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?
sawac:
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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