Serena Chopra and Kasey Ferlic’s film,Dogana/Chaptiis now available for streaming on Amazon Prime as part of the All Voices Film Festival. Dogana/Chapti was Official Selection at Frameline43 and winner of ArtHyve’s 2018 Archives as Muse film grant. The film presents narratives and sociopolitical perspectives of queer Indian women and female-assigned nonbinary folks. Co-Director Serena Chopra, a queer Punjabi-American motivated by her struggle to mediate queerness with her immigrant parents’ cultural traditions, composed the film with Ferlic from their Fulbright research in India.
India Currents spotlights Serena Chopra and Kasey Ferlic’s film, Dogana/Chapti along with other queer Indian films screening at Frameline43, the world’s largest international LGBTQAI film festival happening June 20-30, 2019 in San Francisco. Catch Dogana/Chapti at 1:30pm on June 27th at the Castro Theater as part of the Up Close and Personal screening event. Get Tickets here!
Serena Chopra will be Poetry Faculty at the 2019 Lighthouse Writers Retreat in gorgeous Grand Lake, Colorado. This year’s outstanding faculty also includes Andrea Dupree (Fiction), Michael Henry (Poetry), Erika Krouse (Memoir/Fiction), Karen Palmer (Fiction) and Amanda Rea (Fiction).
Serena Chopra and Kasey Ferlic’s film, “Dogana/Chapti” received Official Selection at San Francisco’s Frameline43, the world’s largest international LGBTQ film festival.
“Dogana/Chapti” will screen on June 27th at 1pm in the Castro Theater as part of the Up Close and Personal program, which features queer documentary shorts from around the world. Get your tickets here!
Hybrid and Cross-Genre Forms (Weekend Intensive, June 8th & 9th): This intensive uses textual expression as a means for exploring the intersection and interaction between genres, mediums, and disciplines. The dimensionality of hybridity provides apt articulation for nonlinear, multi-dimensional narratives and imaginations. Employing hybridity as a means of radical imagination, we’ll attempt to open language towards performativity, multiplicity, and embodiment. Along with text, we’ll use whatever tools we, as a group, bring to the table—video, sound, movement, etc.—to compose queer bodies of work.
Queer Forms: Hybrid & Interdisciplinary Writing (Craft Seminar, June 19th): This course uses textual expression as a means for exploring the intersection and interaction between genres, mediums, and disciplines. The dimensionality of hybridity provides apt articulation for nonlinear, multi-dimensional narratives and imaginations. Employing hybridity as a means of radical imagination, we will attempt to open language towards performativity, multiplicity and embodiment. Along with text, we will use whatever tools we, as a group, bring to the table—video, sound, movement, etc.—to compose queer bodies of work.
March’s Untitled Final Friday highlights the practice of featured artist Suchitra Mattai with the theme “Homeward Unbound.” Deconstructed post-colonial narratives will inspire visitors to investigate the meaning of home and challenge the identity of place. The event is paired with a poetry reading featuring Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Serena Chopra who will read twice during the evening at 6:15 and 7:15 pm. Both poets work with themes of cultural identity and postcolonial identities.
To see a schedule of other events happening throughout the night, visit the DAM website.
Join the cast of Evolving Doors Dance on March 7-9th at the People’s Center for their upcoming show, A Rip in the Sky & Mending the Moon, featuring Serena Chopra, Ian D, Arielle Dykstra, Meg Gibbs, Drew Hirschboeck, Steph Holmbo, Sheila Klein, Jenna Moll Reyes, Amy Shelley and Angie Simmons.
A Rip in the Sky &Mending the Moon explores the experiences of tearing, fraying, and unraveling while also questioning how we approach the curious and sometimes unfathomable task of mending. Thursday and Friday night performances will be followed by a short Talk Back for audience, performers, and collaborators.
Featuring two unrehearsed performers who have never met, Celebration, Florida by Greg Wohead is a quietly surreal show for anyone who has ever missed anyone or anything.
Veering between reality and simulation, Celebration, Florida orbits around ideas of surrogacy; a stand-in to replace a person you miss, a re-creation of an experience you can’t stop thinking about, nostalgia for a place that perhaps never existed.
Greg will speak to the audience through two performers using pre-recorded audio and headphones. They will know almost nothing about the show when they walk onstage.
