Join South Asia Institute for an evening celebrating the artists, stories, and cultural legacies that shape our communities—and the possibilities they create for generations to come.

Celebrating Legacies: Preserving Stories, Inspiring Tomorrow brings together artists, collectors, cultural leaders, philanthropists, and friends of SAI for our annual night of art, conversation, and celebration.

This year, we are honored to welcome Illinois Supreme Court Justice Sanjay Tailor as our keynote speaker.

Throughout the evening, guests will experience SAI’s annual art auction, encounter the artists and ideas at the heart of our work, and celebrate a growing cultural institution dedicated to preserving and advancing South Asian and South Asian American arts and humanities.

Your participation directly supports SAI’s exhibitions, performances, literary and educational programs, artist opportunities, and community initiatives—helping preserve important histories while creating space for new voices, new work, and new legacies to emerge.

An Evening in Support of Art, Memory, and the Future

The Gala is more than a celebration of what has been built. It is an invitation to consider what we choose to carry forward.

Across generations and geographies, cultural legacies survive through the people who preserve them, question them, reinterpret them, and pass them on. At South Asia Institute, those conversations take place through contemporary art, performance, literature, scholarship, food, music, and community.

On September 26, we gather to celebrate that continuum and to help shape what comes next.

Be Part of the Legacy

Attend the Gala. Become a sponsor. Support an artist. Acquire a work of art.

Your participation helps South Asia Institute preserve stories that deserve to endure while creating the conditions for the next generation of artists, thinkers, and cultural voices to define what comes next.

Celebrate what we inherit. Invest in what we leave behind.

To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact fundraising@saichicago.org.