The Sugaran Tour is a caravan of multimedia stories performed and presented by artist-activists YaliniDream, Nandini Nessa, Bushra Rehman, and Amita Swadhin. “Sugaran” is the Marathi word for a weaver bird hailing from lands throughout South Asia. These birds are both clever, weaving nests specifically shaped to defy predators, and resilient. They survived human captivity for generations by learning to appear docile and perform tricks. Like their namesake, the artists of The Sugaran Tour trace their ancestry to Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and have resiliently survived multiple oppressions - racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, Islamophobia - by weaving new conditions in which they can thrive. Through their fiction, poetry, testimonial performance, filmmaking, theatrical work, and dance, they have stitched bits of discarded and buried histories from the Northwest Frontier to the Western Ghats to the Aruvi Ara together with lessons learned in the concrete jungle of NYC, birthing selves and breaking cycles as they weave. Bring these gifted storytellers to your community and/or campus and bear witness to their tales of laughter, grief, healing and transformation. Booking: thesugarantour@gmail.com Join our Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/thesugarantourTumblr (3.0; @thesugarantour)http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrog2aUwJu1r3op9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>YaliniDream</p> <p>(photo by <a href="http://www.adriannekoteen.com" target="_blank">www.adriannekoteen.com</a>)</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10321156250http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10321156250Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:18:00 -0400tag<a href="http://www.yalinidream.com">http://www.yalinidream.com</a>: <p>to learn more about YaliniDream’s work, click here</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268749391http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268749391Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:02:00 -0400tag<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/At7CZcTMWik?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>watch an excerpt from YaliniDream’s “Wounds Unkissed” show</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268731429http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268731429Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:01:00 -0400Chesney Snow,Ganessa JamesStony Brook UniversityYaliniDreamaerialtag<a href="http://www.amitaswadhin.com">http://www.amitaswadhin.com</a>: <p>to learn more about Amita Swadhin’s work, click here.</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/11587322504http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/11587322504Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:53:00 -0400Amita Swadhinpoetryproseactivistsurvivorstoryteller<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrlmuzFkAv1r3op9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amita Swadhin</p> <p>(photo by <a href="http://www.adriannekoteen.com" target="_blank">www.adriannekoteen.com</a>)</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268524592http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268524592Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:52:00 -0400tag<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FJ3eU2xw03s?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Amita opens a 2010 TEDxYouth conference in NYC with a talk on the taboo epidemic of child sexual abuse</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268420948http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268420948Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:47:00 -0400child sexual abuse,Amita Swadhinpreventiontabootag<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zMxTsCH7FfY?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>check out “Violent Adult-ISM,” a short film by Amita</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268314722http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268314722Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:42:00 -0400oral history,NYU,child sexual abuse,interviewssurvivorstag<a href="http://www.bushrarehman.com">http://www.bushrarehman.com</a>: <p>to learn more about Bushra Rehman’s work, click here</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268046115http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268046115Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:31:00 -0400tag<iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_10268016760" src="http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268016760/audio_player_iframe/thesugarantour/tumblr_lrlltvF8AP1r3op9y?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fthesugarantour%2F10268016760%2Ftumblr_lrlltvF8AP1r3op9y" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="85"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Bushra’s interview with Asia Pacific Forum, on WBAI 99.5 FM in NYC</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268016760http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10268016760Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:29:00 -0400Asia Pacific ForumBushra Rehmaninterviewradiotag<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrllperObu1r3op9yo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bushra Rehman</p> <p>(photo by <a href="http://www.adriannekoteen.com" target="_blank">www.adriannekoteen.com</a>)</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267955218http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267955218Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:27:00 -0400tag<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cGZjSa6e7yc?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>A video collage featuring Bushra reading her poem “Will Heaven look like Zeenat Aman?”</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267857064http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267857064Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:23:00 -0400Bushra RehmanZeenat Amanpoetryspoken wordtag<a href="http://brooklynditties.com/">http://brooklynditties.com/</a>: <p>to learn more about Nandini Nessa’s work, click here.</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267702198http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10267702198Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:16:00 -0400tag<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrjm3z18Oy1r3op9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nandini Nessa</p> <p>(photo by <a href="http://www.adriannekoteen.com" target="_blank">www.adriannekoteen.com</a>)</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10227439469http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10227439469Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:40:00 -0400tag<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/30321462?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Nandini Nessa shares an original video about surviving relationship violence. part of her Brooklyn Ditties work, music videos she created using her cell phone.</p>http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10227297989http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10227297989Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:37:00 -0400BrooklynNandini Nessamusic videotag“We must work for the future now. Now is the weaving time.<br/><br/> -Michiyo Fukaya”http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10226352079http://thesugarantour.tumblr.com/post/10226352079Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:12:00 -0400Asian Americanlesbianpoetqueer woman of colorsurvivortag