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  • Etienne Siew performs a song on acoustic guitar.
    07 May 2017 | Ismaili Centre Vancouver

    exploreAsian Festival event at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby

    Etienne Siew performs a song on acoustic guitar. Shamir Bharmal
  • Aly Sunderji performs a classical composition in Raga Vrindavani Sarang
    07 May 2017 | Ismaili Centre Vancouver

    exploreAsian Festival event at the Ismaili Centre, Burnaby

    Aly Sunderji performs a classical composition in Raga Vrindavani Sarang Shamir Bharmal
2:00 PM
8 May 2017
1:45 PM
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Ismaili Centre Burnaby
Canada

Burnaby – Musicians, poets, authors and calligraphers gathered from across the Greater Vancouver area to share and perform in a Chai House format as part of Asian Heritage Month’s exploreAsian Festival. 

Each artist was given 10 minutes to perform and share their unique and deeply personal work with an audience that represented Vancouver’s robust and diverse arts and culture community. 

This is the second year that the event has been held at the Ismaili Centre. As stated by Imtiaz Popat, a member of exploreAsian festival, “… Mehfil Chai House was a wonderful celebration of Asian Heritage month with such a representation of the diversity of the South Asian and Central Asian artists in Metro Vancouver. It was a perfect example of the pluralist ideas being expressed in the variety of art forms presented."