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music dance theatre visual arts film new media MAVfolio multicultural arts victoria guide to the arts 68 INDONESIA ROCKS with Kua Etnika – P3 Inside: spirit – Seniors Week Multicultural P.2 Editorial Know No Cure – Voodoo Vaudeville at Concert – Sambala 2007: Sending the Melbourne Fringe Festival – Indonesia Rocks – P.3 Music message Bliss N Eso – Jali Buba & Diyaa P.7 Word – Hidden Treasure – The Looloo Tour P.5 Dance – Are You Guys Rap Australian Poetry Centre – Angela Dancers? – E1 at Biwako Biannale Costi: Honey and Salt P.4 Cultural Events – Festival New Zealand – Celebrate the Ukrainian P.6 Theatre – in other words – P.8 CONNECT – Visible Volume 2 MAV folio August - October 2007 Voodoo Vaudeville Emerge festival Emerge Festival Milicia Ilic Emerge festival Emerge Festival Theo Sidiropoulos memorial Dya Singh Voodoo Vaudeville Multicultural Arts Victoria continues to work locally, nationally and celebrated our unique talented local and national artists. MAV presented two internationally supporting and presenting our extraordinary artists. amazing talents from Kulcha in WA through the support of kultour – Milicia Ilic and Desert Child along side local artists Meltemi and Dya Singh. Multicultural Arts Victoria has worked in partnership with the Arts Centre in 2007 to further develop the hugely successful MIX IT UP program. MIX IT UP On an International level: is an inspiring cultural diversity arts initiative for Victorian artists and audiences. The program recommenced in July this year with So Frenchy So Congratulations go to highly accomplished and established Victorian artist Tony Chic, a sell out concert in Hamer Hall, followed by the remarkable Visible Yap and his company the Tony Yap Company, who were invited to the concert highlighting the amazing talents of our local indigenous and refugee Singapore Arts Mart to showcase their work - Evocation of a Lost Boy. The artists. Asian Arts Mart, a biennial event, was held in June at the Esplanade Singapore and provided a valuable platform for exchange, cooperation and networking editorial Multicultural Arts Victoria’s important work with new and emerging within the arts industry of Asia and the wider region. MAV and the Company’s communities has continued through our Emerge Cultural Network program. attendance at the Asian Arts Mart was made possible through the generous Emerge allows for access and participation of our disadvantaged communities support of Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts. Tony is now and artists in the cultural life of Victoria. The Emerge Festival is one of the key heading to Cambodia to work with Amrita Company. Musicians Madeleine cultural platforms for this work and is coordinated by Anita Larkin and Flynn and Tim Humphrey are also traveling to Singapore to work with supported by the MAV team of volunteers and staff. Necessary Stage, all outcomes of connections made at the Asian Arts Mart. Tony Yap Company will be presenting E1 as part of the Biwako Festival in This year Emerge Festival officially launched the Victorian Refugee week and Japan, later in the year, through the support of MAV and kultour. gave a voice, expression and a face to the many emerging refugee artists and communities from Melbourne. Communities represented included the Horn of On a national level: Africa, Afghanistan, Iran and Kurdistan. The Fitzroy Town Hall and Napier Street were overflowing with people supporting this important festival. MAV would like to thank kultour and the Australia Council for the support that “The mood was one of genuine celebration, embodying the spirit of this enabled the touring of Jali Buba Kuyateh and his band Diyaa Looloo festival as it acknowledged - in a very tangible way - the contribution of throughout Australia, which began in July and will finish in Adelaide in refugee communities to our cultural life.” The Age Jessica Nicholas September. Australian audiences have been able to experience The Carriers - Local Terrain, an ongoing project by artist Van Thanh Rudd dedicated to Emerge Cultural Network has also led to the successful establishment of exposing contemporary, culturally diverse art beyond the gallery scene to new Visible. The Visible Project is a music mentorship program which has given a audiences in public spaces. Van Rudd teams up with local culturally diverse kick start to many newly arrived African musicians by teaming them up with artists in each destination to carry art work, together, onto the streets, parks, established professional artists and providing opportunities for recording and trains, buses and trams. performing. Visible outcomes are showcased at the annual Emerge Festival and as part of MIX IT UP at the Visible concert at Hamer Hall. The outcomes of MAV has also worked with Hirano productions to present Yumi Umiumare, the work have been recorded on a CD, Visible Vol 2, which was launched at DasShoku Hora at the Studio in the Opera House, Sydney. MAV thanks Jane the Visible concert at the Arts Centre. Carew Reid and Miranda Jacques for their hard work on making these tours so successful. The full details of all touring schedules are online: The Emerge Festival this year incorporated two new initiatives: a theatre piece www.multiculturalart.com.au. Voodoo Vaudeville and an ABC Concert -Two sides of the Island. Voodoo Vaudeville was a fantastic new theatre initiative that wove a tale of cultures MAV continues to work closely with our communities on cultural development new and old, lost and found, taken and given back. With a bit romance, a lot projects. A significant cultural workshop and exhibition program that was held of drama, and a good dose of comedy this inspiring and confronting piece recently is the Pysanka Easter Egg project which received an extraordinary featured members of Synodos Theatre and Diafrix, Monkey Brigade, Nubian response from the wider community. MAV congratulates the artists, Ukrainian Knights, b-boy Milkyas Sereche and actor Sharief Serfonteyn. For those of you community and coordinator Natalia Moravski on this outstanding project. MAV who missed it or want to see it again, it will be produced for the Fringe thanks everyone who has contributed to the many and varied projects and the Festival on 5 October. exciting development of multicultural arts in Victoria to date. MAV also worked collaboratively in partnership with Paul Petran from ABC Radio Jill Morgan Executive Officer National in programming and presenting a very special Music Deli concert which MAV folio Page2 Kua Etnika the Arts Centre in association with Multicultural Arts Victoria presents as part of MIX IT UP INDONESIA ROCKS with Kua Etnika Sun 12 Aug, 5pm the Arts Centre, Fairfax Studio Balinese, Javanese, Kalimantan, jazz, reggae and many other influences come together in a concert by Indonesia’s most popular gamelan (ensemble), Kua Etnika. Described as a “big band” sound, atmospheric Indonesian string, wind and percussion instruments and Jali Buba Kuyateh Bliss n Eso the pulsating bonang (a collection of tuned deep gongs) will be infused with guitars, violins and keyboards creating intensely complex rhythms. The 13 piece gamelan, featuring front man Djaduk Ferianto, will fill you with vivid imagery of far off lands as they fuse traditional and contemporary Indonesian sounds into ethereal soundscapes. Music FREE ACTIVITIES FROM 3PM Get to the show early for cultural displays and showcase performances. BOOK NOW! theartscentre.net.au, 1300 136 166, the Arts Centre Box Office or Ticketmaster outlets Tickets: $30 - $55 Jali Buba Programmed with Brisbane Powerhouse. & Diyaa Looloo Tour A kultour event Our Backyard featuring Produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Playing Australia BLISS N ESO Rarely do you see such a complete musician as Jali Buba Kuyateh. Jali was born in The Gambia. Coming from one of Senegambia’s most famous griot (hereditary Sun 16 Sept, 1 – 5pm musician) family, he started his career as a musician at the age of five. A master the Arts Centre, Playhouse and surrounding foyers of traditional kora tunes, Jali joins forces with 3 highly polished musicians and FREE EVENT dancers to form the band Diyaa Looloo. Diyaa Looloo includes traditional West Get set for a full on day with DJs, hip hop, aerosol art, beats, emcee African kora, vocals, percussion, dance combined with Western influences, giving and breakdance competitions, and a headline performance by hip the audience an insight into Mandinka tradition and an opportunity to see Griot hop favourites Bliss n Eso. The group has been hailed as having one traditions that are not often witnessed in Western culture. of the tightest live shows in the country with their combination of The group is currently touring Australia, has just completed the regional WA leg impromptu free styling, dynamic beat boxing and cutting edge and will continue through to early September. The show will be seen at arts and turntablism. entertainment centres in Katherine, Mackay, Brisbane, Lismore, Canberra and Fresh from touring with some of the biggest international acts to hit Adelaide, as well as the Darwin Festival. our shores, including Xzibit, Cypress Hill, Naughty by Nature, Jurassic For more information on dates and venues www.multiculturalarts.com.au 5 and The Roots, this will be a performance not be to missed. With thumping beats and raw rhymes Our Backyard will be a non-stop music festival of Melbourne’s diverse music scene. MAV folio Page3 Festival New Zealand Cultural Sat 1 Sept, Federation Square 9am-12pm - activities on the Yarra River 12pm-5pm - concert on Main Stage Te Roopu Ataawhai Inc will be show casing New Zealand culture at Festival Events New Zealand 2007. As part of the celebrations, traditional Polynesian Outrigger Canoes known as Waka Ama will be exhibited on the Yarra River by Polynesian youth aged between 12 and 19 years of age. The exhibition will be followed by races between members of the Footscray and Patterson Lakes Outrigger Clubs.