Saturday, June 12, 2010
Jackson Diner, Flushing, NY
Description
Letters to our Mothers: Meera Nair, Arun Storrs, Amy T. Paul, Adhikaar’s Arts and Activism Group, performed by Megha and Shradha Lama
In Letters to our Mothers, five writers celebrate the multi-faceted voices of South Asian women in Queens and what it means to be heard across distance. The Asian American Writers' Workshop joins up with Adhikaar’s Executive Director Luna Ranjit and Queens Council on the Arts to present readings by Asian American Literary Award-winning fiction author Meera Nair, author and Wall Street Journal editor Mitra Kalita, and poets Arun Storrs and Amy T. Paul. Shardha and Megha Lama—theater members of Adhikaar's Arts & Activism Program—will perform "I wish I could tell my Aama,” a theater piece incorporating dance and visual arts to tell bridge the difficult distances between mothers and daughters, asking “Aama did I ever tell you, I want to sing?”
Meera Nair is the author of VIDEO: Stories and a forthcoming novel from Pantheon, tentatively titled HARVEST. VIDEO won the Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Book magazine. Her stories, articles and essays have also appeared in the <>New York Times magazine, the National Post, The Threepenny Review, Calyx, Discover as well as in various anthologies and on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Meera has won fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2004 & 2008) and the MacDowell Artists’ Colony.
More information here.
Jackson Diner, Flushing, NY
Description
Letters to our Mothers: Meera Nair, Arun Storrs, Amy T. Paul, Adhikaar’s Arts and Activism Group, performed by Megha and Shradha Lama
In Letters to our Mothers, five writers celebrate the multi-faceted voices of South Asian women in Queens and what it means to be heard across distance. The Asian American Writers' Workshop joins up with Adhikaar’s Executive Director Luna Ranjit and Queens Council on the Arts to present readings by Asian American Literary Award-winning fiction author Meera Nair, author and Wall Street Journal editor Mitra Kalita, and poets Arun Storrs and Amy T. Paul. Shardha and Megha Lama—theater members of Adhikaar's Arts & Activism Program—will perform "I wish I could tell my Aama,” a theater piece incorporating dance and visual arts to tell bridge the difficult distances between mothers and daughters, asking “Aama did I ever tell you, I want to sing?”
Meera Nair is the author of VIDEO: Stories and a forthcoming novel from Pantheon, tentatively titled HARVEST. VIDEO won the Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Book magazine. Her stories, articles and essays have also appeared in the <>New York Times magazine, the National Post, The Threepenny Review, Calyx, Discover as well as in various anthologies and on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Meera has won fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2004 & 2008) and the MacDowell Artists’ Colony.
More information here.
