The Radical Flu is a radio play by Rose Hammer and part of Rose Hammer's National

Episodes series.

Reaching Winter Grounds is the seventh chapter of this radio play.

Extending outside the borders of Christiania, we reach further north in order to give attention to peripheral pasts. We find ourselves amongst the Sámi, who are protecting their land, their language and their culture after repeated attempts of assimilation from the Norwegian authorities. In late 1918 and 1919 the Spanish flu would arrive without warning, emphasizing an even greater abandonment by the state. Mortality rates were high.

 

Telling us their stories are: Johan Turi, the first Sámi author to publish a secular work in a Sámi language. The Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa, with her poem “A Woman Lies Buried Under Me”. Elsa Laula Renberg, Sámi activist, politician and organizer of the first Sámi Assembly of 1917. Daniel Mortenson, key figure in the establishment of Southern Sámi interest groups at the start of the 20th century. And Ellisif Wessel, Norwegian writer, ally of the Sami and politician for the Labour Party.

 

Rose Hammer would like to address that the material vocalised within this script is spoken through the original words of the characters themselves.

The Radical Flu has been commissioned by osloBIENNALEN with the kind support of KUF

KHiO. It has been recorded in collaboration with Notam and RadiOrakel.