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UNIFICATION 2013
UNIFICATION 2013:
A DEMONSTRATION FOR PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA & AT HOME
Featuring performances by:
Bushra Rehman
Parijat Desai
D'Lo
Roopa Singh
Akshara
Aparna Nancherla
and more...!
Supporting South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
Curated by THE BROWNSTAR REVOLUTION
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Ticket Sales at the Door Start: 9:30 PM
Show Starts: 10 PM
@Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St
(between Rivington and Delancey)
http://dixonplace.org/
Trains:
F to 2nd ave
J/Z to Bowery
6 to Spring
M to Essex
B/D to Grand
****EARLY BIRD SPECIAL EXTENDED TILL AUGUST 1st!!
Until AUG 1st: $20 Early Bird | After AUG 1st: $25 Online
The fifth annual UNIFICATION is New York's largest annual demonstration for peace in South Asia. Highlighting the talent of the South Asian American community, we celebrate the region's first major victories in the anti-colonial movement and stand in solidarity for peace in the region. UNIFICATION 2013 is proud to once again support South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) America's leading South Asian advocacy organization!
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a national, nonpartisan, non-profit organization that elevates the voices and perspectives of South Asian individuals and organizations to build a more just and inclusive society in the United States. SAALT is the only national, staffed South Asian organization that advocates around issues affecting South Asian communities through a social justice framework. SAALT's strategies include conducting public policy analysis and advocacy; building partnerships with South Asian organizations and allies; mobilizing communities to take action; and developing leadership for social change. More at www.SAALT.org.
COSPONSORS:
Subcontinental Drift NYC
Asian American Arts Alliance
SAKHI for South Asian Women
SAAPYA
SAWCC: South Asian Women's Creative Collective
SALGA NYC
For any and all inquiries contact Tara Sarath at sarath.tara@gmail.com or at UNIFICATION's Facebook page at facebook.com/UNIFICATION.NYC.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
D'Lo
D'Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian and music producer. D'Lo has performed and/or facilitated performance and writing workshops extensively (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Sri Lanka and India). D'Lo is also the creator of the "Coming Out, Coming Home" writing workshop series which have taken place with South Asian and/or Immigrant Queer Organizations nationally (LA, NY and SF). He is also in workshop production for his 2nd full length play Boys that Pray (dir. Laurie Woolery) which received funding from the Astraea Foundation.D'Lo holds a BA from UCLA in Ethnomusicology and is a graduate of New York's School of Audio Engineering (SAE). Visit his website at http://dlocokid.com/.
Bushra Rehman
Bushra Rehman, originally from Corona, Queens, is a, poet, essayist and fiction writer. Her writing has been featured on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, and KPFA and in The New York Times, India Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, Color Lines, The Feminist Wire and Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America. Rehman co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (Seal Press, 2002) which Rebecca Walker described as "a must for young women of color searching for themselves within contemporary feminist/womanist discourse, and anyone else who wants to get down with the fierceness of fly, intellectual divas of color." Colonize This! was included in Ms. Magazine's "100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time." Corona is Rehman's first novel. Visit her website at http://www.bushrarehman.com/.
Parijat Desai
Parijat Desai strives to create an organic and kinetic blend of Indian classical and Western contemporary dance. She has devoted her life to training in these radically different movement systems, and to finding bridges between them. Desai has taught dance at venues such as Institute for Diversity in the Arts/Stanford University, UCLA, Queens College, Mark Morris Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, DanceWave/Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Friends Academy. Desai has been a recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant, Asian American Arts Alliance SOAR grant, Durfee Foundation Artist Fellowship, and Lester Horton Dance Award for Individual Performance. Through performance, Desai has helped raise funds for immigrant services, earthquake relief, and victims of communal violence. Visit her website at http://www.parijatdesai.org/.
Roopa Singh, Esq
Roopa Singh, Esq., is first generation Indian-American, a yoga teacher, and part owner of Third Root, a Brooklyn based health and wellness center. Roopa has taught pre-law and popular culture at City College and Pace University; worked in prisons, at the ACLU, National Public Radio. Roopa has performed for years, mainly on a social justice circuit, but also at Lincoln Center and most recently during SXSW 2012. Roopa teaches pre-natal yoga, pre-natal meditation, Gayatri Mantra sessions, and restorative yoga. She is the founder of SAAPYA: South Asian American Perspectives on Yoga in America. Read more on SAAPYA at http://saapya.wordpress.com/.
Akhshara
Akshara is an exciting new percussion group rooted in Indian classical musical traditions. Comprised of virtuosic performers in Carnatic and Hindustani classical genres, Akshara performs an energetic blend of classical Indian melody and rhythm highlighted with solo and scale-based improvisations. The group performs original compositions by Bala Skandan, demonstrating the powerful and complex rhythmic structures inherent in South Indian classical music.
APARNA NANCHERLA
Aparna Nancherla has an intimidating name, but don't be scared! She's a joke entrepreneur who pedals in both writing and performance (AKA scribble-scrabble and jibber-jabber). In fact, she currently writes for and sometimes appears on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX. Aparna's comedic goggles are dry and observational, and her act is sprinkled with absurdist wit and a whimsical take on the world. Other credits include LA Weekly's "12 Comedy Acts to Watch", Serial Optimist's "10 Comedians You Must Know",Splitsider's "10 Up-and-Coming Comedians on Each Coast", 2013 New Face at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, the Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick, Last Comic Standing, SXSW, the Great American Comedy Festival, NPR, Reader's Digest, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, and TimeOut NY. For Aparna's performance schedule and other web tidbits, visit http://www.aparnacomedy.com/
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LocationDixon Place (View)
161 Chrystie St
New York, NY 10002
United States
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