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Wednesday, June 5th, 2002 - 7:30 PM
(doors open at 7:00 PM)

SALAAM! and the IndoCenter of Art & Culture
present an evening celebrating gay pride in the south asian community
...As I Am
kicking off gay pride queer desi style
featuring

the New York Premiere screening of
Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to Our Families

followed by Sri-Lankan bicoastal queer performance artist, D'Lo

the New York Premiere screening of
Ambika Samarthya's Theen (Three) starring
Debargo Sanyal, Gregg Kapp and Deepa Purohit
Produced by Basia Winograd

and an Indian classical dance performance by Mohan Kulasingam

    Rewriting the Script: A Love Letter to Our Families features frank discussions with parents, siblings and extended family members of South Asian lesbians, gays,  bisexuals and transgendered people. Poignant testimonies speak to the experience of coming out and how our families of origin transformed themselves to include queer children, and in the process, are changing the broader South Asian community and forever redefining and rewriting the traditional family. This documentary illuminates the experiences of queer South Asians and is relevant to other diverse diasporic communities. The video features the stories of six South Asian families including that of celebrated author Shyam Selvadurai.

    Theen - a gay Indian man's relationship with his boyfriend is threatened by a visit from the perfect Indian woman.

IndoCenter of Art and Culture
530 West 25th Street - 2nd Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenue
Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC

Admission: $10 ($5 for students and free for IndoCenter Members)
Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212-462-4221 or mail@indocenter.org

and if you miss tonite, join us at the new festival screenings:
http://www.newfestival.org/cgi-bin/iowa/event.html?record=93
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SALAAM! is a not-for-profit professional 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.

Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Tapio M. Huuska, Creative Associate
SALAAM!  (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
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