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📍currently mostly offline in the Himalayas ⛰️
Culture, creativity & community.
Behind @brownwomencomedy & @australiansouthasiancentre

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WE DID IT
18 SHOWS
OVER 17 DAYS at Melbourne Int Comedy Festival & Sydney Comedy Festival
1000+ of you SHOWED UP 🔥
We took over some iconic venues (hello @comedystoresyd + @riversideparra) this year and you filled the room 🥹

To our wonderful artists this year - @kruharale , @ramyaramapriya , @niv.prakasam @urvi_majumdar & @guneet_ofkaurse - thank you for bringing your magic, your mischief, and your brilliantly besharam attitude

Big love to the powerhouse crew who helped make Brown Women Comedy happen this year - Minnie (our marketing maven), Jasmine (artist support rani) and all the reviewers, media folks, tech wizards, photographers, videographer Sal , festival staff and venue legends who kept the wheels turning while we ran on adrenaline and chai.

Big love to the @australiansouthasiancentre team who held the fort while I went full-time comedy producer. Thanks for letting me drop the admin ball without dropping me.

And finally, to our generous funding partners – City of Melbourne and the Centre for Australia-India Relations @ausindiacentre - thank you for believing in a bunch of funny bold brown women. Your support didn’t just fund a tour - it fuelled a movement.

Next up after my nap: Brown Women Comedy goes REGIONAL. Yep, we’re taking our besharam selves beyond the big cities - Wagga Wagga, Griffith (MY PIND), Shepparton, Wodonga & Dubbo. Most likely your mum’s friend’s cousin’s town - let them know we’re coming to shake things up #brownwomencomedy #melbournecomedy #sydneycomedy

📸 sydney @andrewbrinsmead
- melbourne @peliza.media

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5 shows down, 8 more to go in Melbourne... and we’re just getting warmed up. Melbourne, you’ve been wild. Sydney & regional towns brace yourselves. Brown Women Comedy is coming in hot, with sass, stories, and zero filter.

So much love for our community who have showed up especially our members at @australiansouthasiancentre 🫶🏽

Big shout out to @cityofmelbourne & Centre for Australia-India Relations for supporting this year & helping us bring in international talent.

📸 @peliza.media

brownwomencomedy #melbcomedy #sydneycomedy

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I’m a big advocate of starting small and letting the work guide you. You don’t need experience, or big budgets or extensive plans. You just need to get started, be persistent and keep at and you never know where it’ll take you.

Three years ago I had no idea @brownwomencomedy would become the largest comedy show dedicated to South Asian women comedians in Australia, I just thought it would be a fun thing to do and that there was a dire lack of representation at one of the world’s largest comedy festivals in my home city @melbcomedyfestival as well as other festivals like Adelaide Fringe. Three years on here we are, what an absolute pleasure to be part of FringePOD by @adlfringe to share my journey on becoming a “producer”. Big love to the @australiansouthasiancentre team of volunteers and to my cofounder who co-produced our first ever show 3 years ago at @qvwc_melbourne

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It’s our turn and you don’t have to turn the page because we’re on the front cover baby! Pick up a copy at your local Indian spice 🌶️ shop. They’re free and apparently there’s 40 000+ copies floating around.

What a pleasant and heartwarming surprise. I knew @indianlink was coming to review our show @brownwomencomedy at Sydney Comedy Festival but I had no idea they would decide to make us their cover story for the print edition.

Thank you @rajnianandluthra for this and to @theatreenthusiastsyd for the write-up.

Remember if you want to learn to do comedy we have workshops and have extended the deadline, places are free for residents of @cityofmelbourne too!!

#brownwomencomedy #sydneycomedy #melbournecomedy

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Bas. Enough is enough. This voiceover is in Punjabi with English translation in captions. Men’s violence against women is pervasive, it exists in ALL communities. Though given my community online is predominantly Punjabi and there is nothing but silence from men, I’ve made this voice over in Punjabi. For those of you don’t know it’s the fastest growing language in Australia right now and we need more in language resources. We need spaces that are culturally informed, led by those with lived experience.

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This is my third year producing @brownwomencomedy for Melbourne Int Comedy Festival which is one of the largest festivals in the world - if you asked me 3 years ago I would have had no idea that 1500 + people would show up to our show and we’d get mentioned in several media outlets from ABC, Arts Hub, Saari, Draw Your Box, Missing Perspectives and SBS. For so many people it’s their first ever comedy show they’ve attended! Personally I had only ever been to a couple of live comedy shows until I started producing BWC and this year we did it with no external funding or sponsorship. This year our show has broken so many records. I had no experience producing comedy shows, but here we are - somehow having produced the largest show dedicated to South Asian women in the country. Thank you to our audience who have showed up to support us - there would be no show without you and you make all the hours and hours of admin / organsing worth it! So here are some photos of amazing folks who came along to Brown Women Comedy 🤎

📸 Manpreet from SBS (not my parents)

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Entering our bollywood brown barbie (barbinder)/ken (kenjit) indian prince/princess ERA 👸🏽🤴🏽

Adore supporting our Indian community every year for @iffmelbourne - art and creativity is in our blood, our lineage, our heritage and ancestry and to be able to celebrate that within our diaspora communities in Australia with the worlds greatest entertainers is an absolute privilege and honour. With big thanks to @mitulange who has championed and strengthened not only our connection to our ancestral country but within the one we are birthed (here) take years of dedication and commitment and the inclusivity that continues to evolve and embrace fills me with joy and pride.

I loved spending time (wish we had more) cuddling my friends and local trailblazers here and apologise for bossing us into group photoshoots - it’s important to me to connect us all from all different spaces as it’s so rare to see and I want to ingrain that in my heart forever. Will forever champion you in whatever you do.

Congrats queen #ranimukherji @malaikaaroraofficial @karanjohar @iamonir @bhumipednekar @anuragkashyap10 @mrunalthakur @rithvik_d and @kartikaaryan

Wearing @karegar.official as chosen by @manavibatra
Face @mia.fev @runwayroom
Hair @clyonmakeupartistry
@aisling_enterprises_pr

#iffm #melbourne #india #bollywood #brownbarbie #iamkenough

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The stairs were THE place to be last night at the @iffmelbourne awards! Can’t begin to describe how exhilarating it was to be in a space bursting with so much brown excellence.

Thanks @mitulange @leannetonkes @wearevicscreen and the whole IFFM team for bringing us all together!

Saree & bling: @karegar.official
@manavibatra
Hair inspo: @domthattil 💕

#brownaussiewood

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We’re so excited for this book club and to facilitate it together.

We will be hosting the book club every 6 weeks with the meetups being a mix of online and in-person in Melbourne / Naarm. For the in-person meetups, people not residing in Melbourne are still welcome to read along and contribute in the WhatsApp group chat.

In recognition of the South Asian Heritage Month, we will be reading the book “Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa” (@bapsisidhwa ) for the next club meetup. The book explores the period surrounding the partition of India through the eyes of Lenny, a young Parsee girl. It’s also the book behind @deepamehtaofficial film Earth.

Book Club date: Thursday, 17 August (The last day of the South Asian Heritage Month)

Name: Cracking India; (or previously known as) Ice Candy Man (you are welcome to read either of them)

Author: Bapsi Sidhwa

For anyone looking to borrow, the book is available in the form of an e-book on the Moonee Valley library. It may also be available in other libraries in your area.

Sign up at the link in the bio and we’ll add you to the group WhatsApp chat. See you either in person or online.

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#AustralianSouthAsianCentre #southasianheritagemonth #southasianauthors #partition1947 #booksbywomen #southasianwomen #southasianwomenauthors #melbournebookclub #melbourneblogger

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Another @southasianheritagemonth_uk celebration combined with @australiansouthasiancentre's meet up with some stellar folks at @mastifitzroy.

Over Gujarati, Urdu and Hindi banter, and finger licking food from the kitchen of @curry.queen.au Manpreet, we heard about her story and journey of running three restaurants in Melbourne, disregarding naysayers.

Thank you @daizymaan for putting this together and an opportunity for some wholesome brown collective joy.

@aayushishah__ @wholesomepomegranate
@leahvandenb @amna.bee.comedy @nitasha_makeup

#BrownJoy #SouthAsianHeritageMonth #BrownGirlThings #DaalIsLife #Food #IndianFood #Community #Collective #Melbourne #Social

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Roaring 20s GATSBY, they say 🪩 We took a trip down nostalgia lane at @encorestkilda for the launch of @cabaret_shows 💃 A spectacular Christmas in July, an evening of fabulous fun with roving canapés, flowing champagne, party with Partimama and the Babes 🎤 and DJ Timmy Byrne spinning old school anthems 🎶

Thanks @hellreizer @littletraincreative @bronnylane for having @glamorazzi !

Great times with Dion, @katrinaxtay @belindalee70 @bespokerachel_ and met @bensorensen1 @daizymaan 👋🏻

Check out @cabaret_shows next themed parties 🎉 https://www.cabaretshows.com.au/ dress up parties are amazing!

#gatsby #gatsbyparty #greatgatsby #20s #20sfashion #1920s #melbourne #melbmoment #melbournelife #cabaret #cabaretshow #stkilda #stkildabeach #christmasinjuly #christmastree #feathers #glitters #dance #saturdays #melbourneiloveyou #melbournetodo #ilovemelbourne

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🌼 Daizy 🌼

📍 Based in Deanside 3336 - mobile!

Want to book a makeup session or have a question? Shoot me a DM, email or text!

EMAIL: lyna-nguyen@live.com
MOB: 0433 930 831 (TEXT ONLY)

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