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Rhubarb! Festival: 1992
Black and red poster for the fourteenth annual Rhubarb! Festival at Buddies in Bad Times.
Rhubarb! Festival: 1999
Bright green poster for the 21st Annual 1999 Rhubarb! Festival, held in collaboration between Buddies in Bad Times and Supporting Our Youth.
Rhubarb! Festival: 1991
White and hot pink poster for the 1991 Thirteenth Annual Rhubarb! Festival, held at the new location of Buddies and Bad Times Theatre.
Rhubarb! Festival: 1989
White and blue poster for the 1989 Rhubarb! Festival, subtitled "Ten Years of Innovation in Theatre + Performance!"
Oral History Interview with Leela Acharya
Acharya was an activist that was involved in the progressive feminist scene in Toronto prior to hearing about Desh Pardesh. She later went on to work in the programming committee for Desh Pardesh. In this interview, Acharya discusses how the…
Oral History Interview with Anthony Mohamed (2015)
In this interview Anthony Mohamed, and HIV/AIDS activist and attendee of the Desh Pardesh festival discusses several social movements that took place for the LGBTQ community from the 1940s till the 1990s. He discusses the impact of racism within the…
Oral History Interview with Shelly Bahl (2015)
Shelly Bahl was one of the founders of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC). In this interview she discusses her role in several small collectives prior to her full involvement in SAVAC, and how these collectives worked hand in hand with the…
Oral History Interview with Ian Iqbal Rashid (2015)
Ian Iqbal Rashid is a poet and writer, and one of the co-founders of Desh Pardesh. In this interview he discusses the conception of Desh, its original visions and its its manifestation into an internationally recognized event. Rashid was not involved…
Oral History Interview with Pamila Matharu (2014)
Matharu discusses the critical progressive nature of the Desh Pardesh festival, and how this was targeted specifically for a population of people of colour. Matharu also touches briefly on the intergenerational nature of the festival, and how this…
Oral History Interview with Shyam Selvadurai (2015)
Selvadurai, a writer and cartoonist, discusses his involvement with the Desh Pardesh festival and analyzes the deep identity politics that permeated every conversation held at the festival. He is a Sri Lankan born gay man in a festival where Sri…