Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in conjunction with Laadiyan and Naujawan Support Network welcome you to an opening reception and performance event celebrating the exhibition of Simranpreet Anand with Conner Singh Vanderbeek, Foreign Dreams and a community visual art exhibition, Foreign Dreams, in our Community Gallery.
EVENT AGENDA:
6:30 – 7 PM Opening Remarks and Welcome
7:00 – 7:30 PM Musical performance by Heera
7:30 – 8 PM Theatrical Performance Itihaas Gwaah Hai (History is Witness)
Itihaas Gwaah Hai (History is Witness)
Written by Rishi Puri, directed and acted by Davinder Singh Mahun, Only Kewal & Pinka Jugraj, Itihaas Gwaah Hai (History is Witness) explores how rights are never severed on a platter. The story of a freedom fighter who had a dream – of human freedom, of eliminating the difference between rich and poor – this fighter died and his dreams died with him. Now a statue who observes the world passing by, the dreamer/fighter comes alive to share his sorrows and complaints about the world he left behind to a drunk on the road nearby. The statue shares how his dream was hijacked and people misled.
BUSSING FROM BRAMPTON
For international students and young workers coming to the event from Brampton, a 46 seat passenger school bus will be available. To access the bus assemble at 4:00 pm in front of Lot 6 near the Student Center on the Davis Campus of Sheridan College, 7899 McLaughlin Road, Brampton. View a map of the Davis campus. View an image of the David campus map with the departure point indicated. Prabhjot Virk, Programs Manager at Laadiyan, is the point of contact for students and young people meeting up at the departure point. The bus will depart the Davis campus at 4:30 p.m. bringing passengers to the opening reception at Workers Art & Heritage Centre, 51 Stuart St, Hamilton.
The bus will depart WAHC at 9 PM returning passengers to Lot 6 near the Student Center on the Davis Campus of Sheridan College, 7899 McLaughlin Road, Brampton, around 10pm.
WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts and OSSTF for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.
For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca
