I reinkarnasjonen av eelam-tamilsk kultur skapt ved møter med og mellom folk, stedsrelasjoner og migratoriske vekkelser presenteres eldre tradisjoner på nye tilfluktssteder, og nye tradisjoner på eldre tilholdssteder. Radioens uttrykk kanaliseres gjennom samarbeid og familiebånd som finner sted over tid og i ulike arbeider. Prosjektene er flyktige og grenseløse og formes i tilstedeværelsen, der menneskelig sameksistens fremhever hverdagen vår og vi som er en del av den. Mellom fysiske og felles holdepunkter forsøker radioen å slå røtter i de sammenhenger som finnes og som er forankret i samfunn, fortid og fremtid.
SASUSU Radio er en migrerende møteplass som har siden 2021 søkt etter forbindelser mellom det eelam-tamilske øylandskap og den tamilske diasporaen i Norge.
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Today is Pongal – a celebration of the harvest and a thanksgiving festival for the sun. During this day, a ritual is performed where rice is boiled in milk with jaggery and left to boil over a pot as a sign of prosperity and abundance.To bring the sun back to Tromsø through Pongal, SASUSU Radio will hold a physical and live-streamed event on the 16th of january to raise money for local communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah in Ilankai/Sri Lanka.Link to donation (information below) - https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9lLqalSrsgSri Lanka has been severely affected by flooding in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah, which hit the island's east coast on 28 November 2025. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake described it as the ‘most challenging natural disaster’ in the country's history, with reports of 630 dead, 210 missing and millions of people displaced from their homes. This disaster is a major setback for the country, which was declared bankrupt in 2022.Where does the money go?On Friday evening, we will be raising money on behalf of the Suriya Women's Development Centre in Batticaloa on the east coast of the island. The centre has compiled a verified list of organisations in need of financial assistance in connection with the disaster (a link to the list is included in the donation description). The list also specifies which items are urgently needed. They will distribute the money among the various organisations on the list.Read more about the Suriya Women’s Development Centre here:https://suriyawomenlk.org/The initiative for this fundraiser comes from artist, researcher and author Sumugan Sivanesan (info below), who will be a digital guest on the radio programme in connection with our fundraiser on Friday. Sumugan has worked closely with the Suriya Women's Development Centre on various projects and will talk more about the idea behind the fundraiser on the radio programme.What is happening on Friday?FOOD SERVED FROM 5:30 PM TO 8:00 PM IN THE SASUSU RADIO LISTENING ROOMSASUSU Radio will serve rice with chicken curry, kiré (spinach curry), parapu (lentil curry) and salad. The food is vegan and non-vegetarian.Price: DONATE WHAT YOU CANRADIO BROADCAST FROM 6:00 PM TO 7:30 PM (LIVE PHYSICAL IN RADIO STUDIO AND LIVE STREAMED AT WWW.SASUSU.COM)In this special broadcast, Sanj talks to artist, researcher and author Sumugan Sivanesan, who is a digital guest on SASUSU Radio.Together, they will talk about the fundraiser, the situation after the ravages of Ditwah, but also more broadly about Sumugan's artistic projects and collaborations. Among other things, Sumugan has his own radio project called ‘fugitive radio’ and has developed the music workshop ‘DHAM DHAM’ in Batticaloa.BIO
Sumugan Sivanesan is an artist, researcher and writer whose interests include: music, minority politics, activist media, artist infrastructures and more-than-human rights. He earned a doctorate from the Transforming Cultures research centre at the University of Technology Sydney (2014). He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for English and American Studies (Cultural Studies), University of Potsdam (2016) supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), investigating social movements mobilising in the wake of COP21 Paris, 2015. Sumugan was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie, 2022-23.https://sivanesan.net/Read more about fugitive radio, DHAM DHAM and Sumugan at:https://fugitive-radio.nethttps://sivanesan.net/https://sivanesan.net/dhamdham/WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE BY COOKING FOR THE FUNDRAISER? JOIN SANJEY IN THE KITCHEN AND LEARN HOW TO COOK TRADITIONAL TAMIL FOOD FROM ILANKAI! Contact Sanjey by email: sanjey.sureshkumar@gmail.comWelcome to an eventful Friday evening with SASUSU Radio!
