Art & Tolerance 501(c)(3)
Engaging Communities Through Art
Welcome to Art & Tolerance, fostering dialogue, understanding, tolerance and connection through artistic expression.
Panjabi Poetica
We nurture a love for Panjabi poetry amongst a multi -generational & multi-religious group which includes students, artists, culture bearers and community members. Continuing the popular tradition of Mehfils, we gather to recite and sing the verses and poetry of Panjabi poets, passing on Panjab’s cultural and literary traditions amongst the diaspora in California. For videos of past gatherings please click the tab in the menu bar above.
Visual Arts
We bring together artists and community members through curated art exhibits & group visits to galleries and museums with the desire to preserve & promote the arts and literature of Panjab. In Jan 2024, we visited "I will meet you yet again: Contemporary Sikh Art" at the Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles). In Nov. 2023 we visited "Out of Place" solo show of artist Rupy C. Tut at the ICA SF (San Francisco). For details please click the tab in the menu bar above.
Nurturing Culture Bearers
We invite artists - poets, singers, dancers, musicians to create ways to connect poetry to melody and movement, enhancing the reach of the spoken word as well as allowing for artists to learn from our senior culture bearers who carry native knowledge of poetic traditions.
Heer Waris Shah Reading Group
18th August 2024 2 - 4.30pm
Fremont Main Library - Fukaya Room B
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪੋਏਟਿਕਾ - ਹੀਰ ਵਾਰਿਸ ਸ਼ਾਹ
Join us as we read together the timeless poetry of Heer Waris Shah in Panjabi in a series of readings in which we will cover the 631 verses of one of the most iconic love stories from the Panjab.
Location: Fremont Main Library 400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538
Fukaya Room B
You are welcome to come & listen but if you would like to participate in the reading please message us via our facebook page so that we can assign you verse numbers beforehand. The text we are following is available online at the link below. Kindly bring your own printpout of the verses 1-72 in the pdf linked below.