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M E L A : d e s i g a t h e r i n g
Friday, 14th July 2006 To Sunday, 16th July 2006
700 Royal Avenue
New Westminster, BC Ontario
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My Experience Living as a south Asian (M.E.L.A)
Dates: Friday July 14-Sunday July 16, 2006
Venue: Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC (one
block
from New Westminster skytrain station)
As young South Asians, we find ourselves faced with particular
realities,
challenges, and questions about our histories, our cultures, and our
identities. Our objective in organizing this mela is to facilitate a
platform in which to empower and inspire South Asian youth to dialogue
on
and explore community social issues through self-expression, education,
and arts & culture.
The mela will include a variety of mediums through which young South
Asians express themselves and communicate through- visual art and
photography, films, dance such as classical dance and bhangra,
performances of hip-hop/tabla/ Asian underground/spoken word & poetry
and
other musical performances, discussion groups, workshops, popular
theatre,
and educational panels.
In the mela, young South Asians will be able to exchange, debate,
critique, and explore different issues such as: what it means to be a
south asian youth, our experiences in the educational system, family
and
peer pressures, the influence of popular culture in our lives, how we
are
represented in the media, reclaiming cultural traditions, our ability
to
access culturally-relevant services such as for women’s health,
religion
in our personal lives and as a political reality, our roles and
realities
in the labour force, sexuality, cultural taboos, violence, immigration,
race, social/economic/political histories of the subcontinent,
globalization, caste, environmental sustainability, civil rights in the
post 9/11 climate, migration history of the South Asian community,
peace
in the subcontinent, and much more.
We also hope to empower young South Asians through skills training in
media, web design, radio production, film making, writing, public
speaking, and performance art which will encourage Asian youth to
advocate
for themselves.
Our community is diverse, culturally rich, and maintains strong ties to
South Asia, as well as diasporic ties across the world. We envision
that
through the mela we will strengthen our ties across different
religions,
regions and nationalities and define and create new political, cultural
and social spaces for young South Asians.
The cost of this gathering is pay what you can afford ($0-$20). Food
and
snacks will be provided for free, free childcare will be available, and
there will be multilingual presentations with translation available.
* Organized by a diverse group of young South Asians with the support
of
community partners and organizations. For more information, email
or phone (604) 682-3269 x 7237
[desi -- desi (de 'see), n. [Sanskrit des' ] 1. some one with
south-asian
ancestry; of any one of the indic peoples; people of south asian
ancestry
2. people who share a common history with origins in nepal, bhutan, sri
lanka, bangladesh, pakistan, guyana, trinidad, india and the diaspora.
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Email: mela (at) resist.ca |
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