Current,
Currents
Art Show
Free Entry Open to the Public
Join us at Oyate Group for Indian Arrival | Indentured Survival 2025: Current, Currents, a powerful one-day gathering that explores Indo-Caribbean identity through art, memory and migration. Curated by artist and storyteller Raqeebah Zaman, this immersive experience features a collective of voices reclaiming history and imagining new futures through creative expression.
When
Saturday, May 10, 2025
at 2:00 p.m. ET
Where
Oyate Group Headquarters
276 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10451
Featured Artists
Raqeebah Zaman
Raqeebah Zaman
Curator: Current, CurrentsWill Depoo
Will Depoo
Co-curator: Current, Currents
Anlisa Outar
Anlisa Outar
Silkscreen Artist
Elizabeth Shanaz
Elizabeth Shanaz
Author and Lawyer
Helena Rampersaud
Helena Rampersaud
Multimedia Storyteller and Poet
Jasmine Baksh
Jasmine Baksh
Artist
Jess Balgobin
Jess Balgobin
WriterKaren Sonilal
Karen Sonilal
Artist, Writer and DancerKevita Junior
Kevita Junior
Documentary and Portrait PhotographerNazrina Rodjan
Nazrina Rodjan
Visual ArtistPriya Dadlani
Priya Dadlani
Cultural WorkerRajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir
Poet, Translator and MemoiristRo Chanchall
Ro Chanchall
Experimental Filmmaker and PoetSalee B.
Salee B.
social impact leader
Sarojini Lewis
Sarojini Lewis
Artist and ResearcherSeema Shakti
Seema Shakti
curator, visual artist and educator
Shanita Liu
Shanita Liu
ArtistTessa Alexander
Tessa Alexander
Artist
The journey from South Asia to the Caribbean carved new identities across oceans, leaving behind traces of memory, resistance and survival. Today, the echoes of that migration continue to surface in art, language and lived experience; each shaped by political shifts, inherited histories and the enduring pull of ancestral connection. The Indo-Caribbean story is not bound by geography but carried forward through creative expression that bridges past and present.
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