Thursday, June 17, 6:30–8:30pm
Reading and Reception

Join the celebration of this ground-breaking anthology, the first collection of US poets from South Asia.  Newly published by the University of Arkansas Press, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America.

Featuring poets Vijay Seshadri, Subashini Kaligotla, Pramila Venkateswaran, and Ralph Nazareth with a reading, signing, and reception at the wonderful evanescent Tamarind Art Gallery.

Tamarind Art Gallery
142 East 39th St.
New York, NY 10016
www.tamarindart.com

Free to the public
RSVP to  rsvp@tamarindart.org

If you’d like to find out more about the anthology, visit http://www.indivisibleanthology.com

Co sponsored by SAJA (South Asian Journalists Association) and SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective)

SAWCC
presents a panel discussion moderated by
Professor Gayatri Gopinath (NYU),
featuring DJ Ashu Rai (Sholay Productions)
& DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra)

Impossible Communities
A conversation on the emergence and history of a South Asian Queer
Diaspora in NYC, and the use of party spaces as social and political
interventions that help define immigrant communities in new hybrid
formulations.

Thursday, April 22nd 2010
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library, Brooklyn Campus
http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visiting_pratt/maps_and_directions/

There will be an off-site reception after the panel.

This event is the first event in SAWCC’s speaker series, “What’s Left
of SAWCC”. In this inaugural speaker series, SAWCC presents talks in
which the concept of “Left” will be explored, firstly through the
ability to identify social spaces as political interventions and
progressive politics; secondly, as a play on words, in which the idea
of what is “left” is also used as a way to interrogate the archive,
and finally as a more synthetic approach to redefining how artists,
intellectuals and communities redefine urban spaces through cultural
production. Each talk explores this theme of progressive politics and
the many ways in which SAWCC links cultural production to social and
political interventions. Each talk will be presented at locations that
illustrate our collaborations across the city.

Co-sponsors for this panel include the Critical and Visual Studies
Colloquium and the Initiative of Art, Community and Social Change
(IACSC) as a part of the series, “Constructing Spaces:  The Politics
of Art and Community,” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.