[Reader-list] Fwd: Save the Date: 26th September 2008: NIRVANAM, a performance by Pritham K Chakravarthy

[Shilpa Phadke]

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Culture Café, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS  presents

NIRVANAM

by Pritham K Chakravarthy



DATE: 26th September 2008

TIME: 6 pm.

VENUE:: Main Quadrangle, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Main Campus, Sion
Trombay Road, Deonar, Mumbai.



Entry Free





Nirvanam is a powerful one person performative exploration of the journey
towards becoming an Aravani (or transgendered subject).  Nirvanam
(Liberation) refers to the act of liberating oneself from the male body and
transforming oneself to a female. This narrative bears witness to the
tumultuous journey towards a reinvented selfhood, a journey fraught with
violence, exploitation, affection and courage.





About the Actor

Pritham K Chakravarthy is a storyteller, playwright, director and actor.
Scripted and performed by Pritham, Nirvanam was a part of The Edinburgh
International Festival 2002. Since then all her solo pieces, Nirvanam,
Mirror/Kannadi and Dushala have been performed extensively in the UK and
USA. Within the country they have been featured at The Park Other Festival,
The Metro Theatre Festival, Bangalore Habba and Natarani Festival of
Non-violence. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including
Ashoka Innovators Fellowship, 1995-96, Fulbright Fellowship, 2002-2003,
Charles Wallace Fellowship, 2007 and the SARAI Independent Fellowship 2007.
She is also an author and a translator. Her latest work includes The Blaft
Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction and Zero Degree – Charu Nivedita.


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