Odissi Dance Performer Asako Takami disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra	benefit for earthquake relief in gujarat an evening of spokenword, film and performance Saturday, March 10th 2001 Nahl Hall, California College of Arts and Crafts
Fat Chance Belly Dance's Third Tribe
	Contemporary Choreographer/ Dancer Parijat Desai
Classical Vocalist Raj Dutt student of Ustad Hamid Hossain
	Rhino FX and other artists...

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also featuring

If I live, I'll write the history of
my travels in Malaysia
I’ll write a poem about it

said Shahjahan Babu,
before leaving Bangladesh for Malaysia,
in search of a better life.

In a posthumous record, left behind for the world, Babu talks about his hopes, desires, and disillusionments through audiotaped accounts sent home to his family.

“My Migrant Soul is about dreams that crumble into despair." "An indictment of the ruthless machinery of globalization, extracting the soul out of those who fall pray to it."

about the director ...

Yasmine Kabir is an independent filmmaker now living in Dhaka. Her last film Dushomoy (1999) recounted the tragedy of Shima Choudhury, a young garment factory worker picked up by the police while traveling with her boyfriend and allegedly gang raped while in "safe custody." Dushomoy ("A Mother's Lament ") last screened at Ekta's Traveling Film South Asia in January 2001.