Asian American Parents who love their Queer Kids – Fri 3/30 @ 6pm

March 20, 2012

Join NQAPIA, GAPIMNY, QWAVE, and Center Families in this program:

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ASIAN AMERICAN PARENTS WHO LOVE THEIR QUEER KIDS 

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Friday, March 30, 2012

6:00 to 8:00 PM

The LGBT Center, Room 302

208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, West Village 

The Event

Marsha Aizumi , an Asian American mother describes how she and her transgender son moved from fear and uncertainty to love and acceptance.  Sharing some of her innermost thoughts and feelings, Marsha will describe specific and concrete ways they were able to face adversity and keep their hearts open to each other.

The Speaker

Marsha, who resides in Los Angeles, is one the national Board of PFLAG.  Marsha is an educational consultant, author of an upcoming memoir being released by Magnus Books called Two Spirits, One Heartand recently was elected to the Parents, Family and Friends for Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National Board.  She believes her journey with her transgender son transformed her into a more compassionate, courageous and loving mother.  And this journey opened her eyes and her heart to the amazing LGBT community which taught her the real meaning of unconditional love. 

The Co-Sponsors

National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance

Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York

QWAVE 

Center Families

For more information

Contact Glenn D. Magpantay at NQAPIA at glenn_magpantay@nqapia.org or 917-439-3158.

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Asian Queer Identities and the Left

March 12, 2012

Asian Queer Identities and the Left:

GAPIMNY, SALGA, and QWAVE will jointly present on a panel at the Left Forum on Sunday, March 18, 3pm (room E324).  We will discuss how efforts at lifting visibility have or have not been able to align with the left progressive movement.  Participate, support, and speak your mind at the session!

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The Left Forum will be held at Pace University in Manhattan.

Registration can be done on site: $15-20

Directions: http://www.leftforum.org/directions

Panel description: http://www.leftforum.org/panel/asian-queer-identities-and-left

More on the Left Forum: http://www.leftforum.org/

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Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches

March 12, 2012

SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave invite you to the world premiere of: 

Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches
Saturday, March 17  
8:00 pm @ the Theatre at 14th St. Y (334 East 14th St.)
with post-show Conversation with Cast and Creative Team
drinks & continuing dialogue afterwards at Nowhere Bar

Featuring Sarah Baskin, Purva Bedi, Jaspal Binning, Sergei Burbank, Mariam Habib, Ashok Kumar, Bushra Laskar, Deanna McGovern, Antonio Miniño, Eric Percival, Anil Ramani, Shetal Shah, Imran W. Sheikh, and Dathan B. Williams. With George Allison (Set Design), Karen Ann Ledger (Costume Design), Carl Faber (Lighting Design), Martha Goode (Sound Design), Arooj Aftab (Composer & Singer), Gisela Fullá-Silvestre (Composer); Navdeep Tucker (Choreography), and production stage manager Sarah E. Ford. Produced by Martha Goode with associate producer Jessica Thornhill for MTWorks.


On Saturday, March 17, SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave invite you to the world premiere of Riti Sachdeva’s play, PARTS OF PARTS & STITCHES, which explores the 1947 partition of British India into the nations of India, Pakistan, and later Bangladesh. The partition resulted in extreme violence and one of the largest migrations in history. Over 100,000 Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh women were raped and abducted in the Partition riots; more than 2 million Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were killed; some ten to twelve million migrants were uprooted and dislocated as they moved across the new borders. PARTS OF PARTS & STITCHES uses overlapping truths, histories, and the fantastic to create a space for audiences to explore and reflect upon individual and collective resilience and resistance in the face of partition. Produced by MTWorks, the play  will run from March 15-31, 2012 at The Theater at 14th Street Y (334 East 14th Street between First and Second Ave). Tickets are $18 and $12 for students, seniors, and IAAC members.

After the Saturday March 17 show, SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave are hosting a post-show Conversation with Cast and Creative Team. This will be an opportunity for the audience to ask the cast and crew questions about the process of putting together the play. Dialogue will continue afterwards at Nowhere Bar, 322 East 14th Street.

Part of our mission of outreach and community building is to support the work of queer South Asian artists. Riti Sachdeva’s play is a great opportunity for the SALGA, SANGAM, & Q-Wave community to support her vision in this accounting of a terrible time in our shared history. The project has particular resonance for those of the South Asian diaspora but many communities have been partitioned and continue to be partitioned. In most instances, significant efforts have been made to erase the memories of partition traumas in the larger interests of nation-building. This play gives us an opportunity to challenge the forgetting while creating spaces for a deeper understanding of our historical and contemporary struggles. Additionally, the hope is that our co-sponsorship of this event will foster meaningful connections within and between our communities.  

Other special events include:

• Tuesday, March 20: post-show Talk Back on the legacy of the partitions of former British colonies, cold-war era partitions, proposed contemporary partitions, and domestic partitions/displacement within the US; with Jasbir Puar (faculty, Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University/2012-2013 Edward Said Chair in American Studies at the American University in Beirut), Andrea Ritchie (police misconduct attorney, co-coordinator of Streetwise and Safe (SAS), and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States), and Grainne O’Hara (UNHCR/UN Refugee Agency).


• Tuesday, March 27: post-show Talk Back on using the arts to engage and build communities across different geo-political contexts with Remy Kharbanda (The Vilayati Tarti/Foreign Land Project, a documentary film and oral history project based on interviews with women in West London where thousands of people from the Punjab migrated following partition),  and Brownstar poet-performer Pushkar “NORTH STAR” Sharma who, with Sathya “SOUTH STAR” Sridharan, premiered their stage show FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF WHITE at the 2010 NYC International Fringe Theatre Festival and annually produce UNIFICATION, a joint celebration of the Indian and Pakistani Independence Days).

• Thursday, March 29: post-show Conversations with Cast and Creative Team and reception in collaboration with the Indo-American Arts Council.

Please follow the link to MTWorks to see a list of the cast, learn more about the show, and buy tickets online: www.mtworks.org/up-next


Riti Sachdeva’s Parts of Parts & Stitches

March 15–31 at the Theater at 14th St. Y


1947: Punjab, Northwest Frontier. For one young couple, matrimonial
bliss is violently interrupted by the ”commotion of partition.” 

PARTS OF PARTS uses overlapping truths, histories, and the fantastic to 
create a space for audiences to explore and reflect upon individual and 
collective resilience and resistance in the face of the 1947 partition of 
the subcontinent into India and Pakistan.  www.mtworks.org/up-next

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March General Meeting

March 12, 2012

Please join our next General Meeting 3/16!

In this month’s meeting, we shall be observing the relationships between Asian American and Western culture on homosexuality.

*Why is homosexuality tabooed within the Asian narrative?

*Was homosexuality always viewed through a negative scope in Asian Culture?

*How has Western influences alter, or form permanent fixtures of identities within the Asian context?

*Have we heard any homophobic things we heard from family or friends?

*How are our identities formed and how are we viewed by those that are not within our community?

*What are some acceptable behaviors in both Asian and Western culture that are usually deemed homosexual but can pass as harmless play?

We shall be exploring the different narratives that form hegemonic views of homosexuality within the pan-Asian and Western context. Fun and engaging group activities are also included within our agenda to help us build a better understanding of the topics we are trying to convey.

Think you’ll be hungry? Snacks and light refreshments will be served~ After the meeting we can further congregate on what we would like to eat.

Hope ya’ll can make it!

Friday, March 16, 7-9 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, 34th St. and 5th Ave.
Room 9204
DIRECTIONS: (via subway): – B, D, F, V, N, R, Q, W to 34th Street/Broadway – 6 to 33rd Street/Park Avenue and walk 2 blocks west – 1, 2, 3, 9 to 34th Street/7th Avenue (Madison Square Garden) and walk 2-3 blocks east – A, C, E to 34th Street/8th Avenue and walk 3-4 blocks east.

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** Q-Wave is a safe space dedicated to lesbian and bi-sexual women, transfolk and gender-nonconformists of Asian and PacificIslander descent; our General Meetings and Coffee Hours are open to this particular community. Q-Wave welcomes all supporters, friends and families to join our other social events (ie BBQs, picnics, parades, film screenings, etc). Please respect our space and confidentiality. Thank you very much.*

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