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Monday, April 21, 2003 - 7:00 PM

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
presents
Rebirth, Renewal, Redemption
reflecting on Earth Day, the HoliDays and Springtime

featuring

A reading of Tapio M. Huuska's new one-act play, TO LIVE A LITTLE featuring Vitória Setta and Geeta Citygirl.
Safiya and Anju share tea and biscuits while discussing life, God and death in this bizarrely comedic piece.  "When you have a best friend, you certainly live a little, so you might as well... well die a little." (quote from the playwright)

Ajita Abraham's Tribute to Mother Earth.
This dance is an invocation to the various elements of the universe.  It pays tribute to the earth, the land, the fire, the wind, the sky, the sun, the moon, the planets, life, the body, the mind and the soul.  This dance pays tribute to all of these elements..

Manav Sachdeva Maasoom will share with you "his friends' lives, his parents' strife, and his moments' might settling as words with their own stories within his poems..."

The World Premiere screening of Pranaya Chulet's short film "...AND THE CARPET WRAPPED THE GLOBE."
The filmmaker explores the way violence around the world today is shaping our lives.  He believes there is no escaping this terrible monster.  Travel with a Kashmiri family while transcending the immediate context and raising bigger questions.  This is a simple story about a complicated world.  Starring Pranaya Chulet and Sunita S. Mukhi.

our monthly Tunefulness musical segment features Nitya Vidyasagar singing songs from the soul.  These motion pieces reflect on growth and change through life's cycles.  "Growth" is depicted in these songs as the accumulation of moments of self-discovery and realization.  She will be accompanied by Laura Smith on acoustic guitar.

our monthly Community Corner welcomes Monami Maulik from DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving), a community-based social justice organization of working class and poor South Asians immigrants in New York City founded in 1999.  DRUM's mission is to organize low-income South Asian immigrant for racial, economic, and social justice on critical local struggles and their global roots.  http://www.drumnation.org

and your Hostess, Geeta Citygirl.

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
Reservations 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