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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">If you could please forward this exhibition invitation onto the BCMA list serve that would be greatly appreciated! The official press release can be read here:
<a href="http://blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2015/09/misinterpretation-exhibition-looks-at-sikhism-from-a-feminist-perspective/">
http://blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2015/09/misinterpretation-exhibition-looks-at-sikhism-from-a-feminist-perspective/</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">(Mis)Interpretation: Sikh Feminisms in representations, texts and lived realities<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sikh Feminist Ethnographic exhibit at the University of the Fraser Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Abbotsford, BC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sept 29 – October 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">UFV S'eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">You are invited to a critical Sikh feminist ethnographic exhibition curated by the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley. The exhibit is created in partnership
with the Visual Arts Department and the International Department and officially opens on September 29th at 5 pm at the S'eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery Building B Room 136 Abbotsford campus. The exhibit is entitled -
<b><i>(Mis)Interpretation: Sikh Feminisms in representations, texts and lived realities</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The goal of this exhibit is to de-centre the notion of a normatively androcentric faith discourse and to (re)raise the textual and practical meaning of Sikh feminist thought and understanding.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">The exhibit looks at how the Sikh spiritual text, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is to be understood and interpreted individually by all practicing Sikhs, guided by the rehat (the code), historical
texts, various interpretations, contemporary views and personal sense-making (via spiritual learning and lived realities).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">As well, in this exhibit Sikh women see themselves not just as interlocutors but as vital meaning makers of the faith, its various interpretations and its inherent impact on their lives by way
of the 5 Kakkar’s – Sikh articles of faith where the ethical Khalsa is imbued with gender neutral/supportive personal agency. As well Sikh women’s daily engagement and access to the living world is explored through photographs taken by eight Sikh women. The
meaning of Ikk Oan Kar and its universal appeal is reconnoitered and the textual interpretation of the Sri Guru Granth through a female lens is surveyed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Leading feminist scholar Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh of Colby College, USA will give the keynote speaker, bringing voice, praxis, understanding and sense-making. The daily representation of
a diasporic reality that is feminine consciousness personified is explored through a short documentary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Everyone is welcome, doors open at 5 pm and welcome refreshments will be served.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">For more information please contact
<a href="mailto:Sharanjit.Sandhra@ufv.ca">Sharanjit.Sandhra@ufv.ca</a> or 604-851-6325<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><img border="0" width="492" height="761" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D0EF9F.2D703030" alt="cid:image007.jpg@01D0EF9F.2D703030"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thank you kindly for your support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">-sharn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, MA, PhD Student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Centre for Indo Canadian Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">University of the Fraser Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:sharanjit.sandhra@ufv.ca">sharanjit.sandhra@ufv.ca</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">604-851-6325<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Toll Free: 1-888-504-7441/local 6325<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://blogs.ufv.ca/indocanadianstudies"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://blogs.ufv.ca/indocanadianstudies</span></a>
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