Members of the Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji Gatka Akhara put on a spirited Gatka demonstration at the Royal B.C. Museum to mark the start of a two-day exhibition of Sikhi art and Sikh artifacts.
The ringing sounds of swords clashing with shields could be heard from the Royal B.C. Museum ’s Clifford Carl Hall on Saturday afternoon as Sikh martial arts practitioners showed off their skills.
Gatka instructor Paneet Singh said while the population here is smaller compared with the Lower Mainland, Victoria has an “active and motivated” Sikh community. Paneet Singh is returning to the museum on April 17 to share the story of Mewa Singh, who was executed in 1915 for his assassination of an immigration minister that occurred shortly after the Komagata Maru incident.
Kim Gough, the museum’s acting director of audience experiences, said this is the third year that the museum has worked with Victoria’s Sikh community to put on a temporary exhibit during Sikh Heritage Month, which itself is a part of a longer relationship that the museum has built with Canada’s South Asian community.Gough said there are early discussions about developing a further exhibition about Mewa Singh in time for next year’s Sikh Heritage Month.
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