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NY
EVENT | DC EVENT
South Asian Journalists Association - NY Chapter in association with
SAJA Group Inc.
http://www.saja.org * saja@columbia.edu * 212-854-5979
in association with AAJA, Asian American
Journalists Association; A3 (Asian American Association of Time
Inc.);
Jiva International;
RNA, Religion Newswriters Association; SEJ, Society of
Environmental Journalists; SACSS, South Asian Council for Social
Services
presents...
SAJA Tsunami Disaster Event, featuring SAJA
Authors Night + Expert Briefings
Your chance to learn more about the latest about the tsunami's aftermath and to support relief efforts.
Nonprofits raising funds for direct relief are invited to bring material
and distribute it to the attendees.
Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 - this Friday!
6:30-9 pm
Maharaja Restaurant in Manhattan
230 E. 44th (btw 2nd & 3rd Aves in Midtown, two blocks from Grand Central
Station and the U.N.)
6:30-6:50 pm: registration and networking
6:50-7:15 pm: briefings by major relief organizations & experts on the
situation, including:
David Lockwood, Deputy Director for the Regional Bureau for Asia and the
Pacific, United Nations Development Programme (one of the most experienced Asia hands at the UN; helped run the Afghanistan
reconstruction after 2001.
Roshini Rajapaksa, M.D., a Sri Lankan American doctor who has just returned from relief work in Sri Lanka.
7:15-8:30 pm: SAJA Authors Night - readings by various authors - see names
below
8:30-9:00 pm: networking
TICKETS - includes admission, desi appetizers and cash bar
$20 per person
The restaurant will give $15 directly to the relief efforts of Sri
Lanka Medical Association and American India Foundation.
The $20 admission fee is not tax deductible. You will have the
opportunity to donate more money to these two groups or to other
nonprofits, via representatives in attendance.
RSVP: sajarsvp@yahoo.com - pay at the door
Exciting door,
raffle and auction prizes! Including autographed books; digital cameras;
gift hampers from InStyle, Glamour, Newsweek, Viacom/MTV/Spike TV,
vouchers for top restaurants and Frederic Fekkai salons; tickets for
various shows; a walk-on spot to host the sports or weather segment on
"Fox & Friends" and much, much more.
Check out SAJA's continuously updated resources about the disaster:
http://www.saja.org/tsunami .html
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
MEENA ALEXANDER is a widely anthologized and translated poet. She has
won major honors including 2002 Pen Open Book Award; Publishers Weekly
Best Books of 1993 (for Fault Lines) and Distinguished Professor of
English at
Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York. More on
More on
Alexander.
JESSICA HAGEDORN is a novelist, poet and performance artist who's widely regarded as one of America's leading Asian women writers. Born in the Philippines, her writing first gained attention when she was just 16 years old and had been in the U.S. for three years. Her groundbreaking work in poetry, books, plays and cinema continues to inspire writers across the races. More on Hagedorn.
RAFIQ KATHWARI is
a poet and writer in New York City. He was born and raised in Kashmir
and was a childhood friend of the late Agha Shahid Ali.
He is a recent graduate of the Creative Writing Division of Columbia
University, where he translated, from the Urdu, selected poems of
Mohammed
Iqbal, one of the two great 20th Century poets of South Asia that have
most recently been published in The Literary Review, Tin House and
featured on NPR.
More on Kathwari.
SUKETU MEHTA is author of "Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found," and wrote one of the most widely-read commentaries about the tsunami.
More on Mehta at SuketuMehta.com
MEERA NAIR is author of "Video: Stories," a highly acclaimed short story collection that won the 2003 Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen as one of the Best Books of 2003 by the Washington Post. She is based in Brooklyn. More on Nair.
AKHIL SHARMA is author of "An Obedient Father" and writer whose work has appeared in The New York, Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere.
More on Sharma.
To learn more about SAJA:
http://www.saja.org
saja@columbia.edu
212-854-5979
[ SAJA RESOURCES, EXPERTS & TIPS ON THE TSUNAMI DISASTER
http://www.saja.org/tsunami .html ]
WASHINGTON, DC, EVENT |
NYC EVENT
SAJA-DC Presents...
Panel Discussion and Fund-raiser for Tsunami: Its Coverage and Impact
Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005
Please join SAJA-DC for a panel discussion on the earthquake and
tsunami, the
most massive natural disaster in recent history that have ravaged parts
of
South and Southeast Asia. Panelists will discuss its coverage, its
victims, its
unwritten stories, its implications for policy and its relief efforts.
Our speakers include:
Nikhil Deogun, deputy Washington bureau chief, The Wall Street
Journal
Michael Dobbs, reporter, The Washington Post
Nihal Goonewardene, president, Sri Lanka Association of
Washington, D.C.
Dobbs was swimming with his family off the coast of Sri Lanka when the
tsunami
hit, and here are some of his stories for The Post:
* "It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible"
http://www.washingtonpost.com
* "Survivors"
http://www.washingtonpost.com
* "Tsunami: First Person" online chat with Michael Dobbs
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Fund-raising: We will also be raising funds for tsunami aid relief at
this event, so we ask
each attendee to bring $20 with them -- or more if they would like --
for the
cause. Whatever we raise will be matched by VitalSpring Technologies, a
McLean
software company, thanks to the generosity of its president and CEO,
Sreedhar
V. Potarazu.
VitalSpring Technologies develops software programs that manage health
care
benefits for large companies and government contractors. Its software
suite
received the Top HR Product award by Human Resource Executive magazine
in 2003.
For more on VitalSpring Technologies, click here:
http://www.vitalspring.com
For more on Potarazu, click here:
http://www.vitalspring.com
What: SAJA-DC Panel and Fund-raiser on Tsunami
When: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005
Where: NPR Building, Conference Room East-West
Second Floor
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.513.2000
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Metro: Near Gallery Place/Chinatown stop on the Red Line
Suggested Admission Fee: $20 to go directly to tsunami relief efforts
(Please
feel free to bring more!)
Please RSVP to
sajadc_rsvp@yahoo.com by Monday, Jan. 10 -- space is limited.
(YOU MUST RSVP so we can give your name to building security)
Questions? Contact:
S. Mitra Kalita
smkalita@yahoo.com
Vandana Sinha
vsinha@americanpressinstitute
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