Description
Heidi McKenzie was the co-coordinator of the Desh Pardesh festival alongside Steve Pereira for a year and a half, beginning in 1994. She discusses in this oral history interview the notion of multiculturalism in Desh discourse, representation in the board of Desh Pardesh and her experience as a bi-racial person in the Desh environment. She touches on cultural essentialism as experienced by bi-racial people, and concludes with a discussion on difficulties of modern artists.