I have just had my first experience co-curating a literary stage at a major festival! We had 24 performers in 7 performances, interactive writing exercises, a writers’ workshop and contest giveaways. It was busy! And we successfully managed to draw large crowds, competing with the singing, dancing and varied entertainment programmed on the other Masala!Mehndi!Masti! [...]
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Here are some upcoming events:
July 16th, McMaster Alumni Book Club is reading Stealing Nasreen, 7-8:30pm, University Club, Alumni Room. New members welcome. Info and to register: http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/alumni/emails/hamilton_summer.htm
July 19th, Toronto Women’s Bookstore BBQ. I’ll be reading sometime around 1pm. Here’s the Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3147545437&ref=ts
July 22, Pride Literary Night at Seven Night Club, London Ontario: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14942106751 I’ll [...]
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I’ve been busy lately co-organizing the Writers’ Stage at Masala! Mehndi! Masti!, the largest South Asian festival in Canada, held at Exhibition Place (Better Living Centre) in Toronto. Here are the details:
The Masala! Mehndi! Masti! DesiLit Writers’ Stage focuses on the work of writers (fiction, poetry, non-fiction), storytellers and spoken word artists
The stage will be [...]
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