Length: 60 minutes
How To Watch: Streamed LIVE on our Instagram and Facebook pages.
NOTE: This walking tour is a strictly LIVE EVENT and will not be available for viewing once it is completed.
Punjabi Market Walking Tour
In 1969, the iconic Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara moved from its original building on 2nd Avenue in Kitsilano to its current location on Ross Street in South Vancouver - and in 1970, business began to boom on Main Street in South Vancouver.
Join Naveen Girn, Milan Singh, and Paneet Singh, hosts of The Nameless Collective podcast, on a walking tour of Vancouver’s iconic Punjabi Market. A centre for commerce, community, and activism, for decades the Punjabi Market was the hub of the South Asian community across the entire West Coast. The tour dives into the unique buildings and businesses between 51st and 48th avenue along Main Street through stories from the community. Historical facts, everyday gossip, and everything in between - this tour paints a picture of the many aspects of the Punjabi Market over the last 50 years.
About Podcasts & Time Travel
Often we’re forced to relate to the spaces around us through a colonial understanding. We live on streets named after white dudes, in cities named after colonizers, amongst statues immortalizing so-called explorers - so it’s time to change the conversation.
The Nameless Collective brings their flavour of disrupting homogenized, palatable narratives to the Monsoon Festival with three events unpacking the history of the South Asian community on unceded Coast Salish lands.
Explore over one hundred years of the South Asian community’s history and activism through digital walking tours of Kitsilano and the Punjabi Market on August 11th and 18th. Followed by a panel conversation on August 25th with The Nameless Collective podcast hosts Naveen Girn, Milan Singh, and Paneet Singh, and producer Manjot Bains, in which they will discuss motivations, challenges, and adventures in exploring this history.
