Sidak is a transformative educational experience designed for young Sikh adults aged 18 to 39. It brings together seekers from all over the world to learn, grow, and lead with purpose.
Sidak is a transformative educational experience designed for young Sikh adults aged 18 to 39. It brings together seekers from all over the world to learn, grow, and lead with purpose.
This Sidak event provides participants aged 18-39 a 2.5-hour glimpse into the 2-week Sidak summer leadership program. Prospective Sidakers will get a chance to preview learning and sharing via the curated content and the inspired facilitators.
The Sikh Research Institute (SikhRI) has released its ninth research report in the State of the Panth series titled Women & Gender in Sikhi, which aims to understand and explore Sikh conceptions of women and gender, responses to gender-based inequality and oppression, and framings of masculinity.
‘Saneha: Becoming Guru-centered’ are theme-based sessions (presentation, activity, discussion) to foster Sikh values based on Gurmat.
‘Saneha: Becoming Guru-centered’ are theme-based sessions (presentation, activity, discussion) to foster Sikh values based on Gurmat.
We will reflect on the enduring effects of Partition through a conversation with third-generation Partition descendants from India and Pakistan, who are also oral historians doing the work of memory.
Several new South Asian nation-states were born as the British Raj ended in 1947. The Panjab of the Indus Valley civilization (3300-1300 BCE) and the Sikh Rulers (1710-1849) was annexed by the British in 1849 and partitioned by their Radcliffe line in 1947. Akalis have been representing the Sikh political consciousness since 1920.
Sidak seeks to provide young Sikh adults with a gift of Gurmat-centered leadership learning experience to secure—and transform—the Sikh future.
This Sidak event provides participants aged 18-39 a 2.5-hour glimpse into the 2-week Sidak summer leadership program. Prospective Sidakers will get a chance to preview learning and sharing via the curated content and the inspired facilitators.
We will discuss Panthic leadership through Sikhi ideals and historical models. We will also explore the current deficits in leadership and their code of conduct.
Join us as Harinder Singh, Thinker, Educator & Activist will be talking about the third Ghallughara in Sikh history and it's relevance to Sikhs today.
Join us as Harinder Singh, Thinker, Educator & Activist will be talking about the third Ghallughara in Sikh history and it's relevance to Sikhs today.
Join us as Amardeep Singh shares his journies and experiences on Exploring the Sikh Legacy in Pakistan & the Social-Cultural Impact of the Partition. During a personal visit to Pakistan in 2014, a journey that took him across 36 cities and villages, Amardeep felt it was important for posterity to document his explorations. In Jan 2017, he undertook another journey, traveling extensively to 90 cities and villages across Sindh, Balochistan, Pakistan Administered Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Panjab.
Join us as Harinder Singh, Thinker, Educator & Activist, will be talking about Khande-ki-Pahul. What is it? Why is it important? Why did the Guru's initiate this? This discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
Join us as Harinder Singh, Thinker, Educator & Activist will share key learnings flowing from the bani of Sidh Gosti.
Inni Kaur, Poet, Author & Storyteller and Harinder Singh, Thinker, Educator & Activist will be speaking at the Sikh Collegiate Conference 2018. They will be speaking on the topic of “How to Become Movers and Shakers” in the community (locally, nationally or internationally) while maintaining your Sikhi in modern society. The conference aims to provide a wide-scale intellectual and social platform for youth to create Guru-inspired aspirations & connections in their personal journies.
Join us as Inni Kaur, Poet, Author, Storyteller, shares her experience with Love in Sikhi. Experience the fragrance of Gurbani and the lovers of Panjab - Explore your inner creativity through poetry in this workshop.
Join us for a conversation with Jaspreet Kaur, Maneet Kaur, Jasmeet Kaur, Amarpreet Kaur, and Rapinder Kaur as they explore how being a Sikh can influence your career choices. How does your Sikhi impact what you do for a living? Regardless of whether you have a ‘traditional’ career (ex. doctor, lawyer, engineer) or something more unexpected (ex. therapist, tradesperson, writer), how does your relationship with the Guru influence the decisions you make in your job?
The event will focus on how we can incorporate Sikhi into our Professional lives and Business practices. The programs aim is to develop increasing knowledge & growth by providing real-life examples from successful Sikh business entrepreneurs.
We were once free. Our sovereign institutions were answerable only to the Guru and the Divine. Today the Akal Takht, built by Guru Harigobind Sahib, is under the laws of the Indian state. We are the world's only major faith without our own sovereign institution, the only faith whose central authority is legislated by an outside government. Imagine having our own sovereign institution, open and responsible. Imagine being proud of how the Panth is run? Imagine having a say in how your faith is governed? Imagine a Free Akal Takht.
The concept of Haumai in Gurmat is foundational to an understanding of Sikhi. In Gurbani, Haumai is the central problem that humans have to grapple with and resolve.
The work that will be discussed is based on semi-structured interviews of 40 Sikh immigrant drivers of yellow taxis who came to United States mostly from the various villages in the northwest Indian state of Punjab, India.
A deep-rooted desire to connect with the land of his ancestors propelled Singapore-based Amardeep Singh to visit Pakistan and delve into the vestiges of a community, which was impelled to move eastwards owing to the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947. The dream was fulfilled in 2014 when he undertook the journey to explore the Sikh legacy in West Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Pakistan Administered Kashmir.
Music has a very unique role in creating and propagating Sikh values. The width and depth of Sikh musical heritage will be shared based on selected Gurbani compositions along with resources for learning Sikh music from beginning to advance levels. The current state of Sikh music will be discussed in relation to Indian music and World music based on available literature and professional standards.
Please join Sarbpreet Singh, who has been mentoring young Sikhs for twenty-five years, for a conversation about Sikh Education, in which he will talk about his personal journey as a teacher and offer new ideas for meeting the challenges that we are all so familiar with, through Sikhia, a bold new initiative to redefine Sikh education.
What will be discussed is as to how the world class scholars, sociologists and intellectuals may accept the challenge to freshly define Sikhi Universals for the new world. Those Sikhi Universals will be desired to be operationalized in the North American cultures. New emphasis will divert Sikh intellectual and institutional resources from a mode of policing the Sikh religiosity to highlighting the spiritual, socio-cultural and political human values that serve today’s civil societies.
The British transferred the power in 1947 and the Panjab was partitioned, and later truncated in India. Millions were butchered and displaced in the aftermath. Plundered and violated, the Panjab has been caught between the Indo-Pak politics ever since. The presentation revisits the partition through Toba Tek Singh, and asks who’s Panjab is it anyway and who owes reparations to it. It assesses the current state of Panth vis-à-vis SGPC, Akalis and the community, and contextualizes the current political struggle for rights with special reference to Bapu Surat Singh and Gurdarspur attack.