{"id":212,"date":"2013-08-02T19:38:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/punjabisikhstudies\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2022-02-05T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T20:59:45","slug":"km2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/km2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Komagata Maru Project (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Performing the Komagata Maru: Theatre and the Work of Memory<\/strong> This event in early May 2014 comprised a significant component of UBC&#8217;s contribution to a region-wide recognition of the centenary of the Komagata Maru incident, when a ship carrying mostly Punjabi and Sikh would-be immigrants to Canada was turned away from Vancouver in 1914 after an excruciating two-month wait in the harbour.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #444444;\"> At the core of the project were a set of performances held on May 3 (evening) and May 4 (afternoon) in the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC West Point Grey, and on the evening of May 9 at the Surrey Arts Centre (<a title=\"May 3-4 \u201cPerforming the Komagata Maru\u201d at UBC and on May 9 in Surrey\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/km2014\/performingthekm\/\">for a description, photos and recording of the May 3 performance, click here<\/a>). \u00a0<\/span>The performance on May 3 was preceded by a <a title=\"May 3, 2014: Symposium \u201cPerforming the Postcolonial\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/km2014\/performing-the-postcolonial\/\">symposium<\/a> at UBC, featuring the authors of the plays and a small number of scholars\/theatre professionals. Professor Rana Nayar, a highly regarded translator of modern Punjabi literature and a specialist in theatre, visited from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India to take part in the project and participate in the symposium. It was also preceded by <a href=\"https:\/\/punjabi.arts.ubc.ca\/sidhu-memorial-program-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the screening of Ali Kazimi&#8217;s 2004 film on the Komagata Maru, &#8220;Continuous Journey,&#8221; on May 1<\/a> as a part of the Harjit Kaur SIdhu Memorial Program; for more on that event see under &#8220;Annual Event&#8221;\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/punjabi.arts.ubc.ca\/\">Punjabi Studies website.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">This project, led by UBC professor Anne Murphy, emerged out of a partnership between the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC, and with the Surrey BC-based community theatre group, Rangmanch Punjabi Theatre, and Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore. It <\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">wa<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">s f<\/span>unded by a UBC Hampton Grant and, for the performance in Surrey, a Surrey Arts Grant and Kwantlen Polytechnic University grant. We partnered with St. John&#8217;s College for the Symposium on May 3, and a Peter Wall International Scholar grant supported the visit of Professor Rana Nayar from India to take part in the performance and deliver the keynote address at the Symposium.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For general resources on the Komagata Maru, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/komagatamarujourney.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extensive resources <\/a>available through Simon Fraser University Library.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performing the Komagata Maru: Theatre and the Work of Memory This event in early May 2014 comprised a significant component of UBC&#8217;s contribution to a region-wide recognition of the centenary of the Komagata Maru incident, when a ship carrying mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/km2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12791,"featured_media":332,"parent":635,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-212","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions\/1873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}