*Post Natyam Collective -November 2006 Newsletter*
Dear friends,
Last month saw the successful conclusion two festivals : the first ever
ArtSenAsian in Munich (co-organized by Sandra) and the fourth annual Prague
Bollywood Festival in Prague (co-organized by Sangita). The two festivals
also had an exciting exchange of artists in the first step towards more
extensive collaboration in the future.
Speaking of Bollywood...if you're in Los Angeles in November "It's the time
to disco!" That's right, Shyamala is disco dancing with toilet paper in the
newest segments of her solo show RISE. If you can't imagine it, come check
it out Nov. 5 at the Platform (an awesome Sunday showcase that also creates
a venue for charity, positive vibes, and building community), and on the
19th and 20th at the Redcat (beautiful performance space attached to the
Walt Disney Concert Hall and dedicated to new, cutting-edge performance and
art). The show at the platform also features our friends Meera Kapoor,
showing segments of her new solo show, and Shaheen Shiek, strumming and
singing her heart out. More detailed information below.
Also in November, an article by Sandra will appear in the Women and
Performance Journa. The article isl titled IMPOSSIBLE HOSTING: D'LO SETS AN
UNDOMESTICATED STAGE FOR SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ARTISTS (Women & Performance: a
journal of feminist theory, Vol. 16, No. 3, November 2006, 445–464,
Pulbisher: Routledge). Congrats to both Sandra and D'lo!
And amidst it all, we are busy preparing for the Other Festival in Chennai,
where we will be performing our new show "Meet the Goddess" on December 3,
2006! Details coming soon at www.theotherfestival.com
Warm wishes to all,
Post *Natyam*
*Post* *Natyam* *Performances
*
*Los Angeles*
*Sun. Nov. 5, 7pm*
*The Platform*
Shyamala will perform the newest excerpts of RISE, along side performers
Meera Kapoor, Shaheen Shiek, Scott Tang and Kiyoshi Graves
At the Gig
7302 MELROSE AVE,
Hollywood, CA 90046
www.theplatform2006.com
*Los Angeles*
*Sun. and Mon., November 19 and 20,* *8:30pm*
* Red Cat Studio Series*
Shyamala will perform the newest excerpts of RISE.
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tickets & Information: 213 237-2800
Redcat.org <http://redcat.org/>
*Post Natyam Pointers*
*Short Listings:
*(detailed listings below)
*Events:*
*1. Minneapolis, MN, US: Ways of Knowing… At Pangea World Theater **November
2nd 3rd & 4th 7:30 PM
2. Mumbai, India: Women's Lives Women' s Words organized by SPARROW (Sound
and Picture Archives for Research on Women) and Mahila Vyaspeth (Y B Chavan
Prathishthan) 4th, 5th November *
**
*3. 2006 San Francisco, CA, US: World Premiere of Migritude, 5 November 2006
4. Machester, UK: Faith and Identity in Contemporary Visual Culture **10-11
November 2006
5. Los Angeles, CA, US: Screening: Meena Nanji:View from a Grain of
Sand, November
13, 2006
***
*6. North Hollywood, CA, US: Angahara Dance Ensemble in Dancing in the
Margins, November 10-12, 2006*
**
**
**
*Calls for Submissions:*
*1. Berlin, Germany: Berlinale Talent Campus: Call for Applications. Deadline:
1st of November 2006
2. FemTAP: Call for Papers and Art Submissions. Deadline: 6 November 20006
3. India: Experimenta 2007: Calls for Films. Deadline: 15 December 2006*
*Detailed Listings:
*
*Events*
*1. Minneapolis, MN, US *
*November 2nd 3rd & 4th 7:30 PM*
*Ways of Knowing… At Pangea World Theater*
*Ways of Knowing …* is performance art co-produced by an ensemble of artists
working in collaboration to tell individual and communal stories that evoke
the spirits of both descendants and ancestors. The production features
Beverly Cottman, Bill Cottman, Steve Hirsh, Tom Kanthak, Mankwe Ndosi,
Michael O'Brien, J. Otis Powell! and Roxane Wallace telling stories in
multiple mediums in real and imagined time.
For tickets information phone 612.203.1088. For more information visit
www.pangeaworldtheater.org
Pangea is located at 711 West Lake Street near Lyndale e in Minneapolis.
*2. Mumbai, India*
*4th, 5th November 2006 *
*Women's Lives Women' s Words
*
*organized by SPARROW (Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women) and
Mahila Vyaspeth (Y B Chavan Prathishthan)
*
Y B Chavan Auditorium, General Jagannath Bhosale Marg, Mumbai 21,
Invitations can be collected at Y B Chava Prathishthan and Chetana Kala Goda
*3. San Francisco, CA, US*
*5 November 2006, *5pm and 8pm
*World Premiere of Migritude*
*WORLD PREMIERE OF SHAILJA PATEL'S MIGRITUDE
Directed by Kim Cook
With choreography and dance by Parijat Desai*
$10 - $12
http://www.lapena.org/event/298
Migritude, Shailja Patel's one-woman spoken-word theater show uses her
trousseau of saris to unfold stories of women's lives in the bootprint of
Empire. A third-generation Kenyan Asian, Shailja covers the spectrum from
comedy to pathos to a powerful indictment of colonialism.
Migritude explores global themes; heritage, war, freedom, by making intimate
family treasures public. Similarly, it expresses universal experiences of
colonized peoples through the journeys of my own diasporic Indian family.
Three cross-continental migrations shape the story: the early 20th-century
migration of Indians to East Africa; the mass expulsion and emigration of
East African Indians to the global North from the 1970s onwards, and my own
emigration from Africa, to Europe, to the US. The sequence maps my personal
transitions as a migrant: from survival to self-expression, invisibility to
activism, model minority to radical artist.
Migritude is National Performance Network Creation Fund Project
co-commissioned by La Peña Cultural Center in partnership with Asian Improv
Arts and UC Merced Art Center Without Walls. NPN is sponsored by the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation,
Altria, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Generous funding for
Migridtude has also been provided by The City of Oakland's Cultural Funding
Program, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, The East Bay Community Foundation and generous individual donors
*also, December 1st, ODC Theater, San Francisco
8pm*
More info: Asian Improv aRts
http://www.asianimprov.org/
*4. Machester, UK
10-11 November 2006
**Faith and Identity in Contemporary Visual Culture*
*Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
*
More Information:
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/arthistoryvisualstudies...
As part of the nation-wide Festival of Muslim Cultures (2006-7), this
symposium will explore how the issue of identity, building on the identity
politics debates of the 1970s and 1980s, is re-emerging as a more nuanced,
but just as potent, force in the 21st century. The post- September 11 and
July 7 contexts - marked both by the burgeoning of artwork dealing directly
with diasporic British Muslim identities and by the ubiquity of popular
cultural imaging in Britain of local and distant versions of Islamic
cultures - lend the discussion of faith and identity in relation to the
visual arts and visual culture a particular resonance and even urgency.
The goal of the symposium is to contribute to the Festival of Muslim
Cultures a dialogue about the specificity of visual production and analysis
in relation to the particular complexities of the British Muslim landscape.
The symposium will also, however, address the role of visual culture in
articulating identities connected to other faiths in relation to diasporic
and non-diasporic local and national cultures within and beyond Britain. "
An innovative format will encourage a series of interactive dialogues. The
event will include: keynote lectures by Tariq Ali (renowned cultural
theorist, writer, political commentator, and filmmaker) and by Homi Bhabha
(internationally acclaimed postcolonial theorist; to be confirmed). In
addition, five principal themed and moderated panel sessions consisting of
provocative presentations of polemical thought pieces (not academic papers
per se), and performative events will encourage a series of interactive and
ongoing dialogues across the two-day event. In order to encourage the
development of dialogue and discussion on the part of all participants,
there will be no overlapping panels or events.
*5. Los Angeles, CA, US *
*November 13, 2006*
*Screening: Meena Nanji's View from a Grain of Sand*
*Jack H. Skirball Screening Series at the RED CAT:*
http/www.redcat.org<http://www.redcat.org>
Meena Nanji:
View from a Grain of Sand
Los Angeles premiere | 2006, 82 min., DigiBeta
"Nanji's work deals with the global diaspora of post-colonial peoples.
Driven by a passion for social justice, she filters her view of the world
through the lens of her camera." Mirali Magazine
Combining vérité footage, interviews and archival material, Meena Nanji has
fashioned a harrowing, thought-provoking, yet intimate portrait of the
plight of Afghan women in the last 30 years—from the rule of King Mohammed
Zahir Shah to the current Hamid Karzai government to the activist work of
RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Over a
period of five years, she spent months in a refugee camp in Pakistan, where
she documented the efforts of three women to rebuild their lives and help
others in the process: Shapire, a teacher; Roeena, a physician; and Wajeeha,
a social activist.
In person: Meena Nanji
The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series is curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice
Reynaud.
*6.* *North Hollywood, CA, USA *
*Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11, 2006 at 8 pm
Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 7 pm*
*Dancing in the Margins Festival*
*Featuring Artists: Angahara Dance Ensemble (Ramaa & Swetha Bharadvaj), Amy
Campion, Sri Susilowati, and Olivier Tarpaga.*
Deaf West Theatre
5114 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
Tickets online at *www.plays411.com/dancing*
$16 general, $13 seniors and students
**
The mission of Dancing in the Margins (DitM) is to provide opportunities for
world/ethnic dance choreographers to present work that addresses
contemporary issues but is still grounded in a deeply-rooted tradition.
World/ethinic choreographers that are interested in contemporary themes as
well as in the further development of their art often find that they do not
easily fit into any readily identifiable category, such as ethnic dance
or modern/post modern dance, and so find performance opportunities lacking.
By providing these performance opportunities, DitMF aims to both preserve
and keep relevant art forms that are the basis of humanity's cultural
inheritance. Through these efforts DitMF enhances both diversity and
contributes to the integration of startling palette of dance forms available
in Los Angeles.
*For more info:*
*www.**dancinginthemargins.com*<http://www.dancinginthemargins.com>
*Calls for Submissions:*
*1. Berlin, Germany, Berlinale Talent Campus *
*Call for Applications, deadline: 1st of November 2006*
The BTC is a sub-programme of the big Berlin Film Festival Berlinale.
*For its fifth edition in february 2007, the BTC is inviting* *young
filmmakers from all over the world to participate in a series of
round-tables and/or workshops.
*
The main goal is to help young professionals to do some networking on an
international level.
*Interested directors, cameramen and -women, setdesigners, composers,
actors, producers etc. can submit an application via:*
www.berlinale-talentcampus.de
*2. FemTAP:* Call for Papers and Art Submissions
*deadline: 6 November 20006*
Submission Guidelines: email attachment only to iker...@unm.edu; Chicago
manual style w/limited endnotes;
full guidelines at www.femtap.com
In the recent past we have seen an increase in violence against communities
of color and LGBTQ communities, some televised and others completely ignored
by mainstream media. We have also witnessed a conservative backlash against
models that embrace intersectional analysis and a critical look at privilege
from all sectors. Yet, we believe feminist models are uniquely capable of
addressing increasing inequities, particularly those models that argue that
we must put the most oppressed women at the center of our analysis (see
Smith 2006, Brenner 1998, Anzaldua 1984, etc.). As such, FemTAP is
accepting submissions that critically engage models, methods, theories, and
practices of feminist social justice that highlight race, gender, class, and
sexuality as co-equal.
All essays should include intersectional analysis including the critical
interrogation of whiteness, heterosexuality, and/or class privilege where
applicable. We are particularly interested in grounded studies and
ethnographic essays but accept essays from a feminist perspective across
disciplines.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. A feminist response to un/natural disasters: Katrina, mining on
indigenous lands, environmental degradation and environmental racism, etc.
2. reproductive justice in communities of color, working class and LBT
communities of all colors - we are
particularly interested in responses to sterilization projects that target
poor women, incarcerated women, etc., holistic projects that seek to deal
with multiple-intersecting issues, any feminist organizing
around transgendered and same-sex parenting rights or reproductive justice,
and scientific examinations of the impact of use and/or research on NRTs for
women of color, working class women of all colors, and LBT women of all
colors.
3. Rural feminisms: rural vs. urban queer organizing, rural women's
organizing as specific and generalizable,
rural feminists' responses to poverty, etc.
4. alternative spaces: women of color and LBT women of all colors resource
centers, women of color and/or LBT women of all colors grassroots
organizing, LBT women of all colors and/or women of color organizations or
retreat-conferences as alternative feminist visions, artist collectives,
etc.
5. Historical essays - examination of "unknown" or unwritten histories of
women of color, LBT women of all
colors, and/or poor women's organizing.
6. Models and methods: successful cross-cultural and/or cross-class feminist
organization models, successful
trans-feminist organizing, successful rural-urban organizing, etc.
7. confronting current issues impacting women of color, LBT women of all
colors, and/or poor women of all colors - urban renewal, funding
collectives, food collectives, welfare reform programs, parenting students
organizations, police and/or court watch programs, housing safety and
security programs, programs confronting the rise in hate crimes, etc.
8. academia - the impact feminists of color, working class feminists of all
colors, LBT feminists of all colors on
policy, curriculum, and organizing (please note the summer edition is on
pedagogy so pedagogy essays will be given the least importance in review
ranking for this edition but will *still* be considered; if we believe your
essay would be more appropriate for the summer edition we will advise you)
9. DEFINING FEMINIST SOCIAL JUSTICE - theoretical essays that examine what
is or can be meant by "feminist social justice," praxis essays that examine
the meaning of "feminist social justice" and the means by which to
actualize it in feminist practice.
We accept essays from graduate students, PhDs, and community scholars.
For full guidelines, review policies, etc. see appropriate links on website.
Editorial Board:
Erika Feigenbaum, PhD (feminist philosophy)
Ime Kerlee, PhD (Women's Studies)
Annette Rodriguez (American Studies)
Questions contact: iker...@unm.edu (answers will come from entire board;
most questions answered on website www.femtap.com)
Dr. Ime Kerlee, Women Studies Program
1 University of New Mexico/MSC06 3900
Albuquerque NM 87131-0001
Phone: (505) 277-3467 office: MVH 2136
email: iker...@unm.edu
*3. Call for Publication, UK: **Boundaries*
*deadline for complete essays: 15 November 2006
*
Contributors are invited for the forthcoming edited collection of essays
Boundaries: Critical, Creative and Interdisciplinary methods of Making,
Breaking, and Negotiating Boundaries*
The papers presented at the recent 'Boundaries: Critical and Creative'
Postgraduate Conference at Loughborough University in June 2006 highlighted
the quality of academic research being done which interrogates, acknowledges
and challenges boundaries in critical and creative literature. This
collection is in part inspired by and, in part, a response to the success of
the conference and the wide range of high-quality academic discussion that
came from it.
This book has been contracted by Cambridge Scholars Press and the
anticipated publication date will be autumn 2007. Successful contributors
will be expected to submit a 6000-8000 word article (excluding notes) that
addresses the ways in which critical and/or creative boundaries apply to
their research.
Subjects might include, but are not limited to: Geographical boundaries;
Sudden boundaries: Wartime shifts in geographical borders; Cultural
boundaries; Boundaries of translation between different languages;
Sense/Nonsense; Reason/Unreason; Life, Death and the Afterlife; Exceeding
human boundaries: ESP, telepathy, mediumship; Interzones: automata, robots
and science fiction; Critical/Creative boundaries; Historical
events/fictional depiction; Writing creatively about other cultures; Moral
responsibility/creative licence; The literary canon; Literary boundaries:
genre; The boundary of the stage in theatre; Transgression of legal
boundaries: criminality; Social boundaries: criminals, prostitutes, poets;
Class boundaries; The Living space and its boundaries: home, cell, ward;
Gender boundaries; Bodies, starvation and the self; Sexual boundaries.
*If you would like your paper to be considered for inclusion, please send an
email indicating your interest in this project to both **
J.K.Ram...@lboro.ac.uk* <J.K.Ram...@lboro.ac.uk>* and **
G.L.Twitc...@lboro.ac.uk* <G.L.Twitc...@lboro.ac.uk>* and we will forward a
copy of the submission guidelines. Completed essays should arrive to us no
later than November 15th 2006. Accepted contributors will be notified within
one calendar month.*
*Contact details:
*Jenni Ramone
Department of English and Drama
Loughborough University
J.K.Ram...@lboro.ac.uk
Gemma Twitchen
Department of English and Drama
Loughborough University
G.L.Twitc...@lboro.ac.uk
*4. India: Experimenta 2007: Call for Films*
**
*Deadline: 15 December 2006
*
*EXPERIMENTA is an international film and video festival held in Bombay,
India* for the past 4 years; now in its 5th year, EXPERIMENTA 2007 moves to
Bangalore.
EXPERIMENTA seeks films from any country that challenge popular and
conventional modes of cinema. Abstract to obscure compositions from any
genre produced on the margins of contemporary screen-culture are welcome.
Innovative, cutting edge and non-traditional work that attempts to
aesthetically extend the parameters of the mediums of film and video is
encouraged. Preview copies must be submitted for selection purposes. All
lengths of film are considered.
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis until the final selection is
complete.
Filmmakers are encouraged to submit their entries as soon as possible.
EXPERIMENTA is a curated film festival and is a Filter India project.
To type in and print out a submission form, visit:
http://www.filterindia.com/callexp07.htm
For information on Filter India, visit:
http://www.filterindia.com
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