Thanks to TG activist Kalki Subramaniam, our own Rashmi joins Chennai Pride 2011′s “Bold and the Beautiful” event.
This event will showcase short documentary films made by Transgender women from Chennai, trained by Kalki’s “Project Kalki” initiative. Tamil version of Rashmi’s piece “I” will be a guest entry.
Congratulations and Good luck to Rashmi. Kudos to Kalki, for her awesome initiatives to help and empower the TG community in Chennai.
Here are the details. If you are in Chennai, please make it to the event.
June 11 2011, Saturday : Bold and the Beautiful – Film screening
Organizers :Kalki Subramaniam and Sahodari Foundation
Venue: Spaces, No.1 Elliots beach, Besant Nagar, Chennai.
Time: 6.30 pm – 8:00 pm
Entry: Free
Contacts: Kalki (aurokalki@gmail.com)
Screening of good, bad, bold, beautiful, funny, professional and amateur short documentary films made by ten transsexual women of Project Kalki team
Films by: Sowndharya | Sandhiya | Abinaya | Kanchana | Manu | Renuka | Roja | Reema | Selvi | & Kalki
Spoken word : Rashmi from Gaysifamily.com
Duration: Each film is 5 -10 minutes of duration
Programme will start at 6:30 p.m. Screening will be followed by introducing the film makers and a light interactive session between the audience and the film makers. Programme ends around 8:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served. For more information visit : http://projectkalki.com
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Congratulations Shri for training me and sitting patiently with me as I went through recordings after recordings of the thamizh monologue. Not to forget the audio editing, the voice overs, direction and production of the movie
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This is awesome! I hope you put your piece up here once they’re done showing it.
hi i am female to male from chennai. doing my final year graduation. may i know wen is the next pride ? i wanna know infos about transition. pls do help me
Hi Sathya,
My best friend in India’s name is Satya, and he’s a trans activist in the Delhi area. I can tell you about transitioning in the US, but if you want specifics about who to see in India, and costs and things like that, there’s a great listserve that the other Satya has been running for almost 10 years, and there’s a lot of support there. The listserve is called “Sampoorna.”
Also, I work for SALGA, a queer desi group in NYC and we have a webpage with resources — http://www.salganyc.org/transgenderally — check it out, and down towards the bottom, you should find the link for Sampoorna and how to request to join that listserve.
Goodluck!
Deen