SACRED Acts Presents Unity Fest 2026!

Join Sacred Acts for Unity Fest on Saturday, August 15 at Shruti Box from 6–9 PM!

Unity Fest celebrates anti-imperialist South Asian liberation and creates space for anti-caste and transnational community, art, and vision-making.

Learn more about SACRED's work and how you can help build an inclusive democracy! We look forward to seeing you there!
Dinner and drinks (n/a, wine and beer) included with ticket!

Featuring an evening of vibrant performances from:
🎶 Music: (NEW BAND LAUNCH) Harmony of Difference Ft , & troupe

• Yashpreet Singh is the co-founder of Shruti Box Studios and also works as a producer and engineer. Shruti Box was created as a third space and recording studio to bring the community together to create new and interesting works of music and media. Yashpreet works directly with artists as an engineer and producer to make ideas come to fruition.
  

🎭 Original Play:

• Maulikraj Shrimali (he/him) is a playwright, director, researcher and Dalit artist-activist from India. He is a third year PhD student in the Department of Performance Studies. He is a Protest song singer, Dafali (tambourine) player and Garba dancer. He has founded the Whistle Blower Theater Group, an Anti-caste theater company where he has written, directed, and performed anti caste, anti brahmanical patriarchy plays, that uses a variety of theatrical techniques to explore contemporary social and political issues in India. He is also co-founder-president of “Ambedkar-DuBois Society”. He graduated in Psychology, a Master’s in Development Communication from Gujarat University and a MPhil in Diaspora studies from the Central University of Gujarat.
  

🖼️Interactive Art Installations: and

• Safia Mahjebin is the former Chair of the Cook County Green Party. She holds a Masters of Divinity from the University of Chicago (may it be cursed for its blood soaked profits) where she spent most of her time as an anti-war and anti-racism activist. She continues to organize and construct with comrades wherever she can find them.
  
• Saju_Makes: Shaped by her identity as a disabled femme of color from an immigrant background, Sajani's work navigates both the weight of systemic oppression and the desire to find balance, connection, and meaning. Through her artistic practice, Sajani emphasizes feeling, dreaming, and imagination as essential forms of resistance against systems that disconnect us from our bodies and limit our sense of possibility. Sajani hopes her work invites viewers into moments of calm, wonder, and reflection, where joy and rest can open pathways to new ways of thinking and being.
  

✨ Poet:

• Sufyan Sohel is a civil rights lawyer, poet, and the founder of Globalize Good, where he partners with nonprofit leaders and movements to build stronger, more just communities. His work has spanned civil rights advocacy, public service, and organizational leadership, but he believes some truths are better spoken through poetry than policy. Rooted in faith and shaped by the experiences of immigrant parents, his writing explores belonging, grief, justice, wonder, and our shared humanity. Whether in a boardroom, facilitating dialogue, or on a stage, Sufyan hopes his words leave people feeling a little more connected to one another and to themselves.
  

🎧 DJ: DJ ARZÜ

• Trained at Berklee College of Music, DJ ARZÜ is a producer and DJ whose sets fuse Bollywood, Punjabi, afrobeats, house, and pop into one seamless experience. Her production and sound design background shapes every set she plays — and soon, her own original music, with a debut single and EP on the way.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need assistance!