A three-day festival of staged readings, lectures, and conference papers examining theater and performance in the South Asian diaspora:

Thursday, May 12, 2011, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. 'Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a

Feminist Homecoming,' Dr. Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Montclair State University

7 p.m., a staged reading of Jihad Against Violence, written by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Bina Sharif, Ahmad Naumann, and Annie Lanzillotto

Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Korean dancing, music and martial arts. All net proceeds go to relief efforts in Japan. Buy tickets online on event's website.

Lecture by Nico Slate, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University.

FEATURING jazz musician Joe Negri and his friends Yuko Eguchi, Matt Gillespie, Jonghee Kang, Kerrith Livengood, Emily Pinkerton, Martin Spitznagel, Yoko Suzuki, and Bryan Wright, and others.

Pittsburgh based Brother's Brother organization has been ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the best charitable organizations in the U.S. Administrative and operating costs are below 1% of the value of received donations.

Part of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Colloquium, presented by Christy Czerwien.

This talk aims to discuss the significance of using a comparative view of the Middle East for research on Islamic matters in Indonesia in connection to history. It will be done through presenting a few case studies that will be used for two main purposes: 1. illustrating how such comparative research can produce interesting insights that otherwise

were almost impossible to observe; 2. emphasizing the need to navigate carefully between the particularities of the local Islamic context of Indonesia and the Middle Eastern perspective that reveal the universalities of Islam.

Join the Asian Studies Center in an evening of making origami cranes in preparation for Saturday 4/23's benefit concert to help disaster victims in Japan. We'll be serving free pizza and showing Japanese films while we work - all are welcome, regardless of time or skill. Feel free to stop by for a few minutes or a few hours and help make 1,000 cranes for a wish come true!

Directed by Andrew Weintraub and Indra Ridwan. Guest Artists: Ening Rumbini, dancer; Undang Sumarna, master drummer. Buy tickets in advance from ProArts for a discount: $8.50 general admission and $5 non-Pitt students and seniors. At the door: $15 general and $10 non-Pitt students and seniors.

Speaker: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Filmmaker

Introduction by Prajna Parasher, Chatmham University

US/Cuba, 2006, 41 minutes, Spanish (with English subtitles).

Food, talent show, games, and more! Join EALL fundraising efforts for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami in Japan.