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Launch of the Fijian-Indian-Australian anthology publication, that contains new writings by Seona Smiles, Surendra Prasad, Prasheel Kumar, Rajat Gyaneshwar, Satish Raj, Prema and Subramani - who are all residents of Western Sydney.
The anthology will be the first volume of published writing by Indo-Fijian-Australians. It will include new writing by well-established guest writers plus poems, plays, fiction, non-fiction, zines, blogs, lyrics and films produced in the workshops. These writings will focus on expressing identity while recording the specificities of the communities' respective narrative of migrations. More importantly, the anthology will provide alternative but illuminating renditions of what "being Australian" means.
Launch
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Culture & Heritage, Fiction, Nonfiction,
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Participants
Subramani, Satendra Nandan, Devleena Ghosh, Seona Smiles (facilitator)
When
Saturday, May 23 2009
15:00 - 17:00
Where
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
1 Casula Road
Casula
 Venue and Transport Info
Cost
Free
Bookings
9824 1121
reception@casulapowerhouse.com
Schedule
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SUBRAMANI (LOCAL)
SUBRAMANI is the author of Dauka Puraan and more recently Kala ki Talaash. He has also written several plays. He received an Australia Council grant to write his new novel to be completed in 2010. Subramani writes in both English and Hindi. His books in English include The Fantasy Eaters and Altering Imagination. He is currently a visiting professor to two universities in India.
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SATENDRA NANDAN (LOCAL)
SATENDRA NANDAN is foundation professor and dean of School of Humanities and Arts, University of Fiji. He is also emeritus professor of the University of Canberra and adjunct professor in the Research School of Humanities, The Australian National University and the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Professional Ethics, Charles Sturt University. He taught at the University of the South Pacific from 1969 to 1987 and became a cabinet minister in the Bavadra Government. He had studied at Delhi, Leeds, London and the ANU. He was born in Nadi, a former student of Shri Vivekananda, and Natabua High School. He is an award-winning writer and his new book Between the Lines was published in March 2009. He has edited and authored more than a dozen books.
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DEVLEENA GHOSH (LOCAL)
DEVLEENA GHOSH is an associate professor in the Social Inquiry Program at the University of Technology, Sydney and director of IOSARN, its Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network. Her research interests are in Indian Ocean studies, postcolonial studies and the cultural history of migration. Her books include Colonialism and Modernity, Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges, Women in Asia: Shadowlines and Fresh and Salt: Water, Borders and Sovereignty in Asia and Oceania. She is currently involved in a project researching intercolonial networks in the Indian Ocean, specifically the movements of people, technologies, ideas and commodities between the British colonies of India and Australia.
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SEONA SMILES (LOCAL)
SEONA SMILES is a journalist, columnist and creative writer who has chronicled life in Fiji, especially family life, with a certain amount of humour over many years from the family home in Flagstaff, Suva. She is now recording the dilemmas and dramas of the Fiji diaspora as it struggles for a foothold overseas. Seona’s work has appeared in a range of publications, including the Fiji Times, Dreadlocks and collections published by the Fiji Writers’ Association and Niu Waves Writers Collective. Some of her writing appears in the book Wan Tok Two Talk South.
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