Making Nei Urundai with Radha La Bia

Radha will be facilitating a workshop exploring the ways we communicate, share and love beyond words; a part-performance part-workshop on food. On the eve of Deepavili, Radha will be sharing stories and teaching people how to make Nei Urundai - a sweet shared during this festival. With work often exploring ideas of racial, religious and cultural identity, gender roles, the home and the kitchen, food - weaving this throughout the workshop.

Radha aka Shahmen Suku is a performance artist based in Sydney who explores ideas of racial, religious and cultural identity, gender roles, the home and the kitchen, food and storytelling. Growing up in a modern matriarchal Indian family in Singapore, Shahmen processes his sense of displacement from home as Radha, the Diva from India. Moving to Australia has given Shahmen multiple perspectives on migration, culture, race, colonisation and gender identity. Shahmen discusses these issues openly through his alter ego, Radha, sharing stories the way she learnt them from his mother’s kitchen. Radha’s multifaceted practice has also seen them perform/host numerous music festivals and events, presented in Art Exhibitions, shows and workshops for kids and also a chef on the ABC’s The Set. He currently lives and works in Australia.

This event is part of Art in the Heart of Haymarket - a festival of new music, performance and visual art destined to pulsate your imagination.