Suriname: On “Someni Tongo”

“I think art is exactly and only about this: the need to create and express what is uniquely inside you, and to do so because you have no choice”: Chandra van Binnendijk, guest blogging at Paramaribo SPAN, shares her impressions of Dutch artist Arnold Schalks's Someni Tongo project, “which examined Suriname's cultural and linguistic diversity through a live performance of a celebrated poem.”

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