Charlie Smith

1 month ago | torontospark.ca | Charlie Smith

A celebrated Indian American artist, researcher, and filmmaker will have his first institutional solo exhibition in Canada at Mercer Union. Suneil Sanzgiri will premiere a new film, An Impossible Address, in an exhibition of the same name. It will run from April 12 to June 14 at the non-profit artist-run centre in Toronto. According to a Mercer Union news release, the film continues Sanzgiri’s examination of the life of Sita Valles.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

In a world rife with religious communalism and racial silos, Indian classical dancer and choreographer Gaurav Bhatti wants to remind us of our common humanity. In his new full-length Kathak dance piece, Bulleh Shah: Seeker of Light, he draws inspiration from an 18th-century Sufi poet from Punjab. In 1680, Bulleh Shah was born as Sayyid Abdullāh Shāh Qādrī in what is now Pakistan’s province of Punjab. He gained fame as the “Poet of the People” for speaking out against powerful institutions.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

A former long-time resident Vancouver will launch her debut novel on UBC’s Point Grey campus. Diasporic writer Otoniya J. Okot Bitek begins We, the Kindling with three friends in their late 20s—Miriam, Helen, and Maggie—whose childhoods were torn asunder in northern Uganda. The trio managed to survive being held by the Lord’s Resistance Army, whose internationally notorious leader, Josephy Kony, recruited child soldiers.

1 month ago | pancouver.ca | Weekly Vibes |Weekly Vibe |Charlie Smith

A B.C. film focusing on Indigenous food sovereignty has received the most nominations at a social-justice film fest in Surrey. Tea Creek is a finalist for Rogers Group of Funds Best Canadian Documentary, Best Environmental Film, and Best British Columbia Feature Film at the Sundar Prize Film Festival 2025. Ryan Dickie, a Fort Nelson resident of Dene descent, directed the Tea Creek.

1 month ago | msn.com | Charlie Smith

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