South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival
When
Nov 7, 2009 10:00 am - 5:30 pm (Saturday)
Where
National Museum of American History (map)
1350 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004
Washington, DC 20004
38.8921047
-77.0310281
What
SALTAF 2009 marks the sixth year that NetSAP-DC is partnering with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program to bring you another unforgettable event. SALTAF is an annual celeb...
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Event details: South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival
Description
SALTAF 2009 marks the sixth year that NetSAP-DC is partnering with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program to bring you another unforgettable event. SALTAF is an annual celebration of South Asian creative talent that has established itself as one of the premiere showcases for South Asian-themed literary works and film screenings nationwide.
This year, both new and established authors will read and discuss their work. We are excited to be joined by Tania James, Ru Freeman, Kamila Shamsie, and Kunal Basu. Additionally we are proud to screen acclaimed documentary The Forgotten Woman, directed by Dilip Mehta, who will be present to discuss his work and answer questions. We will also be screening Harishchandrachi Factory, India's official entry in the Foreign Language Film category of the 2010 Academy Awards!!!
Please join us to experience the following...
We are proud to feature the following films:
Dilip Mehta's The Forgotten Woman
(Dilip Mehta will be joining us in person - Following introductions at 10 AM sharp the screening will begin followed by a discussion with the filmmaker)
Dilip Mehta's award-winning documentary, The Forgotten Woman, begins where his older sister Deepa Mehta's 2006 Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language film, Water, ended. This documentary captures the heartbreaking stories of some of the 20 million Indian widows who are abandoned by their families and literally turned out into the streets after losing their husbands. No mere companion piece to Water, this resonating portrait is characterized by "more than enough visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger to stand on its own," wrote critic Nathan Lee in The New York Times.
-Harishchandrachi Factory (screening will begin at 3:00 PM with moderated discussion to follow)
India's official entry for the Foreign Language Film category of the 2010 Academy Awards, Harishchandra's Factory is a film in Marathi (with English subtitles) about the making of India's first full-length feature, Raja Harishchandra, brought to the screen by a tenacious, pioneering ex-printer named Dadasaheb Phalke. It's 1911 and the unemployed Phalke decides to take his family on a rollicking adventure of filmmaking, unheard of in the long decades before Bollywood films became household fixtures. Historically significant yet light and fun, this comedy is totally family friendly!!
Additionally, our literary program is as follows:
12:20 PM - "Japanese Wives: Literary Relationships between South Asia and the World" Featuring readings and moderated discussions with:
-Kamila Shamsie, whose latest novel, Burnt Shadows, is an astonishing story about two unlikely families intertwined for generations
-Dr. Kunal Basu, whose latest title is the 12-story collection, The Japanese Wife, the eponymous opening tale of which is the basis of Aparna Sen's latest film of the same name
2:05 PM - 3:05 PM Literary Panel - "First Class Acts: Negotiating Caste and Gender in Two Debut Novels," featuring readings and moderated discussions with:
-Ru Freeman, whose debut, A Disobedient Girl, weaves two seemingly disparate stories about a house servant yearning for more and a mother on the run with her young children.
- Tania James, another debut novelist, whose Atlas of Unknowns, explores the divergent lives of two sisters, one who travels to America and the other who remains back in their native Kerala
Visit www.saltaf.org or http://apanews.si.edu/2009/04/27/south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival-saltaf-2009/ for more details!
Without fundraising efforts and support from the following sponsors, SALTAF 2009 would not be possible; The Amit Dungarani Foundation, the Key Bridge Marriott, Honest Tea, US Department of Bhangra, Escargot Studio, Darshan TV, the Sri Lankan Embassy, and a generous grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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http://www.saltaf.org
This year, both new and established authors will read and discuss their work. We are excited to be joined by Tania James, Ru Freeman, Kamila Shamsie, and Kunal Basu. Additionally we are proud to screen acclaimed documentary The Forgotten Woman, directed by Dilip Mehta, who will be present to discuss his work and answer questions. We will also be screening Harishchandrachi Factory, India's official entry in the Foreign Language Film category of the 2010 Academy Awards!!!
Please join us to experience the following...
We are proud to feature the following films:
Dilip Mehta's The Forgotten Woman
(Dilip Mehta will be joining us in person - Following introductions at 10 AM sharp the screening will begin followed by a discussion with the filmmaker)
Dilip Mehta's award-winning documentary, The Forgotten Woman, begins where his older sister Deepa Mehta's 2006 Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language film, Water, ended. This documentary captures the heartbreaking stories of some of the 20 million Indian widows who are abandoned by their families and literally turned out into the streets after losing their husbands. No mere companion piece to Water, this resonating portrait is characterized by "more than enough visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger to stand on its own," wrote critic Nathan Lee in The New York Times.
-Harishchandrachi Factory (screening will begin at 3:00 PM with moderated discussion to follow)
India's official entry for the Foreign Language Film category of the 2010 Academy Awards, Harishchandra's Factory is a film in Marathi (with English subtitles) about the making of India's first full-length feature, Raja Harishchandra, brought to the screen by a tenacious, pioneering ex-printer named Dadasaheb Phalke. It's 1911 and the unemployed Phalke decides to take his family on a rollicking adventure of filmmaking, unheard of in the long decades before Bollywood films became household fixtures. Historically significant yet light and fun, this comedy is totally family friendly!!
Additionally, our literary program is as follows:
12:20 PM - "Japanese Wives: Literary Relationships between South Asia and the World" Featuring readings and moderated discussions with:
-Kamila Shamsie, whose latest novel, Burnt Shadows, is an astonishing story about two unlikely families intertwined for generations
-Dr. Kunal Basu, whose latest title is the 12-story collection, The Japanese Wife, the eponymous opening tale of which is the basis of Aparna Sen's latest film of the same name
2:05 PM - 3:05 PM Literary Panel - "First Class Acts: Negotiating Caste and Gender in Two Debut Novels," featuring readings and moderated discussions with:
-Ru Freeman, whose debut, A Disobedient Girl, weaves two seemingly disparate stories about a house servant yearning for more and a mother on the run with her young children.
- Tania James, another debut novelist, whose Atlas of Unknowns, explores the divergent lives of two sisters, one who travels to America and the other who remains back in their native Kerala
Visit www.saltaf.org or http://apanews.si.edu/2009/04/27/south-asian-literary-and-theater-arts-festival-saltaf-2009/ for more details!
Without fundraising efforts and support from the following sponsors, SALTAF 2009 would not be possible; The Amit Dungarani Foundation, the Key Bridge Marriott, Honest Tea, US Department of Bhangra, Escargot Studio, Darshan TV, the Sri Lankan Embassy, and a generous grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
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http://www.saltaf.org
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