BHARGAVI C. MANDAVA

On March 6, 2008, Ms. Mandava was featured on Radio Intifada, a weekly review of politics and culture bringing you the voices of the voiceless from Kolkata to Casablanca. Ms. Mandava read her short story "Thieves," and was interviewed by Sejal Patel and Khanum Shaikh. Also featured on the show was Pakistani poet and activist Kishwar Nahid.

Click the KPFK link below and visit "Audio Archives" to listen or download. Scroll down to the Thursday, March 6th show of Radio Intifada.

Radio Intifada is hosted by Members of SWANA (South and West Asia and North Africa) Collective and airs Thursdays from 3pm to 4pm.

COPPER CURRENT SALON PERFORMANCE

Ms. Mandava along with artist Mark Sylbert, and several other artists, writers, dancers and musicians founded Copper Current, an artist salon and performance series presented by the South Asian Artists' Collective.

The debut of Copper Current was February 28, 2008 at the Mountain Bar in Los Angeles' Chinatown. Ms. Mandava and Mr. Sylbert explored perspectives of consumerism through "Appetite," a piece in which a reading and drawing simultaneously unfold and converge where cultures clash.

Both the live drawing (above) that emerged in Sumi ink on paper and the story about a young woman who works at Happy Bliss Curry Shoppe on Pico Boulevard concluded with the words, "I'll take a dozen."

Copper Current, founded by Adnan Hussein, Bhargavi Mandava, D'Lo, James Brennan, Mark Sylbert, Meena Serendib, Meera Simhan, Shilpa Agarwal and Shyamala Moorty, is intended to foster dialogue and promote collaboration amongst artists and their work reflecting South Asia and its global diaspora.

Please check back over the summer for details about the next salon or visit the Copper Current website (link at left).

Ms. Mandava's short story "Wine Boy" was just published in the Konundrum Engine Literary Review.

Ms. Mandava's essay "To Apu, With Love" was recently published in the second edition of The Meanings of Dress (Fairchild Publications) in the section titled "The Body in Cultural Context." The anthology is being utilized in various university and college programs.

Ms. Mandava was the Curator of Literature for the Artwallah Festival 2006 and was on the team responsible for the Uncharted Storytelling Project.

Ms. Mandava in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where she was invited to read at the Crossing Border Festival in the autumn of 1998.

Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Bhargavi C. Mandava

Drawing Copyright (C) 2008 Mark L. Sylbert