Notability: Contemporary Canadian South Asian Cultural Histories and Notations

Writing Is A Practice, A Vapour, A Many-Toed Thing
Centre A – 2024 Art Writing Mentorship
Vancouver, BC
May 31, 2024 – Zool Suleman, Speaker
Program Mentor – Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross
Mentees: Oceania Chee, Sena Cleave, Lauren Han, Maliv Khondaker, Parumveer Walia, 

Centre A invited Rungh Editor, Zool Suleman, to provide a talk to writers in its 2024 Writers Workshop. The topic was: “Notability: Contemporary Canadian South Asian Cultural Histories and Notations”. The presentation focussed on Rungh Magazine, magazine production challenges, and how IBPOC arts histories are consistently excluded from the pages of Wikipedia. 

A recording of the talk was provided to Rungh by Centre A and is included here, which also includes a slide presentation. The questions raised touched upon what is South Asian, fact checking, voice, the commissioning of articles and the challenges in defining an audience.