Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:35:18 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Email flyer - please forward to friends and potentially interested folks



           NEW VOICES FROM THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA!

             LIVE PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, MUSIC AND FILM!

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in Golden Gate Park presents:


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************* "CHAAT: Multimedia Performance Collective" *************

***** One performance only: Saturday, September 13, 1997, 2:00 p.m. *****


The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, as part of its ongoing exhibition,
"India: a Celebration," presents "CHAAT: Multimedia Performance Collective."
This special, one-time only program of repertoire classics and
all-new performances will feature eight separate pieces on Saturday,
September 13, 1997 at 2 pm in the Trustee's Auditorium.

This rare show will feature the last ever performance of Ivan Jaigirdar's
"Digging In The Dirt," a voyage into memory and imagination weaving the
intimate with the analytical in its exploration of the ruptures experienced
after the formation of Bangladesh. Among several new works, Godhuli Bose
addresses how an English education in Calcutta disrupts the bonds of culture
and religion; and Ranbir Sidhu's "Mimicry Makes The Boy?" tells the tale of a
Punjabi boy growing up poor in London who finds in Peter O'Toole a mirror for
his displaced identity.

Founded in 1994, CHAAT is a collective of progressive South Asian performers,
writers, dancers, actors and musicians who come together using humor and
drama to collaboratively tell their own and each other's stories about lives
in the
South Asian diaspora.

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CHAAT has garnered critical praise for its groundbreaking work:

"revels in defying the docile Indian American penchant for middle-class
nirvana ...Refreshingly different, with a willingness to look seriously,
incisively, and honestly at issues others fear to tread"
- Ashfaque Swapan, India West

"...articulate(s) the needs of a new kind of South Asian... one who asks
"where do I fit into the utterly homogenous society of the West" ...all with
the confidence that older people assume comes only with experience."
- Arvind Kumar, India Currents

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Using live performance, video, music, slides and film, CHAAT never fails to
provoke and entertain.

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Check out CHAAT on the World Wide Web:
http://keck.ucsf.edu/~m_kahlon/chaat.html

or for further info call: 415/206-0931 or 415/206-9173

Press info: 415/642-0901

PLEASE NOTE: The CHAAT performance will be held INSIDE the Asian Art Museum's
Trustrees' Auditorium and will not be held in the nearby Concourse area where
the Pakistan Day celebration will be held all day long.

Beacuse of the Pakistan Day celebrations, we advise you to allow extra time
to search for parking.