Sikhlens is an outlet for sharing Sikh culture by creating awareness for “Sikh-centric” Art, Film, Media and Talent.
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Tractors, water cannons, barricades, and a crowd with no visible end. The farmers' protest, painted for the walls of the Fowler Museum. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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A painted protest crowd, complete with a painted camera operator. Sonia Dhami on art and communities that have known displacement. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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A couple dressed for a formal portrait, phulkari-style color blazing behind them. Belief and belonging in a single frame. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Shipping artworks across borders costs serious money now. Artists from 5 countries still made it into Main Tainu Fir Milangi. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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A painted figure in a blue salwar kameez, white sneakers, a North American forest. Building home in a new place, on canvas. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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3 artworks commissioned just for UCLA's Sikh art show, including a Darbar Sahib installation with a soundscape in a female voice. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E
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Kartar Dhillon, born 1915, documented to be the first Sikh woman born in the US. Ghadar Party, later the Black Panthers. Her story is in the film. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Visitors found their own history on the gallery walls. Others learned it there for the first time. Sonia Dhami on both, in this short. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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OUT. NO. STOP. Two scrolls of the words outsiders hear, in a show named for Amrita Pritam's answer: I will meet you yet again. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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"I am the community. I'm not separate from there." Curator Sonia Dhami on her UCLA debut, in our new documentary: piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E
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Sonia Dhami on museums and audiences: "I've come to believe that I am the community." From the Sikhlens film on contemporary Sikh art. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Artists drawing on heritage, women building home, and a painted string of pearls held in close-up. 28 seconds from the film. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Three artworks pinned to a line: a portrait over rows of script, an elderly couple with their dog, a woman woven against a city. All from one exhibition. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Three insets in one graphic: a PEACE poster, a JUSTICE poster, and a royal figure on a decorated elephant. One show, many centuries. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Home, identity, protest: an entire exhibition layered into one portrait of the woman who co-curated it. Watch the Sikhlens documentary on YouTube. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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The woven Singh Twins artwork that became the face of Main Tainu Fir Milangi. Sonia Dhami tells its story in this short. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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Gingham, khaki, chintz, calico: words that moved from India into English, here woven into a tapestry about colonial trade. piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E #IWillMeetYouYetAgain #Sikhlens
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"The art that is created today is the history of tomorrow." Curator Sonia Dhami in our new documentary: piped.video/MoOVwKllj2E
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