Celebrating Revolutionary Art + Radical Imagination at Sundance

Join us on Friday Night (1/20) for our opening night special event, Celebrating Revolutionary Art + Radical Imagination at Sundance, featuring a live music showcase, a celebratory reception and dance party, spoken word performances, and more. Hosted by Tinsel, 1497 and Values Partnerships, this exciting gathering will take place from 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM at 1497’s South Asian Lodge located at The Shop (1167 Woodside Avenue, Park City, UT 84060) to kick off the first weekend of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Celebrating Revolutionary Art + Radical Imagination at Sundance will celebrate select Sundance 2023 films including Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, To Live and Die and Live and more, honor trailblazing voices in the community and culture and provide attendees with an unforgettable and culturally rich experience. The gathering will begin with a specially curated live program featuring live musical performances by special guests, spoken word interludes with artists performing historic work by Poet Nikki Giovanni who is the subject of Going to Mars, and more. The night will close out with a celebratory reception and dance party with South Asian Lodge’s Music Curator DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra).

Doors will open at 6:45PM. Space is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. You must RSVP ahead of time in order to gain admittance to the event.

If you’re a member of the press and want to attend and cover Celebrating Revolutionary Art + Radical Imagination at Sundance, please email SouthAsianLodge@1497.org.

If you were directly invited by one of the organizers, please contact them for VIP access to this event.

Tinsel is a tech platform and entertainment company that puts innovative narrative media projects on screen in TV, Film, and Gaming that are not typically picked by industry leaders. Tinsel's audience-driven market research, multidimensional funding strategy, and project development accelerator give audiences and storytellers the fuel to power mutually beneficial collaborations. Learn more at tinsel.io.

Founded by Joshua DuBois, Values Partnerships (VP) is the country's largest Black-owned social impact agency. VP partners with foundations, businesses, organizations, influential leaders and communities to solve big challenges, launch new projects, and expand the common good. We believe in building a world that is diverse, equitable and progressive, and they are committed to innovating solutions to today's most pressing issues that impact communities of color alongside the dreamers, builders, makers and doers of social action and long-lasting change. VP's clients include Audible, MGM, Google, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, OWN, Pinterest, Justice for Julius, A+E, NBC Universal, Shark Tank, Ad Council, One Million Black Women, NAACP, AARP and more.

1497 is committed to supporting and uplifting talent of South Asian descent to challenge their historical exclusion from and underrepresentation in the American film and television industry. 1497 was the last year that the area now known as South Asia (consisting of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) was free from colonization. We are reclaiming our collective ancestry to a time when our nations lived without the yoke of colonizers held over them.