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Sing your heart out for Yoni Ki Baat
Saturday, January 31, 7:00PM
Write to uma@chayaseattle.org for venue details
Suggested Donation: $5-$25 per person
Refreshments will be provided
Join the fun! The Annual Yoni Ki Baat Show (South Asian Women's Vagina Monologues) is coming, and it needs your support. KARAOKE for Yoni Ki Baat and CHAYA featuring the Sights & Sounds of a few local rock stars and YOU! These Yonis can sing and I bet you can too! Too shy to perform solo? Share the spotlight with a duet, or simply cheer on the performers. We even have BOLLYWOOD Karaoke, so wear your BOLLYWOOD-GLAM outfits and be ready to dance! Bring your sing-a-long voices and Chaya-love. Your friends, lovers, kids and karaoke fans are welcome.
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Yoni Ki Baat call for Performers & Scripts
SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FIRST YKB MEET
Thursday, January 29, 6-8 pm
Contact Sabina at sabina.ansari@gmail.com or 206.306.4503 for venue details
Are you a South Asian woman with a story to tell? Do you feel silenced by the taboo associated with talking about your womanhood, your body or your sexuality? Have you ever felt like your voice has not been heard?
We want to hear from you!
Chaya and Tasveer are partnering once again to bring you Yoni Ki Baat, translated as Talk of the Vagina, in April 2009 (exact date TBD). YKB is a bold, honest and artistic presentation of all the conversations dear to you and your yoni.
If this excites you, please come to the first YKB meeting on Thursday January 29. If you are intrigued but feel hesitant or shy, come anyway to feel out the space and find out more. And if you just want to submit a script, or want to perform but can’t make this meeting, contact Sabina at 206-306-4503 or sabina.ansari@gmail.com.
YKB 2009 looks forward to meeting you and hearing your stories! Yoni Ki Baat is a program of Aaina, an annual festival produced by Tasveer which focuses on and celebrates the artistic work around South Asian women.
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Tasveer is proud to partner with Seattle Human Rights Film Festival, Feb 4–8, 2009
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Global Health Symposium with Film One Water
7:00 PM • Wednesday February 4th, 2009
University of Washington, Foege Auditorium
1705 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195
Cost: $8 General/$6 Students
One Water
Sanjeev Chatterjee, USA, 2007, 68 min
We look around us and see water everywhere. The earth is a planet lined with vast arterial networks of streams, rivers and oceans; a sky that opens up and unleashes rain and snow; pipes and taps that have long serviced washing machines, icemakers, swimming pools and spas. So how can we suddenly be facing a threatening global water crisis?
A panel of experts from the University of Washington and One Water will speak following the screening.
Sponsored by: UW Global Health Resource Center
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Fire Under The Snow
Makoto Sasa, USA/Japan, 2008, 75 min
1:00 PM • Saturday February 7th, 2009
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Cost: $8 General/$6 Students
Arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959, Palden Gyatso spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for the "crime" of peaceful demonstration. Tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor, he watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed. The film covers Palden's birth in 1933, and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. Fire Under the Snow reveals the contours of an inspirational story: It is the survival of a mind and soul under unthinkable duress.
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The Sari Soldiers
Julie Bridgham, USA/Nepal, 2008, 90 min
7:00 PM • Saturday February 7th, 2009
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Cost: $8 General/$6 Students
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal's modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women's courageous efforts to shape Nepal's future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King's crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly about the atrocity. The army abducts her daughter in retaliation, and Devi embarks on a three-year struggle to uncover her daughter's fate and see justice done.
Director Julie Bridgham will speak following the screening.
Sponsored by: Bo M Karlsson Foundation
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Shame
Mohammed Naqvi, Pakistan/USA, 2006, 110 min
9:00 PM • Saturday February 7th, 2009
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122
Cost: $8 General/$6 Students
Shame is the story of a poor and illiterate woman, Mukhtaran Mai, who was raised in a remote village in Pakistan. Her tragedy begins in 2002, when the tribal council sanctions a punishment against her for a crime of which her brother was accused of interest in a girl from a higher social class. She is judged guilty only because of her membership in the same family. Mukhtaran is paraded naked in public after she is gang-raped in retribution. Her family and other villagers expect her to commit suicide soon after. Instead of following the tragic path of other women, Mukhtaran decides to seek justice without the help of her family or the villagers.
Assistant Producer Sabina Ansari will speak following the screening.
Sponsored by: Chaya Seattle
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Tasveer's Thanks for Supporting A Vision for Change!
On Saturday, Dec. 13th, 2008, Tasveer presented A Vision for Change, an evening to benefit HIV/AIDS work in India. The event was a reception in the home of long-time Tasveer participant, Sophia Purekal, and featured screening of the HIV/AIDS short-film package, AIDS Jaago, produced by Mira Nair. Despite the snowfall, we had a very successful event and were able to raise over $500 for Andril and Positive Rights, two grass-roots organizations in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu working to further the public's knowledge and understanding about HIV/AIDS and to protect the rights of HIV+ people. Part of the money that was raised is going also to the direct support of an HIV+ boy in Namakkal who has lost his father to the disease and who, himself, is in need of tertiary medical care.
We are grateful to Mirabai for producing a package of outstanding films, and for keeping them copyright free so that they may be used for outreach events such as A Vision for Change.
We are also grateful to those who came out for the event, and for their generosity in supporting this cause.
For more information, contact Sophia Purekal, phiosa@gmail.com.
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Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur
Seattle Asian Art Museum
January 29–April 26, 2009
SAAM Tateuchi Galleries
This groundbreaking exhibition of 58 artworks will present new facets of Indian painting that flourished in the royal courts of Rajasthan from the 17th to the 19th century. In addition to the exquisite narrative "miniatures" with which we are familiar, the exhibition will include breathtaking monumental images that convey an unsurpassed intensity of artistic vision and religious fervor. Produced for the Rajasthan nobles, these paintings have never been published; most have been seen by just a few scholars since their creation. This is the first time these paintings will be exhibited in the United States. more
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