தற்போது நோர்வேயில் வசிக்கின்ற புலம்பெயர் இலங்கையரான நடராசா சரவணன் புலம்பெயர் சமூகத்தின் மத்தியில் பல்வேறு பரிணாமங்களில் சமூக செயற்பாடுகளில் ஈடுபடுகின்றார். குறிப்பாக ஊடகத்துறையில் மிக நீண்ட அனுபவத்தை கொண்டுள்ள சரவணன் 90களில் இலங்கையில் வெளிவந்த சரிநிகர் சஞ்சிகையின் ஆசிரியராக பணியாற்றியுள்ளதுடன் இன்றும் பல்வேறு ஊடகப்பணிகளில் ஈடுபடுகின்றார். புகலிட அரசியல் குறித்தும் மனித உரிமைகள் தொடர்பாகவும் www.penniyam.com , www.dalittiyam.com பல்வேறு ஆய்வுகளை இவர் மேற்கொண்டுள்ளதுடன் நோர்வே சுதந்திர ஊடக அமைப்பின் ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளராகவும் செயற்பட்டுவருகின்றார்.

Kumaran Nadesan is a member of the 2012-13 executive team of Sri Lankans Without Borders. He obtained his B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature and Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2004 and is a civil servant in the Government of Ontario. Though Kumaran left Sri Lanka at the age of five, he has long had an interest in the people, politics and places of his country of birth, and continues to support efforts that seek to provide justice, truth and peace for all the communities in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan Tamil Blood, Manchester Born, Texas bred and Brooklyn steeped, YaliniDream is a performer, activist & facilitator who conjures spirit through her unique blend of poetry, theater, song, and dance. One of the South Asian American community’s most prominent performance poets, YaliniDream has toured nationally throughout the US as well as Europe & Asia. Her work has been performed at theater venues such as NYC’s Lincoln Center and New York Live Arts (formerly Dance Theater Workshop), Manchester’s Contact Theater, Houston’s Diverse Works, Chicago’s Vittum Theater; poetry venues such as NYC’s Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, Minneapolis’s The Loft, London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern, and universities such as Yale (USA), University of Manchester (UK), Loyola College (India), and University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka). YaliniDream has facilitated workshops for war affected communities in Sri Lankan Refugee camps in Tamil Nadu as well as war affected communities in Mannar, Vavuniya & Batticaloa , Sri Lanka. In addition she has worked with survivors of violence from multiple communities including Cambodian American & communities of African descent in the US. She was director and facilitator of Andolan’s Sukh aur Dukh ki Kahani–a storytelling project with domestic workers in Queens, NY. YaliniDream was a 2006 Mid-Atlantic Artists in Community Fellow at the Asian Arts Initiative, a panelist for the Leeway Foundation’s 2007 Transformation Awards, a 2008 Urban Arts Initiative Fellow, a recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s Travel & Study Award in Literature, and will be an Artist in Residence at University of Michigan’s Center for World Performance Studies in Fall 2012. YaliniDream is also a trained aerial dancer in corde lisse who loves to fly– challenging notions of the seemingly impossible.

http://www.yalinidream.com/

Sumugan Sivanesan maintains an anti-disciplinary practice across installation, sound, video and performance. Often working collaboratively his practice is concerned with histories of anti-colonialism and transcultural exchange.
For more on Sumugan visit- www.sivanesan.net

Jeremy Liyanage has worked in senior policy and program positions in local government both in Victoria and Queensland for over ten years where he explored methods to bring about changes to institutional mindsets which brought benefit to communities and groups challenged by societal inequity. Jeremy has worked with multiple groups including migrants and refugees, Indigenous peoples, prisoners, and more recently, international students in ways that build capacity and empower. His current ‘off-line’ challenge is to work with the Sri Lankan diaspora across ethnicities by means of a ‘dialogue through action’ approach to realising peace and prosperity in regional post-war Sri Lanka.