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A glimpse at Aaina 2008
South Asian Women's Focus, March 28-30, 2008
Tasveer’s flagship event that celebrates South Asian women’s art and creativity through films, live presentations, visual and performance art that helps them resist marginalization & loss of identity.
Central Cinema
1411 21st Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122, (206) 686-6684
Tickets Suggested donations: $5 for day-time shows, $7 for evening shows, Yoni Ki Baat: $10. Chaya's survivor stories, Critical Panel Discussion: FREE.
Come join us for Gupshup on the opening night over free wine, music, laughter, and conversation: Friday, 28 March 6-7 PM.
Film Highlights
Opening night: ‘Hearts Suspended’ that unravels the untold story of legal US immigrant spouses who are denied the basic human right to work. (Fri, 28 March, 7PM)
Closing night queer film: ‘Nina’s Heavenly Delights’, a Scotland-meets-Bollywood film told through a Scottish South Asian woman grappling with her family and identity. (Sun, 30 March, 7PM)
Girl Stars: Part comic and part serious short films of ordinary Indian girls achieving extraordinary feats through beekeeping, junkyard dealerships, environmental activism, and more. (Sat, 29 March, 4PM)
Enemies of Happiness: An intense and personal story of a courageous woman’s fight against patriarchy that offers a unique insight into the politics and culture of Afghanistan. (Sat. 29 March, 4.30PM)
Daughters of Wisdom: An experiential and transporting view of contemporary Tibet seen through the eyes of some of its most extraordinary women, the nuns. (Sat, 29 March, 7PM)
My Daughter the Terrorist: An intimate and personal portrait of two young female elite soldiers in Sri Lanka who are willing to blow themselves up for a cause. (Sun, 30 March 2PM)
6 Yards to Democracy: It unravels raw images of the tragic sari episode in North India that caused the gruesome deaths of 22 women. (Sun, 30 March 2PM)
Performances, Artist Focus, Survivor Stories & Critical Panel Discussion
Yoni Ki Baat: This transformative play encourages South Asian women to speak out against the violence and stigma associated with our bodies. Yoni Ki Baat was originally started by South Asian Sisters, a progressive collective of South Asian women, who have been organizing an annual Yoni Ki Baat for the last three years in the San Francisco area and have kindly let us use their scripts. We are proud to also have several performers write their own scripts or perform ones that have been submitted from our local community. Chaya and Tasveer have yet again collaborated to present this year's performances!(Fri, 28 March, 9PM and Sat, 29 March, 9PM)
Artist Focus: Aaliyah Gupta’s Pod/Sac Series of charcoal sketches on paper, Afrose Ahmed’s Internally Displaced Poetry, and Archana Kumar’s dance performance ‘Unveiling’. (Fri, 28 March, 7.30PM)
Chaya’s “ Community Speaks ”: Survivors and victims of domestic violence talk through the medium of spoken and written word, art and photos. (Sat, 29 March, 2PM)
Critical Panel Discussion on ‘Women, governance, and fundamentalism in South Asia’. Speakers include: Prof. Tayyab Mahmud and Prof. Meenakshi Rishi from Seattle University speak on Pakistan and India, Prof. Elora Chowdhury from University of Massachusetts speaks on Bangladesh and Prof. Shahnaz Khan from Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, speaks on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dr. Brahmy Poologasingham from Seattle will give an overview of the human rights violations in Sri Lanka as they relate to the terrorist activities and the government's part in the ethnic Tamil/Singhala conflict. (Sun, 30 March 4PM)
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