Indian Summer Festival
Indian Summer Arts Society produces some of Vancouver’s most distinctive arts and culture events. The Society offers audiences multi-arts experiences of exceptional calibre, curating through a South Asian lens and centering the exciting work of culturally diverse artists. They present acclaimed and emerging international and local artists, connecting Vancouver to itself and the world.
Programming across literature, music, visual arts, and the performing arts, the Indian Summer Arts Society connects rich and complex pasts with the emerging future. The society strives to be loving and fierce, with an audacious curatorial punch that dismantles walls, plays with ideas, and provokes necessary dialogue and debate. In doing this, it believes in the transformative power of the arts and their ability to offer society’s most renewable resource: hope.
Indian Summer Arts Society is a provincial nonprofit society founded in 2011, and a federally registered charitable organization based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. For the last 13 years Indian Summer Arts Society has been producing a multidisciplinary festival known as Indian Summer Festival, that offers daring, multi-arts events that bring diverse artists, audiences and artists in a global dialogue and citizenship spirit. Through an annual festival (ISF) and year-round events (ISF+), it connects rich and complex pasts with the emerging future, delighting audiences while provoking necessary dialogue and debate.
