Saturday, June 12, 2010
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Letters to our Mothers: Meera Nair, Arun Storrs, Amy T. Paul, Adhikaar’s Arts and Activism Group, performed by Megha and Shradha Lama
In Letters to our Mothers, five writers celebrate the multi-faceted voices of South Asian women in Queens and what it means to be heard across distance. The Asian American Writers’ Workshop joins up with Adhikaar’s Executive Director Luna Ranjit and Queens Council on the Arts to present readings by Asian American Literary Award-winning fiction author Meera Nair, author and Wall Street Journal editor Mitra Kalita, and poets Arun Storrs and Amy T. Paul. Shardha and Megha Lama—theater members of Adhikaar’s Arts & Activism Program—will perform “I wish I could tell my Aama,” a theater piece incorporating dance and visual arts to tell bridge the difficult distances between mothers and daughters, asking “Aama did I ever tell you, I want to sing?”
Register here– https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXREPHIL/EventDetail.asp
For more information on our guests please visit– http://aaww.org/aaww_events.html#letters
LETTERS TO OUR MOTHERS
@ Jackson Diner
3747 74th Street
Flushing, NY 11372