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Post Natyam Collective - October 2006 Newsletter


Dear Friends,

This month, there are two festivals going on, which are co-organized by Post Natyam members!  So if you're in Europe, check out ArtsensAsian and the Prague Bollywood Festival.

Sandra is one of the organizers for ArtsensAsian in Munich on October 1.  Sandra and Shyamala will be doing excerpts of Meet the Goddess, and there are many other amazing artist friends of ours including  Kaspar Saxena, D'Lo, Christoph Mukherjee, Kavita Sharma, Roman Chowdhury, Sita Rajasooriya, Bidisha Dutta, Sharon Zachariah, and many more.

Then, October 9-15 is the Prague Bollywood Festival, co-organized by Sangita.  Sandra and Shyamala were lucky to be in Prague during the opening movie.  Imagine a huge outdoor screen on a tiny island in the middle of the Danube River,  an ancient bridge to your back, a castle looming in the distance, and the burbles of the river intermixing with Koi Mil Gaya...  Almost as random as a Bollywood movie and definitely as romantic!

And the final bit of news: Sandra's workshop was so successful that it has been extended into October!  So, since we're busy as bees this month,  do excuse the slightly shorter newsletter below. 

Best festival wishes,
Happy Durga Pooja, Sukkot, and Eid

Post Natyam

Post Natyam Performances/Events

Munich
October Workshop
Sandra  will teach a workshop in contemporary Indian dance in Munich, on October 3rd and 8th, 2 pm- 4 pm, and October 15th, 12 noon - 2 pm.  The cost is EUR 20 per day, or EUR 50 for three days. At SPF.STUDIOS*downtown, www.spfm.de.


Munich
Sunday, 1 October 2006
5:00 pm

Sandra and Shyamala of Post Natyam will perform excerpts of Meet the Goddess
at
"The Art sensAsian Project"
A Space for Artists of South Asian Origin

1 October, 2006
2:00 - 10:00 pm Art sensAsian Project
From 10:00 pm Munich Masala Club Night
Venue: Ampère, Muffatwerk, Zellstr 4, Munich

Creative artists of South Asian-German origin present their work in music, theatre, photography, film, multimedia / design, literature, dance, performing arts and comedy through films, stage performances and an exhibition.
More information at: www.asa.munichmasala.de
 
Day ticket Art SensAsian Project incl. Munich Masala Party:  15,-  €
Munich Masala Club Night only:  6,- €                     

 
Tickets at all ticket shops
München Ticket, Tel: 089 / 54 81 81 8
Online ticket sales at: www.muffatwerk.de/ticket.html


Munich
Sunday, 15 October 2006
6:30 pm

Sandra of of the Post Natyam Collective will perform at

Großer Indientag
Sonntag, 15. Oktober 2006
10 – 20.30 Uhr
 
Staatliches Museum fuer Voelkerkunde
Maximilianstraße 42  -   80538 Muenchen

Eintritt fuer Erwachsene 1,- €, ohne Sonderausstellungen
Kinder und Jugendliche frei

Prague

9-14 October
Prague Bollywood Festival
Bollywood?  Globalization!

October 9-11, Kino Aero, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
October 12-15, Kino Svetozor, Vodickova 41, Praha 1
October 14 Bollywood Party!   Klub P.M., Troijicka 8, Praha 2

Movies include:  Swades, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Water, Bandit Queen, Sholay, and more!

www.bollywood.cz

Post Natyam Pointers

Short Listings:
(detailed listings below)

Events:
1. London: Open Space:  7 October 2006
2. Berlin: Ramble-Ations: A One D'Lo Show: 11-14 October 2006
3. London: La langoustine est Morte: 23 October 2006


Calls for Submissions:
1. "Seeds of Tolerance" Film Competition call for submissions. Deadline: October 2, 2006
2. DesiLit Magazine Call for submissions* from writers and visual artists. Deadlines: Fiction Submissions – October 31, 2006, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Reviews and Visual Art Submissions – November 30, 2006.


Detailed Listings:

Events:

1. London:
Open Space Event
Saturday 7 October, 10am-7pm at Stratford Circus, Newham

Hopeful and fearful: east London is changing fast. What part can we play in its future?
Got an opinion? Join in and be heard at the first of three Open Space events presented by Lift this autumn

Lift, London International Festival of Theatre, presents a series of three one-day events taking place in the boroughs of Newham, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, which bring together local residents, artists and anyone else who wants to voice their opinion on issues they are passionate about. Framed around a central question, these events allow participants to say what they want to say and how they want to say it, with a diverse group of individuals who are interested in the same issues as they are.
 
Lift's Open Space events are supported by the British Council. Presented in partnership with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Stratford Circus, New VIc, Theatre Venture, NewCEYS, Urban Development and East London Dance, the events include:
 
Hopeful and fearful: east London is changing fast.
What part can we play in its future?
Saturday 7 October, 10am-7pm at Stratford Circus, Newham
In partnership with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Stratford Circus, NewVIc, Theatre Venture, NewCEYS, Urban Development and East London Dance
 
How to book
Tickets are £7 and £5 concession. (All proceeds go towards covering the costs of the events.) To register for the Open Space events, please call (0)20 7490 3964, email ne...@liftfest.org.uk, stating which date you would like to attend, including your name, address, phone number and email address or download a booking form at www.liftfest.org.uk .
 
All of the Lift Open Space events are facilitated by Phelim McDermott from Improbable and all events will be sign-interpreted. Each of the venues is an accessible building. Please let us know on reservation if you have any requirements we should be aware of to enable you to attend. Places will be reserved on a first come first served basis so please book early to avoid disappointment.
 
About Open Space Technology and the 'law of two feet'
How many times have you attended a meeting, conference or rehearsal, most likely filled with great and inspiring speakers, only to find that the most interesting conversations take place during the coffee breaks? Open Space Technology takes advantage of this type of interactions and events based on Open Space philosophies have taken place literally thousands of times on all continents with groups ranging in size from 5 to 1000. Participants have come from Fortune 500 companies, third world villages, religious communities, governmental agencies, and whole towns.
 
Open Space Technology allows all kinds of people to create an exciting open-ended event that enables a self-organising group to use its collective imagination to deal with complex issues and it achieves this in an incredibly short space of time. An Open Space event runs on the fuel of passion, governed by 'the law of two feet' - the rule that if you find you're not learning something new or not in a conversation you can contribute to, you use your two feet and move to somewhere you can participate in.
 
About Lift and the Lift New Parliament
Lift, London International Festival of Theatre, has a 25-year history of presenting innovative theatre from around the world to London audiences, often in unconventional spaces, and in building relationships across sectors. Lift is now expanding its vision with a new way of curating the Festival and collaboratively creating a meeting place where we can talk about what matters to us most. The Lift New Parliament is a space that will be at the heart of a biennial Lift Festival, with a programme curated by an international team of artists and producers who will be engaged with local communities.
 
Lift's Open Space forums are Lift New Parliament events, supported by the British Council. The Lift New Parliament is a Lift initiative built in partnership with venues and surrounding communities from across east and south-east London, including Theatre Royal Stratford East and Stratford Circus, and the South Bank Centre.

Open Space Preview:
Insiders and outsiders: can we share our cultural spaces?
Sunday 19 November, 10am-7pm at Ocean, Mare St, Hackney
In partnership with Hackney Empire and Arcola Theatre
 
Fusion or confusion: can culture connect us?
Saturday 2 December, 10am-7pm at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Tower Hamlets. In partnership with Rich Mix and Artsadmin

 
 

2. Berlin
Wednesday-Saturday 11-14 October 2006, 20:00 h
Ramble-Ations: A One D'Lo Show

Brotfabrik Berlin
Caligariplatz, 13086 Berlin
www.brotfabrik-berlin.de

Tickets: EUR 12/EUR 8

Poetry can be comedic, comedy can be tragic and tragedy can be poetic.
The sum?
Beauty in a world of contradictions and chaos.

Using Comedy, Drag, Theater and Performance Poetry D'Lo and her characters share their thoughts on life & love.
Having created characters based on different personalities from her life and from her imaginary world, D'Lo takes us on journeys through funny yet emotionally moving narratives.

About D'Lo
D'Lo is a bi-coastal gay Tamil Sri Lankan-American, political performance artist and music producer, currently causing the most trouble in Los Angeles. Her work includes comedy, hip hop theatre, dance, poetry, and music . . .  she has been described as "a fierce bolt of creative and comedic energy" and has trained in South Indian Music and Dance in addition to her degree in ethnomusicology from UCLA and additional training in NYC in sound engineering.  D'Lo's career work has included being part of several performance groups; working closely with diverse youth as a teaching artist; establishing herself as both a solo and collaborative performer internationally including shows at the Highways Performance Arts Space, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, college campuses nationally, in the UK and India, and opening for  Spearhead. Her work continues to create spaces for open dialogue and creative exchange.  In late 2004 , D'Lo had a sold-out NYC run of her first play "Ballin With My Bois".


3. London:
Monday 23 October 2006

LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTE
The Third.

presented by ANTHONY JOSEPH and SASCHA AKHTAR

The Masque Bar
1-5 Long Lane
London EC1A 9HA
Barbican Tube 
7.30pm 
Admission is £5/4

The third in a series of evenings celebrating experimentation, innovation and in international poetics and fiction. The first La Langoustine was held at the Poetry Café in July and was completely sold out. The second, found a new home that we hope to be permanent at the beautiful Masque Bar in Barbican. The feedback was stupendous. The night was transcendental.  

For the third readings we are proud to present 

1. Eula Harrison who will be honoring us with a very special appearance. Eula is an octogenarian and from the Carribean
2. Anne-Marie Eldon who does things to words that you wouldn't believe. http://annmarieeldon.blogspot.com/

3. with hosts Anthony Joseph & Sascha Akhtar, also reading. This third event will also co-incide with the book tour of Anthony Joseph's work of poetic fiction The African Origins of U.F.O's being launched on Salt publishing.

For more info see www.myspace.com/l angoustine 

Calls for Submissions:

1. "Seeds of Tolerance" Film Competition call for submissions

DETAILS: Deadline October. 2, winning films screened Nov. 16
DESCRIPTION: Margaret Cho and M. Night Shyamalan will be part of the
judging panel in this competition sponsored by Current TV. Submissions
must be three to five minute non-fiction videos about tolerance or
intolerance. Grand prize is $100,000, and $10,000 for two runner-ups.

CONTACT: www.current.tv/tolerance < http://www.current.tv/tolerance >



2. DesiLit Magazine— celebrating exceptional contemporary writing and Visual art focused on *South Asia and the diaspora.

  Now accepting submissions* from writers and visual artists
ARE YOU A WRITER? Looking to express yourself through literature or visual art?

Look no Further…...

After having launched a very successful Inaugural issue, DesiLit Magazine is again on the search for talent and exceptional writers and visual artists. This is an open call for submissions in works. Submissions must be either about South Asia and the diaspora, or be by submitters from South Asia or the diaspora.

Important- Please note our deadlines.

Fiction Submissions – Deadline October 31, 2006

Essays, Humor, Poetry, Reviews and Visual Art Submissions – Deadline November 30, 2006.

 Please log on to our website for submission guidelines http://desilit.org/magazine/

* We are excited to inform you, DesiLit Magazine is one among a very few South Asian literary magazines that pays people for submissions. 

Our magazine will print essays, fiction, humor, poetry, reviews, and art.
If you haven't yet, check out our Online Zine: http://www.desilit.org/magazine/

*South Asia is defined as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan & Sri Lanka.

About DesiLit Magazine

Founded by like-minded activists, writers, and readers in 2006, DesiLit Magazine will be a biannual online magazine, publishing in Spring and Fall. We are committed to creating a forum for exceptional contemporary writing and art focused on South Asia* and the diaspora.

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