Narika

Two events you can dig into...support our South Asian Queer Community!

1. This Monday, October 29, South Asian Women Poets Speak Out, UC
Berkeley and Narika (http://www.narika.org, more below)

2. This coming Friday and Saturday, Nov 2 &3, Sins Invalid, an
knock-out evening of performance exploring disability and sexuality,
Brava Theater, in the Mission
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nXPUlt8zJA,
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NARIKA AT BERKELEY PRESENTS: POETRY EVENT &
SCREENING: SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN POETS SPEAK OUT

NARIKA AT BERKELEY PRESENTS:
POETRY EVENT & SCREENING: SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN POETS SPEAK OUT

EVENT TIME & DATE: 7PM-9PM Monday, October 29th
LOCATION: 110 Barrows. University of California, Berkeley

After a successful spring semester in 2007, the CAL group is back in
action! We are organizing a line up of events for the semester that
include a workshop and artistic events. On October 29, our student
group would like to provide a space/platform for South Asian women
poets to read poetry, share their works and ongoing projects that
speak to issues that impact them as women.

***Featured poets are Roopa Singh and Tina Zaman***

Poets will be followed by a screening and discussion of "Bhaji on the Beach".

FILM SYNOPOSIS: Bhaji on the Beach
A comedy about a group of Indian women, living in England, who are
brought together by a day at the beach. Among the day-trippers are
Ginder, a young mother who has taken sanctuary in Simi's shelter after
being physically abused by her husband Ranjit; her six-year-old son
Amrik; Hashida, a student about to start medical school, who has
discovered she is pregnant; Asha, a middle-aged newsagent with a
university degree, who feels neglected by her husband and children and
frustrated by unfulfilled personal aspirations; Ladhu and Madhu, a
pair of sexually inexperienced teenagers; Pushpa, an elderly Indian
housewife and grocer; Rekha, a glamorous visitor from Bombay who has
time to spare during her husband's business trips to London; and Bina,
a shop assistant in Marks and Spencer. In the course of their day
together , their ordinary lives become an extraordinary celebration. A
unique look at female friendship.

Narika at Berkeley:
The goal of this student group is to increase student awareness and
action in anti-domestic violence initiatives. We are an all volunteer
run student subgroup of the home base, Narika: A Domestic Violence
Helpline for South Asian Women, whose mission is to promote the
empowerment of women in our community to confront and overcome the
cycles of domestic violence and exploitation. We work to build a
movement at the student level to end violence against women and girls
and to actively support women's rights as human rights. Our membership
is diverse and we welcome students and student supporters to join us