The South Asian Salon Festival

​An evening of stories, sound, and good company.

​Join us on 19 July for a film screening, an intimate panel conversation, and a laid-back DJ session to close the night. Whether you're South Asian, part of the diaspora, or simply curious, come through for meaningful conversations, new connections, and music that brings people together.

​Featuring:

​Krantinaari (India)

​Rapper, communication designer, and founder of Sound of Women—a mobile recording studio preserving women's folk music across India. She is also the co-founder of Wild Wild Women, an all-female hip-hop collective creating space for women in music through performance, storytelling, and community. Her work bridges hip-hop, folk traditions, and cultural preservation.

​Ruby Joemai / Kaam Kari La (Netherlands)

​An interdisciplinary artist and creative producer exploring her identity as a Surinamese-Hindustani and Indo-Caribbean woman through film, textiles, fashion, performance, and participatory art. Her practice centres decolonization, diaspora, identity, and community-building through storytelling, cultural exchange, and collective joy.

​Misha (Norway / Punjab)

​A movement artist, choreographer, DJ, actor, and performer with roots in Punjab. Blending hip-hop, house, waacking, contemporary, Bollywood, bhangra, and kathak, Misha creates powerful intersections of movement, music, and culture across the globe.

​Jenna Jiya (Suriname/India)

​Jenna Jiya is a Surinamese-Indian singer-songwriter from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is best known for her participation in Dutch Idol and The Voice of Holland. Her music is a fusion Desi Pop style in multiple languages such as English, Dutch, Hindi and Punjabi. With her music she wants to make a crossover with her Indian and Surinamese roots and European upbringing. East meets West.