International Education Week 2006

Dear Members,

Each Fall semester, ASEAN GSA participats in International Education Week organized by the ISSS office. This semester is no exception. ASEAN GSA is proud to present a film screening of ‘SEPET”. Mark the date on your calendar!! The details are as follows:

Date: Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
Venue: Student Union Theatre

Sepet is an artful piece of drama that weaves the themes of Malay-Chinese racial relations and the issue of nationhood within a simple plot of a love story.
The Movie Site : http://www.sepet.com.my
The Director's Blog : http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com

Surface Theme:
A Love That Transcends Racial and Cultural Barriers.

Undercurrent Theme:
The Chinese migrant's story of failed adoption of his new homeland. The struggle of a prototypical economic migrant in his attempt to achieve union with his adopted homeland and the shadow of his past that prevents him from consummating the relationship. The story weaves together an emphatic story about the struggle of a migrant race in Malaysia and their attempt to breakaway, to reinvent themselves, to redefine who they are in relation to their adopted land, beyond the long shadow of history, cultural confines & socio-political lines that force them to take on their limiting identity, roles and ultimately their meaning of existence and destiny.

(Taken from Wiley Chin's website, <http://www.ximnet.com.my/thelab/blog/blog.asp?id=53>)