Rungh
Website: http://www.rungh.org/
Email Address: info@rungh.org
Editor/Consultant: Ramabai Espinet Ramabai Espinet
Country: South Asia
Type: Online journal
Description: The cultural terrain in Canada in the early 1990’s was faced with the challenges of race/identity politics and issues of systemic in/exclusion of artists of colour from the Canadian arts and culture scene. The Canadian challenge, given our “multicultural paradigm” was different than that of the black/white binary of UK’s Black Arts Movement and USA’s “melting pot”. The Rungh Cultural Society was founded in 1991 in response to a gaping need for a pan-South Asian presence in arts and cultural communities in Canada. One of the society’s main projects from 1992-2000 was the publication of an international contemporary arts journal, Rungh Magazine—A South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment and Criticism. The Society and Rungh Magazine included the energies and voices of names that are now well known but were then considered “emerging’, names such as MG Vassanji (writer/publisher), Shani Mootoo (writer/poet/visual artist), George Elliot Clarke (writer/poet/academic), Ian Iqbal Rashid (filmmaker/screenwriter), Lillian Allen (poet), Ali Kazimi (documentary filmmaker) and others.
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Website: http://www.rungh.org/
Email Address: info@rungh.org
Editor/Consultant: Ramabai Espinet Ramabai Espinet
Country: South Asia
Type: Online journal
Description: The cultural terrain in Canada in the early 1990’s was faced with the challenges of race/identity politics and issues of systemic in/exclusion of artists of colour from the Canadian arts and culture scene. The Canadian challenge, given our “multicultural paradigm” was different than that of the black/white binary of UK’s Black Arts Movement and USA’s “melting pot”. The Rungh Cultural Society was founded in 1991 in response to a gaping need for a pan-South Asian presence in arts and cultural communities in Canada. One of the society’s main projects from 1992-2000 was the publication of an international contemporary arts journal, Rungh Magazine—A South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment and Criticism. The Society and Rungh Magazine included the energies and voices of names that are now well known but were then considered “emerging’, names such as MG Vassanji (writer/publisher), Shani Mootoo (writer/poet/visual artist), George Elliot Clarke (writer/poet/academic), Ian Iqbal Rashid (filmmaker/screenwriter), Lillian Allen (poet), Ali Kazimi (documentary filmmaker) and others.
(Directory entry)
