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.
International
Amit Chaudhuri (India)
Selina Hossain (Bangladesh)
Oonya Kempadoo (Grenada)
Dannabang Kuwabong (Puerto Rico/Ghana)
Sharankumar Limbale (India)
Harish Narang (India)
Sarmad Sehbai (Pakistan)
Valerie Joan Tagwira (Zimbabwe)
Prasanna Vithanage (Sri Lanka)
Canadian
Sadhu Binning (Vancouver)
Randy Boyagoda (Toronto)
Christian Campbell (Toronto)
Cheran (Windsor)
George Elliott Clarke (Toronto)
Madeline Coopsammy (Winnipeg)
Tahir Aslam Gora (Burlington)
Anosh Irani (Vancouver)
Arnold Itwaru (Toronto)
Tasneem Jamal (Kitchener)
Pamela Mordecai (Kitchener)
Michelle Muir (Toronto)
Rasheed Nadeem (Toronto)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Toronto)
Munir Pervaiz (Mississauga)
H Nigel Thomas (Montreal)
Program
(Subject to minor changes)
Friday
May 3
Morning
School visits by selected authors
Afternoon
Session
1: 3:00- 4:00 p.m.
Campbell Room
Panel discussion: Thinking across Regions
Valerie Joan Tagwira, Selina Hossein, Dannabang Kuwabong,
Oonya Kempadoo
Session
2: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Campbell Room
Lecture: Amit Chaudhuri
Moderator: Sundhya Walther
Evening
7:00-10:00 pm
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 am – 12 noon
Munk 108
Growing Diversity, Emerging Media:
Looking at the Future
Readings & Discussion
Tasneem Jamal, Sheniz Janmohamed, Randy Boyagoda, Anand
Mahadevan
Moderator: Donna Bailey Nurse
Session
5
10:00 am– 12 noon
Campbell Room
One World, One English, the Many Languages of the
Imagination
Readings & Discussion
Sadhu Binning (Punjabi) Cheran (Tamil) Sharankumar Limbale
(Marathi), Sarmad Sehbai (Urdu)
Moderator: Arun Prabha Mukherjee
Lunch
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Campbell Lounge/ Munk 208
Session
6:
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Munk 108
Art, Popular Culture, & Aesthetics
Readings and Discussion
Oonya Kempadoo, Michelle Muir, Leah Lakshmi
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Madeline Coopsammy
Moderator: Mariam Pirbhai
Moderator: Mariam Pirbhai
Session
7:
1:30 - 3:30pm
Campbell Room
Thinking Locally, Writing Globally
Readings & Discussion
Christian Campbell, Dannabang Kuwabong, Arnold Itwaru, H
Nigel Thomas
Tea/Coffee
3:30- - 4:00 pm
Session
9:
7:00 – 9:30 pm
Al Green Theatre
Readings:
Valerie Joan Tagwira, George Elliott Clarke, Amit Chaudhuri
Musical
Recital:
Kiran Ahluwalia & Co
Sunday
May 5
Session
10:
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Campbell Room, Trinity College
Worlds Within Canada
A session with Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu writers of Canada
Moderator: Harish Narang
1:40 -
2:00
Musical Recital
Kamini Dandapani
Session
11
2:15 – 4:15 pm
Campbell Room, Trinity College
Prasanna Vithanage (Movie/Discussion)
Buy tickets to Kiran Alhuwalia's concert and readings on Saturday May 4 evening, click here: FSALA-13 tickets
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