Upcoming group tours
All tours in 2020 are cancelled. Our offerings for 2021 and 2022:
In the meantime, take a look at our virtual events. We hope to keep you engaged through the travel slowdown!
PAST: Dying Art of Handpainted Bollywood Posters
October 21, 2020
Travel to a Bollywood of yore for a behind-the-scenes look at the dying art of Bollywood posters.
India is a celebration for the senses. Upon arriving in Mumbai, visitors' eyes alight upon a vibrant cultural melange of cinema billboards, posters, and advertisements. Over the last hundred years, hand-painted billboards and posters for Indian cinema evolved into a distinctive art form. Come meet the creative geniuses of which only a handful remain, and who, despite their limited resources gave a “larger than life” image to actors whom they had never actually met.
Free, limited space.
Speaker Ali Adil Khan is founder of and curator at Toronto-based South Asian Gallery of Arts. An acclaimed art critic and sought-after speaker on South Asian Arts, Adil has extensively researched the art of BW posters which form a cherished part of his personal art collection.
PAST: Subterrranean Ghosts of the Vanishing Stepwells of India
October 07, 2020
Join us for a talk that showcases India's least-known edifices.
India’s palaces, forts, temples, and tombs are on every travel itinerary. But the country’s magnificent subterranean stepwells remain largely unknown. These unique water-harvesting structures—marvels of architecture, engineering, and art—proliferated throughout the subcontinent for over a millennium but eventually faded into oblivion by the 19th century.Victoria Lautman, author of "Vanishing Stepwells of India" (2017) has been documenting stepwells since her first visit to India in 1985. It led to many subsequent trips and ultimately an obsession with the country’s vanishing stepwells.
Free, limited space.
Watch the talk here
PAST virtual travel: Meet the Medici in Florence
September 23, 2020
We had a fabulous response to this talk!
Join us for a talk that showcases the Medici and their lasting legacy.
Each week we will start our journey at the time of the Renaissance, in a different city, exploring the history and material culture of Istanbul, Florence and Lahore. By looking at palaces and bazaars, gardens and places of worship, we will meet the patrons and the artists whose work we admire to this day.
Speaker: Based in Toronto, Shermeen Beg is an internationally trained architect with a passion for architectural history, the built environment and museums. She brings her experiences of exploring places from her travels to all her talks. Shermeen is a regular lecturer at the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University, and has spoken at the Aga Khan Museum, Rotary Club and B&R club amongst others.
Free, limited space.
PAST virtual travel: Meet the Ottomans in Istanbul
September 30, 2020
We had a fabulous response to this talk!
Join us for a talk that showcases the Ottomans and their lasting legacy.
Each week we will start our journey at the time of the Renaissance, in a different city, exploring the history and material culture of Istanbul, Florence and Lahore. By looking at palaces and bazaars, gardens and places of worship, we will meet the patrons and the artists whose work we admire to this day.
Speaker: Based in Toronto, Shermeen Beg is an internationally trained architect with a passion for architectural history, the built environment and museums. She brings her experiences of exploring places from her travels to all her talks. Shermeen is a regular lecturer at the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University, and has spoken at the Aga Khan Museum, Rotary Club and B&R club amongst others.
Free, limited space.
Group tour not your thing?
Write your wishlist. Go wild. Then write us with your basket of ideas and we'll piece it lovingly together. Solo, family reunions, special interests, milestone birthdays . . . your way, where and when you want.
