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October 30, 2007
New York: ELECTRIC LADYLAND
This is an awesome line-up. I hope it's not too late for those who live in or near New York to attend it! Lots of opportunities to mingle and learn.
Sumita Sheth
The SAWCC Litfest Committee Invites You To ELECTRIC LADYLAND
The South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC) and The New School University invite you to Electric Ladyland, SAWCC's fifth annual literary event. This two-day series of readings, panels and workshops features South Asians writing literature that is personal, political, and popular.
As pop culture and politics intersect, literature provides an avenue for women to find their groove. This festival explores the electricity of South Asians writing in a different time, in different ways--through the lenses of music, food, the Internet, politics, criticism, poetry and fiction. Electric Ladyland will provide an opportunity for these works to converge and spark new dialogue.
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Friday, November 2nd, 7pm
The Mashup Reading
Electric Ladyland's kickoff reading! In Creole, "to mash up" means to destroy. In music, "to mash up" means to splice the best bits of existing songs into entirely new pieces. In literature, "to mash up" means... well, maybe a little bit of both? Or something entirely different? South Asian women writers read from works that blend literary traditions and their influences from popular media.
Featuring readings by Sita Bhaskar, Roohi Choudhry, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Sheba Karim, Keshni Kashyap , Yesha Naik, Nina Sharma, Marian Thambynayagam.
$10 at the door
@ The Asian American Writers' Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn 5th Ave and Broadway)
NYC
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Saturday, November 3rd, 10am - 6pm
Panels and Workshops
Join us for a day of panel discussions on personal stories in unconventional mediums, how women write women, and how politics intersect with popular culture and literature.
Panelists include Chitrita Banerji, Shobhan Bantwal, Sita Bhaskar, Samantha Edussuriya, Anna John, Janki Katau, Mira Kamdar, Sejal Shah, Sunita Mukhi, Monica Pradhan, Saira Rao, and Amardeep Singh.
Writing workshops include a short fiction writing workshop with V.V. Ganeshananthan and memoir writing with Robin Mookerjee of The New School's Writing Program. To sign up for the workshops or for more information, email us at sawcclitfest@gmail.com .
$free
@ The New School
6 East 16th Street (at 5th Ave), 11th Floor
NYC
For full schedule and more details, check www.sawcc.org.
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