Re-Storying the Ramayana: A Role-Playing Game

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Be a part of bringing the Ramayana out of the past and into the future with the most recent episode of the speculative cinema project Forest Tales, a queer/crip ecofeminist retelling of the South Asian epic. In this interactive virtual event presented in celebration of Pride Month, artist Anuj Vaidya and poet and performer Jessica Stokes reimagine the story of the vulture Jatayu using performance, poetry, collaborative storytelling, and role-playing games. Instead of dying after losing a wing as in the original epic, here Jatayu is resurrected with a prosthetic wing, only to face the extinction of his kind. (In India, three species of vulture are currently facing extinction due to the use of a bovine painkiller.) Can we help Jatayu imagine an alternative future and find healing for our disabled ecologies?

Learn more about the project at https://handspuncinema.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/resurrecting-jatayu

Online Event – Streaming over Zoom

Thursday, Jun 3
4–6 PM PDT

Free

Virtual

ASL interpretation will be provided.

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