Mandeep Sethi is a California-grown recording artist and filmmaker who uses media for social change; a storyteller of the people. Working primarily through the mediums of film and music, Mandeep’s contributions to his local and global community are focused around working alongside youth to inspire and cultivate change.
Word to Your Motherland II - Sacramento

Word to Your Motherland II – Sacramento

Kalakari Collective X Sol Collective Presents: Word To Your Motherland SACRAMENTO Edition:
SIKLIGAR ONLINE RELEASE!!! Watch Now!

SIKLIGAR ONLINE RELEASE!!! Watch Now!

On behalf of A Little Happiness Foundation, I would like to invite you watch SIKLIGAR: A Mini-Documentary, available for FREE Viewing ONLINE!     Synopsis: A documentary portraying the lives of the Sikligar Sikhs, the blacksmiths/ironsmiths and weapons makers of the Khalsa Army of the Sikhs. Very little is known...
New Mixtape: Ajna Chakra

New Mixtape: Ajna Chakra

“Mandeep Sethi releases his latest mixtape, “Ajna Chakra” [Third Eye], a culmination of his travels and experiences around the world, bringing together a global collaborative force of the dopest musicians & artists from New Delhi to New York.    Representing SlumGods and the SF Zulu Nation, Mandeep is one of those...
MTV Coke Studios w/ Karsh Kale

MTV Coke Studios w/ Karsh Kale

MTV Coke Studios w/ Karsh Kale  A few weeks back, Mandeep had the pleasure of collaborating with Karsh Kale, acclaimed music producer and tabla player, on his epsidoe of Coke Studios @ MTV India. It was truly an honor to jam for Sethi to jam alongside Karsh and the collective...
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Mandeep Sethi / Joti Singh named Winners of AIF Arts Innovation Fund 2013

It is with much honor and humility that we would like to announce Mandeep Sethi as one of the winners of the American Indian Foundation Inaugural Arts Innovation Fund 2013. We would also like to congratulate Joti Singh, who alongside Mandeep also received the AIF Fund. “Under the Fund, Mandeep will be creating “Folk Lokh”,...
Youth Workshops with The Sikh Coalition

Youth Workshops with The Sikh Coalition

In November 2012, Mandeep Sethi travelled to New York City to collaborate with The Sikh Coalition and organizer Tejpreet Saini to present Inquilab: A Poetry & Self-Expression workshop. Mandeep had collaboarated with the Coalition in the winter of 2011 as well to inaugarate this yearly workshop, which uses hip-hop culture and spoken word to allow South...
New Music Video - MOBILIZE!

New Music Video – MOBILIZE!

MOBILIZE: JANAKA SELEKTA & SETI X from Odell Hussey on Vimeo. Janaka Selekta & SETI X aka Mandeep Sethi come together for their first collaboration, bridging genres and generations of Asian underground frequencies. Filmed in the Endless Canvas Special Delivery Warehouse in Oakland, California, SETI guides the viewer through layers and layers of visual code...
3rd I South Asian Film Festival 2012

3rd I South Asian Film Festival 2012

          We are pleased to announce that two of Mandeep Sethi’s videos will be featured in this year’s 3rd I South Asian Film Festival in San Francisco, California! “Unfilmed Fantasia”, directed by Rahat Mahajan will be playing at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Thurs. September 20 at 7: 15...
Unfilmed Fantasia : New Music Video

Unfilmed Fantasia : New Music Video

Mandeep Sethi is back with a Hip-Hop classic straight from the motherland, “Unfilmed Fantasia”, off his latest mixtape “Ajna Chakra”. Embodying the essence of Hip-Hop laced with ruthless pride in his roots, Desi Hip-Hop artist Mandeep Sethi  is the guiding light for bridging the cultural & spiritual gap for South Asian youth globally.  ”Unfilmed Fantasia” takes us on an...
Word To Your Motherland!

Word To Your Motherland!

“Word To Your Motherland” is a joint project between Mandeep Sethi of SlumGods and Nisha K. Sembi of Kalakari Collective.  The project is an ever-evolving multi-media art exhibit that had its opening in the revolutionary city of Oakland, California. Below is an article from Nadabrahma.co.uk discussing the events, and the movement Hip Hop, and all...
Kalakari Safari: Street Art India

Kalakari Safari: Street Art India

Kalakari + SlumGods present: Kalakari Safari Vol. #1 – Street Art India – Lady Karma In this first episode, Kalakari Collective travels to New Delhi, India to do a workshop with local youth and create a Punjabi language wildstyle aerosol production. Featured in the visuals are the youth along with female graffiti writer Lady Karma....