VIDEO: Race and recreation tested at new We Are Hockey exhibit in Abbotsford
The hockey game is ready to be celebrated through a unique lens later this month at Abbotsford’s Gur Sikh Temple. The South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley is imparting the We Are Hockey show off on the website, with a gap launch on March 29. Organizers country that the exhibit has been curated to the traveler’s mission to interrogate who the “we” is in Canadian hockey and the specific meanings of a completely non-public attachment to its iconic fame for Canadians across the United States of America. The show-off has been created as a counter-narrative to Canadian ice hockey as a ‘white handiest’ recreation. Curated on the stories of people of shade, it targets demanding linear situations, meaning hockey is Canada’s countrywide sport. According to SASI director Satwinder Bains, the exhibit has artifacts, memorabilia, images, and memories with superb ancient breadth reflecting the often conflicted, encumbered Canadian responses to gamers of color.
“These gamers have regularly been relegated to the margins in favor of famous hockey expertise as a white man’s sport,” Bains stated. She hoped to look at all kinds of hockey fans on the unfastened showcase. “I’m hoping humans come and develop their horizons and understand that it is an iconic game, but it has its darkish history as well, and they understand our function is now not simply speaking approximately south Asians but of everybody of all backgrounds to discover a not unusual humanity and to carry at the fight in opposition to racism and discrimination,” she said.
“Hockey is often celebratory, but a dark underbelly may need to be mentioned as nicely.” The starting reception on March 29 consists of a Canucks Community Partnership, presenting a go-to by Fin and giveaways. Items encompass a Manny Malhotra game-worn Vancouver Canucks jersey, a timeline and records of gamers of color in ice hockey, a center-level installation for Hockey Night Punjabi, and lots more. Special guests encompass Harnarayan Singh and Randip Janda from Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi version. The event kicks off at five p.m. On March 29, and could run for approximately twelve months on the temple.
