June 2012
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Brown Canada Project: Volunteers Needed for...
Brown Canada Project: Volunteers Needed to Assist at the Dress Rehearsal of the “Oh Canada, Oh Komagata Maru” play on June 25th
The Brown Canada Project is looking for volunteers to assist with the dress rehearsal of the “Oh Canada, Oh Komagata Maru” plays on June 25th from 6:00-8:00pm at Grace Church, 41 Britain Street ,Toronto (east of Queen station). We need volunteers to assist with the...
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May 2012
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Brown Canada Focus Group Participants Needed!
Dear CASSA Members & Supporters,
As you may know, CASSA is currently engaging in the documentation and archiving of South Asian history through our Brown Canada project. Brown Canada is a community-led project documenting, creating, and sharing South Asian histories in Canada. Our collective entry point is through the Komagata Maru incident of 1914. We are writing to invite you to...
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Komagata Maru Play Volunteers Call Out
racismfreeontario:
For the Brown Canada Project.
Komagata Maru Play Volunteers
Brown Canada: Komagata Maru Plays Volunteer Posting (Part Time – Until end of June)
Start & End Dates : May- end of June 2012
Brown Canada, lead by CASSA, is a community-led history project to encourage South Asian communities to create and document their histories in Canada creatively, through...
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Canadian history: Komagata Maru key players
The Komagata Maru incident involved a number of key players – individuals whose actions played a significant role impacting the lived experience of Komagata Maru passengers. These key players can be viewed within four three main groups:
Komagata Maru Passengers
Canadian Officials
Legal Personnel
Shore Committee Members
Each individual’s complete story is not captured here; instead these...
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Komagata Maru By The Numbers
376: number of passengers on Komagata Maru when it arrives in Vancouver Harbour 12: number of Hindus aboard Komagata Maru 24: number of Muslims aboard Komagata Maru 340: number of Sikhs aboard Komagata Maru 90: number of people declared medically unfit to land 20-24: number of people who claimed to have Canadian domicile and were allowed to disembark $150,000: Amount of damages...
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Brown Canada Creative Arts Workshops. Legacies of...
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Digital Storytelling workshop with Mariam Ahmad & Asam Ahmad, Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 & Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 5-8pm @ Don Montgomery CRC
Workshop content provided by: Mariam Ahmad & Asam Ahmad, Graduate of Asian Arts Freedom School
What: In these workshops we will explore the marginalized and/or hidden histories of the South Asian diaspora in...
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Call out to actors and performers for Komagata...
Brown Canada is looking to audition actors for a series of vignettes based on the Komagata Maru incident and related themes of exclusion, questions of belonging and unspoken/unknown histories, among others. Firstly, we are looking for actors to either perform at different venues across the province: 4 performances across Toronto, and 5 outside of Toronto. These projects will be performed at...
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What's gender and race got to do with dating?
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What’s gender and race got to do with dating?
Free workshop for young South Asian women
When: May 8th. 5-7pm
Where: 2467 Eglinton Ave East Toronto, ON
ASAAP (Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention) will be presenting a special workshop for young South Asian women that will be informative, creative and collaborative. Participants will have the opportunity to develop team...
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April 2012
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Call for “Event Planning” and Outreach Volunteers...
Call for Event Planning and Outreach Volunteers Brown Canada Project
About the “Brown Canada” Project:
Brown Canada is a 2-year comprehensive South Asian history project that seeks to document and create history from a diverse range of perspectives that fall under the “South Asian” umbrella. During this project, we will be creating a comprehensive website with photos, videos and...
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Watch
Brown Canada PSA
With Brown Canada and Shaunga Tagore.
Brown Canada is a community-led history project to encourage South Asian communities to create and document their histories in Canada creatively, through writing, video, interviews, art, theatre or other means. Our collective entry point for this project is through the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, when a ship of South Asian people...
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BROWN CANADA KOMAGATA MARU...
Application Deadline: Monday, April 30, 2012
Timeline: Immediate start date – June 29, 2012
Budget: $4000 allocated
*Honorarium granted
Project Background:
Brown Canada is a community-led history project to encourage South Asian communities to create and document their histories in Canada creatively, through writing, video, interviews, art, theatre or other means. Our collective entry...
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Brown Canada-Sharing Our Stories Workshop
Do you want to learn more about your personal and community history?
Have you ever wanted to interview an elder, a relative or community member to learn from their experiences and document their story?
Not sure where to start? The Brown Canada Project invites you to attend:
Sharing Our Stories: A Workshop on How-to Interview & Document South Asian Histories in Canada
CASSA’s Brown Canada...
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February 2012
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Creative Workshops Postponed for a week!
Unfortunately, due to illness, this workshop series will be starting on Monday March 5th, and NOT Feb 27. If you would like to attend, but haven’t yet applied, please send an email to: shaunga@cassa.on.ca
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to Our Elders
FREE workshops for self-identified youth of colour and Indigenous youth
Monday evenings, 5-8pm || March 5 - Apr 9, 2012
Including...
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Legacies of the Komagata Maru
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to Our Elders *FREE 6-week creative workshop series for self-identified youth of colour, Indigenous and mixed-race youth!
*Application Deadline: Feb 23, 2012, 5pm
*If you are unable to fill the application before the deadline, but still wish to check out the workshops, you can register at first workshop, or by phone. If you plan to attend, please send...
looking for community animators - Brown Canada...
Brown Canada is a 2-year comprehensive South Asian history project that seeks to document and create history from a diverse range of perspectives that fall under the ‘South Asian’ umbrella. During this project, we will be creating a comprehensive website with photos, videos and articles, creative and digital storytelling workshops, resource booklets, a DVD, as well as a memorial website and...
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Kids of Color and the New American Whitewashing →
“Because I so rarely saw black characters in books when I was a child, I learned to relate to protagonists who didn’t look like me — but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t identify with their struggles, triumphs, etc. It did mean, however, that I started to erase aspects of myself when I read — I couldn’t consciously be black and read a lot of those books because then I’d realize there was no place...
January 2012
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legacies of our histories
Legacies of the Komagata Maru: Letters to Our Elders
FREE workshops for self-identified youth of colour, Indigenous and mixed-race youth
Monday evenings, 5-8pm || Feb 27 - Apr 2, 2012
Including workshops on various forms of storytelling (writing, digital, theatre, movement, oral and visual) and anti-racist arts education
Culminating in a collective stage performance with opportunities to...
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Racialicious: jadedhippy: Muslim student claims... →
jadedhippy:
Muslim student claims sexual harrassment, school ignores, she’s falsely reported as a terrorist, FBI shows up at her door
cyberterrorist:
When she complained to a teacher, she was told that the university generally doesn’t get rid of students right away over such…
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December 2011
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Call for Community Animators
POSITION: Community Animator, Volunteer
PROJECT: Brown Canada: Documenting and Creating South Asian Histories in Canada
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF INTEREST, RESEARCH, EXPERIENCE AND MOBILIZATION
**Bangladeshi **Indo-Caribbean **Indian **Muslim **Pakistani **Punjabi **Sikh **Tamil **LGBT **Women **Person’s with Disabilities **Labour **Arts/Culture
Brown Canada is a...
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Continuous Journey - documentary →
Part of the Brown Canada project focuses on the history of the Komagata Maru incident. This took place in 1914 and exposes many things about racism, immigration, empire, as well as brings to light hidden stories from our past and lessons for the present and future. Read more about ‘Continuous Journey’, the ground-breaking documentary by filmmaker Ali Kazimi.
