[nyfoil-l] 7PM on Monday (6/21) - Awaaz Pride Event (S3M)

[Geeta Citygirl]

SALAAM Friends,

Celebrate the Summer Solstice, Gay Pride and all things HOT as SALAAM
Theatre kicks off AWAAZ, our inaugural and annual South Asian Play
Reading Series.

Monday, June 21, 2004 - 7:00 PM

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
celebrates GAY PRIDE 2004,
as we kick-off AWAAZ: our inaugural & annual South Asian Play Reading
Series

AWAAZ* - New voices/ New plays
presents staged readings of two plays:

Brenden Varma's
SAFE SPACE
Taking place in a community center in present-day Manhattan, this
full-length play takes you to meeting of a support group for young gay
South Asians.

Directed by Ashok Sinha
Featuring
Rita Garg as Nausheen
Sanjiv Javeri as Vish and Mr. Chowdhury
Priyanka Mathew as Mary
Maulik Pancholy as Raj
Tyler Pierce as Gilbert and Random Bus Passenger
Omar Rahim as Neal
Reena Shah as Umera
Brenden Varma as Vikram

Paul Knox's
WHAT FLAVOR IS YOUR SLURPEE
Place:  A 7-11 convenience store just outside Wilmhackey, South Dakota.
Time:  Way past any sensible person's bedtime.

Directed by Paul Knox
Featuring:
Rupak Bhattacharya as Mohammad
Kristi Tomooka-Russo* as Lin
Nandita Shenoy* as Rani

Traditional Q&A and complimentary refreshments for your pleasure.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Admission: (nobody is turned away due to lack of funds)
$5 minimum
$10 suggested
$15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp at SALAAMtheatre.org

About the Playwrights:
BRENDEN VARMA is an actor and dancer who has performed at various
locations in Washington, DC, including the National Theatre,
Constitution Hall, and the Gala Hispanic Theatre. In New York, he is a
regular dance instructor at D.J. Rekha’s immensely popular Basement
Bhangra parties and has worked with Camara Dance Unlimited and Arya
International.  Last year, SALAAM Theatre presented his one-act version
of this play, SAFE SPACE.  The son of a Punjabi father and Maharashtrian
mother, who met while both serving as captains in the Indian Army, he
speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

PAUL KNOX's INFORMED CONSENT is currently a finalist in the Samuel
French Best Short Plays of 2004 competition.  This past year he directed
his KALIGHAT for the Indo-American Arts Council and the Baruch
Performing Arts Center, and his GEHRI DOSTI:  5 Short Plays With A South
Asian Bent ;-)  at Harvard University.  He is the Executive Director of
Circle East (formerly the Circle Rep Lab) and a cofounder and trustee of
the Tides Foundation - India Fund, which supports grassroots education
and community building efforts among sexually marginalized groups in
South Asia.

*AWAAZ means VOICE
The goal of AWAAZ, other than to expose our large and diverse SALAAM
audience to new and emerging writing, is to develop voices that will go
on to be valuable
storytellers about South Asian issues through entertaining theatricality
and thereby add to the already diverse texture of the New York
theatrical landscape.

* AWAAZ is not only to help emerging playwrights through staged readings
and development workshops but also develop some of these plays with an
eye to full
productions for SALAAM Theatre's 2005 Season.

Please join us for each installment of our AWAAZ Play Reading Series.
You never know what special talents you'll meet so just mark your
calendars and be part of this growing movement of artists and
activists.  For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

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                  "We get arts and activism mixed up."

    SALAAM Theatre is a not-for-profit professional multidisciplinary
                            theatre company
  celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative
                              risk-taking
and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples
                                  and
      links all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity.

                   Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
       SALAAM Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
                      http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org
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