Events of interest to the Tamil community
 

Various carnatic music concerts around the US are posted at http://www.carnatica.net/nvr-main-spring2003.html 

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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
13-26 June, 2003 at the Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street   212-875-5600
presents
REFUGEE DAY at the HRWIFF-NY 2003 - join us for these films screening on Friday the 20th June!

ASYLUM
Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker - US - 2003 - 35mm - documentary - 20m
Baba, a young Ghanian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing
on her impending marriage to the young man she loves. Her joy at finding him
turns into a nightmare as he insists she submit to his choice of marriage to
an old man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom
in his tribe. She is forced to flee her father's village, seeking refugee
status in the U.S. Instead she becomes enmeshed in the U.S. immigration
system. Honorable Mention, Sundance Film Festival 2003
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2003/ny/asylum.html
<http://www.hrw.org/iff/2003/ny/asylum.html>  Filmmaker present
Wednesday June 18th at 9pm; Thursday June 19th at 4pm; Friday June 20th at
6:30pm

plus several others.
Reception to follow screening on June 20th

For full festival schedule and ticket information, please visit
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2003/
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/wrt.htm

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- 2003 Federation of Tamil Associations of North America annual convention over the Fourth of July in Trenton, New Jersey

   [English flyer]