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Monday, March 17, 2003 - 7:00 PM

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
presents
Feeling...

On the March 17th deadline for Iraq to disarm, we reflect on the potential war in Iraq and the war on civil liberties here in the U.S. while reflecting on Women's Herstory Month and celebrating our Irish friends' St. Patrick's Day.

featuring

"The Dead See - How I Learned to Stop Envying J. Lo"
written and performed by Betty Shamieh
about her recent trip to the Palestinian territories.

"Detainee" (from the larger piece, "Killing Me Softly")
written and performed Kayhan Irani
explore a women's experiences throughout the registration process by shedding light on a dark, immoral practice that is being overlooked.

"Deception" and "My Rage"
written and performed by Suneel Mubayi
a young, radical poet who dares to speak out using his weapon of choice -- words.

"Luck Of The Desi"
written and performed by Geeta Citygirl
Leprechauns, shamrocks and that straight-up 24 karat pot of gold...

Excerpts from "Greetings from Iraq: 1993"
This documentary takes viewers on a journey through a diverse and broken Baghdad after the 1991 Gulf War while looking at the ongoing embargo and the effects these events have had on the people of Iraq.  We travel 10 years back and hear several Iraqi families interviewed about what life is after the war...

Jason DaSilva's documentary, "Lest We Forget"
Every so often, possibility consumes reason in ways that make the human heart suffer.  Since 9/11, thousands of individuals have been detained, often later to be directly deported, most of whom  are South Asian, Arab, and Muslim people. As this repression continues, the reference to the American internment camps of Japanese during World War II is all too clear.  Through 1st person accounts, individuals whose lives were/are thrown into suffering will verbally recreate a montage of their similar experiences.  Pulling from the past and looking to the future, the Japanese internment camps of WWII will be paralleled to what is going on today to Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities.. (Co-producer Roopa De Choudery will be present for the Q&A).

our monthly Tunefulness musical segment with
Jeet Thayil's Bombay Down
"The Unauthorized Autobiography of Rain:
Fearsome Tales of Love & Loss"
Jeet Thayil (poems, guitar), Paul Rubenstein (ubertar),
Senti Toy (vocals) and Naren Budhakar (tabla)
Bombay Down go "beyond fusion and into the zone where all art exists," in the words of poet and impresario Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry Club.

our monthly Community Corner with folks from Not In Our Name
The Not in Our Name Project came together in the spring of 2002, and has since mobilized hundreds of thousands of people across the USA, and in places as far away as Cambodia and Antarctica to pledge to resist the Bush Administration-led war on the world, detentions and round-ups of immigrants, and attacks on civil liberties.  Arun Aguiar will be in the house w/others.

And your Hostess, Geeta Citygirl's "Luck Of The Desi"
written and performed by Geeta Citygirl
Leprechauns, shamrocks and that straight-up 24 karat pot of gold...

Traditional Q&A and reception with wine, soda and Indian appetizers to follow.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
Manhattan, NYC

Admission: $5 minimum suggested donation
Nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds!!!
Reservations not required but recommended.
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp@SALAAMtheatre.org

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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
SALAAM  (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org