Brown Canada

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 Project presents an interactive skills-building workshop that will give you the tools to conduct personal interviews to document our communities’ histories.  The workshop will be facilitated by Nayani Thiyagarajah the director of the groundbreaking documentary “Shadeism” and Sailaja Krishnamurti, professor of Humanities & South Asian Studies at York University.

WHEN: Monday, April 23^rd from 6:30-8:30pm

WHERE: The 519 Community Centre, Room 106, 519 Church Street Toronto
Wheelchair accessible space.

WHY?  Because our her/histories matter! 

For more information and to RSVP, Please contact Krittika Ghosh at krittika@cassa.on.ca or call (416) 932-1359 x18 

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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.  The Brown Canada Project is based within the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) 

  Refreshments will be provided!

Brown Canada Project Seeks Submissions

Brown Canada is a community-led project documenting and creating South Asian histories in Canada. Our collective entry point is through the Komagata Maru incident of 1914. 

This project seeks to create a participatory and comprehensive website, a play on the Komagata Maru, creative and digital storytelling workshops, DVD and resource booklets, and intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue.

We call all writers, researchers, artists, activists, scholars, educators, community organizers, students, youth, and interested and excited individuals to be a part of this project, and to learn, tell and create South Asian history on our own terms. 

Join us in documenting the history of South Asian immigration to Canada by submitting a post to the Brown Canada website.  Submissions can include scanned photographs, brief essays, poetry, video, art-work and other formats. 

We are looking for submissions from people of various South Asian identities including but not limited to people identifying as Bangladeshi, Indo-Caribbean, Indian, Muslim, Pakistani, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil,Mixed-Race, LGBTQ, Women, disAbled, Workers, Artists, Cultural workers and Healthcare providers. 

Topics on the submission are diverse ranging from issues such as isolation, discrimination, acculturation, racism, creating ‘community, sexism, homophobia, resistance etc.  Please include a brief bio and your contact information with your submission. 

We are accepting submissions on an ongoing basis and the FIRST round of submissions is due by Monday, April 16^th 2012.   We will be posting submissions onto the Brown Canada website as they are received. 

Please Email submissions to Krittika Ghosh at krittika@cassa.on.ca