Events
We hope to promote the celebration of South Asian and diaspora literature
across the world -- to that end, we list other organizations' events here.
If you have an upcoming event that you'd like us to link to, please let us know. We're happy to link to
archived past events as well, so as to help maintain a record of our
work.
Upcoming / Ongoing
- SALTAF -- "Please join us for the 2004
South Asian Literary and Theatre Arts Festival (SALTAF) entitled Scripts,
Stories, and Syllables of South Asia, on November 20-21, 2004 at the Baird
Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian
Institution from 10am-5pm. This event is sponsored by the Network
of South Asian Professionals of Washington DC (NetSAP-DC) and the
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program. This 2 day event will include
literary panel discussions, author readings and book signings by renowned
authors such as
Bharati Mukherjee, Ved Mehta, Anita Rau Badami, Indu Sundaresan, Samina
Ali,
T.S Tirumurti, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Neela Vaswani, Tim Ward, and
Vijay
Lakshmi, as well as a slide show with Robert Arnett and Smita Turakhia
featuring India Unveiled, the highly-acclaimed travelogue illustrated with
award-winning photography. The festival will also include four one-act
plays; an award-winning South Asian feature length film, Bhavum, written
and directed by Satish Menon, as well as a short film by Rohit Rao
followed by a media arts panel discussion with Geeta Citygirl and the
filmmakers. This artistic extravaganza is free and open to the public.
For complete agenda and further information please visit
www.netsap.org/saltaf2004 or email saltaf@netsap.org."
- Yoni Ki Baat -- a
collaborative play, inviting listeners to "come celebrate your Yoni with
other women from the South Asian American Diaspora (inclusive of Afghani,
Pakistani, Indian, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Maldive, Bhutanese, and Bangladeshi
descent)."
Past
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