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Monday, January 23, 2006 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM 3rd Mondays (on the 4th Monday this month only)
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
invites you to a special work-in-progress
staged reading of excerpts from

MIGRITUDE
Written and performed by
SHAILJA PATEL

Q&A and discussion moderated by Kayhan Irani

ABOUT MIGRITUDE:
Shailja Patel's one-woman spoken-word theater show uses her trousseau of saris to unfold stories of women's lives in the bootprint of Empire. A third-generation Kenyan Asian, Shailja covers the spectrum from comedy to pathos to a powerful indictment of colonialism. Migritude has been described as "a Godiva bonbon laced with LSD and packed to the suicidal wazoo with truth and imagery." http://shailja.com/work/migritude.html

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and libations following the reading.  Shailja will offer a special SALAAM discount on her chapbooks and DVDs.

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)
$10 suggested, $15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp@SALAAMtheatre.org
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ABOUT SHAILJA PATEL:
http://shailja.com
Note: Shailja is pronounced Shell-jah

Kenyan Indian poet and spoken word artist Shailja Patel has featured at New York's Lincoln Center, and venues across the US. She has drawn standing ovations in London, Glasgow, and Nairobi. Excerpts from her one-woman spoken-word theater show, Migritude, have aired on BBC radio, NPR, the National Radio Project, and Pacifica Radio, generating responses worldwide. Migritude was recently selected for the International Women Art Festival in Vienna in 2006.

Widely profiled in South Asian and US print media, radio, and cable TV, Shailja has delivered keynote addresses at Yale and Brown Universities, and performed for crowds of over 50,000 at global anti-war rallies. Her work appears in numerous journals, anthologies and CDs, and will feature in the International Museum of Women in 2006. Excerpts from Migritude have been translated into several languages, and used in colleges, high schools and workshops from South Africa to India to Japan. Awards include an Outwrite 1999 Poetry Prize and a Voices Of Our Nations Poetry Scholarship.

A US Lambda slam poetry champion, Shailja was one of 13 poets selected from across the nation to be showcased in the newly released anthology of queer slam poetry: Bullets and Butterflies (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005)

Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Shailja read Economics and Politics at the University of York, England, then trained as a chartered accountant in London. She is a certified yoga teacher who has taught internationally. She currently lives in Oakland, California.

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Join us as SALAAM 3rd Mondays resumes with our performance series!  SPECIAL NOTE: Due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we will host our event on the 4th Monday of this month.  Don't miss this hot and long-standing monthly event where artists, activists, actors, directors, writers, film producers, screenwriters, journalists, casting agents and industry professionals meet to share an evening that is indeed "the best underground deal in NYC."  For a suggested donation of just $10, you get performances and a reception with complimentary hors d'oeuvres, wine, soda and great conversations.   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.  SALAAM Theatre is a proud member of THAW - Theaters Against War and United for Peace and Justice.