Browse Exhibits (3 total)
Emergence: Out of the Shadows Documentary
This exhibition showcases Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society's documentary Emergence: Out of the Shadows (2021) directed by Vinay Giridhar. The documentary follows the lives of three queer South Asian individuals and their families.
Copies of the documentary were donated to The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives and is available for on-site viewing. The collection can be accessed through F0266 Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society fonds.
For all screening, distribution, or related inquiries regarding the documentary, please contact founder Alex Sangha at info@shervancouver.com.
Anthony Mohamed Collection
Anthony Mohamed is a gay, South Asian, Caribbean, Canadian activist and equity worker in Toronto. He has been a pivotal figure in various advocacy groups and organizations spanning decades. The following collection, generously donated by Anthony himself, provides a glimpse into his life, activism, and work, highlighting many important moments of AIDS organizing in Toronto, and the experience of being a queer person of colour.
Digital exhibit compiled and created by Caitlin Monteiro
Not A Place On The Map: Desh Pardesh, 1988-2001
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. The South Asian Visual Arts Centre created these oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival in 2016.
Credits: Created by students Amal Khurram and Alisha Krishna for the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory. The Collaboratory is directed by Dr. Elspeth Brown and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.