“Impossible Communities” at Pratt on April 22nd

Come out to Pratt Institute of Art and Design in Brooklyn this Thursday for Impossible Communities, as part of the “Critical and Visual Studies Colloquium” panel discussion moderated by Professor Gayatri Gopinath (NYU), our own Ashu Rai and & DJ Rekha (Basement Bhangra) and presented by Pratt and SAWCC. The panel will include a conversation on the emergence and history of a South Asian Queer Diaspora in NYC, and the use of party spaces as social and political interventions that help define immigrant communities in new hybrid formulations. Details are below:

Thursday, April 22nd 2010

6:30 – 8:00 PM

Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library, Brooklyn Campus

Here are directions to the discussion.

Stick around afterwards for an off-site reception after the panel.

This is the final event of the Critical and Visual Studies Colloquium, Spring 2010 at Pratt Institute of Art and Design. This years’ colloquium class is entitled, “The Nocturnal City: The Alternative, Underground, and Counter Public,” taught by Professor Uzma Z. Rizvi, included talks by academics/artists/activists. Co-sponsors for this panel include the Initiative of Art, Community and Social Change (IACSC) as a part of the series, “Constructing Spaces: The Politics of Art and Community“, their community partner, the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) as a part of the speaker series, “What’s Left of SAWCC.”