{"id":4277,"date":"2025-09-23T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:53:36","slug":"sikh-heritage-museum-hosts-cultural-discovery-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2025\/09\/23\/sikh-heritage-museum-hosts-cultural-discovery-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh Heritage Museum Hosts Cultural Discovery Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4279 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_IMG_9715.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 22 September 2025, the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) hosted Cultural Discovery Day at the Sikh Heritage Museum (SHM) as part of the City of Abbotsford\u2019s Cultural Day programming!<\/p>\n<p>SASI Museum Assistant, Makenna Brar, led guided tours of the grounds of the National Historic Site, Gur Sikh Temple with a fun scavenger hunt activity encouraging listeners to fill in the blanks based on the information they were learning!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following this, there was a viewing of a short educational video and a further talk as well as a question-and-answer session with Makenna inside the ground floor legacy hall. Visitors were then given the opportunity to explore the SHM\u2019s current exhibit, \u201c<em>Chandra Bodalia\u2019s Legacy: The History and Heritage of Gurdwaras in BC,\u201d <\/em>also located on the ground floor of the National Historic Site.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4280 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_FullSizeRender-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After absorbing the rich history of the National Historic Site and learning about the Sikh Pioneers who built the Gurdwara themselves, SASI Director, Dr. Jatinder Mann, led visitors upstairs into the Darbar Hall where he gave an introduction to the Sikh faith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4281 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2025\/10\/thumbnail_Unknown.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end, visitors were able to trade in their worksheets for a delicious chocolate prize!<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in booking a guided tour, please email <a href=\"mailto:sasi@ufv.ca\">sasi@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more photos click <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHBqjCw734\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: John Yip at Photopeutic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22 September 2025, the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) hosted Cultural Discovery Day at the Sikh Heritage Museum (SHM) as part of the City of Abbotsford\u2019s Cultural Day programming! SASI Museum Assistant, Makenna Brar, led guided tours of the grounds of the National Historic Site, Gur Sikh Temple with a fun scavenger hunt activity &#8230; <a title=\"Sikh Heritage Museum Hosts Cultural Discovery Day!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2025\/09\/23\/sikh-heritage-museum-hosts-cultural-discovery-day\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":4281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4291,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}