ICAC / Initiatives
What we runFive platforms, one council.
Each initiative runs as its own festival with its own audience, its own team and in most cases its own website. This is the overview.
Literary arts
Canada Literature Festival
Authors, poets and readers exploring the literatures of Canada, India and the diaspora. Now in its third chapter.
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Festival · since 2014
Canada Diwali RazzMatazz
Canada's defining Diwali celebration and the country's largest free festival of light, held at Mississauga Celebration Square.
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Food and culture
Diwalicious
Canada's largest Diwali culinary celebration. Five festival districts turning food into an immersive cultural experience.
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Cinema
Classic Legends Indian Film Festival
Classic Indian cinema read as literature's continuation. Landmark adaptations revisited on their anniversary years.
Learn moreCultural Missions
The fifth platform travels.
Cultural Missions is how the council brings artists from India directly to Canadian audiences, city by city. Unlike our festivals it is time‑bound rather than annual, so each mission lives here on this site for its full run and then becomes part of the archive.
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