This Tuesday, August 14, Dr. Brenda Beck stopped in at TTR (Toronto Tamil Radio) and TVI (Tamil Vision International) for a pair of interviews leading up to the premiere of Death and the Queen in Mississauga this coming Saturday. The radio interview with Siva Sinniah aired on Tuesday. The televised interview with Ravi Aathman on

The Sophia Hilton Foundation of Canada and Soft Science Associates are thrilled to announce the premiere of their new animated feature, Death and the Queen, at the Mosaic South Asian Heritage Festival, Saturday, August 18, 2012, 2:30PM at the Noel Ryan Theatre in Mississauga. Download full colour (PDF) posters: Small (5.04 x 8.92 inches): Click here

The Legend of Ponnivala (in Tamil) gets a thumbs up from venerable seniors’ group Brenda Beck spoke in Tamil this morning to about 35 seniors from the Senior Tamils Centre of Ontario at the invitation of its President, Maya Kandiah. The event lasted nearly 90 minutes and took place in the community hall attached to

An Ottawa Story Tellers and 2 Women Productions Co-Production NAC Fourth Stage, Ottawa June 16, 2012 By Brenda Beck I attended a fabulous story telling event in Ottawa on Saturday. It was an all-day telling of Homer’s The Odyssey by a group called the Ottawa StoryTellers. There were no costumes and none of the 18

Brenda gave a presentation to about 30 families at a local Catholic school in Mississauga on Mother’s Day at a meeting of the Veerashaiva Samaja of North America. She decided to show a video version of one part of The Legend of Ponnivala called “Gateway to Heaven”; a shortened 30-minute excerpt taken from Series One, Episodes

Finding time in her busy schedule, Brenda was able to make it to a couple of Friday afternoon sessions of the 2012 Tamil conference in Toronto. She heard several very interesting speakers who shared a panel that focused on Royal Lineages, History, and Heritage in the Kongu area of Tamilnadu (nearby Madurai was also included).

The Kawartha Heights School has a lot of students whose cultural roots lie in other countries. So they decided to heighten student appreciation of other cultures and their riches by celebrating a Multicultural Day. The event featured Native Canadians and at least 30 countries from around the world. The kids carried national flags and put