Singing the Immigrant Generation
鈥淪inging the Immigrant Generation鈥 is a lecture-performance that offers a glimpse into the world of Punjabi poetry built by northern California-based farmer and writer Mohinder Singh Ghag 鈥 VanderBeek鈥檚 nanaji (maternal grandfather). VanderBeek engages the compositions of Ghag and his younger sister, Mohinderjit Kaur Thiara, to explore the secret language of immigrant-becoming-diaspora the two shared amongst themselves and among the literary society Ghag co-founded in the mid-1990s. Interwoven with these poems and their translations are personal stories of their family鈥檚 engagements with this poetry and new musical compositions based on their texts, forms, meters, and poetic conventions.
Free and open to the public.