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PROGRAMS
The
South Asian Artists' Collective seeks to develop
programs that foster collaboration amongst South Asian
artists, encourage artistic development, and create
platforms for increasing artist exposure. Recent programs
have included the following.
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the Artist Collective
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Copper Current Artist Salon
An evening of sizzling solo performance and bold artistic collaborations presented at the Mountain Bar in China Town. Performances included a North Indian rhythmic dance by Cynthia Lee, a reading and simultaneously hand drawing by Bhargavi Mandava and Mark Sylbert, an excerpt from Meera Simhan’s One Woman Show, “Miss India America," a mystical journey of desire read by Shilpa Agarwal from her novel HAUNTING BOMBAY, an abstract animated story about convictions by Adnan Hussein, Shyamala Moorty and D'Lo.
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"House"
Inter-disciplinary Commissioned Piece
Dance,
music, video, photography, and theater weave together
in a tapestry of artistic expression. The story is of
a South Asian family's decision to sell their home
in an attempt to escape memories of a young mother's
death. When an irreverent realtor arrives to stage an
open house that will leave the highest bidder gasping,
the family sees their hopes and losses collide with
memories of home as they attempt to reclaim their selves
within the larger house that is America.
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Gypsy/Qawali
Concert
Blending
Indian (gypsy folk), Mid-Eastern African and European
musical traditions with percussion from Africa and the
Latin Americas, Oliver Rajamani's music carries a trance-like
quality. Rajamani shines with improvisation in voice,
drumming, and strings uncovering roots in sufi and folk
music of India and Pakistan, performing a unique blend
of Indian, Arabic and Flamenco rhythms in the tradition
of the Indian Diaspora of the Roma gypsy.
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Awaz
of ArtWallah Festival Soundtrack CD
An
eclectic compilation of South Asian Hip Hop, raga-jazz,
urban funk, and spoken word, the Awaz of ArtWallah festival
soundtrack CD brings together a generation of progressive
artists from Toronto, New York, and California.
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Reading of Thakur's Nostalgia
A
father and a daughter slowly drift apart, a husband loses
faith and then loses his wife, and an Indo-Portuguese
woman finds herself a stranger in her own country because
of her skin complexion and religion. Ultimately, each
character is forced to make a choice, a choice that can
either lead to some form of redemption or to greater loss.
Written by Sourabh Chatterjee. |
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ArtWallah
Arts Festival
ArtWallah
is an arts festival of the South Asian diaspora, showcasing
artists from around the world in dance, film, literature,
music, spoken word, theatre and visual art. Since
1999, the annual ArtWallah Festival has brought together
hundreds of South Asian diasporic artists from around
the world to Los Angeles for a weekend of dance, film,
literature, music, spoken word, theatre and visual art.
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