Diaspora Youth Speak

Diaspora Youth Speak:

A multi-media arts exhibit on global social justice, identity and displacement

OCIC invites members and the general public to a multi-media arts exhibit featuring the works of Diasporic youth from the GTA. The exhibit will include video and photographic works, as well as writings and visual arts that explore themes of mobility and displacement.

Saturday October 3, 2009 from 4-7pm

RECEPTION AT 5PM

@

Naco Gallery Café

1665 Dundas St. West

This is event is FREE and everyone is welcome.

Kris Orantes Migoya

Public Engagement Coordinator

Ontario Council for International Cooperation

344 Bloor St. West, Suite 209

Toronto ON M5S 3A7

T: 416.972.6303 / F: 416.972.6996

www.ocic.on.ca / public.engagement@ocic.on.ca

Toronto's South Asian Film Festival

http://filmi.org/

Workshop - Life is so Sweet! Mask Making

Life is so Sweet! Mask-Making Workshop
facilitated by Suritah-Teresa Wignall

MONDAY evenings in OCTOBER and NOVEMBER (and one Wednesday)
OCT 5, WED OCT 14, 19 & 26, NOV 2 & 9 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm @ TWB

Fee: $69 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots available.
We regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
** PLEASE call to register**

Sculpting the divine and discover the wholeness that already exists within. Masks are powerful instruments of communication. They have been used since the dawn of Creation to tell a story, heal and transform. They can conceal and protect as well as reveal and enlighten. This ancient medium can help better ones self and allow one to reconnect with herself. Whether you are bombarded with anxieties, worries from your past, healing wounds, this workshop is designed to support your re-connection with things that make life meaningful.

Each week for 6 weeks, you will be gently invited to explore the different techniques to mask making and color theory. By the end of the workshop, you will have sufficient knowledge on mask making and color theory, so that you can continue independent exploration.

While creating your mask, feelings of sadness, joy, heartache or memories may come up for you. As your facilitator, Suritah-Teresa will offer the support needed in order to guide you through your journey.

All materials provided, however participants are encouraged to bring things to add to their masks.

Join Suritah-Teresa on this beautiful journey of mask creation.

SURITAH-TERESA WIGNALL in her own words: As a woman of colour, I know first hand how hard it was to find safe spaces to share and heal and to explore my past. I am a woman who has come through a lot and found that painting and clay work was an amazing tool that helped me through my darkest times. Painting gave me the ability to see things that words couldn’t always convey, working in groups with women who reflected me, allowed me to feel that I wasn’t alone and most important, that I wasn’t crazy. Although I have had numerous solo and group exhibits, sold paintings to many amazing individuals from all walks of life and participated in many arts festivals, I can say for sure that one of my greatest passions has been working in the community, working with women and youth teaching art. My background includes working in various cross culture communities teaching art for over 6 years, as well as completing the AWCCA ( Assaulted Women‘s and Child Counselor Advocate Program) at George Brown. Not only do I want to pursue my art career, but my goal is also to work with women and youth who are survivors of violence in the community teaching art.

Workshop- Exploring Spaces to Be: 'Mixed Race' Identities and Activism

Exploring Spaces to Be: ‘Mixed Race’ Identities and Activism
facilitated by Tomee Sojourner

TUESDAY evenings in OCTOBER and NOVEMBER
OCT 20 & 27, NOV 3 & 10 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB

Fee: $52 (No Refunds). Pre-registration and payment required.
Enrollment limited to 15 participants. Limited sliding scale spots available.
We regret our bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
**PLEASE call to register**

This exploratory course will focus on how 'mixed race' folks navigate through everyday spaces, including activist spaces. Using a series of interactive activities and discussions, folks will engage in an exploration of the following topics: Intersectional identities; Interracial connections, dating and relationships; Building links to allies; and Working through oppression using tools of creative resistance.

Please note that the course content is shaped around the lived experiences of participants.
This course is open to everyone. Folks who have lived experiences and move in the world as ‘mixed’ race people are strongly encouraged to take this course.

Course Objectives:
* To offer a space for participants to reflect on being ‘mixed’ race and the complexities that arise as folks move in the world.
* To explore the visibility and invisibility of being ‘mixed’ race and the impact on interpersonal relationships, including dating.
* To look at the role of ‘allies’ and building links to those folks.
*To create innovative ways to work/move through oppression using creative actions.
* Participants will be encouraged to integrate their passion and creative expressions in the course in order to deepen their self-awareness

All participants will receive a course package with the required materials. No additional texts are required.

Participants are encouraged to self-identify any invisible and/or visible disabilities prior to the start date in order for the instructor to incorporate accommodations into the course, so that there is open and engaged participation. Large print course materials will be available.

TOMEE SOJOURNER is an innovative, forward thinking, dynamic, engaging, and results-driven Educator, Motivational Speaker, Artist and Emerging Film Maker. She has an M.A. in Social Justice and Equity Studies. Tomee brings over 13 years experience as a Trainer, Facilitator, Consultant, and Organizational Change Maker. Tomee is Managing Director and Diversity and Inclusion Strategies Expert for Sojourner Diversity Consultants. Tomee draws strength and grounding from her lived experiences, as a mixed-race, Black identified, masculine-identified, queer, feminist academic, moving in the world with a learning disability. Throughout her personal and professional life, Tomee has moved through adversity to create life-changing opportunities for herself and others.

Book Launch - Migration Songs by Anna Quon

Migration Songs
by Anna Quon

co-sponsored by Invisible Publishing

FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 7pm
toronto women’s bookstore
73 Harbord Street (west of Spadina, south side)
free. all welcome. refreshments provided.
we regret that our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.

“It’s the morning after I quit work, and it’s my birthday. I’m turning thirty, and I feel like an empty oil drum, rusting away in the junkyard, weeds growing up around it.”

Joan is on the brink. Cough drop addict, school bus driver, mixed race daughter of a Maoist English father and Chinese-Canadian mother, Joan struggles for meaning after a friend’s death reveals a secret life. Migration Songs is a lost letter from your past, an intimate experience full of humour and grace.

ANNA QUON is a writer and writing group facilitator living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She writes with compassion and ferocity about the struggle to grow up without a tribe of one’s own.
Migration Songs is drawn from her own experience as a half-Chinese- Canadian raised on Canada’s East Coast and her own ambivalence about belonging. This is Quon’s first novel.

Book Launch - In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia by Jasmin Hristov

THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 7pm
toronto women’s bookstore
73 Harbord Street (west of Spadina, south side)
free. all welcome. refreshments provided.
we regret that our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.

The Toronto Women’s Bookstore, the Department of Sociology (York), and Between the Lines invite you to celebrate the launch of an important new book -- Jasmin Hristov's Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia.

In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions.

Author Jasmin Hristov will speak about the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia, and she will be joined by guest speakers including David McNally (Professor of Political Science and author of Another World is Possible).

JASMIN HRISTOV is an advanced PhD candidate in sociology at York University, Toronto. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Journal of Peasant Studies, Social Justice, and Latin American Perspectives.

The Wave- Art Exhibition

लहर - Lehar - The Wave - Art Exhibition in Toronto
http://scribd.com/doc/20426840
लहर - Lehar - The Wave - Art Exhibition 3rd October 2009 (2pm to 8pm at Port Credit Secondary School 70 Mineola Street East Mississauga, Ontario Canada) (Organized by Hindi Writers Guild and CROSS CURRENTS ...
http://meenasartworld.blogspot.com/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20426840/-Lehar-The-Wave-Art-Exhibition-in-Toronto

Of interest

www.thefutureofpublishing.com

Theatre Passe Muraille launches its season

Call them anytime at 416.504.7529 or visit them online at passemuraille.on.ca

the 2009 2010 season of anitafrika dub theatre

(un)conference
storyteller groundings festival ~ october 10, 10am-10pm
anitafrika! dub theatre season launch event featuring storytellers, mentors, villagers and children in conversation.

mikey smith raw works ~ december 2009
named in honour of the brilliant, political jamaican dubpoet mikey smith (1954-1983), the festival showcases the first-draft readings of resident artists.

audre lorde workshop ~ may 2010
named in honour of the afrikan-caribbean-american lesbian feminist poet
revolushunary audre lorde (1932-1992), the festival showcases the second-draft presentations of resident artists.

word! sound! powah! bio-myth-solo-performance storytelling festival ~ july 2010
named in honour of dubpoetry’s revolushunary legacy, this year-end festival celebrates the completed works of resident artists, the program graduation and the launch of s is for storytelling.

artistic director/founder d’bi.young
d'bi.young is the 2009-2010 playwright-in-residence at canstage theatre company and is the 2007 recipient of the toronto arts council/mayor’s emerging artist award.
an afrikan-jamaican-canadian visionary, she has performed, published, and lectured internationally. an award-winning dubpoet, writer, and theatre practitioner, she has produced five dubpoetry albums, authored two dubpoetry collections and is the playwright/performer of the published double dora award winning, solo show blood.claat.
upcoming works include benu (the second play in her biomyth trilogy) commissioned by la chapelle theatre and premiering in montreal in february 2010, and word! sound! powah!, her first dubpantomime. she is currently completing a masters degree on dubpoetry and dubtheatre theory and practice at university of guelph. dbiyoung.net

Gili Haimovich Writing Studio - Beginning Soon!

Writing Studio

In this experiential class participants will be provided with the opportunities to explore and develop their own writing practice. We will use an interdisciplinary approach where other art modalities (visual art, music, movement and drama) are used as a way to both generate and support the writing process.
The different art modalities will serve to:

• Gain new recourses for writing
• Refresh perspectives on familiar themes
• Deepen the exploration of metaphors and images
• Learn how to work with personal experiences

The class is run in a collaborative and supportive environment. Participants are encouraged to create together
and to present their work in a workshop style.

Suited for beginners as well as more experienced writers.
Background in arts not required.

Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet and workshop facilitator. She has published the poetry
collection Living on a Blank Page (Blue Angel Press 2008) and three volumes of Hebrew poetry. In North
America her work appeared in the anthology TOK: Writing the New Toronto and numerous journals including
the Literary Review of Canada and Cahoots. She has translated English poetry to Hebrew and vice versa.
She has extensive experience in leading creative writing classes and expressive arts groups in private practice
and variety of agencies. Gili produces and participates in variety of multicultural and multidisciplinary poetry
events in Toronto. She also works an Expressive Arts Psychotherapist with groups and individuals using
creative writing as a therapeutic tool.

Classes Information: 10 classes, from October 8th to November 10th, on Thursdays from
7 p.m. – 9p.m.
Location: Hampton Therapy Centre on Danforth Av. (2 min from Chester subway station)

Fee, includes all arts materials:
Early – Bird registration fee, must make payment before September 15th: $350
Fee, after September 15th: $380

For more info and registration contact: gili@poetryon.com 416 566 3524 www.poetryon.com

Where Have You Been In These Shoes?:

Diaspora Dialogues at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Are there stories to be told by your shoes? Diaspora Dialogues and Bata Shoe Museum certainly think so…

October 3, 2009
Sunrise to sunset
Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor Street West

At this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, we team up to create a living, growing poetry garden cultivated with photos of your well-travelled shoes. As the number of photos grow, so too will the poetry created in the moment by on-site Toronto spoken word artists.

The installation will become more beautiful and multifaceted as audience members have their shoes photographed and added to the display.

They’ll also be asked to give a short answer to the question, "Where have you been in these shoes?" which will be included with the photograph.

As the shoe photo-stories multiply, our resident spoken word poets will select those that are particularly inspiring and create on-the-spot poems, written and then performed aloud.

Toronto Mash-Up: The Word On The Street

Cultural remix at its most eclectic!

Diaspora Dialogues is pleased to return to The Word On The Street for its fourth year! From literary readings to one-of-a-kind performances to intriguing conversations, you won't find this many of Toronto's most cutting edge artists in one place anywhere else. Don't miss it...

Sunday September 27, 2009
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Queen's Park

Readings from Diaspora Dialogues
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

The Diaspora Dialogues annual mentorship program discovers the best new talent Toronto has to offer and matches them with some of our finest Canadian writers. Join us for a sampling of their city-focused stories and poetry. Featuring emerging writers Tanya Bryan, Kearie Daniel, Chang Liu, and Leslie Shimotakahara, alongside award winning writers Marjorie Chan, Emma Donoghue, Lee Maracle and Shyam Selvadurai.

Toronto Mash-Up
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Cultural remix at its most eclectic! For this special initiative, Diaspora Dialogues handed over stories, poetry and plays from its anthology series TOK to actors, performers, dancers and opera singers to reinterpret through their own artistic mediums. Come experience the creative energy that is unleashed when text meets re-interpretation – hear the original content read, and then witness the transformation.

With Archer Pechawis, Amani, Martha Baillie, Fides Krucker, Nik Beeson, Waawaate Fobister, Leah-Simone Bowen, Donna-Michelle St Bernard, Peter Bailey, Andrea Thompson and more.

Art, Revisited: Exploring Re-interpretation panel discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

In the age of audio and video remixes, mashups, YouTube responses, and altered texts, does original context matter? Does re-interpretation enrich and enlarge a text? Or does it merely bastardize? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of different art forms in expressing the same story?

Join Archer Pechawis, Stacey May Fowles and Kerri Sakamoto in a fascinating discussion about the nature of re-interpreted work. Moderated by Helen Walsh, with live illustration by Jibola Fagbamiye.

Book Launch for Ashwini Tambe's CODES OF MISCONDUCT

BOOK LAUNCH for CODES OF MISCONDUCT: "Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay" by Ashwini Tambe (University of Minnesota Press)

Thursday, September 24,
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore- 74 Harbord Street (at Spadina)


Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, legislators in Bombay passed a series of repetitive laws seeking to control prostitution. During the same time, Bombay’s sex industry grew vast in scale. Ashwini Tambe explores why these remarkably similar laws failed to achieve their goal and questions the actual purpose of such lawmaking.

Against the backdrop of the industrial growth of Bombay, Codes of Misconduct examines the relationship between lawmaking, law enforcement, and sexual commerce. Ashwini Tambe challenges linear readings of how laws create effects and demonstrates that the regulation and criminalization of prostitution were not contrasting approaches to prostitution but different modes of state coercion. By analyzing legal prohibitions as productive forces, she also probes the pornographic imagination of the colonial state, showing how regulations made sexual commerce more visible but rendered the prostitute silent.

Codes of Misconduct engages with debates on state control of sex work and traces how a colonial legacy influences contemporary efforts to contain the spread of HIV and decriminalize sex workers in India today. In doing so, Tambe’s work not only adds to our understanding of empire, sexuality, and the law, it also sheds new light on the long history of Bombay’s transnational links and the social worlds of its underclasses.

Ashwini Tambe is assistant professor of women's studies and history at the University of Toronto.

CHA CHA presents: Mi Cuerpo/Mi Casa (My Body is My Home)

Cha Cha is in its third installment, this year in partnership with the Allende Arts Festival. Come join us for a night of readings and peformances that celebrate female sexuality and ideas of homeland.

Time: Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 8:00pm
Location: The Revival - Stone Lounge at 783 College Street (at Shaw)

Theme: "mi cuerpo/ mi casa" or "my body is my home"
It is time to reclaim our home.

Our body and its myriad of functions and activities root us to ground and the present moment. Our notions of sexuality informs our identity as humans, it helps us touch the ground, but also allows us to fly, to reach transcendental sates, create meaningful connections with others. Understanding the importance of what we give when we share our body with others and ourselves is paramount to building a healthy society.

CHA CHA, is an opportunity for “spring cleaning” – a time to heal, a time to challenge existing norms and most importantly to celebrate our resilience and the power we have over our bodies.

When we flourish, we provide homes for others.

Featuring artists:
brescia birdthroat bloodbeard
Victoria Mata
janet romero leiva
Karleen Pendelton-Jimenez
Dianah Smith
Naila Keleta Mae
Teresa Cheng
Gabriela Etcheverry

Price: $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Curated and femceed by:
La Loba - monica rosas

Event Coordinator:
Angela Britto

Join us at the after party with D.J JOLA spinning R & B, Hip Hop & Soca beats!

For more information,
Visit: www.chachatoronto.blogspot.com
E-mail: chachachicas@gmail.com
Call: the Event Coordinator at 647-296-4117

Blank Page: Poetry Based Performance

The performance extends beyond the traditional format of a poetry reading. Voice, movement, improvisation and language are the tools applied to explore the different layers of the poetry. Songs and dances are shaped from the rhythm, images and symbolism contained in each poem. The dialogue between dancer and poet involves a broad rhythmic palette which combines both English and Hebrew.

The concept for this piece was initiated at the book launch for the second edition of ‘Living on a Blank Page’ by Gili Haimovich. (Type on the Danforth, February 2008)

Megan English is a dance artist. Her solo, ‘This Dance is Mic’ed’, was part of Dance Matters. (2008) Megan worked with ‘Zephyr in Zanussi’ in England. She dances in the video, ‘Backstage with the Modern Dancers.’ (Great Lake Swimmers) Her Nell Shipman inspired project was supported by the TAC.. (2009)

Gili Haimovich is an internationally published poet. She has published the poetry collection Living on a Blank Page (2007) and three volumes of Hebrew poetry. In North America her work appeared in numerous journals including the Literary Review of Canada and Cahoots and the anthology TOK1: Writing the New Toronto.

When: September 12th, Saturday, 2:00 pm & September 13th, Sunday, 1:30 pm

Location: Troubadour, 3071 Dundas St. W. On the back patio

Additional information: www.meganenglish.com http://www.junctionartsfest.com/new2009test/sites/redhot/

Toronto book launch for two artfully crafted new poetry collections

Goose Lane Editions and Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. present an evening of new poetry by Soraya Peerbaye and Moez Surani at Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, at 6:30 pm. Soraya and Moez will read selections from their books. A book signing will follow and refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

TORONTO
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street

Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Soraya Peerbaye is an unusual collection that examines the relationships between names and gestures of kinship, acquisitiveness, and possession. Divided into three sections, the book examines the relationship between people and objects and names. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an actual organization which decides official place names in Antarctica — most often inspired by national symbols, expedition leaders, and heroes.

Reticent Bodies is Toronto author Moez Surani's long-awaited debut collection. Shaped by a childhood spent listening to a mixture of Gujarati, Kutchi, Urdu, and Swahili around the kitchen table, while attending a French Immersion school in Toronto, Surani's poems could define the epitome of Canada's ethnic layering. Spare Canadian lyricism is combined with unusual linguistic rhythms and sharp bursts of vibrant imagery in an exceptional poetic debut.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Soraya Peerbaye is of Mauritian ancestry. She was born in London, Ontario, and has lived in Toronto and Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, which was handed to the British by the French in 1810 and later gained independence in 1967. She has worked as a playwright, actor, and as an arts administrator (for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council), translator (for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company, Métropolis Bleu, the Museum of Civilization, and the Canada Council for the Arts), editor (Alphonse, Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons, and Littoral by Wadji Mouawad for Theatre Direct), and writer. She has worked with a diverse range of organizations including Nightwood Theatre and Desh Pardesh.

Moez Surani’s writing has been included in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Carousel, Prairie Fire, Vallum, and Arc Poetry Magazine. He has served as writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in Toronto. He was the recipient of a 2008 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported a trip through India and East Africa.

MORE INFORMATION, IMAGES, INTERVIEWS, OR REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT:

FOR MOEZ SURANI: FOR SORAYA PEERBAYE:
Lindsay Hodder, Publisher's Assistant Susan Baker, Publicity & Promotions
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. Goose Lane Editions
(905) 972-9885 / lindsay@wolsakandwynn.ca (888) 926-8377 / sbaker@gooselane.com

Maytree Leadership Confrence

Telling Stories; Creating Change: Register now for 2009 Maytree Conference

Thursday, October 1, 2009
12:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
89 Chestnut Street, Toronto

How can we learn to tell stories that become catalysts for social change? Are you trying to create social change by enlisting the help of others and engaging them in your work? Is mobilizing diverse audiences from business, the government, foundations and the nonprofit community a challenge? Telling a compelling story can make all the difference.

Come to network with Toronto leaders and explore the universal power of storytelling, the art of creating compelling stories and how to use individual and organizational narratives as powerful tools for change. This year's keynote speaker is John Cruickshank, publisher of the Toronto Star. He is followed by former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, Tim Murphy, in conversation with Deena Ladd of the Workers' Action Centre, moderated by CBC Radio's Mary Wiens.

Afternoon skill-building workshops include Online Communities and Offline Action, Building Your Public Narrative, Pitching Your Story to the Media and The New Front Page: Telling Your Organization’s Stories Online, Influencing Decision-Makers - The Narrative of Persuasion and much more.

The day will end with a tenth-year celebration of Maytree's scholarship program along with the release of an anniversary publication telling the students’ stories and highlighting policy insights on Canada’s refugee policies and programs.

Full conference program and registration available at: http://www.maytree.com/training/2009-maytree-leadership-conference

Brockton's got WRITING talent

Tuesday October 6, 2009
7 - 9 p.m.
Zoots Cafe
1438 Dundas Street West

Melanie Janisse, poetry from her forthcoming Orioles in the Oranges (Guernica, 2010)
Farzana Doctor, fiction from her novel, Stealing Nasreen (Inanna, 2007)
Barbara Wickens, non-fiction from her forthcoming Now What? (Novalis, Spring 2010)

Books, drinks and other goodies available for sale.

We‘re keeping it eclectic with a range of genres and lots of time for neighbourly chat...
If you live in the area and would like to participate in a future event, call 647-899-8974


Melanie Janisse is a native of Windsor, Ontario. She holds degrees Communications from Concordia University and Visual Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Now a resident of Toronto, Melanie keeps active as a visual artist, poet, designer and shop owner. Orioles at the Oranges is her first collection of poetry.

Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author and social worker. Her novel, Stealing Nasreen, has received critical acclaim and she has had her poetry and creative non-fiction published in a variety of publications. She has just completed work on her second novel. Find out more at www.farzanadoctor.com .

Plasticine Poetry - September 2009

It's Plasticine's 2 Year Anniversary! Come join us for a pukka mash-up-your-yard wordfest featuring:

Phlip Arima
Jasmine D’Costa
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Jim Johnstone

and a spectacular Open Mic! We have prizes! A haiku contest! And the hottest, funniest, sexiest, most talented, most illustrious, most captivating, host in the city, Cathy Petch. Come on out and experience this legendary evening which will surely become a hallmark in Toronto's poetic lore!

September 20, 2009
6 - 9 p.m.
The Central - 603 Markham Street, Toronto

The Festival of South Asian Literature and Arts - 2009

http://www.tsarbooks.com/FSALA2009.htm


The Toronto South Asian Review (TSAR Publications)
The Centre for South Asian Studies ( University of Toronto )
and The Writers Forum

present

FSALA 2009 - The Festival of South Asian Literature and Arts


September 25-27, 2009

The Munk Centre, University of Toronto
to commemorate the 25th anniversary of TSAR
and to celebrate South Asian literature and culture.


This three-day celebration will include readings, musical performances,
and art exhibitions by authors and artists from across Canada

featuring

Bapsi Sidhwa ◦ Kawai Li ◦ Zulfikar Ghose ◦ Ramabai Espinet◦ Manil Suri Anand Mahadevan ◦ Shyam Selvadurai ◦
Ameen Merchant ◦ Arun Mukherjee Randy Boyagoda ◦ Tahira Naqvi ◦ Rana Bose ◦ R Cheran ◦ Ajmer Rode .
Anosh Irani ◦ Nuzhat Siddiqi ◦ Rahul Varma ◦ Priscilla Uppal
Hari Krishnan and troupe (dance) ◦ Anwar Khurshid (sitar) ◦ Abid Jafri ◦ Khalid Sohail

and others


Admission is free, except Saturday night event.

For more information on the program schedule and registration details, please visit
www.tsarbooks.com/FSALA2009

or contact Nurjehan Aziz at naziz@tsarbooks.com


TSAR would like to thank the Toronto Arts Council