Looking for Participants for PSBT TV Documentary on the topic of Hair/Sikh Faith/Punjabi Culture
We are looking for historians, academics and researchers based in or around Punjab to discuss the topic of hair, Sikh Faith and Punjabi Culture. Diverse views and opinions are welcomed. Roots (working title) is a short documentary commissioned by PSBT for Doordarshan TV channel.
To participate please contact director Harjant S. Gill: Harjant@gmail.com, 91-9878318348
Filming will take place in and around Chandigarh next month (July).
Diasporizing Punjab, Disorienting Bhangra
Diasporizing Punjab, Disorienting Bhangra
From May 5 to 8, VIBC, UBC and UFV present Diasporizing Punjab, Disorienting Bhangra, a joint conference bringing together academics and performers from around the world to talk about Punjabi pop culture, history and of course, Bhangra. The conference is part of the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration (VIBC) Society’s 6th Annual City of Bhangra Festival, presented by Rogers from April 29 to May 8, 2010.
Two evenings of public paper presentations, themed Diasporizing Punjab, are scheduled for May 5 & 6 at UFV. On Wednesday May 5, Satwinder Kaur Bains (University of the Fraser Valley), Verne Dusenbery (Hamline University), and Margaret Walton-Roberts (Wilfrid Laurier University) will present. On Thursday May 6, Inderpal Grewal (Yale University), Doris Jakobsh (University of Waterloo), and Michael Nijhawan (York University) will present. Further public paper presentations, themed Disorienting Bhangra, are to be held at the University of British Columbia on May 7 & 8, where speakers include Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester), Harjant Gill (American University), Nicola Mooney (University of the Fraser Valley), Anjali Gera Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), Gibb Schreffler (University of California at Santa Barbara). There will also be an undergraduate student roundtable, and a panel of graduate student papers, where speakers include Manjot Bains (York University), Naveen Girn (York University), and Ashveer Pal Singh (University of California at Berkeley).
More Information: http://www.ufv.ca/CICS/Events/DPDB.htm
Call for Papers: Immigration and Visual Culture
agency, an online, peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, invites submissions for a special issue on Immigration and Visual Culture. Technologies such as photography and film have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and immigrant experiences. Recent technological innovations, from YouTube and social networking sites to DVD and video downloading to surveillance technologies, have changed the ways in which immigrant subjectivities and experiences are constructed and disseminated.
agency invites submissions of essays examining the relationship between immigration and visual culture. How have immigrant subjectivities and experiences been represented and constructed by visual culture? How have immigrant subjectivities and experiences been transformed by technological innovations? In what ways does visual culture participate in the surveillance and regulation of immigrants and immigrations? What opportunities does visual culture provide for the articulation of immigrant identities or the resistance of dominant discourses of immigration?
agency is an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences, and we will consider submissions working within or across any disciplines associated with the humanities and social sciences (and beyond). The ideal agency essay is scholarly and rigorous but also accessible and engagingly written.
Submissions should be 4000-5000 words and should be formatted in accordance with the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook.
The deadline for submissions is 1 May 2010. Please submit submissions via email to the editor, Dr. Douglas Ivison, at douglas.ivison@lakeheadu.ca.
agency is published by Lakehead University’s Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture (http://theagency.lakeheadu.ca).
Wichaar – old Punjabi films
Wichaar has uploaded some famous punjabi movies of 60′s era that are not easily available.
Malangi
http://www.wichaar.com/videos/malangi/part-1-video_ce7f98646.html
Yakke Wali
http://www.wichaar.com/videos/yakke-wali/part-2-video_a12d47ab7.html
Mahi Munda
http://www.wichaar.com/videos/mahi-munda/part-1-video_645e3bc4c.html
Sassi Punnu
http://www.wichaar.com/videos/sassi-punnu/part-1-video_c0ad4e9a6.html
Chan Makhna
http://www.wichaar.com/videos/chan-makhna/part-1-video_063136f90.html
The Prisoner’s Song by Michael Singh
“Best Film” at the Spinning Wheel Film Festival, Toronto 2009
The Prisoner’s Song, a 20-min documentary directed by Los Angeles filmmaker Michael Singh, was selected Best Film at seventh Spinning Wheel Film Festival that concluded in Toronto on September 27. The Film Festival & Art Expo screened 27 films out of a total of 145 that were considered for inclusion in this year’s festival over the course of three days. Notably, Michael Singh received his first break at the inaugural Spinning Wheel in Toronto in 2003.
Sikh Art and Film Festival – November 13-15, 2009
Sikh Lens is proud to offer its inaugural—and independent—Sikh Arts & Film Festival. The Festival celebrates Sikh culture and heritage, and will offer a variety of avenues for contributors to share their talent.
Get ready for a sumptuous treat that will light up all senses with a diverse assortment of films, books, art, performance pieces, and music that is “Sikh-centric.” To mark the 25th anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, we will have a special dedication with rare photographs and independent documentaries on 1984 riots; and lectures and a panel discussion by esteemed speakers from around the world. The festival premieres stirring documentaries, book signings by notable authors, creations from world-renowned artists, and a special event showcasing youth performing music, poetry, rap, and everything else their creative imagination can conjure. We want to prove that “Sikhs’ Got Talent.” You will also get a chance to take a piece of our culture home through a silent auction.
Further details: http://www.sikhlens.com/
Kitte Mil Ve Mahi
This is invisible Punjab, bypassing the airbrushed mythology of its prosperity and the always-happy-always-cheerful Punjabi. This is a key to the understanding of how the Sufi way has come to rest with the state’s impoverished Dalits.
Watch the video: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/documentaries/kitte-mil-ve-mahi
Rafi, the prolific singer and that nondescript village
Harjap Singh Aujla
PUNJAB must be truly proud of its great son Mohammad Rafi, who was born in a non-descript hamlet in a remote rural area of Amritsar district. Starting from a humble and modest beginning, he rose to become the most prolific film playback singer of the movie industry, not only in India, but in the whole world.
K.L. Saigal
The Punjabis should be doubly proud that two of their sons have ruled over film singing for more than half a century. K.L. Saigal was the first Punjabi singing star, who dominated the Indian film industry for a decade and a half from 1933 to 1947. The Indian film industry switched over from silent movies to talkies in 1931, when film “Alam Ara” was made. But ever since actor singer Kundan Lal Saigal started his film career in the eastern metropolis of Calcutta in 1933, he did not look back and went from strength to strength, until death put a sudden end to his brilliant career as a singing leading actor in the dark year of 1947.
Read full article: http://www.southasiapost.org/2009/20090831/literature.htm#2
Ocean of Pearls’ a Fresh Look at the Sikh Experience By LISA TSERING
indiawest.com August 20, 2009 06:18:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — “Ocean of Pearls” is a story of one Sikh’s struggle in America, but it’s so much more. The film is a coming-of-age story, a medical drama, a statement about racism and an unsentimental look at the vast divide between generations.
One thing it’s not? Predictable.
The independent feature film, an assured debut by physician-turned-director Sarab S. Neelam, opens Aug. 21 in San Francisco, and will soon roll out its release to other cities.
Amrit Singh (Omid Abtahi) is a talented young Canadian doctor who receives a once-in-a-lifetime chance to run a multi-million-dollar transplant facility in Detroit. He jumps at the chance, leaving his family, and his girlfriend (Navi Rawat of “Numb3rs”), behind.
Read full review: http://www.indiawest.com/readmore.aspx?id=1404&sid=5
Documentary: Hew McLeod: A Kiwi Sikh Historian
The documentary, Hew McLeod: A Kiwi Sikh Historian, tells the story of a New Zealander who has spent a lifetime researching the Sikhs.
The documentary, which is being produced by Asia Downunder, is illustrated with archive footage, photographs and the religious art of the Sikhs and includes interviews with family, academics and New Zealand Sikhs.
Rabba Hun Kee Kariye – review and next screening
Please find attached a recent review of the partition documentary Rabba Hun Kee Kariye in the Mail Today ( 25th March) by Ajay Bhardwaj. mail-today
Also the next screening of Rabba… is at Peace and Global Justice Day – Marian College, Indianapolis
April 7 — Marian College Peace & Global Justice Day
Sessions discuss capital punishment, racism, forms of interfaith activism; watch a film about mass murder in Punjab
When: Tuesday April 7, all day
Where: Marian College Allison Mansion
“Rabba Hun Kee Kariye” will show at 3:00:
Rabba Hun Kee Kariye (Thus Departed our Neighbors) tracks a shared history of Punjab – a sub-continental culture, language and a way of life – that was torn asunder in the fateful year of 1947. It captures the documentary filmmaker’s unexpected encounter with feelings of guilt and remorse about the genocidal violence of the partition. These informal tales, almost like folklore, are strewn across the memory-scape of Punjabi countryside. This documentary invokes it in the public domain for the first time.
http://www.marian.edu/PeaceAndJustice/Pages/default.aspx
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Screening of ‘Rabba Hun Ki Kariye’
In their ‘Nashisht’ Series
Impresario Asia invites you to the screening of a documentary on the partition memories
RABBA HUN KI KARIYE (THUS DEPARTED OUR NEIGHBOURS)
A film by Ajay Bhardwaj
The screening will be followed by an interactive session with the director
DATE: Wednesday 25th March 2009
TIME: 7.00 p.m.
VENUE: Gulmohar, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
R.S.V.P.
Pramilla Chhabra K.K. Kohli
2462-1685 98107-23979
COURTESY: DELHI DIARY
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