Editing South Asian Visual Arts Center (section)

== History of SAVAC==
 
In 1993 a progressive group of artists came together to program exhibitions of contemporary visual art for Desh Pardesh, an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto. Four years later SAVAC was formally established as an artist-run centre, producing exhibitions and contemporary art projects in collaboration with other artist-run centres.
 
In 2001 SAVAC was incorporated as a non-profit arts organization with Rachel Kalpana James as the Founding Director. In 2006, Haema Sivanesan was appointed as the Executive Director. Srimoyee Mitra has been the Programming Co-ordinator since 2007.
SAVAC was registered as a Charitable Organization in 2009.
 
For more about Desh Pardesh please read:
Sharon Fernandez, "More than Just an Arts Festival: Communities, Resistance, and the Story of Desh Pardesh," Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol 31, No 1 (2006)
http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/1778/1902

{{From|http://www.savac.net|http://www.savac.net/about-savac.html}}