[nyfoil-l] 7PM on Monday (8/16): AWAAZ presents CELESTIAL MOTIONS (SALAAM 3rd Mondays)

[Geeta Citygirl]

SALAAM Friends,

As we all prepare for so many events this month (India/Pakistan's
Independence Day Parades, Fringe NYC and the Republican Nat'l
Convention), we invite you to our 3rd installation of AWAAZ where we
present a reading of Mrinalini Kamath's CELESTIAL MOTIONS.  This month
SALAAM 3rd Mondays happens to fall on the NEW MOON DAY.   The new moon
is the phase of the moon when the moon is not visible from Earth,
because the side of the moon that is facing us is not being lit by the
sun.  So take time to celebrate the new moon day and join us for another
memorable SALAAM salon!

SYNOPSIS:  CELESTIAL MOTIONS tells the story of what happens when
25-year-old Leela's parents (immigrants from India) realize that they
forgot to take daylight savings time into account when they had her
Hindu astrological chart drawn at her birth. They have it redrawn, and
the startling prediction sets the young woman on a journey of arranged
dating and cyber romance, as her parents desperately try to control her
fate.   Little do they realize that Leela's destiny is closer than they
(or Leela, for that matter) think.  An intercultural romantic comedy.

Celebrate the summertime in NYC by joining SALAAM Theatre's AWAAZ Play
Reading Series.  As always, we welcome members of the press and media to
list, review, interview or cover the event.  There will be a Q&A with
the playwright MRINALINI KAMATH and the director, JORELLE ARONOVITCH
following the reading.  Thanking you in advance for your support and
encouragement!

Monday, August 16, 2004 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
invites you to our second installation of AWAAZ.

AWAAZ** - New Voices/ New Plays
presents a staged reading of

Mrinalini Kamath's
MOTHER IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Directed by Jorelle Aronovitch.

Cast includes Debargo Sanyal, Thom Rivera, Cori Thomas, Graeme Gillis,
Denny Bess, Sanjiv Jhaveri.

Q&A and complimentary hors d'oeuvres and libations for your pleasure.

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

Admission by donation: (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 PLAYWRIGHT: Mrinalini Kamath recently completed her M.F.A. in
playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School
University.  Her plays have been performed around the country, as well
as the United Kingdom and Australia.  She was a Tennessee Williams
Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers™ Conference in Sewanee, TN, and a
finalist for the Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights™ Center in
Minneapolis, MN.  Her short plays have been published in the Smith and
Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000
and 30 Ten-Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors: The Best of 2002-2003 (to
be published later this year).  She has also been published by
playscripts.com.

**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.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2004 at 7PM - SALAAM's next installment of AWAAZ presents
9/10 by Richard Willett.

SALAAM Theatre - AWAAZ Team:
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
Priyanka Mathew, Play Development Coordinator
Ragini Jain, Artistic Intern
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                  "We get arts and activism mixed up."
                  - Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
       SALAAM Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
                      http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org