Dyeing & Dying Exhibit: Opening Reception

Let’s begin at the end.

Dyeing and Dying marks the culmination of Varsha Gill and Shahir Krishna’s 2025 Artist as Healer residency with Indian Summer Festival. This installation emerges from a series of contemplative community workshops about death and dying held in Spring 2025. The workshops welcomed participants into a slow unraveling of their myriad relationships to death, grief, and the things that remain unsaid.

Rooted in somatic facilitation, ritual, and natural textile arts, the Dyeing & Dying installation opens a portal to consider death not only as an end, but also a beginning and an offering. This opening reception invites you to interact with textile creations, read and write reflections on grief and healing, and encounter a death shroud performance by shibari artist Soya Sabi—all while being immersed in a spatial sound installation by percussionists Jen Yamakovich and Adrian Avendano.

Together, the Dyeing & Dying workshops and installation explore how contemplative community art and ceremony can weave meaningful connections amidst the isolating forces of our times, helping lighten the weight of the grief we carry. Join us as we traverse a textured landscape of mourning and memory, instilling a sense of wonder toward the question: How might contemplating dying help us tend more fully to living?

 

🎟 Ticket Pricing

Exhibit is Free

Opening Reception – $10 (excluding fees & taxes)

Please note: Prices displayed on the ticketing page include Showpass fees. Applicable taxes will be added at checkout.

 

Supported by: Metro Vancouver Cultural Grant

Festival Supporting Partner: Granville Island

Founding Cultural Partner: Canada India Network Society

 

Access Information:

Ocean Artworks is an outdoor, covered pavilion at street level, with no ramps or steps to enter. There are no bathrooms onsite. For more comprehensive accessibility information see: Ocean Artworks Accessibility Page