Recently, artist Ben Sisto was tipped off to the presence of “many” VHS tapes in the basement of the East Side restaurant Not Just Snacks. Ben visited owner Mohammed Islam and was shown a wall filled with Hindi-language tapes. A real “Wow!” moment. A handshake deal was made, and Ben left with over 600 tapes.

Ben shared an image of the tapes on a listserv and was promptly contacted by Sandy Dahari, a video editor who’d just been “shocked back to adolescence.” Sandy recalls, “I was no longer a 37-year-old Providence transplant, but again a Guyanese-American pre-teen intensely pursuing titles in a small Indian-owned video store in New Jersey. I would’ve never thought to see these kinds of tapes again, not in 2026.”

More info coming soon!

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This show is part of an ongoing series at the Providence Public Library organized by Rebecca Noon (Providence Department of Art, Culture, and Tourism), Neal Walsh (AS220), and Ben Sisto (OPEN). Our signage sponsor is Wayfinder Collaborative; photography services donated by Therese Iacono Photography.