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Aaina on KBCS 91.3FM One World Report
Today 6PM
Aaina and Yoni Ki Baat will be featured on KBCS 91.3FM Community Radio on April 9, 6pm. One World Report is a weekly, community-centered, hour-long news and public affairs show produced by KBCS volunteers. More info at KBCS 91.3FM One World Report. Tune in to hear thoughts from Aaina and YKB team.
Aaina Opens This Friday!
7PM, April 10th, Friday • Seattle University (Pigott Auditorium)
1016 E. Marion St., Seattle WA 98122
TICKETS:
7PM Where Art Meets Activism : $6-$8 suggested donation
9PM Yoni Ki Baat: $10-$12 suggested donation
Aaina, which in Urdu means mirror, focuses on and celebrates the artistic work of and about South Asian women. The variety of media includes film, performance art, visual art, workshops and speakers aimed at highlighting issues relevant to South Asian women. We are very happy to bring you another great festival this year! Don’t let the price of ticket stop you from coming to a Tasveer event! Tasveer events have an ongoing policy of “No one turned away for lack of funds”. If financial times are tough, pay what you can and join us. And support us by spreading the word.
Childcare at Aaina
We will have childcare for most programs. Let us know if you need childcare by writing to info@tasveer.org.
Welcome to Aaina Opening Night: Where Art Meets Activism
7PM, April 10th, Friday
Cost: $6-$8 suggested donation
On Opening Night every year, we honor local South Asian women for their exceptional work. The inspiration behind our Opening this year is to highlight the confluence of Art and Activism. We want to make visible the creative social justice work of local South Asian women and we hope that the program will motivate local artists to channel their activism through their talents, and activists to find creative ways to make a difference.
Gita Rani Mehrotra is a South Asian queer femme who has made home in the Midwest and the Bay Area before moving to Seattle in 2005. She writes to make sense of the fluid and evolving intersections of heart, mind, self, and place. She shares her creative narratives as a way to make visible what has been erased by multiple forms of oppression. gita has spent the last 13 years doing work in the domestic violence movement and is currently pursuing a Phd in Social Welfare at the University of Washington. Inspired by yoni ki baat and chaya's community speaks events, gita will be reading 2 short pieces of creative non-fiction.Her writing focuses on themes of gender, sexuality, migration/diaspora, and interpersonal violence.
Moumita Bhattacharya is a business woman, dancer, and activist based in Seattle. Originally trained in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak, Moumita continuously innovates with choreography that fuses differing music, dance, and storytelling genres. For the past many years, she has used dance to stir people to action on important social issues. Moumita Bhattacharya presents Laachhi's Story, a 5-part dance act that invokes the story of an unwilling sex-worker and her search for an identity. A powerful statement on sex-trafficking in India, this act uses 4 different dance forms to portray the story of a simple village girl’s quest for self respect.
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron is an '08 graduate of The Evergreen State College. Her academic focus has been in the areas of documentary film and philosophy, and her past films have related to her background as a queer Tibetan. Tenzin has plans to pursue a PhD in critical gender theory and diaspora studies. Tenzin will screen clips from documentary Q and A. Tenzin presents 'Q and A' a documentary produced in 2008, interviews Asians and Pacific Islanders identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer. Conceived of in 2004, the project developed from an educational social justice piece to a film aimed at providing visibility of QAs to one another and an exploration of queer people of color theory. Given the minimal media available for and about queer APIs and queer people of color in general, the filmmaker would like the piece to be a contribution to discussions around immigration, diaspora, gender, and sexuality. Q&A is scheduled to screen as part of the Wing Luke Museum's 2009 LGBTQ Exhibit.
Yoni Ki Baat
9PM, April 10th, Friday
Cost: $10-$12 suggested donation
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