Thursday, November 22, 2012

Bangalore Queer Pride 2012 schedule

website: http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/
email: blrpride@gmail.com

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Thursday, November 22
6:30pm
 Transgender Remembrance Day
When Thu, November 22, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Where Town Hall
Description There will be a candlelight vigil to commemorate our lost and loved ones from the trans communities.
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=132
Friday, November 23
5:00pm
 TABOO photography exhibit launch
When Fri, November 23, 5pm – 6pm
Where No. 1 Shanthi Road, Shantinagar, Bangalore 560027 (map)
Description Six photography projects on the theme of TABOO - http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=77
7:00pm
 Ek Madhav Baag (Hindi)
When  Fri, November 23, 7pm – 8pm
Where Jaaga, No 68, KH Double Road, Opposite Corporation Bank, Next to KH Road bus stand, Banglore 560027 (map)
Description This poignant play tells the story of a 21 year old youth coming to terms with his sexuality. The play is seen from the view point of his mother. http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=137
Saturday, November 24
11:00am
 Garage Sale!
When Sat, November 24, 11am – 6pm
Where Alternative Law Forum, 122/4 Infantry Road (opposite Infantry Wedding House) Bangalore 560001 (nearest bus stop- Shivajinagar Depot) (map)
Description Reduce, reuse, recycle, and when all else fails, send it to your local fundraising garage sale for Bengaluru Pride and Karnataka Queer Habba 2012! http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=127
Sunday, November 25
12:00pm
 Pride Mela at Jaaga
When Sun, November 25, 12pm – 7pm
Where Jaaga, No 68, KH Double Road, Opposite Corporation Bank, Next to KH Road bus stand, Banglore 560027 (map)
Description The Bangalore Queer Pride is proud to present to you the 2012 Pride Mela. This year we are coming back more colourful, louder and awesomer than ever! http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=88
Monday, November 26
5:00pm
 Posters/Accessory Making Workshop at ALF
When Mon, November 26, 5pm – 7pm
Where Alternative Law Forum, 122/4 Infantry Road (opposite Infantry Wedding House) Bangalore 560001 (nearest bus stop- Shivajinagar Depot) (map)
Description Come to ALF to make posters and prideful accessories we can display during Bangalore Queer Pride March 2012!
Tuesday, November 27
6:00pm
 Theaters of the Body Workshop
When Tue, November 27, 6pm – 10pm
Where Jaaga, No 68, KH Double Road, Opposite Corporation Bank, Next to KH Road bus stand, Banglore 560027 (map)
Description Attend this theater workshop with Kareem Khubchandani. http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=154
Wednesday, November 28
6:00pm
 Karnataka Police Act Panel Discussion and Performance
When Wed, November 28, 6pm – 8pm
Where Vishranti Nilayam, 18, CSI Womens House, Infantry Road, Infantry Road, (near The Hindu office) Bangalore, Karnataka 560001 (map)
Description We will dramatize the many oppressions faced by transgenders, and the additional oppression generated by KPA 36 (A), following which we will moderate a discussion with the audience on the way forward to combat this policy and the political system around us.
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=309
Thursday, November 29
7:00pm
 Posters/Accessory Making Workshop at Swabhava
When Thu, November 29, 7pm – 9pm
Where Swabhava, 4th Floor, M. S. Plaza, 13th “A” Cross, 4th Main, Sampangiramnagar, Bangalore 560027 (map)
DescriptionCome to the Swabhava center and help make posters we can carry and display during Pride March 2012!
Friday, November 30
6:00pm
 Biryani
When Fri, November 30, 6pm – 7pm
Where No. 1 Shanthi Road, Shantinagar, Bangalore 560027 (map)
Description Performance piece by our mangalamukhi sister, where she prepares delicious Biryani while engaging the audience with a monologue about life as a transgender. Join us for this multi-sensory performance piece.
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=311

7:30pm

 Diversity Kooth Night!
When Fri, November 30, 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Where Tango Calypso restaurants, # 44, Richmond Road, Bangalore, India 560025 (map)
Description Entry fee + Cover charge = Rs 150 + Rs 150 (profits will go towards the Bengaluru Pride 2012 fund)
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=258
Saturday, December 1
5:00pm
 Queer Words at Atta Galatta
When Sat, December 1, 5pm – 8pm
Where Atta Galatta, 75, 2nd Main Rd, Koramangala 1st Block, Bangalore, 560096 (map)
Description We invite poets, comedians, singers, writers to share their work in this open–mic format.
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=31
7:30pm
 Lavender Nights V
When Sat, December 1, 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Where Fireflies (Lavelle Road and Vital Mallya Road Junction, above Cafe Coffee Day) (map)
Description Lavender Nights is going to rock Bangalore once again with its FIFTH All Women Party at FIREFLIES, one of the most lovely venues in Bangalore, with a great central location for everyone’s convenience.
 http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=265

Sunday, December 2
2:00pm
 Bengaluru Queer Pride March!
When Sun, December 2, 2pm – 5pm
Where Tulsi Park to Town Hall. Wear your walking boots!  (map)
Description Come march with us!
http://bengalurupride.herokuapp.com/?p=5

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Queer Reads Bangalore: 1st meeting postponed!



 


QUEER READS BANGALORE is a reading group, open to anyone, everyone, age, gender, race, orientation, class, caste no bar - and we shall focus on novels, shorts, novellas, plays, poems - all that is written, and written in the creative sphere - that are concerned with Queer and Questioning, Unidentified, Intersexed, Lesbian, Transgender and Transsexual, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay and Genderqeer themes, people, communities and issues - no matter the orientation of the person who wrote them. On the other side of the coin, we shall read literature by Queer and Questioning, Unidentified, Intersexed, Lesbian, Transgender and Transsexual, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay and Genderqeer writers irrespective of how non-heteronormative their literature may seem on the surface.

Think QUILTBAG literature. :)



To read:


THE PREGNANT KING is written by Devdutt Pattanaik. You can find it on Flipkart.







We're still feeling our way through this, but come, bring friends. Come if you love the book, HATE the book, didn't understand the book - disagreement is good, complete harmony is good, everything but you not saying anything is good.

From Devdutt Pattanaik's website
"The Hindu epic, Mahabharata, written over 2000 years ago, narrates the tale of one Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks the magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant. The child thus conceived in and delivered from his body grows up to be Mandhata, a ruler of great repute.

What does the son call Yuvanashva? Father or mother? Can mothers be kings? Can kings be mothers? In the ancient epic, and the sacred chronicles known as the Puranas, which hurry through this slip of a tale, nobody raises these uncomfortable questions. They do so in this book.

And so a new narrative emerges: a fiction fashioned out of mythological and imaginary tales where lines are blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers.

There is Pruthalashva, who must be father because he is a man, and Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman. There is Sthunakarna, a Yaksha, who forsakes his manhood to make Shikhandi a husband and then reclaims it to make Somavat a wife. There is Arjuna, a great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph. There is Ileshwar Mahadev, god on full moon days and goddess of new moon nights and Adi-Natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by Yaja and an enchantress by Upayaja. And finally there is Yuvanashva, the hero, king of Vallabhi, who after marrying three times to three very different women, creates a life within him, as mothers do, and then a life outside him, as fathers do, and wonders if he is either, neither or both.

If biology is destiny, if gender is a cornerstone of dharma, then how does Yuvanashva make room for such disruptions in order? For a good king, who wants to be great, must be fair to all: those here, those there and all those in between."