FSF 2021 | Discussion on “Sri Lankan insularity” with Eric Meyer and Sasanka Perera

How does the insular condition of Sri Lanka affect the different historical, political and social realities of the country? Delve into an online discussion around this topic with Pr. Eric Meyer and Pr. Sasanka Perera that took place on July 5th, 2021.

Eric Meyer is a French historian specializing in Sri Lanka and the Indian subcontinent, previously director of the South Asia department and then vice-president of INALCO as well as director of the Center for Indian and South Asian Studies (EHESS). His research initially focused on the relationship between colonial capitalism and rural society in Sri Lanka and extended to the history of inter-communal tensions between Sinhalese and Tamils. He is particularly interested in the uses of history in the construction of national identities. He is the author, among others, of “Sri Lanka between particularism and globalization” and “The uses of history and linguistics in the identity debate in Sri Lanka”.

Sasanka Perera is Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was the Editor in Chief of the journal, Society and Culture in South Asia co-published by Sage and South Asian University for 9 years. Having been trained as a cultural anthropologist, he also served the Department of Sociology at the University of Colombo for a period of 20 years. An interest in photography, poetry, blogging, art, music and journalism has kept him in touch with both his own creative drives as well as the changing world of thought and expression. His publications in English include, “Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise”; “Violence and The Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness” and “Against the Nation: Thinking Like South Asians”. More information here: https://www.frenchspringfestival.com/…

📅 June18-July 18 2021 📍 Full program: https://www.frenchspringfestival.com/

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“Coolie Poesis: Plantation Sounds and Labor Heritage on Sri Lanka’s Tea Estates” by Mythri Jegathesan (UC Davis College of Letters and Science)

Mythri Jegathesan at the UC Davis Global Tea Initiative for Tea Culture and Science 2nd Annual Colloquium: “The Sensory Aspects of Tea” on January 19, 2017. This talk explores the relationship between tea plantation labor and production and coolie identity formation and heritage in Sri Lanka. Also how the human voice—through the poetry, and song written and performed by Tamil plantation residents—reinforce coolie narratives of labor, connectivity, and desires for social recognition in a multicultural, postwar Sri Lanka. This reinforcement creates a coolie poesis—an emergence of a complex labor heritage to be duly acknowledged in Sri Lanka’s colonial and postcolonial history and present.

source: UC Davis College of Letters and Science

“Buddhism and law”, in Asian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 3, no. 1 (mai 2016) (Les Carnets du CASE)

ALS

Content

  • Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism by Benjamin Schonthal & Tom Ginsburg
  • Keeping Monks in Their Place? by Thomas Larsson (sur la Thaïlande)
  • The Impossibility of a Buddhist State by Benjamin Schonthal (sur le Sri Lanka)
  • Varieties of Religious Freedom in Japanese Buddhist Responses to the 1899 Religions Bill by Jolyon Baraka Thomas
  • Blood Curse and Belonging in Thailand: Law, Buddhism, and Legal Consciousness by David M. Engel
  • Promiscuity, Polygyny, and the Power of Revenge: The Past and Future of Burmese Buddhist Law in Myanmar by Melissa Crouch
    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=als

Source: Sophie Hénon (12 avril 2016). Asian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 3, no. 1 (mai 2016). Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m7tf

“Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia” by Julia L. Cassaniti (Les Carnets du CASE)

Julia L. Cassaniti, Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia, Cornell University Press, 2018

What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to “remember the present” in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.

Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and selfhood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience.

Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about selfhood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged.

Ecouter l’entretien avec Julia Cassaniti sur son livre : http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?gcoi=80140107114010

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Sophie Hénon (14 juin 2018). Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m8ie

“Religious extremism poses threat to ASEAN’s growth” by Sophie Hénon (Les Carnets du CASE)

« Religious extremism poses threat to ASEAN’s growth » by Gwen Robinson and Simon Roughneen, 14/12/2017, Nikkei Asian Review

Aided by social media, hardliners gain mainstream support

The Dec. 2 event marked a year since an estimated half-million people clamored in the rain for the arrest of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the then-governor of Jakarta. Since then, Purnama, a Protestant of Chinese descent nicknamed Ahok, lost the gubernatorial election and was sentenced to two years in jail on the same blasphemy charges that brought massive crowds onto Jakarta’s streets late last year.

The episode raised concerns around the world that Indonesia’s relatively tolerant variant of Islam — and its secular democracy — was under attack. And it was a startling display of the strength of Islamist groups in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. Among the organizers were the Islamic Defenders Front, known as FPI, and the Islamic Ummah Forum.

Those groups do not claim affiliation with the al-Qaida-linked militants who killed 202 people in Bali in 2002, nor the estimated 1,150 Indonesians who traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the so-called Islamic State. But the government has been sufficiently alarmed to ban the local wing of Hizbut Tahrir, another Islamist movement involved in the anti-Ahok protests — and which hopes to establish a caliphate.

Across Asia, the rise of hard-line religious movements is fueling a macho form of nationalism and creating dangerous new fault lines in communities. Beyond Indonesia with its numerous Islamist groups are Myanmar’s zealous Buddhist organizations, which have stoked anti-Muslim sentiment to deadly effect. Bangladesh has seen the rise of Islamic fundamentalists including Hefazat-e-Islam, while Sri Lanka has Bodu Bala Sena, a radical Sinhalese Buddhist group.

Such groups number in the dozens across Asia — fundamentalist Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus who are adding new fuel on what are sometimes ancient ethnic conflicts. Some boast memberships that run into the hundreds of thousands, powered by zealous social media campaigns, community support programs and effective fundraising operations. The donations, often tiny amounts collected from poor followers, become a source of support for hard-line leaders.

Analysts warn that such ethno-religious chauvinism represents the biggest threat to the economic growth the region has enjoyed in recent years — and to the dream of greater cohesion over trade and economic issues. “Rapid economic growth over the past three decades has raised standards of living across much of Asia, but left marginal areas, like Mindanao in the Philippines and Rakhine State in Myanmar, untouched and therefore comparatively worse off,” said Michael Vatikiotis, Asia director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. “It is perhaps no coincidence that these areas are afflicted by violent conflict.”

Lire la suite sur : https://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20171214/On-the-Cover/Religious-extremism-poses-threat-to-ASEAN-s-growth

source: Sophie Hénon (29 janvier 2018). Religious extremism poses threat to ASEAN’s growth. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m8gb

“Treasures from the the 17th and 18th VOC archive” by Sophie Hénon (Les Carnets du CASE)

Treasures from the the 17th and 18th VOC archive, Sejarah Nusantara, Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia

The paper archives created by the Dutch East India Company (VOC, 1602-1799) and dealing with its commercial operations in Asian waters are preserved in the national archives of Indonesia, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, South Africa and India. In particular, the archives in Jakarta contain thousands of documents originating from Asian persons, including many local rulers from around the Indonesian archipelago. The most voluminous collections spanning 2,000 metres are in the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia (ANRI). On 9 March 2004, the archives of the VOC were included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

The 2.000 metres of archives in ANRI can be roughly divided into two sections:
1) The archives created in and formerly kept at Batavia Castle, the former headquarters of the VOC in Asia. This is the archive of the Supreme Government (the Governor-General and the ordinary Councillors of Dutch Asia).
2) The archives of local private and public institutions in Batavia.

For this digitalization and public access project, a selection had to be made. The Daily Journals of Batavia Castle which can be found in the archives of the Supreme Government were digitalized and published first. This series reflects the principle concerns of the Supreme Government.  Prominent here were internal Company affairs in matters as diverse as the general management of trade, personnel and financial affairs, shipping and logistics. The Supreme Government also dealt with all political and diplomatic affairs, the administration of justice and correspondence with other VOC factories in Asia as well as the VOC Chambers and their Governing Board, theso-called Gentlemen Seventeen (Heren XVII) or Directors of the VOC  in the Dutch Republic. The Daily Journals were created to maintain an ongoing overview of such activities.

During the course of the eighteenth century, the Resolution Books of the Supreme Government became more and more important and voluminous while the registration of correspondence in the Daily Journals gradually declined. In particular, the handling of all matters to do with the regional establishments of the Company were included in the General Resolution Books. In 1743, such matters were recorded in a separate yearbook, giving birth to a separate series: the General (Foreign) Affairs Books (Net-Generale Besogneboeken).

Another, hitherto unresearched and historically unique series are the Appendices to the General Resolution Books. These total together some 742 volumes numbering some 550,000 folio pages. This series contain a variety of documents which may gradually become accessible via a special database. The first document descriptions for this database were started in 2013 by ANRI’s Content Team (see organisation).

Liste des archives consultables moyennant une inscription sur le site:

  • General Resolutions of Batavia Castle 1613-1810
  • Realia 1610-1808
  • Appendices to General Resolutions 1686-1811
  • The Placards of Batavia Castle 1602-1808
  • Daily Journals of Batavia Castle 1624-1806
  • Marginalia to the Daily Journals 1659-1807
  • Diplomatic Letters 1625-1812
  • Corpus Diplomaticum 1595-1799

Plus d’informations sur : https://sejarah-nusantara.anri.go.id/archive/

source: Sophie Hénon (30 octobre 2017). Treasures from the the 17th and 18th VOC archive. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m8fb

“The Tale of Prince Vessantara at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)” by Sophie Hénon (Les Carnets du CASE)

« The Tale of Prince Vessantara », until 09 September 2018, Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford)

The Buddha is believed to have had many lives before being born as Siddhartha Gautama. Stories of his past lives are known as jatakas (‘birth stories’). They play an important role in teaching Buddhist values.

The Vessantara Jataka is the last and most popular of the jataka tales. Here the Buddha was born as Prince Vessantara of the Sivi Kingdom, a very generous man who gave away everything, including his wife and children, to help others. His actions demonstrate the virtue of generosity, which in Buddhism is one of the ‘perfections’ required to achieve enlightenment.

The tale is often illustrated in Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan art. Buddhists can gain merit by making and commissioning these images. This display, drawn from the Ashmolean’s own collection, highlights a selection of Burmese and Sri Lankan drawings, paintings and woodcarvings of the story dating to the 19th century.

Curator : Dr Farouk Yahya

Voir : https://www.ashmolean.org/event/the-tale-of-prince-vessantara

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Sophie Hénon (23 avril 2018). The Tale of Prince Vessantara at the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford). Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m8ho

“Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 44, no. 130” by Sophie Hénon (Les Carnets du CASE)

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Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 44, no. 130

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cimw20/44/130

Sommaire

  • The Pangeran and the saints: The historical inflection of a mid 19th-century Ḥaḍramī mausoleum in East Java, Indonesia by Ismail Fajrie Alatas
  • Bhuket material culture and Kayan stratification in Sarawak, Malaysia: Mats and baskets as instruments of social differentiation by Shanthi Thambiah
  • Theatrical change paralleling socio-political developments in Indonesia’s Natuna archipelago in the South China Sea: The case for Malay mendu theatre performance by Karen Kartomi Thomas
  • On the morphosyntax and pragmatics of –in in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian by I Wayan Arka and Nurenzia Yannuar
  • Undhang-Undhang Bantěn: A 17th to 18th-century legal compilation from the qadi court of the Sultanate of Bantĕn by Ayang Utriza Yakin
  • ‘A Malay knight speaks the white man’s tongue’: Muhammad Haji Salleh on translating the self and one’s own literary tradition by Harry Aveling

Research Note

  • Jawa, Melayu, Malay or otherwise? The shifting nomenclature of the Sri Lankan Malays by Ronit Ricci

Cette revue est disponible à la BULAC et à la bibliothèque de l’EFEO.

source: Sophie Hénon (10 novembre 2016). Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 44, no. 130. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m80w

“Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka – Endangered Archives Program” by Sophie Hénon (Les Carnets du CASE)

EAP609 : Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka – Endangered Archives Program (British Library)

Dr Ronit Ricci, The Australian University
Archival partner: National Archives of Sri Lanka
 
Project Overview
 

This project aims to create a digital archive of Malay writing (including manuscripts, printed books, letters, other documents) held in private collections in Sri Lanka. Written for the most part in Arabic script (but also in the Roman, Tamil and Sinhala scripts) by descendants of exiles, convicts, and soldiers from the Indonesian archipelago and the Malay Peninsula between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, these rare and fragile documents attest to social and cultural aspects of the community’s life, allow for an expansion of our definitions of the ‘Malay World,’ and provide insight into local forms of Islam. There is urgent need to document and preserve such collections, endangered not only by tropical weather and the ravages of time, but also by their owners’ lack of knowledge in archival preservation and a contemporary ignorance regarding the manuscripts’ content and significance …

The project will result in the creation of a digital archive freely available to all. Copies will be accessible via the National Archives of Sri Lanka, the British Library and the library at the Australian National University.

Project Outcome

The project encompasses a range of materials written in the Malay language, in Sri Lanka, from around the mid 19th century to the late 20th century. It includes manuscipts, printed books, prayer booklets, wedding invitations, personal letters, family records, poems and songs. These diverse materials testify to the variety of ways in which Malay was, and is, used in Sri Lanka. The majority of older materials are Islamic in nature, including theological manuals, poems in praise of the Prophet, and tales and histories written in the hikayat genre. These are written in gundul (Malay-Arabic script) and/or romanised Malay. The collection also includes modern examples of Malay written in the Tamil and Sinhala script, as well as older materials in Arabic and Arabu-Tamil owned by Malay families, testifying to the lingusitic and orthographic diversity of the community’s writing practices.

For more informations : http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP609;r=41

To consult texts : http://eap.bl.uk/database/results.a4d?projID=EAP609;r=41

Source: Sophie Hénon (28 février 2017). Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka – Endangered Archives Program. Les carnets du CASE. Consulté le 31 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/m861

Call for Papers: The Art of South Asia (Extended Deadline: 31 October 2026)

 Dr. Jerzy Malinowski and   Dr. Piotr Balcerowicz invite articles of experts of South Asia, art historians, Indologists, scholars of religion and culture as well as representatives from associated fields of study that engage with the Art of South Asia – from Antiquity to modern times – in interconnected areas of broadly understood art, such as fine arts, iconography, architecture, literature on art and artistic treatises, visual arts, traditional dance and theatre, connections of art with religion and with intellectual culture, influences of South Asian art on, and its relationship to other regions, e.g. Central Asia, South-East Asia etc.

The articles will be published in a special issue of The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures (ISSN: 2450-5692, http://artistic-tradition-of- non-european-culture.world- art.pl/). It is published by the Polish Institute of World Art Studies (http://www.world-art.pl/), which in 2025 celebrated the 25th a­nniversary of its foundation. The Institute has published 15 monographs devoted to the art of India as well as South and South-East Asia which include eight monographs and collective volumes, together with materials from conferences organised by the Institute in its periodicals and publication series (beside approx. 400 volumes on World Art in English, Polish, Italian, Spanish, or Chinese, https://world-art.pl/ repozytorium-i-publikacje/).

Manuscripts may contain colour or black-and-white plates.

– Article submission deadline (extended): 31 October 2026

– Peer review notification: within two months after submission

– Volume Publication: mid–2027

The contributions should be sent to the addresses: biuro@world-art.plpiotrbalcerowicz1@gmail.com

To download the call for papers : Call for papers – Art of South Asia

The editors

Prof. Dr. Jerzy Malinowski (President of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies) http://www.world-art.pl/

Prof. Dr. Piotr Balcerowicz (the University of Warsaw), http://balcerowicz.eu/https://indologia.uw.edu.pl/o- katedrze/kadra/piotr- balcerowicz/

“The Politics of Culture in Peninsular India and Sri Lanka, 900-1500 AD” conference, on 10th April 2026, at Cornell university

This conference explores the interrelationships among political literary, and religious culture in early second-millennium South India and Sri Lanka. Scholars of premodern South Asia and Indian Ocean political culture now recognize that transregional processes fundamentally shaped political environments in this region. The substantial migration of scholars, military operators, ritual specialists, and pilgrim-patrons led to substantial transfers of knowledge. During this period, textual forms, material culture, languages, and technical sciences were on the move. Speakers will highlight the potential of working across languages and between key political-cultural centers to identify core characteristics of premodern political culture in peninsular India and Sri Lanka from approximately 900-1500. The culture of politics in this region underwent substantial changes during this period, bookended by the Indian Ocean imperial vision of the Cōḷas to the advent of the Portuguese Indian Ocean colonial empire.

For more information: Cornell university

 

“Republic of Amnesia” Film screening on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:00pm, at Williard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema

 

                     Republic of Amnesia | Official Trailer

Young activists lead Sri Lanka’s 2022 uprising, toppling an authoritarian president but can fragile hope survive in a country built on forgetting?

Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, Republic of Amnesia follows the rise and fall of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya (“The Struggle”) the youth-led protest movement that forced authoritarian president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. At its heart are young activists like Melani, Buwanaka and Jeana, who organize marches, face arrest, and confront a political system built to endure. As they challenge a powerful dynasty, their struggle raises a deeper question: can fragile hope survive in a country built on forgetting?

As the spirit of the Aragalaya ripples across Asia, inspiring youth movements from Bangladesh to Indonesia, the film looks beyond the moment itself. It asks what remains and what is lost when a movement fades, and suggests that the struggle for democracy lies not only in institutions or leaders, but in the stories a society chooses to preserve.

Filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam will join for a conversation after the film with Daniel Bass, Senior Program Manager of the South Asia Program.

Free admission! Sponsored by the South Asia Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

About the filmmaker
Kannan Arunasalam is a British-Sri Lankan filmmaker working across documentary film and moving-image installation. His work explores memory, political resistance, and the legacies of conflict and colonialism. His installation The Tent (2019) was presented in a solo exhibition at Yorkshire Contemporary. His documentary Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife (2021) was shortlisted for Best Documentary at the DIG Investigative Film Awards. He recently completed two feature documentaries: Republic of Amnesia (2025, UK/Sri Lanka), examining Sri Lanka’s 2022 Aragalaya protest movement, and Possible Landscapes (2025, US/Trinidad & Tobago), which premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival and explores intergenerational environmental experience.

In Sinhala, Tamil and English with English subtitles. More at republicofamnesia.film.

Part of our “Campus Collaborations” and “Doc Spots” series.

“Rev. Fr. Aloysius Pieris S.J. and Discovery of an Asian Theology of Liberation” by Tulana Media Unit TMU

We share an interview given by Reverant Father Aloysius Pieris S.J. about his life and the Discovery of an Asian Theology of Liberation. The interview was given to Tulana Media.

Biography

Aloysius Pieris S.J. (9 April 1934 – 22 March 2026) was a Sri Lankan Jesuit priest, theologian, intellect, Buddhist scholar and the founding director of the Tulana Research Centre for Encounter and Dialogue. He was born in Ampitiya, British Ceylon. He studied at St. Aloysius’ College, Galle. He took his Jesuit vows in 1953. Pieris had three theological degrees, an LPh from Sacred Heart College in Shembaganur, India (1959), an STL from the Pontifical Theological Faculty in Naples (1966), and a Th.D. from Tilburg University (1987). Pieris also had a BA in Pali and Sanskrit from the University of London (1961) graduating with first-class honours and reportedly becoming the first student in the world to do so and a Ph.D. in Buddhist philosophy from the University of Sri Lanka (1971). He also obtained a diploma in Pre-Polyphonic Music from Fondazione Cini, Venice, in 1964. He held academic posts as the Franciscan Chair in Mission Studies at the Washington Theological Union, the Henry Luce Chair of World Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and the A. P. Wilson Distinguished Visiting Chair of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

He was fluent in more than twenty languages, including Pali, Sanskrit, several forms of Prakrit, Sinhala, English, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew.

In June 1974, Pieris established the Tulana Research Centre for Encounter and Dialogue in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and was its director ever afterwards. Tulana was created as a Jesuit retreat site, but also as a space for Buddhist-Christian interfaith dialogue.

One of Pieris’s most well-known writings, An Asian Theology of Liberation (1988), attempts to move beyond the limitations of Latin American liberation theology and engage with an Asia that is wreaked by severe poverty and shaped by deep religiosity.

Pieris died on 22 March 2026, at the age of 91.

We would like also to share a review by Peter C. Phan of An Asian Theology of Liberation by Aloysius Pieris, SJ (Orbis Books, 1988).

“Iran pledges fuel, essential goods for Sri Lanka; Strait of Hormuz open to friendly nations” by Iranian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Dr Alireza Delkhosh (Ada Derada)

We share a statement by Iranian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Dr Alireza Delkhosh, who recall the current situation of war and in Strait of Hormuz. He emphases that Sri lanka is friendly country for Iran and that his country is ready to provide fuel or essential goods for the island nation.

Source: Ada Derada Youtube Channel

Exposition et une performance de VP. Vasuhan “Entre mémoires d’exil et rythmes solaires” organisé par Novi Collectif Invite Etni, le 28 mars à 20h, à Pantin

Entre mémoires d’exil et rythmes solaires, et pour fêter la haute saison qui revient à Metaxu, le samedi 28 mars s’annonce suspendu ! 

Au programme :

EXPO & PERFORMANCE : Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir l’artiste VP. Vasuhan (@vasuhan_paris) pour une exposition et une performance unique à 20h. Ses masques organiques, puisés dans les traditions populaires, explorent nos liens profonds entre culture et nature. 



SOUND LOVERS : Côté platines, le @novi_collectif, créateur de concerts et DJ sets à l’ambiance festive et conviviale autour de musiques comme le soukous, l’afrobeat et le zouk, transformera la péniche en salon tropical. Fidèles à l’esprit des fêtes familiales togolaises, il invitera Etni (@etnispirit) et son « Afromazonia House » pour un voyage entre musique homemade et percussions chamaniques. 

On se retrouve Place de la Pointe pour un samedi de foliiiiie !

Récap de votre soirée :
20h : Performance de VP. Vasuhan
19h – 2h : Exposition & DJ Set ETNI

Infos pratiques :
📍Metaxu, place de la Pointe, Pantin
📆 samedi 28 mars
🚇 Métro ligne 5 – arrêt Eglise de Pantin
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