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‘An epic drawn from real life’: the radical hit play about a Sri Lankan family’s journey – By Neelam Tailor Source : theguardian Counting and Cracking, a multilingual tale of a family’s migration to Australia, is coming to the UK. Its writer Shakthi and director Eamon Flack discuss the inspiration behind this labour of love “Australia is a country of immigrants,” says Counting and Cracking director Eamon Flack. He’s not wrong: nearly 60% of the population are immigrants from Europe who began arriving about 250 years ago; Indigenous people make up just over 3%. After England, the top countries where overseas-born immigrants come from are India and China. Yet until Counting and Cracking, there hadn’t been a major theatrical work in Australia about a non-white migrant family. “To put it plainly, I don’t think there’s been a play of this scale with 19 people who are all brown,” says the play’s ...

Aug 29, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Meet Surusinghe, the genre-bending producer connecting dancefloor goers with her Sri Lankan heritage Source:abc.net.au Both on the decks and in her day-to-day, this week’s Feature Artist is an expert multi-tasker. Surusinghe is the Eora/Sydney born and now-London based artist who splits her time between being the ultimate music industry slashie and one of the country’s most exciting, genre-blending producers. From a self-described “door b*tch” at gigs and festivals, to working in various Australian touring companies, to being poached and moving to London, Surusinghe’s industry experience is vast and she says it helped her when pursuing music-making herself:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Suze Gurusinghe (@surusinghe) “Being on the other side has helped me free the kind of artist I want to be, the expectations I have of the industry and where I should sit.” It was also working in the promoting, labels, management and more ...

May 23, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Cook up a Sri Lankan spread from O Tama Carey’s new cookbook – by O TAMA CAREY Source:goodfood.com.au O Tama Carey didn’t intend to open a restaurant. But after stumbling into a career in hospitality – and cooking everything from French and Italian, Japanese and Chinese – she decided to tap her Sri Lankan heritage for her next move, opening a shop selling hoppers, the bowl-shaped pancakes with crisp edges, fluffy interiors and slightly tangy flavour that are such a feature of Lankan cuisine. The shop morphed into a restaurant, Lankan Filling Station, which she opened in Sydney’s Darlinghurst in 2018. Now she’s on a mission to introduce more people to the cuisine she has grown up with, in her cookbook Lanka Food: Serendipity & Spice, which distils family recipes, ideas from her travels in Sri Lanka, dishes that evolved because of the produce we have available in Australia and her own ideas based on her ...

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