browngirlworld IV

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(for torontonians)
Browngirlword: Radical visions of South Asian womanhood
spoken word and visual art show

featuring:

Rosina Kazi, lyricist and vocalist for LAL (www.lalforest.ca)
Bushra Rehman, New York-based queer Pakistani poet, co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Colour on Today’s Feminism and Marianna’s Beauty Salon
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, queer Sri Lankan poet, author Consensual Genocide
Sri Lankan visual artist Chamindika Wanduragala (Diaspora/Flow, Minneapolis)
open mic to follow

Come check out this spoken word night for South Asian Heritage Month, featuring an all-star lineup that stretches from T.O. to New York to Minneapolis, Bangladesh to Pakistan to Sri Lanka. Lyricist and Lal frontwoman Rosina Kazi sings rebel songs, queer Sri Lankan spoken word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha lights up the stage, New York-based Pakistani poet Bushra Rehman tells speaks the truth, while the walls are covered by the work of Minneapolis-based Sri Lankan visual artist Chamindika Wanduralaga. Bring poetry and stories for the open mic to follow. Artwork, CDs and chapbooks will be available for sale. Come hear our histories of resistance and the untold stories of our future.

Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street, Toronto
(416) 922-8744
Sunday May 15,
Door 7:00 PM, show 7:30 PM
$5 at the door
for more information, contact Leah at brownstargirl@riseup.net


Cosponsored by:
Toronto Women's Bookstore
brownstargirl productions

Comments

[autotomy.livejournal.com]

Damn, maybe I'll check that out. I use to go to a writer's group that Leah facilitated. She'd always bring vegan snacks to the meetings, it was great. Her spoken word is amazing.