Oral History Interview with Paramjit Rai (2014)
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Title
Oral History Interview with Paramjit Rai (2014)
Subject
Activism, Organisations, Idenity, Politics, Desh Pardesh, South Asian, arts festival, oral history, race
Description
Paramjit Rai was a volunteer and co-coordinator at Desh Pardesh for a number of years. She discusses her experience as a social policy worker and academic at the festival and how this role of “outsider” informed her perspective on the festival. She also discusses race politics and identity formation both in the Toronto political climate and specifically within the Desh Pardesh festival. Rai goes on to conclude that a Desh festival could recur in the modern day, but for it to happen there needs to be an urgency, a need for something by the modern youth.
Creator
South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
2014-11-24
Contributor
Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Format
PDF, WAV
Language
English
Type
Sound, Text
Coverage
1990s Toronto
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Citation
South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), “Oral History Interview with Paramjit Rai (2014)
,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/items/show/826.
,” The ArQuives Digital Exhibitions, accessed March 29, 2024, https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/items/show/826.