| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 3, 2013 | 3:00PM - 10:00PM | External Event, Combination Room and Seeley Hall, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue |
3 days of readings, seminars, music and dance
FSALA is a Canadian arts festival with a difference, promoting writers from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and those not writing in English, who are major figures in their own countries though not always known to the global “mainstream.” FSALA also invites many Canadian writers to the Festival, as well as musicians and other artists. In the past we have had dramatists Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani from India, novelist Bapsi Sidhwa from Pakistan/USA, and classical dancer Hari Krishnan from Canada. Important features of FSALA are panel discussions on various aspects of the arts, and opportunities for members of the public to meet the artists. In 2011 we celebrated anniversaries of Rabindranath Tagore and Faiz Ahmad Faiz. The keynote address was by Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada and a writer.
For FSALA13, more than 25 Canadian writers and musicians will be present. Admission is free except for the Saturday concert. It is advisable but not essential to pre-register at http://www.fsalatoronto.com/FSALA2013_register.html
FRIDAY, MAY 3
Session 1: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Combination Room, Trinity College
Enter through 6 Hoskin Ave
Panel discussion: Thinking across Regions
Cheran, Selina Hossain, Dannabang Kuwabong, Dawn Promislow
Session 2: 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Combination Room, Trinity College
Enter through 6 Hoskin Ave
Panel Discussion: South Asian Theatre in Canada
7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Seeley Hall, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Reception
Introduction and Welcome
Keynote Address: Professor Deep Saini, Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga
Readings: Anosh Irani, Christian Campbell, Pamela Mordecai
Musical recital
SATURDAY, May 4
Session 4: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Growing Diversity, Emerging Media: Looking at the Future
Readings and Discussion: Tasneem Jamal, Sheniz Janmohamed, Randy Boyagoda, Anand Mahadevan
Moderator: Donna Bailey Nurse
Session 5: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
One World, One English, the Many Languages of the Imagination
Readings and Discussion: Sadhu Binning (Punjabi) Valerie Joan Tagwira (Shona) Sharankumar Limbale (Marathi), Meena Chopra (Hindi), Humaira Rahman (Urdu)
Moderator: Arun Prabha Mukherjee
Session 6: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Art, Popular Culture, & Aesthetics
Readings and Discussion: Oonya Kempadoo, Michelle Muir, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Madeline Coopsammy
Moderator: Mariam Pirbhai
Session 7: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Thinking Locally, Writing Globally
Readings and Discussion: Manjushree Thapa, Dannabang Kuwabong, Arnold Itwaru, H Nigel Thomas
Tea/Coffee: 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session 9: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave
Readings: Valerie Joan Tagwira, George Elliott Clarke, Selina Hossain
Musical Recital: Kiran Ahluwalia & Co
SUNDAY, MAY 5: SOUTH ASIAN SUNDAY
Session 10: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Worlds Within Canada
A session with Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu writers Munir Pervaiz, Shailaja Saxena, Jasbir Kalrwai, Tahir Gora, Rasheed Nadeem and Surjit Kaur
Musical Recital: 1:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Carnatic Vocal Recital by Kamini Dandapani
Session 11: 2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Film (Sinhala): Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka (With You, Without You) with Shyam Fernando, Anjali Patil, Wasantha Moragoda, Maheshwarie Ratnam
Produced by: Lasantha Nawarathna and Mohamed Adamaly
Written and Directed by: Prasanna Vithanage
Followed by a discussion with Prasanna Vithanage
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