Fontwala: A Solo Play on Tech, Language, and Migration

Sat, Aug 26 2023
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Central Library, Business & Career Center, Event Room

performance

Shubhra Prakash performs an excerpt from FONTWALA: her solo play about technology, the power of the printed word and South Asian identity. “For many languages, the journey from paper to screens has not been a simple one. There have been many struggles on the way to the digital realm. I want to tell one such story through my play FONTWALA!” says the playwright and performer. FONTWALA is inspired by the story of Prakash’s uncle, Rajeev Prakash, a typographer and font designer of Indian scripts. In the late 1990s, he designed the Anglo Nagari keyboard, one of the first to allow typing Indian scripts on the computer. The performance explores what it means for a “complex” script to survive in a digital world and for a person with a complex history of migration to try to tell one story. 

About the artist: Shubhra Prakash is a theater artist living in New York interested in putting out original plays and performances. She often travels to India to explore working with artists and translating her work for performances in her mother tongue Hindi. You can find out more about her work at http://shubhra.site. 

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Add to My Calendar 08/26/2023 02:00 pm 08/26/2023 03:30 pm America/New_York Fontwala: A Solo Play on Tech, Language, and Migration <p>Shubhra Prakash performs an excerpt from FONTWALA: her solo play about technology, the power of the printed word and South Asian identity. “For many languages, the journey from paper to screens has not been a simple one. There have been many struggles on the way to the digital realm. I want to tell one such story through my play FONTWALA!” says the playwright and performer. FONTWALA is inspired by the story of Prakash’s uncle, Rajeev Prakash, a typographer and font designer of Indian scripts. In the late 1990s, he designed the Anglo Nagari keyboard, one of the first to allow typing Indian scripts on the computer. The performance explores what it means for a “complex” script to survive in a digital world and for a person with a complex history of migration to try to tell one story.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the artist</strong>: Shubhra Prakash is a theater artist living in New York interested in putting out original plays and performances. She often travels to India to explore working with artists and translating her work for performances in her mother tongue Hindi. You can find out more about her work at <a href="http://shubhra.site" target="_blank">http://shubhra.site</a>… Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library, Business & Career Center, Event Room MM/DD/YYYY 60