Sian Culture in the West

Noveml 10, 1991 Euclid Theatre

Five days of outspoken and challenging programs taking up i iWirg.nM Identity, Home, , lesbian and gay life, feminism and w om ens^ experience among South Asians in the West.

Featuring the changing shape of South Asian cultural expression with' $ new and provocative films, videos, poetry, literature, theatre, music I and performance art by artists and activists living in Britain, The United States and Canada. W...

Film + Video premieres: Feature Film Khash by Pratibha Parmar (U K.) Sneak Preview: Bolo Boln by Gila Saxena and lan Rashid (Cmoda) Masala by Srinivas Krishna fTumniu) lareeiu Portrait o f a Hidja by Prtm Kalliat (US.) Knowing her place by Indu Knshnan (US.) Appearing with their democracy in Crisis by Manjira Dana (India) film or video work: M lu ri and Coke by Rukltsana Mosani (U.K./Soutb Alrttci) Pratibha Parmara (U.K.). A NK M huigem ent Gurinder Chada (U.K.) Srinivas Krishna (), Gita Saxena (Toronto); Ian Rashid (Toronto/U K.). Manjira Datta (Indio).

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Advance Passes S3S available at: Readings/Performance/Presentation: Bhangra + Dance Party Theatre performances: The Toronto Women’s Bookstore (Harbord St.) Sunil Gupta (U.K.), Moyez Vassanji (Toronto), Nayan Shah at the Rivoli, 332 Queen SL W. Bey ond The Kala Pani This Ain’t The Rosedale Library (Church Sc.) (U.S.), Sadhu Binning (Vancouver), Raj Pannu (Vancouver), Friday Nov. 8, 9:30pm Indo women’s collective Ramabai Espinet (Toronto). Arnold Itwaru (Toronto), Malika Shameless/Baysharam Pages Bookstore (Queen St W) featuring British Bhangra DJ Riru Mendez (Toronto), Aruna Srivasuva (Vancouver), Ashok Mathur South Asian Sisters in solidarity + Toronto's CKLN DJ Michelle Mohabeer The Indian Record Shop (Gerrard St. E) (Calgary), jamila Ismail (Vancouver), Fauzia Rafiq (Toronto), Sunera Thobani (Vancouver) and many more.... Wednesday tive of Indo Caribbean women 9:30pm Evening Programmes: British DJ Ritu and others. tracing the migration of women Desh Pradesh Dance Party November 6th from India to the Caribbean to The Rivoli - 332 Queen St. W. 7 : 0 0 p m 2pm: Canada. A dramatic reading of With British Bhangra DJ “Ritu” Woman vision Home as a Mythic Space 7 : 3 0 p m Suniti Namjoshi’s work by and Toronto’s CKLN DJ Michelle A Nice Arrangement a short film by Exploring the meaning of home Shifting Identities Toronto Actor Malika Mendez Mohabeer. Gurrinder Chada (director of I’m to various sectors of the South The Canadian premiere of Khush and Takari and Coke a video docu British But), Knowing Her Place a Asian community. With Michelle a dramatic documentary film mentary by Rukhsana Mosam video by Indu Krishnan (U.S.) Mohabeer (Tor/), Moyez about South Asian Lesbian and (U.K.), about South Asians in Saturday investigating cultural schizophre Vassanji (Tor/East Africa), Pratib Gay life by Pratibha Parmar. Also, South Africa will precede the November 9th nia experienced by a woman and ha Parmar (U.K./East Africa), Raj Toronto video producer Gita Sax- play. Baysharam/Shameless, a play by Pannu (Van/lndia), and Arun ena’s Second Generation, author of Daytime Workshops Toronto’s South Asian Sisters in Prabha Mukherjee (Tor/lndia). Nuclear Seasons— Toronto’s Indo- Friday Solidarity. Caribbean writer Ramabai Noon: 4pm: Espinet, and Vancouver critic November 8th Violence Against Women 9:30pm Print Media Alternatives Aruna Srivastava and Calgary Panelists include Vancouver femi Brown and Out Existing and forming magazines publisher and poet Ashok Math- 5:30pm nist activist Sunera Thobani and The Canadian Premiere of Jareena, and journals which serve as a ur, present In view, Interview, Iden- India Without Romance Fauzia Rafiq of DIVA alongside Portrait of a Hijda a video about forum for South Asian culture in tiview. Progressive feminist film maker screening of a video produced by Indian transvestites by Prem the west; DIVA (Toronto), Rungh Manjira Datta from India presents South Asian women in Vancouver. Kalliat (U.S.). Ferdous a short film (Vancouver), Ankur (Vancouver), Thursday Democracy in Crisis, a left perspec by Shakila Mann (U.K.) experi Toronto South Asian Review, tive on the current political situa 2pm: menting with lesbian images in Khush Khayal, and others. November 7th tion in India including coverage Identity, Sexuality and History the Koran. Gay photographer/ of the 1991 Indian elections. A A presentation by Nayan Shah writer/ cultural producer Sunil Sunday evening 7 : 0 0 p m discussion with the film maker (U.S.) on race and sexuality con Gupta presents Time Based Art and Closing Celebrasian Brave New Words will follow the screening. struction of identities by South Cultural Difference— The emergence of Literary readings featuring Toron Asian lesbians and gay men. South Asian Lesbian and Gay Identities in 7 : 0 0 p m to’s Moyez Vassanji, author of No 7:30pm the U.K. and Pratibha Parmar. Toronto musicians Sheila James - New Land, Indo Caribbean writer Masala 4pm: solo vocals and keyboards, Ritesh Arnold Itwaru author of the book A sneak preview of Toronto Organizing around AIDS/HIV Sunday Das and friends on tabla, sitar of poems Body Rites, Vancouver director Srinivas Krishna’s dra in the South Asian communities and keyboards, a writers cabaret performance poets Jamila Ismail matic-comedy about the lives of Featuring the Premiere of Bolo Bolo November 10th featuring twelve writers on the and Raj Pannu and Punjabi poet two South Asian families. Starring a video by Gita Saxena and Ian theme of “Home”, and The Sadhu Binning, Gay cultural act Saaed Jaffrey (in three different Rashid about South Asians and Daytime Workshops Tarana Dance School with an ivist & emerging poet Ian Rashid. roles). Masala opens in major HIV/AIDS, special guest Aisha Indo Caribbean dance piece Oh Canadian cinemas in late Novem Khan, chair of Muslim Women’s Noon: Tassawale. 9:30pm ber. The Director will be on Aid U.K., an HIV/AIDS steering Hybrid Musics The Journey hand for a discussion following group in London, Aids Activists A discussion of the evolving Beyond The Kala Pani (beyond the the film. Kalpesh Oza & Anthony forms of South Asian music from black water), a play by a collec Mohammed. Bhangra to soca to classical. With