
Sakshi Taneja She/Her
Sakshi is a cultural producer and arts organizer who is deeply passionate about transformative space making, vulnerability and feeling as resistance, and the power of stories to bridge, mobilize, and heal.
She graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English and Communications. Since graduating, Sakshi has produced events ranging from visual art installations, performing arts events, book launches, concerts, symposiums, art parties and more. She is currently the producer at Indian Summer Arts Society where she produces the annual Indian Summer Festival and the BC Gin Festival, and manages the Artist as Healer project. Through her work, she aims to create spaces that invite people into embodied collective experiences and evoke belonging, vulnerability, and community connections.
Outside of work you can find her at arts programming across the city, from performing arts and QTBIPOC events to local concerts, writing workshops and vintage markets, all of which constantly inspire her to work towards more creative, inclusive, and empowering programming. She is also a lover of literature – favouring stories of the fantasy, sci-fi and horror genres – and is part of a writing club and a book club that focuses on authors of the global majority. Her poetry is going to be featured in the upcoming Rooted Rhythms online exhibition and she hopes to share more of her writing with the world even if it terrifies her.
Born and raised in Delhi, she is now based on the occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. As a South Asian queer immigrant and settler, she is working on accepting the complexities and contradictions of her identity, that love, nostalgia, and joy can coexist with conflict, dissonance, and pain.
Contact Sakshi if you have inquiries regarding festival production at [email protected]