100,000 People Show Up to Vaisakhi. Now Give Them a Dating Night.

Surrey alone has one of the highest concentrations of Punjabi Sikhs in North America. Add in the rest of the Lower Mainland and you’ve got a South Asian community that’s been here for generations, not just a recent wave. The Vaisakhi parade in Vancouver draws over 100,000 people. The audience is here. The show is not. Yet.

The format from New York: singles go on dates on stage, comedians host, and the full room mingles before and after. In Vancouver, that means bringing together the Surrey Punjabi crowd, the UBC international students, the SFU commuters, and the downtown tech workers for one night that cuts through the infamous Vancouver freeze.

Vancouver’s dating scene has a reputation for being cold and cliquey. The “Vancouver freeze” is real and it hits harder when your parents are asking why you haven’t found someone yet. UBC and SFU pump out thousands of South Asian grads every year who end up in Burnaby or New West or back in Surrey, swiping through the same twenty profiles. This show breaks that loop.

The Bollywood film market in Vancouver is one of the biggest in Canada. Desi culture isn’t niche here, it’s mainstream. A live dating show that speaks to that audience is overdue.

We’re building the waitlist now. Drop your email to get first access when we announce, or apply to be a contestant so you’re ready when we arrive.