Praveen Gupta

Indian Summer Arts Society produces some of Canada's most distinctive arts and culture events. Through a July festival and year-round programs, they present acclaimed international and local artists, connecting Vancouver and the world. The company offers audiences multi-arts experiences of exceptional caliber, curating through a South Asian lens and centering the exciting work of culturally diverse artists. Programming across literature, music, visual arts, and the performing arts, they connect rich and complex pasts with the emerging future. The company 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, they believe in the transformative power of the arts and their ability to offer society's most renewable resource: hope. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The company was founded in 2011 by Laura Byspalko and Sirish Rao.