'en suis dans mon parcours de décolonisation
In 2015, I brought in a crumbling family tree record to the Provincial Archives for consultation and discovered the implications of South Asian absence or perhaps exclusion from private records and a need for trust building relationships, one restorative build at a time.