Creative | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 91ÑÇÉ« Mon, 04 May 2026 18:34:07 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Cyrus Sundar Singh /research/tubman/profile/cyrus-sundar-singh/ Mon, 04 May 2026 18:34:06 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=9574 dr. Cyrus is a multidisciplinary scholar/researcher, filmmaker, musician, author, poet, and changemaker. From arriving as a fresh-off-the-boat 10 year-old from India, to a professional musician touring across North America, to a documentary filmmaker, to a migration scholar and assistant professor, Cyrus has consistently curated stories and scholarship promoting social justice, equity, and engagement in amplifying diverse voices. From the National Film Board of Canada’s Gemini Award-winning documentary debut Film Club (2001) to the genre-bending nascent live-documentary world premieres: Brothers In The Kitchen (2016) and Africville in Black and White (2017/18), Cyrus’ outputs of scholarly research, publications, and creative productions have taken him around the world including the Faroe Islands, Haiti, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Portugal, India, Jamaica, and South Africa.

Since 2020, as a Research Fellow with CERC in Migration at Toronto Metropolitan University, Cyrus mentored over 54 Indigenous and non-Indigenous graduate students across three nationwide multimedia cohorts. From coast to coast, these participants individually and collectively unpacked senses of identity and belonging across this land we call Canada, and produced compelling narrative-driven creative works. This new scholarship and its accompanying educational learning resources will greatly assist the next generation of students. From music to verse, lectures to performances, the collected wisdom that Cyrus shares in the classroom reflects the journey of successes, failures, and the scars earned.

Keywords: Migration, Refuge, Creative, Story, Documentary, Narrative, Multimedia

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