Listen to the jazz of Judi Singh at Black Arts Centre in Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 1:06 pm Tuesday, February 17, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey\u2019s Black Arts Centre will host a \u201clistening lounge and fireside chat\u201d focused on the jazz music of Black-Punjabi singer Judi Singh on Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n
The 6 p.m. event celebrates the music and legacy of the Canadian vocalist at 10305 City Pkwy, Surrey. Tickets are free, pre-register on showpass.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hosted by 5X Fest, the gathering will feature the soundtrack of Baljit Sangra\u2019s 2025 documentary film, Have You Heard Judi Singh?<\/p>\n Guests are invited to \u201csettle into a warm lounge setting as selected tracks are spotlighted and woven into a curated fireside conversation exploring sound, identity, and cultural memory. Following the conversation, the album continues in full, creating space for casual listening, reflection, and connection.\u201d<\/p>\n Surrey Central is home to The Black Arts Centre (theblackartscentre.ca<\/a>), founded in 2022 as part of the Solid State Community Industries Network. The artist-run centre BAC supports and celebrates Black art and artists across disciplines. A new February-long exhibit \u201cFrom Horn to Home,\u201d curated by DDB Media, features art by Manar Abrre, Khadija Issa, Tutu Elradi, Remas Elradi & Saliema Maki, Rahma Muktar and Stephen Waithaka Ng\u2019ang\u2019a.<\/p>\n Sangra\u2019s movie, which streams on knowledge.ca<\/a>, shines a light on Singh\u2019s life and musical journey on the Edmonton jazz scene from the 1950s to 1970s.<\/p>\n Last September, Have You Heard Judi Singh? debuted in Surrey during the 2025 International South Asian Film Festival (iSAFF)<\/a>. In Vancouver, Sangra runs Viva Mantra Films, which produced the 2024 hockey documentary Mareya Shot Keetha Goal and also 2019\u2019s Because We Are Girls, a compelling exploration of sexual abuse in small-town British Columbia.<\/p>\n Other Black History Month events in Surrey include \u201cTuning the Future: Black Identity Through Sound,\u201d title of a free afternoon event Saturday, Feb. 21 at Surrey Art Gallery, where artists Justen LeRoy and Della Orrey lead \u201ca dynamic conversation examining sound as a vessel for memory, healing, and radical possibility,\u201d according to surrey.ca<\/a>. <\/p>\n Elsewhere, Surrey Libraries hosts Black History Month events in February including a Worlds Within movie for adults at the Newton branch Feb. 20, 3 p.m. start. The 40-minute film \u201cdelves into the extraordinary lives of Black pioneers who overcame immense challenges to shape their communities and leave a lasting legacy,\u201d says a post on surreylibraries.ca<\/a>. Registration required, call 604-598-7406. <\/p>\n The celebration of Black History Month originates from the U.S. professor Carter G. Woodson\u2019s 1926 declaration of Negro History Week, marking birthdates of civil rights activists Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to the jazz of Judi Singh at Black Arts Centre in Surrey Published 1:06 pm Tuesday, February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-482796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}