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Visions of Truth festival to
travel across California
WSN Network
 FRESNO:
Jakara Movement has brought for the community the Visions of Truth
film festival, a sort of traveling film festival throughout the
state of California from Yuba City to San Diego.
It aims to spur
dialogue among students and members of the community by showcasing
film and music media related to the third ghallughara, or Sikh
holocaust. By increasing awareness, this event will mobilize
activism around these issues and move individuals and communities to
be more involved in issues of injustice, both locally and globally.
The third
ghallughara remains one of the least recognized, yet most
significant, events in the history of Sikhs. Events of June 1984,
the ensuing destruction and loss of life, the tragic events of
October, November 1984 need to be engaged with if the world is to
learn true lessons and promote positive dialogue. Visions of Truth
is open to the public and is free. For a list of locations, dates
and timing please visit www.jakara.org.
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a combination of documentaries, fiction, musical shorts and feature
lengths each piece thoughtfully addresses the issue of 1984 - what
it meant for individuals and what it meant for the Quom. Films
include the narrative Storming the
Temple
and the fictional Reaching for Home that provides an account of
the events through a character analysis. The Widow Colony uses
testimonies of widows who were directly impacted by the violence.
Included in this list is a last recorded speech of Sardar Jaswant
Singh Khalra, a human rights activist. The Sikh Genocide Project
clips discuss the events through a lens of four different periods in
history. Amu, a critically acclaimed film by Shonali Bose, threads
together 1984 by addressing issues related to identity, history,
truth and justice.
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The first
showing of the Visions of Truth is this weekend in Yuba City,
CA.
Saturday,
September 5th, 2009
9:30am to 3:30pm
Yuba College (Room 724)
2088 N Beale Road
Marysville, CA 95901
For more info, contact Palvinder Kaur 530.844.1007, Sanminder
Singh 530.329.2470 |
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n addition,
three musical shorts will be shown throughout the event providing a
platform to promote Sikh musical artists including Humble the Poet,
Sikh Knowledge, G.N.E., and Rubin Paul Singh. Each piece addresses
the impact 1984 has had on Sikhs and the artists use their role in
the diaspora to promote creative dialogue in the community.
The Jakara
Movement seeks to encourage engagement with Sikh culture through
education, research, and community outreach initiatives. Founded in
2000, the Jakara Movement began as a collegiate conference, but has
evolved into an institution for the recruitment and training of
volunteers and a hub for the Sikh Californian youth. With a focus on
the interstices of education, health, gender, and social justice,
the Jakara Movement inclusively engages large sections of the Sikh
youth in various projects to strengthen their identity and
consciousness as Sikhs, foster education through service-learning,
and inspire activism and volunteerism within the greater Qaum.
For more info,
contact info@jakara.org or visit www.jakara.org.
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September 2009
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