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
🎟️ Lien en bio – GRATUIT

“Eelamarasu Times: How a revolutionary movement gave rise to a Tamil press in Paris” by Delon Madavan and Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud (Dvar magazine)

In his inaugural release, Dvar magazine has published “Eelamarasu Times: How a revolutionary movement gave rise to a Tamil press in Paris“, a condensed translation of an academic article, authored by Dr Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud and Dr Delon Madavan published in Paris, Capitale Polyphonique
 
About the authors:
Since 2008, Anthony has been engaged in research on the Tamil diaspora, examining the trajectories and experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, particularly in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Delon was born in France to parents originally from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. For the past twenty years, Delon’s research has focused on migration, identity and integration of Tamil populations in several cities around the world (Jaffna, Colombo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Paris and Montreal).

“Memories of Exile, Memory in Exile: The Sri Lankan Separatist Conflict in the Films of Pradeepan Raveendran” by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud and Paul Veyret

The article on “”Memories of Exile, Memory in Exile: The Sri Lankan Separatist Conflict in the Films of Pradeepan Raveendran” written by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud and Paul Veyret could be access for free there

Abstract:

In this article, we wish to examine the place of the memory of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka and how it is transmitted. We analyze how stories, memories, and narratives collide, and how Sri Lankan Tamil migrants in France seek out traces of their past to negotiate their inclusion in the present. Using a body of film – Pradeepan Raveendran’s creations – and interviews with the filmmaker, we explore how each personal history of the conflict accounts for the reorganization of the subject’s identity and environment, and thus, is perpetuated from one generation to the next. This article explores building on Stef Craps’s work on postcolonial trauma, how the memory of this conflict is transmitted in France. We also analyze how each actor negotiates a new space, both real and imaginary, in the space of the diaspora. Finally, we look at how the past is reconstructed to build a collective memory akin to Maurice Halbwachs’s new “social frameworks” (Halbwachs Citation1925).

“A Letter To Lanka: Soil that Breaks, Soil that Binds” by by Ilakkiya Mariya Simon

We would like to share an article by Ilakkiya Mariya Simon about her documentary “A Letter To Lanka” and her reflection on the question of identity for a person from the second generation of an exiled family living in Norway.

to read the article

About “A Letter To Lanka” documentary

A Letter To Lanka moves between memories of the civil war to the present political turmoil during Aragalaya’s protests. Told through a poetic and personal journey of the filmmaker`s reconnection to land, soil and people, it invites the audiences into existential questions of belonging in a chaotic world. What does it mean to be at home in the world? What binds people together, and what can break them apart?

About Ilakkiya Mariya

Ilakkiya Mariya Simon has recently completed her Master of Visual Anthropology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Bergen, where she founded The Ethnographic Film Club. Prior to getting into anthropology, she was a teacher and movement practitioner from different disciplines and arts. Her experiences with movement and her Sri Lankan ancestry are what underpins her anthropological interest exploring existential themes of home, belonging, identity, and the environment. Ilakkiya is passionate about her intimate and fragmented relationship to Sri Lanka.

“refugee mothers” by Sinthujan Varatharajah

This is for the refugee mothers whose second name became I-yearn-to-die post-flight.

This is for the refugee mother who could never become a mother because she died too early in transit. This is for the refugee mother who saw her children swallowed by borders. This is for the refugee mother who had a miscarriage because of the stress of fleeing.

see: http://diasporaland.tumblr.com/post/126098219067/refugee-mothers