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Shadow of food cart

grobak Padi 17-21 October

“The world is a house of many rooms. You can sit in one room all your life, or you can leave your room and go out and explore the house”Amsterdave, circa 2001

grobak Padi, produced by MAV for Melbourne Festival 2012 in Kedaulatan Rakyat newspaper in Yogyakarta -20 july 2012

Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) stated vision is ‘To be

Victoria’s leading arts organisation embracing cultural

diversity’. Embracing diversity through the arts is

fundamental to building blocks of a modern Australian

society. Therefore the role of MAV in the context of

our changing society is and will continue to be vitally

important.

MAV is a specialist arts entrepreneur offering a

wide range of services and information to artists,

communities, other arts organisations and the wider

community. The organisation inspires the community

through programs of artistic excellence, innovation and

creativity. MAV also bridges and creates a framework

through which parts of the Victorian Charter of Human

Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 can be delivered

in practical terms. We are working with the Victorian

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on

their anti- hate Campaign and have our own anti- hate

heroes plus we worked with the Australian Human

Rights Commission to help launch their Racism It Stops

With Me campaign. MAV also actively supports the

objectives of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the

Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural

Expressions, which states the need to create the

conditions for cultures to flourish and to freely interact

in a mutually beneficial manner.

Where the influence of Multicultural Arts Victoria is,

there will always be an environment created where:

Cultural DISCOVERY happens-(exploring/connecting)

Cultural INCUBATION is encouraged- (developing /

empowering)

Cultural GENERATION is experienced – (revealing/

innovating)

MAV facilitates greater social and economic security

of local artists and performers, offers protection of

their basic human rights in relation to equality, dignity

and respect and contributes to the arts and wider

community in an overall and a real sense.

Over the next couple of months we have a focus on

cultural immersion in Asian based arts both traditional

and contemporary. We will enable the community and

audiences to experience the Arts from China, Indonesia,

Japan and Malaysia.

In partnership with the Australian Multicultural

Foundation at the Arts Centre Melbourne we are

working with the State Ethnic Affairs Commission in

China to look at the Living Cultures of China. In China

there are over 56 Ethnic Minorities and all with an

extraordinarily rich culture. Melbourne for the first time

will have the opportunity to experience the arts and

culture of the minorities from China. The concert will be

in the newly refurbished Hamer Hall.

Then from the traditional living heritages of one Asian

culture, we springboard into contemporary Australian

Japanese culture with DasSHOKU SHAKE! This is the

fourth work in the award winning DasSHOKU repertoire

with Butoh Punkess Yumi Umiumare. She will be joined

by Osaka’s legendary Theatre Gumbo, international

guest artists from Japan.

Also in relation to all things Japanese, Multicultural

Arts Victoria has the pleasure of hosting an intern from

Japan, Kanade Shimonishi who is studying her masters

at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of

Music, Musicology and Music Studies Creativity of Arts

and the Environment. She will be at Multicultural Arts

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Victoria for over the month of September researching

how the arts can contribute to positive cultural change

in our society and communities.

Then we are off to Malaysia again for MAPFest with

Tony Yap Company. MAPFest is fast developing a strong

reputation for bringing leading Malaysian, Australian

and international artists together in performances and

exhibitions throughout Melaka’s stunning heritage

precinct, including the majestic ruins of St Paul’s Church.

This creative endeavour has been strongly supported by

Multicultural Arts Victoria and has inspired In the Arts

Island Festival in Indonesia held in June.

Then in October we work inter-culturally to share

Indonesian and Australian friendship and arts at the

Melbourne Festival. For five days of the Festival, a

delegation of hand-made gerobak food carts from

the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta will wind their way

through Melbourne, bringing the flavours and culture

of Indonesia to the street scene of our CBD. grobak Padi

brings together free multimedia art installations from

Mike Hornblow with the assistance of Jesse and Dean

from Cake Industries and contemporary dance with

Agung Gunawan and Tony Yap plus authentic Javanese

street food creating a cross-cultural dining experience

like no other. It will be a memorable Festival event – free

for all. Agung Gunawan will be artist in residency at

MAV through the support of the Australia-Indonesia

Institute.

Amongst all this amazing programming we have

been busy consulting and planning for next year in

collaboration with our existing and potential Emerge

Hubs partners. We have run six consultations across

Victoria facilitated by Keith Greaves from Chit Chat and

the previous AMAG Board. The consultations were for

artists and community leaders from new emerging and

refugee, culturally diverse communities in several of our

established hubs and in potential new areas that have

expressed an interest in the Emerge Cultural Network

and regional Hubs program to facilitate a more inclusive

arts program for their community.

The consultations aim to identify needs of refugee and

emerging artists and communities and to explore any

opportunities that may exist locally in the arts. The

findings from the consultation will be used to improve

access and support to refugee and emerging artists and

communities. So watch this space! One of the first key

initiatives for our consultations is an Emerge Festival in

Brimbank highlighting the amazing talent that is now

resident in the outer West of Melbourne creating an

opportunity for discovery, development of new work and

cultural generation for these new communities. The main

objective of EMERGE is to increase opportunities for

emerging and refugee communities to participate in and

control their own cultural development. Dr Rand Hazou,

theatre intern at MAV is also raising awareness of the

importance of includsion for CALD artists & communities

through the 7akarat conference. See inside for further

information.

And finally to assist us in developing our program

and in creating a more culturally inclusive community

through the arts, we are in search of Philanthropy and

Fundraising Officer to help us gain the further support to

continue to grow and develop our great art work.

Jill Morgan

Chief Executive Officer

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China National Ethnic Song & Dance EnsembleTony Yap & Agung Gunawan - grobak Padi

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27 SEPTEMBER 2012, 7.30PMARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE,

HAMER HALL

LIVING CULTURES OF

CHINADANCE, SONG AND MUSIC

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As part of Melbourne’s Fringe Festival 2012 MAV has

worked with Yumi Umiumare supporting the Butoh

CabAret Extravaganza by Yumi Umiumare with Theatre

Gumbo & local and international Artists.

DasSHOKU SHAKE!

Be ready to get lost in this funky cross cultural emo

shake up! DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in

the award winning DasSHOKU repertoire - the unique

culture-crushing dementia, which has been recognized

by audiences in sell-out seasons nationally and

internationally since 1999. Dasshoku means ‘to bleach’.

Butoh Punkess Yumi Umiumare ignites her next

infamous DasSHOKU Cabaret, bursting from the shaking

earth. Osaka’s legendary Theatre Gumbo, international

guest artists from Japan plus four of Melbourne’s shock-

toy acolytes bring things of darkness out into footlights.

Jap-pop and white mysticism assault Buddhist Heart

sutra! Comic! Bizarre!

27 September - 7 October

fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne

Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5.30pm

$27 Full / $22 Concession. $18 Preview (27 Sep) / $18

group. BOOKINGS: fortyfivedownstairs.com (03)9662

9966 or melbournefringe.com.au (03)9660 9666

Multicultural Arts Victoria has the pleasure of hosting an

intern from Japan, Kanade Shimonishi who is studying

her masters at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate

School of Music, Musicology and Music Studies

Creativity of Arts and the Environment.

She will be at Multicultural Arts Victoria for over the

month of September the positive impact of the arts

and diversity in educating people, encouraging new

viewpoints in relation to our changing demographics

both locally and globally and the importance of

discourse and debate on multiculturalism and the role

of arts in community development. She will be a looking

at how the arts can contribute to positive cultural

change in our society and communities.

In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Australia-China

Diplomatic Relations, the China National Ethnic Song and

Dance Ensemble will perform for the first time in Australia

a fascinating showcase of the living cultures of China. This

ensemble is the only national-level performance group

representing China’s diverse cultures and it has performed

in over 70 countries and gives over 100 performances each

year.

The China Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble in partnership

with the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Multicultural

Arts Victo¬ria, Arts Centre Melbourne and in association

with the China Ethnic Minorities Association for External

Exchanges of the People’s Republic of China, presents this

unique performance of traditional dance, song and music.

This ensemble will showcase the rich diversity and long

traditional history from the various regions and nomadic

communities of China.

This exciting, colourful and unique performance is a

demonstration of the cultures that make up the People’s

Republic of China. This ensemble has toured extensively in

Europe and America receiving great accolades and awards

for their outstanding performances.

Dr Hass Dellal, Executive Director, Australian Multicultural

Foundation said “this is a great opportunity to gain more

insight into the rich cultures and traditions of the 56 ethnic

communities that make up China today. This energetic and

vibrant ensemble will amaze Australian audiences with

their spirited performances”.

Jill Morgan, MAV Chief Executive Officer said “The depth of

the arts and cultures of China is extraordinary it is a great

opportunity to experience unique and rarely seen before

living cultures of China.”

Thursday 27 September 2012, 7.30PM

Arts Centre Melbourne, Hamer Hall

Ticket prices from $16 - $33 Premium tickets also available.

Bookings artscentremelbourne.com.au or 1300 182 183

More information at multiculturalarts.com.au

With thanks to Melbourne City Council and the Consulate General

of The People’s Republic of China.

LIVING CULTURES OF CHINAChina’s diverse cultures sing and dance to celebrate 40 years of Australia-China Diplomatic Relations

DasSHOKU SHAKE!Contemporary Cultures

Kanade Shimonishi

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DasShoku Shake!

MAPFest Agung GunawanArtist in ResidenceMelaka Art & Performance Festival

Melaka Arts and Performance Festival is an innovative

contemporary festival, featuring dance, performance art,

visual art, film and music. In a short space of time since its

inception in 2009, MAPFest has gained a high national, and

increasingly international profile, being recognised for its

program of exciting independent arts, collaborations and its

use of alternative sites for performance. The festival draws

from Melaka’s foundation myth, its famous heritage sites,

and Melaka’s collective ancestral heritage to create a space

where contemporary culture and artistic practice comes

into focus and is shared across cultural and socio-economic

divides in a three day celebration which remains free to all.

‘Turning Around’ - transformation through the creative

drive - remains the central inspiration for the festival,

connecting both to the foundation myth for Melaka, and

the festival’s objective of assisting contemporary arts to

play a role in Melaka’s revival alongside its heritage-driven

tourist industry. This year MAPFest will have a new stage

to showcase the richness of traditional Malaysian and

international performance.

Produced by Eplus (Malaysia) and creatively directed byTony Yap (Asutralia) and proudly supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria

MAV will bring accomplished dancer Agung Gunawan from

Indonesia to Melbourne for a 6 week residency to build on

and further develop work presented in Indonesia 2010 and

Malaysia 2011. Agung graduated from the High School of

Arts in Yogyakarta, he continued studies of Yogyakartanese

classical dance in Surya Kencana and at the Kraton (Palace)

where he continues to perform. He is presently Assistant

Choreographer of the Miroto Dance Company and has

toured to Holland, Belgium, Germany, Africa, Asia and

Australia. The residency will utilise Agung’s skills for the

development of Asian based contemporary performance

works in Australia which we believe will strengthen people

to people links at all levels including the Melbourne

Festival, to importantly diplomatic links with the Indonesian

consulate and community in Melbourne.

During Agungs residency at MAV as well as being involved in

the fesitval, he will be conducting dance and masterclasses

developing a new dance work with Tony Yap, titled Lost

Boy (Australia/Indonesia). We warmly welcome Agung to

Melbourne as our artist in residence in September /October.

21 to 23 September 2012 Melaka, Malaysia www.melakafestival.com

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Agung Gunawan

The Melbourne Festival is back! And this year’s

Melbourne Festival offers once again new and exciting

artistic experiences that bring Melbourne’s diverse

communities to the Festival experience: a common

spirit that ignites imagination! In 2011, Multicultural

Arts Victoria began a collaborative partnership with

Melbourne Festival designed to build bonds with

diverse local artists and communities from varied

backgrounds and to connect them with the vibrant arts

our city has to offer.

The success of this collaboration has seen it build

further this year. Multicultural Arts Victoria thanks

Artistic Director Brett Sheehy and Executive Director Tim

Jacobs for their ongoing support in the development of

this partnership that has created new opportunities for

Melbourne’s culturally diverse artists and communities.

This year’s partnership includes the continuation of the

Festival Ambassadors program, workshop opportunities

where participating international companies will

be linking with local arts practitioners in a creative

dialogue and the Melbourne exclusive grobak Padi.

This year’s Festival has appointed seven Ambassadors

from various cultural backgrounds who will build

connections between their communities and the

Festival, by using their platforms as spokespeople to

engage diverse people from our city’s richly diverse

cultures with Melbourne Festival. Multicultural Arts

Victoria is very proud to link these keen advocates for

Melbourne’s art and culture with the Festival.

Richi MadanAn icon and pioneer of the Australian Bollywood scene, Richi

Madan is an entertainer, musician and journalist who hosts the

Mumbai Masala show on PBS.

Lisa HilliPapua New Guinean–Australian visual artist Lisa Hilli is the

founder of the Pacific Women’s Weaving Circle, an initiative that

provides a collaborative forum for local artists working with

traditional arts and crafts.

Stevan Simba KaliA South Sudanese musician who arrived in Melbourne in 2004

as a refugee, Stevan Simba Kali he has since recorded reggae

and gospel music about his life and experiences.

Zvi BellingOne of the key collaborators behind the infectious afro-beats of

The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Zvi Belling is also a director

of ITN Architects.

Evelyn TadrosEvelyn Tadros founded Australia’s first Human Rights Arts and

Film Festival in 2006, is a theatre writer, director and performer,

and regularly presents on 3CR’s human rights show, Right Now

Radio.

Neda RahmaniIranian-born Neda Rhamani performs with Brazilian percussion

group Tumbarumba, and is also a singer-songwriter in her own

right, recently releasing her solo album All Colour.

Antonio MoreiraBrazilian percussionist Antonio Moreira has recently relocated

to Australia. A regular performer with Tumbarumba, he is

currently establishing a new Melbourne-based percussion

group.

Contact development@multiculturalarts.com.au for more

information

Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with Melbourne FestivalIGNITING IMAGINATION

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL IS ON FROM 11-27 OCTOBER 2012CHECK OUT THE PROGRAM AT http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/

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Multicultural Arts Victoria is proud to be producing and

presenting with the Melbourne Festival and in association

with Playking Foundation grobak Padi.

An intimate exchange between cultures and cities through

a multimedia fusion of food, film and dance devised by

MAV supported artists Michael Hornblow, Tony Yap (tyc) and

Agung Gunawan (Indonesia).

For five days of the Festival, a delegation of gerobak food

carts from the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta will wend their

way through Melbourne, bringing the flavours and culture

of Java’s bustling street scene directly to our CBD. Based

at the Foxtel Festival Hub, grobak Padi brings together free

multimedia art installations and contemporary dance with

authentic Javanese street food (Satay, Nasi Goreng, Pisang

Goreng and more…) – sold at modest prices – creating a

cross-cultural dining experience like no other.

While several gerobaks remain at the Hub, displaying

video art inspired by the padi, others set out across the

city, dispensing delicious Indonesion food. As they serve

the people of Melbourne, video screens on the carts show

footage of the very gerobaks plying their trade in Jogjakarta,

fostering an amicable culinary and cultural bond across the

Timor Sea. After sunset, when the roving carts return, the

performance begins. Giant projections from creative producer

and video installation artist, Michael Hornblow will transform

the space with images of Indonesian, while Agung Gunawan

and Tony Yap perform Javanese- ‐influenced contemporary

dance. grobak Padi is a little piece of Java manifested in

the heart of Melbourne.

Venue: Performance – Foxtel Festival Hub Food carts, Melbourne CBD, various locations Dates:Performance ‐ Wed 17 – Sun 21 Oct at 9.15pm,Food carts – 12pm - 2pm & 5pm – 7pmDuration:Performance – 20 min no intervalTickets:Performance ‐ FREEFood purchased at menu prices

With the special participation of the Indonesian Community of Melbourne, Cake

Industries and Bimo Suryojati

Supported by City of Melbourne, Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia,

Australia-Indonesia Institute and Performance Klub (Yogyakarta).

A special thanks to the Meblbourne Festival and Playking Foundation.

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Which are Melbourne’s most culturally diverse areas? City

of Brimbank is up there amongst the highest with 46.7%

of residents born overseas of a non-English speaking

background (2011 census). This city has welcomed waves

of migration since World War II and has recently seen

many new arrivals from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

In response to local people and youth workers’ feedback,

and after conducting a community consultation on

August 6, MAV’s Emerge program is set to expand into

this new region. Built around a concert of traditional

and contemporary music and dance, displays of craft,

visual art, a participatory “dance off” and workshops,

the event will give voice to the artists and communities

who call Brimbank home and will aslo feature Jerusalem

Gospel Rumba and the Burundi Drummers. There will be

performance opportunities for new and emerging artists.

There will also be a “soccer friendly” with BBQ – soccer

being a strongly supported and uniting passion amongst

virtually all cultural groups in Brimbank.

There is already a high level of interest in the festival

which has a Steering Group formed from MAV, City of

Brimbank officers and local support agencies Spectrum

and the Multicultural Resource Centre.

The Acholi Women’s Group Association formed back in

2006 with the aim of keeping the Acholi traditional culture

strong and passing it on to their children. Acholi people

come from the area where South Sudan, Uganda and

Kenya meet. With civil and ethnic conflict raging for the

past decades, many of those living in South Sudan fled to

refugee camps in the other two countries, and made their

way to Australia to live in and around Dandenong.

Last year they successfully applied to the Australia Council

for the Arts to enable a development project to take

place from February to August this year. With professional

choreographer/dancer/Mentor Mitzi McRae, they worked

on such aspects of their performances as choreography,

stage presentation, and the organisational skills needed

by a big group up to 25 dancers. An innovative aspect of

this project was to invite non-Acholi women to share the

Acholi culture by learning and performing their traditional

dances with them. The group had three major public

performances. The first was at Emerge Festival Fitzroy.

The second was at the first anniversary South Sudan

Independence Day Celebration at Dandenong Market.

Lastly they had a very full day at Emerge at Drum Theatre

in Dandenong.

With Special thanks to Community Partnerships Australia Council

for the Arts

EMERGE IN BRIMBANKCelebrating colours, rhythms and sounds

ACHOLI WOMEN PROJECT

Sunday 18 November 201212-4pm

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‘Back in Africa women don’t have rights, but in Australia we can teach our children about rights and to keep their customs

to dance and sing. MAV helps us a lot to do this’

Rose Ochien, Chair of Acholi Women’s Group Association

MULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA WORKING REGIONALLY

While the focus for much of MAV’s activity has been

metropolitan, MAV is increasingly placing priority

on outreach to regional centres and has recently

undertaken a series of six thought provoking and well

attended consultations with refugee and emerging

CALD artists and communities in Shepparton, Swan

Hill, Ballarat, Brimbank, Dandenong and Wyndham.

Facilitated by consultant Keith Greaves (Chit-Chat)

and MAV staff, the consultations have seen local

artists, community leaders, council representatives

and services providers in each municipality connecting

in lively and vibrant discussions around barriers to

participation and potential solutions for increased

cultural participation of emerging and refugee

communities.

The consultations have also provided an important

opportunity to review and inform the development

of MAV’s unique Emerge Cultural Hubs program.

Established in 2009 with the support of Australia

Council for the Arts, VicHealth and Community Support

Fund, Emerge Cultural Hubs is a unique model for arts

development, programming and capacity building of

refugee and emerging CALD artists and communities in

regional and outer metro Victoria. To date the program

has seen the establishment of key partnerships with

local governments and the development of thriving

cultural networks in Shepparton and Dandenong, as

well as many very successful and exciting locally based

arts initiatives including Emerge on the Goulburn

Festival, Emerge at The Drum Festival (Dandenong),

Gurtji Narruk Social Cohesion Camp (Shepparton),

Ballarat Harmony Festival, Ubuzima Bushasha

Burundian film project, Acholi Womens’ Dance Project,

Ballarat African Association project, Destination:

Shepparton Film project and more.

Owing to the program’s huge success MAV has

been approached by local governments in Brimbank,

Wyndham and Swan Hill who are also keen to

support, celebrate and acknowledge the many newly

arrived cultures in their regions. The findings from

the consultations will be collated in the coming

months and will provide an important resource for

MAV and local governments to advocate for greater

representation of diversity in the arts in regional

Victoria and engagement with emerging communities.

EMERGE CULTURAL HUBS CONSULTATIONSMULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA WORKING REGIONALLY

Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Social Enterprise provides work

opportunities to over 550 artists yearly through an artist

booking scheme as an initiative for career progression

increasing economic activity within Victoria’s culturally

diverse arts.

Federation Square 10th BirthdayIt seems like only yesterday that Federation Square opened

its asymmetrical doors to the world, yet it has so quickly

become an integral part of Melbourne’s cultural landscape.

From community arts events to major sporting moments,

Federation Square has a lot to celebrate as it approaches its

TEN YEAR BIRTHDAY. Multicultural Arts Victoria has enjoyed

a long and colourful relationship with Federation Square and

we are very proud to be programming a fantastic, family day

bonanza. TEN THINGS FOR TEN YEAR OLDS TO DO FOR

TEN MINUTES will offer a multicultural smorgasbord of

interesting cultural activities aimed at children, their families

and friends.

Learn to do the Maori Haka, contribute to a beautiful Indian

Rangoli floor-art design, watch a Japanese puppet show, join

a Brazilian samba drum jam, have a race using a remote-

controlled robot toy… and so much more! Float around the

Square from one activity to the next and enjoy these ten

minute samples offered by MAV’s artists in celebration of an

iconic location in our vibrant and diverse city.

FedSquare Saturday 27 October

from approx. 10am to 2pm

Launch of Racism. It Stops With MeFederal Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke

launched the National Anti-Racism Strategy in Melbourne

on Friday 24 August alongside the Attorney-General Nicola

Roxon and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Senator

Kate Lundy. The Australian Human Rights Commission

utilised MAV’s Social Enterprise to arrange performers for

this high profile event which was attended by members of

key organisations, businesses, sporting personalities and the

Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Aunty Margaret Gardiner began

the proceedings with a Welcome to Country and she was

then joined on stage by the Jindi Worobak dance group and

Wadaiko Rindo, Japanese drumming group made sure the

launch finished with a bang!

School Holiday ProgramsIf you’re stuck for things to do in the September School

Holidays head to the Arts Centre Melbourne or Wangarratta

Performing Arts Centre website and check out their exciting

programs. Amongst a multitude of exciting activities you

could take the family along to one of the cultural workshops

booked through MAV’s Social Enterprise. Take a crash

course in cultural hip hop with Massive Hip Hop Choir or

learn a traditional South African chant with Valanga Khoza.

Workshops are designed to be a shared experience between

children and families so be prepared to sing and dance along.

MAV Social Enterprise: programs@multiculturalarts.com.au

SOCIAL ENTERPRISECareer progression & economic development for culturally diverse

artists & communities

Indian Rangoli floor-art design

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Following the success of the Fresh Mob, the first weekly

youth music mentoring program held in 2011, Fresh

Mob has evolved and expanded into 2012. Now held in

partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne, Fresh Mob2 runs

each Monday evening from 5-8pm at the Digital Learning

Hub with professional mentors Lotek (Rebel Hifi), Ryan

McRobb and peer mentor G-Storm (Fly Bz).

Young people from a variety of cultural backgrounds

including Burundi, Tanzania, Congo and Burma are

currently learning beat production and lyric writing under

the guidance of their music mentors. Being schooled as

young and emerging artists, they are developing original

songs as individual musicians and also working on tracks

collaboratively as a group. These songs are being recorded

in the professional Digital Learning Hub recording studio

and will become part of the Fresh Mob2 compilation CD

that will be launched with a live performance as part of

the Human Rights Day Celebrations 2012.

Every Monday until December 8

FREE

Arts Centre Melbourne

This year Human Rights Day is on Monday December 10

and Multicultural Arts Victoria’s youth stream has joined

forces with MAV Contemporary Cultures to celebrate this

day building a bridge between youth and contemporary

voices.

Between Friday 7 December and Monday 10 December a

group of street artists and performers will develop a series

of live art performances responding to discussions held in

the youth forum for human rights Rights at the Round

Table.

Righteous - Rights at the Round TableRights at the Round Table is a youth for youth voices

on human rights providing an equal platform and

‘round table’ to present ideas, stories and struggles for

discussion. A youth steering committee has been formed

and is currently in the development process, deciphering

topics and issues to present at the forum. This will be open

to the public.

Celebrations: 7-10 December

Rights at the Round Table: December 8

Human Rights Day: December 10

Arts Centre Melbourne

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FRESH MOB2Music mentoring program for youth

An exciting new partnership with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission will incorpo-rate the new ‘Anti-Hate Spray’ campaign into the Human Rights Day Celebrations in December 2012. A team of ‘Anti-hate Heroes’ will be out in the streets collecting human rights based stories and experiences from people and compiling this into a new artwork.

report hate and spray back atantihate.vic.gov.au

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY CELEBRATIONS 2012

MAVs Visible Mentoring is an innovative arts

mentorship program that has created valuable

networks for musicians in Victoria. Multicultural Arts

Victoria’s dynamic music mentorship program provides

pathways for artists from refugee and emerging CALD

communities into the mainstream music and arts

industries.

For over 6 years Visible Mentoring has connected 350

artists from diverse refugee and emerging culturally

diverse communities with some of Melbourne’s

most versatile and talented artists/ producers. Visible

provides a ‘step up’ in the community and music

industry for recent arrival and refugee communities.

Some of the musicians involved in Visible have

ultimately become strongly established performers

and now feature in groups including Dereb The

Ambassador, Diafrix, The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra,

Grilla Step and Kimbaya.

It has been exciting to link some of the artists and

mentors to the Melbourne Recital Centre program.

The Melbourne Recital Centre welcomed a whole

new sound and style to the Salon in four exciting and

unique concerts from June to September. Working in

partnership with MAV the idea behind the series was

to put the spotlight on the producers and mentors who

work behind the scenes with our Visible artists and

offer audiences a glimpse of the vibrant and diverse

music and culture they have brought with them to

Australia.

In 2012 Visible has linked 50 emerging artists from

diverse backgrounds, including Ethiopian, Ivorian,

Sudanese, Senegalese, Burundi, Cape Verdean,

Congolese, Rwandan, Tibetan, East Timorese and Pacific

Islander, with some of Melbourne’s most versatile

and talented producers. Each producer highlighted in

this series, Nicky Bomba, Jake Savona, Jason Heerah

and Airileke Ingram, jumped at the opportunity to

collaborate with their mentees and perform in such a

high caliber and acoustically brilliant venue.

All four producers have been very busy this year with

their individual projects. Jason Heerah and his band

Electric Empire have performed throughout France as

support act for Californian band Groundation, flown

to Kahzakstan twice to play at the Jazzystan Festival,

toured to Japan and recorded their new EP, Changin’.

Nicky Bomba and Bustamento have spent the year

touring their new album nationally, look out for

Intrepid Adventures to the Lost Riddim Islands. Arileke

performed in the Wantok Musik Sing Sing showcase at

the BT River of Music, a global summit of established,

award-winning and emerging artists from around the

world performing along the Thames as part of the

London Festival. Jake Savona is currently recording a

new album which will be out later this year and his

band Mista Savona will be touring with Prince Alla

when he comes to Australia in October.

We thank them all for their contributions to the Visible

Project!

VISIBLE MUSIC SERIESThe importance of mentorship

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AMES and Multicultural Arts Victoria announced the 12

winners of the Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize, at a

special exhibition opening in June with a total prize pool of

$15,000.

Minela Krupic, took out first prize of $5,000 for her etching

Kolekcija. Arriving from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997,

Minela says her artwork, a series of etchings and digital

prints, focuses on the experiences and changes of her

migration to Australia from war-torn Bosnia. Originally

from Vietnam, Minh Phan, won second prize for his oil on

plastic card and canvas artwork called Brimanger Diptych,

a piece about self–portrayal and identity. An oil on canvas

piece called Puzzeling In, Puzzeling Out by Sutueal Bekele

(Ethiopia) secured third prize. Sutueal has been living in

Australia since 1999 and says that whilst his composition

denotes a regular game designed to test one’s ingenuity, the

reality is it depicts a mindset. The newly arrived prize was

awarded to Nasrullah Qannadian from Afghanistan and his

glass engraving called Australia Day and Youth prize to 17

year old Ayel Akot for her oil on acrylic titled The past War

in Sudan.

There were more than 40 shortlisted entries displayed at

fortyfivedownstairs in the lead up to Refugee Week and as

part of Emerge Festival 2012. For the first year the exhibition

was also displayed at Walker Street Gallery in Dandenong.

Now in its third year, the Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize

2012 was supported by VicHealth, Parks Victoria and the

Sidney Myer Foundation.

First Prize Winner Minela Krupic- Kolekcija (Bosnia & Herzegovina)

HEARTLANDS REFUGEE FINE ART PRIZE

EMERGE FESTIVAL 2012 IN REVIEW

Ras Jahknow at Emerge Festival in Fitzroy

Jerusalem Gospel Rumba at Emerge Festival in Fitzroy

Seble Grima at Emerge Festival in FitzroyEmerge festival celebrated World Refugee Day with a

massive cultural celebration and street party at the Fitzroy

Town Hall on Sunday June 19 from 12-5pm. The festival

boasted three stages of nonstop music from all around the

globe. The event featured 35 music and dance performances

from 148 artists and 26 stalls of foods, crafts and cultural

items from 27 cultures including South Sudanese, Eritrean,

Ethiopian, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Ivory Coast,

Congolese, Ghanaian, Rwandan, Zimbabwean, Cape

Verdean, Indigenous Australia, Maori, Burundian, Tongan,

Nicaraguan, Sinhalese, Tibetan, Turkish, Iranian, Chilean,

Colombian, Chinese, Mozambiquan, Tamil and Lao. The

festival attracted a diverse mix of patrons who numbered

over 6000 throughout the day – young and old. This year

young emerging film makers were given an opportunity to

create through the new film component of the festival.

“How important it is to bring people together from different backgrounds to share their thoughts &

ideas with incredible topics on the screen”Khan Hazara

Young filmmaker part of Emerge Film Festival

Emerge Festival at Drum Theatre, as part of our Emerge

Cultural Hubs program, is a partnership between

Multicultural Arts Victoria and Drum Theatre Dandenong. The

festival has reached new heights this year, increasing artistic

and audience participation and opportunities, celebrating

and showcasing emerging and refugee artists from

multicultural communities in the City of Greater Dandenong.

A series of events led up to the festival, including the

Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize, and the Emerge Mini

Film Festival featuring films from the Burundi community,

Ubuzima Bushasha New Life and the Bamiyarra films from

the Hazaara community.

Three main performance areas enthralled audiences

throughout the afternoon with traditional and contemporary

performances from the Asia Pacific, Afghanistan, Middle East

to Africa. In total Emerge Festival at Drum Theatre activated

12 different performance sites, over 200 performers,

30 volunteers, 15 stallholders, and over 1800 audience

members, and is becoming the highlight on the cultural

calendar in the City of greater Dandenong.

Emerge Festival 2012 Main Event Emerge Festival at Drum Theatre

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The 7arakat Project The 7arakat Project and Multicultural Arts Victoria

are proud to announce The 7arakat Conference. The

conference is supported by MAV, the Centre for Creative

Arts at La Trobe University, the Diversity in Australian

Theatre Alliance (DATA), Australians for Palestine (AFP),

and by the Australian Government through the Council for

Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR).

The conference will bring together theatre-makers,

scholars, creative producers and community development

workers to examine various issues of exclusion within

the sector of performing arts and the theatre’s role in

providing networks of participation and social inclusion.

The conference will feature an exciting list of speakers

including; Professor Michael Balfour (Chair of Applied

Theatre, Griffith University), Dr. Nicholas Rowe (Auckland

University), Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour (Director of Al

Rowwad Theatre, Palestine), and Iman Aoun (Artistic

Director of Ashtar Theatre, Palestine), among others.

The 7arakat Conference2 & 3 November 2012

La Trobe University Franklin Street campus

For More Info: www.7arakat.com.au

SankofaDirected by Appiah Annan, Asanti Dance Theatre will

present this new Afro-contemporary work in December

this year supported by MAV. An Adinkra symbol from the

ancient Ghanaian beliefs depicted by a bird reaching back

towards its tail, Sankofa teaches us that before one moves

forward one must look back to the past.

Malthouse - 14 & 15 DecemberDrum Theatre Dandenong - 20 December

IntertwinedStories on the wall. A collaboration between the

Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW), Multicultural Arts

Victoria and City of Port Phillip that will bring together

artists from refugee backgrounds with professional

tapestry artists to learn about using this medium to create

deeply evocative new works. The artists will draw from

personal narratives, cultural perspectives and artistic skills

to create works that subtly address questions of memory

and loss, and hopes and dreams. The project will engage

eight artists from refugee communities in Victoria along

with two artist-weavers from ATW.

Ubuzima BushashaMeaning New Life in Kirundi is a joint project between

Multicultural Arts of Victoria and seven storytellers from

the Burundian community of Melbourne, mentored

by professional filmmakers and indigenous artists

Des Connellan and Margaret Harvey from Brown Cab

Productions. Seven short films were made, that creatively

explored and shared their stories and culture from their

own perspective. For almost 12 months the participants,

Hilary, Emmanuel, Ezechiel, Belthrand, Fablice, Fani,

and Godefred, met weekly and journeyed through the

process of digital storytelling, from the creation of an

initial concept to presenting a completed story to a wider

audience at several screenings. Ubuzima Bushasha was

coordinated by Multicultural Arts Victoria.

Nik Buttigieg in residencyFrom August and until November, emerging documentary

photographer Nik Buttigieg will be in residency at MAV

developing his major folio Fathers a portrait series of

migrant fathers. If you are a father interested in taking

part of these series please write to

development@multiculturalarts.com.au

Nik has travelled extensively throughout Asia, Europe and

Africa. Nik is currently studying at Photography Studies

College in Melbourne.

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Gerobaks arrive from IndonesiaPhoto by Nik Buttigieg

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Melaka Art & PerformanceFestival

grobak Padi Performance

Fresh Mob 2- Music YouthMentorship Program

The 7akarat Conference

Human Rights Day Celebrations 2012

Federation Square 10th Birthday Celebration

Suzuki Night Market Queen Victoria Market Every Wednesday from14 Nov 2012 -27 Feb 20135pm

Federation Square

Emerge in Brimbank

Fri Nov 2 & Sat Nov 3

Sun Nov 18, 12pm

Thu Sept 27, 7.30pm

Thu Sept 27 - Sun Oct 7Wed- Sat 8pm, Sun 5.30pm

Fri Sept 21- Sun Sep 23

Latrobe University FranklinStreet Campus

Errington Community Centre

Living Cultures of China Arts Centre Melbourne

Arts Centre Melbourne Fri Dec 7- Mon Dec 10

Sankofa Malthouse TheatreDrum Theatre Dandenong

Fri Dec 14 & Sat Dec 15Thu Dec 20

Remastered Myths

Nkumba Rumba

Arts Centre Melbourne Fri Nov 23, Fri Dec 21,Wed Jan 18 & Wed Feb 15 2013

Sat Oct 27, 10am - 2pm

forty�vedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne

Melaka, Malaysia

Foxtel Festival Hub Wed Oct 17- Sun Oct 21,9.15pm

The Hub @ Docklands Sun Oct 21, 2.30pm

Nkumba Rumba Waterfront City, Docklands Sun 16 Dec, 2.30pm

Arts Centre Melbourne Every Monday until Nov 125pm