1001 Identities in Sana Budaya

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An evening organized together with the Remembrance association for Javanese Immigrants (VHJI) in their center Sana Budaya. Lovers of the Javanese performing arts have come to the right place in Sana Budaya. Regularly performances involving typical Javanese music, dance, puppetry and martial arts can be seen here. In the presence of the Javanese poet Sitok Srengenge, who originally comes from middle Java, the VHJI demonstrates in a 1001 different ways the Indonesian cultural inheritance that proliferates in Surinam.

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Date and time Wednesday 3 March 2004 from 20:00 to 22:00 hrs
Location Sana Budaya - Paramaribo

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Sitok Srengenge

(Grobogan, Mid-Java, 1965) studied Indonesian language and literature in Jakarta, was a student of the famous poet Rendra and acted for a long time in Rendra's Bengkel Theater. Following this, Srengenge founded the Matahari Theater. His poems were published in magazines such as Horison, Republika and Media Indonesia. He published amongst others Persetubuhan Liar (Wild lovemaking) (1992). In Jakarta he participated in the Istuqual International Poetry Reading and Workshop. He has been invited several times to take part in the Winternachten festival in The Hague. Srengenge is very much involved in the Utan Kayu Theater, an alternative cultural centre in Jakarta. His style of reading is very theatrical, and the context of his work is very much involved with the social development within Indonesia. For example, he has written a number of poems inspired by his stay in East Timor during the struggles for independance.
WIN 2003
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