Opening programme Atlantic Window III: Sarojini Lewis

On Sunday 30 March, Atlantic Window III: Sarojini Lewis - Silence of the Sea: A Trace of Soerdie opens.

In her work, artist and researcher Sarojini Lewis portrays the life of Soerdie, the first female indentured labourers to be shipped from India via Barbados to Suriname. 

Panel discussion
Artists Sabine Groenewegen and Sarojini Lewis start a conversation with researcher Sanchali Sarkar on labour work from various perspectives and how people can carry multiple histories in oneself. Priya Swamy, curator Globalization and South Asia at Wereldmuseum will guide the conversation.

Performance 
A poetical imagination tells the story of Soerdie 7 days on the plantation blended with Lewis' own experiences by Sarojini Lewis and choreographer Poernima Gobardhan. 

13.45 Walk-in for coffee or tea
14.00 Performance 
14.30 Panel discussion

Before and after the programme, there is time to visit the exhibition.

Sabine Groenewegen is an award-winning filmmaker and artist. She researches underexposed histories of Asain women, who were indentured labourers in North East Sumatra, Indonesia during the Dutch colonial rule.  

Poernima Gobardhan is a dancer and choreographer, trained in the classical Indian dance, Bharata Natyam.

Sanchali Sarkar is PhD candidate Critical Development Studies at Passau University, Germany. Her research interest lies in gender, migration and mobility with a focus on the South-Asian diaspora. 

Priya Swamy is curator, Globalization and South Asia at Wereldmuseum, The Netherlands. Her research critically engages with the ways in which people in and from South Asian diasporas innovate and rearticulate their religious and political beliefs across historical moments and social contexts

This programme is in English. Entrance is free with museum admission. Please sign up through the link below.

The exhibition will be on show from 31 March until 1 October.