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‘We are in the 11th hour and urgently need to take global climate action’, said Gillian Reffell (bottom left) at Newtown station in an action organised by the Buddhist Centre as part of a Global multifaith day of action on March 11. Photo: Allison Forrest Faith communities ‘sound the alarm’ for climate justice

ENVIRONMENT spending to be on low carbon jobs, and for finance to be provided to the UN Green MIRIAM PEPPER Climate Fund for developing countries. The Moderator of the Uniting FAITH communities in South Sydney Church in NSW and the ACT, the and -wide “sounded the Rev. Simon Hansford, said: alarm” on March 11 for climate justice. “The UN Climate Change Conference One hundred and thirty-five events – in November is another opportunity some making a noise, some holding a for Australia to do the right thing. Regular customer, Roy, at the MKR Restaurant and Café on Redfern Street. ‘The food is awesome!’ Roy says. ‘The café is neat and clean, silence in noisy places – took place across “We are on a path to food shortages and the service is excellent.’ Photo: Andrew Collis Australia as part of a global multifaith and ecosystem collapse as early as 2030 and day of action on the climate involving as a leading coal and gas exporter, Australia faith communities in 43 countries. is a major global contributor to emissions. “Our Australian communities Internet café with Indian cuisine These communities from diverse religious include some of the most vulnerable traditions are alarmed at the yawning gap people who, we know, will be LOCALS with reference to the beef vindaloo between what is required to limit global disproportionately affected. and goat curry. “Some things are temperature rise and actual commitments “There are environmental, scientific ALLISON FORREST traditional, though,” he adds. by governments and financial institutions. and economic solutions and we are “The meat is cooked on the bone.” In a “Sacred People, Sacred Earth” urging those in power to be courageous. REDFERN: Amid rapid change on Established in 2011, the casual mood statement, they released a set of powerful Appropriate action taken now will Redfern Street, it’s nice to know that of MKR is perfect for an afternoon demands for world leaders to address the encourage our Pacific neighbours, some things remain. Bucking the trend or evening with friends. The large injustice and impacts that the climate crisis urge others to take further action toward more small bars and gourmet restaurant table and high-backed cane is inflicting on communities worldwide. and have hopeful consequences for coffee shops, MKR (My Kitchen Rules) chairs are ideal for meetings – and the The statement calls on governments the world in which we live.” serves up fish and chips, burgers, veggie big-screen TVs will soon be functional and banks to immediately end their Actions in inner Sydney on March 11 rolls and a variety of Indian dishes, all again. Computer terminals are set up support for new fossil fuel infrastructure included a demonstration and meditation cooked according to family recipes. The for internet browsing, with fax, print, and tropical deforestation, commit to outside NSW Parliament House; a gathering daal is delicious, the butter chicken and photocopying and scanning facilities too. universal access to clean and affordable of “Contemplative Rebels” in Hyde Park; veggie curry options very popular. The décor is welcoming, multicultural. energy, enact policies creating green jobs a bagpipe parade from the mall There’s a large print of Charlie Chaplin and a just transition for impacted workers to Pitt Street Uniting Church; a meditation Badi, who moved to Australia from on the wall, with posters and flyers and communities, respect the rights of at Newtown station; actions at St Vincent’s Bangladesh 16 years ago, works at MKR promoting arts and sports of all kinds. first nations peoples, secure policies Catholic Church Redfern, Christ Church St most days. Diners are greeted with a smile At the counter there is a donation box “for and funding supporting those forced to Laurence and more. Further afield there and the service is prompt and friendly. the vulnerable and destitute communities”. migrate due to climate impacts, and more. were vigils and demonstrations outside the Badi prepares all menu items, ensuring MKR is open daily, 10am to 10pm and Australian signatories call on the offices of Prime Minister Scott Morrison the chips are crisp and hot, the mango offers eat-in and takeaway service. Australian government to commit and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, as well lassis fresh and cold. The pita bread Home delivery via DoorDash is also to higher greenhouse gas emissions as other politicians across Australia. S is especially good – soft and warm. an option. S reduction targets ahead of the United Badi explains that some dishes are Nations Climate Change Conference The demands and actions were coordinated globally adapted for western tastes. “Locals MKR Restaurant and Café later this year that are in line with a net by the GreenFaith International Network, and in seem to prefer their meals not so 127 Redfern Street zero target by 2030. Instead of a “gas-led Australia by multifaith organisation Australian sweet as Indian families,” he says, Phone: 9698 9334 recovery”, they want post-Covid recovery Religious Response to Climate Change.

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IN the crucible of Australia’s Black Summer Danielle Celermajer pondered the personal and broader implications of the climate catastrophe. Her book Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future offers new language and concepts to help us tackle it. Danielle explains the book’s origins, development and call to action. Being visible and vocal about inclusion, services required, and the realities of elder abuse was important said panellists in a recent Mardi Gras 2021 webinar. Photo: Supplied “In the fires of December 2019, we evacuated all our ‘domestic Academic and author Danielle Celermajer launched her new book in February. It offers animals’ including our rescued fresh insights into how people need to live pigs, Jimmy and Katy. Tragically, and interact in a world hurtling towards climate catastrophe. Webinar helps safeguard Katy and Jimmy were evacuated Image: Cover courtesy Penguin Random House to a place that itself become the fire zone. Katy was killed. justice and Indigenous justice Jimmy survived, but was deeply cannot be separated. Rainbow elders from abuse traumatised and grieving the “Everyone needs to be in death of his sister. I started to action; in their own sphere write about the grief I was seeing. (workplace, school, community) HUMAN AFFAIRS homes via its Out and About Paul van Reyk (68), What drew attention to this story and then in their role as citizens. visitation service for older Inclusivity Working Group of was the poignancy and starkness Our political representatives need MARJORIE LEWIS-JONES LGBTQIA+ people. the Seniors’ Rights Centre, said of his grief and the reality that to know that we cannot continue “We’ve definitely seen people the 10 questions to ask an aged we humans were not the only to build infrastructures and THERE’S a free webinar, recorded in aged care facilities where all care provider on the Compass ones experiencing and trying to economies that are destroying as part of Mardi Gras 2021, for the clothes they’ve been given website helps people assess a navigate this enormous loss. the conditions of life. None of us people concerned about Rainbow are of the gender they were service’s Rainbow friendliness. “From this initial story, I can solve this individually, but community elder abuse. assigned at birth and not the “Just take it and give it to then realised that I needed to we all have a responsibility to gender they’ve lived their life in.” them to answer,” he said. address the larger background engage in collective action for Moderated by Julie McCrossin Ball was devastated when Panellists acknowledged that problem – that beings, other than radical change. Everyone reading AM (66) and sponsored by Elder “an older gay man’s child because most non-metropolitan humans, occur to us as resource this can join an organisation, Abuse Action Australia (EAAA) had threatened to cut off settings don’t have specialist or material for our use, whereas organise with their family and and LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, contact if he chose to be organisations for the Rainbow they too are the centres of their friends and community and prominent community members visited by Out and About.” community it’s crucial to own experience. As we in the tell our federal government (including 78ers) shared how McCrossin said given encourage generalist organisations west are beginning to appreciate, that acting in the interest of the they protect themselves and how some “real difficulties in the to get the Tick, and for all to be humans are deeply entangled fossil fuel industry is not in the mainstream service providers appropriateness of services and visible and vocal about inclusion, with other beings. Indigenous interest of Australian citizens. were often ignorant of LGBTQIA+ in safety, quality and kindness” services required, and the peoples have long understood We need to make clear that identity-related abuse which the Rainbow Tick is useful. realities of elder abuse. It’s also this, and their philosophies our collective survival is not perpetuates barriers to suitable Jude Munro (69), Chair of the important to write your life story and lifeways recognise that a partisan issue.” S care, but they also pointed Victorian Pride Centre, agreed to ensure carers would know and agency and sentience are not people to useful resources the Tick “is a recognition of the acknowledge you’d had a “big life” the sole preserve of humans. In See the full Q&A with Danielle Celermajer and LGBTQIA+-friendly aged rights and the lives of people and see you as a whole person this regard, the destruction of at southsydneyherald.com.au/. care service providers. in the LGBTQIA+ community worthy of respect and sensitive environments and the destruction Summertime: Reflections on a Joe Ball (40), Switchboard and it means staff get trained treatment. S of Indigenous peoples have Vanishing Future Victoria CEO, said it had in that – in what our lives are gone hand in hand. 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Opera for good that’s accessible for all

MUSIC disrupt these cycles in the world before Covid-19 forced widespread around us. arts cancellations – and we’ve MENILA MOINEAUX re-emerged with a full season The Cooperative is a young planned for 2021. In February DRAWN from the Greek opera company/social justice this year, we performed Holst’s mythology of the Atreidae and project, which is currently beautiful chamber opera Sāvitrī based upon Euripides’ account, grateful to call South Sydney at Observatory Hill Park, and at Iphigénie en Tauride premiered Uniting Church home. Founded present we’re performing Gluck’s late in Christoph Willibald in 2019 with a mission to create haunting Orfeo ed Euridice on the Gluck’s career, in Paris, 1779. opera to inspire social change, rooftop of the Sydney Harbour It explores the stories of The Cooperative believes YHA. Iphigénie, to be staged in Iphigenia and Orestes, their lives passionately in increasing opera’s late April 2021, marks our fourth Sāvitrī, 2021. Photo: Simon Ross and Antoine Veling clouded by the shadows of their accessibility, through pay-as-you- venture, and one we’re excited to parents, and forever altered by feel entry and by taking the art embark upon with a wonderful underrepresented elsewhere in the devastation of the past. Yet form out of a traditional context cast of young artists. opera, and affirm that opera needs Menila Moineaux is a Sydney-based soprano this opera isn’t just the story and into the world around us. The Cooperative is dedicated to to benefit its wider society – as and founder of The Cooperative. More of one family as it invites us to Our inaugural production of providing performance experience such, all profits are donated to information about both The Cooperative, consider the cyclical nature of Menotti’s The Consul premiered and opportunities for young and charities thematically connected and Iphigénie en Tauride, can be found violence, and asks how we may in late February 2020 – two weeks emerging artists, especially those to the work performed. S at www.thecooperativeopera.org 4 NEWS APRIL 2021 TANYA PLIBERSEK MP Federal Member for Sydney Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney partner to enhance research capacity

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It is expected that between 100,000 to 150,000 CANCER Council NSW and Australians will lose their jobs due to Scott the University of Sydney have announced a joint venture Morrison and Josh Frydenberg axing JobKeeper to create the Daffodil Centre, for more than one million workers. combining the strengths of the two institutions to build a Labor has said all along that JobKeeper and globally leading research centre other support should be tailored to the economic on cancer control and policy. conditions. Officially opened on March 30 by the NSW Minister for Health Small businesses and workers have been warning and Medical Research, the Hon. Launching the Daffodil Centre (L-R): Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health the Morrison Government for months that cutting Brad Hazzard MP, the Daffodil Professor Robyn Ward; Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson; Cancer Council NSW Chair Mark Philips; Centre’s priority will be to Minister Brad Hazzard; Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Stephen Garton; Cancer Council NSW JobKeeper will see jobs go, but those pleas have provide timely and relevant CEO Jeff Mitchell; at the University of Sydney. Photo: Nicola Bailey fallen on deaf ears. evidence to state, national and international policy makers to NSW, Australia and globally. Professor Stephen Garton said Nobody is saying that JobKeeper should go on inform decisions in cancer control. Inaugural director of the the partnership has the potential The Daffodil Centre will help Daffodil Centre, Professor Karen to dramatically accelerate cancer forever, but it should be tailored and targeted to clarify and quantify the best, Canfell says that the research research and the evidence-base to what’s actually happening in industries and evidence-based investments in opportunities presented by behind prevention, treatment communities. all aspects of cancer control. the centre will help reduce the and care: “The Centre brings Minister Hazzard said the impact of cancer in Australia. together the brightest minds, Daffodil Centre will play a key role “The Daffodil Centre partnership state-of-the-art resources and In Sydney, cutting JobKeeper means 9,290 in enhancing cancer research. represents a milestone in valuable community connections businesses, employing 28,591 people are losing “This partnership presents an Australian cancer research. to strengthen NSW and $13.8 million per week between them. exciting opportunity for ongoing By bringing together researchers Australia’s position as a leader collaborative, multidisciplinary from both partner organisations in cancer research,” he said. We still haven’t seen a plan from the Government research to reduce the impact we will enhance the research Professor Robyn Ward, Pro of cancer through primary capacity and expertise of both Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the about how they will create good, secure, well paid prevention, screening, early institutions and broaden impact. University’s Faculty of Medicine jobs. detection, cancer treatment, This means our research will be and Health concluded: “This is care and survivorship. more efficiently and more widely an extraordinary opportunity COVID-19 VACCINATIONS “With one in two people in translated into life-saving cancer to bring together the expertise NSW diagnosed with some type of control policies and programs. of two organisations who are Phase 1B of the vaccination rollout is now cancer in their lifetime, the Daffodil “Combining the university’s committed to improving cancer Centre will play an important biomedical, public health and control and possibly one day a underway. People who are eligible for the vaccine role in working towards a cancer behavioural research expertise cancer‑free future.” S under phase 1B are: free future,” Mr Hazzard said. with our well-established The increased research capacity capability in epidemiology and • Elderly people aged 70 and over resulting from the partnership our connection to community as will mean new findings and the state’s largest cancer charity • Healthcare workers currently employed and discoveries will be more quickly will also enable us to address not included in Phase 1a and efficiently translated into existing inequities and to pivot tangible policy change, such as rapidly in response to urgent and Authorised by Vice-Chancellor and • Household contacts of quarantine and border better prevention, early detection emergent public health issues.” Principal Prof. Stephen Garton. workers and care strategies – ultimately University of Sydney Vice- Enquiries: 9351 2000 saving many more lives across Chancellor and Principal [email protected] • Critical and high-risk workers who are currently employed

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Finding herself unable to care aged 55 years and over Vale Pruny adequately for her children, Pruny had them adopted out • Adults with an underlying medical condition LOCALS to good families rather than or significant disability have them taken by DOCS. ESMEY HERSCOVITCH A high point for her and several other Aboriginal people was the It is anticipated that all approved COVID-19 REDFERN: On Friday March 12, trip to Rome for the canonisation vaccination clinics will be listed on Healthdirect’s many of the Redfern community of St Mary MacKillop. It was together with her family a memorable and satisfying National Health Services Directory (NHSD), with gathered to farewell Linda Pitt/ experience – the flight, the contact details and information about online Kemp known to her family and sightseeing in Rome, the ceremony booking services (if available). friends as Pruny. The celebration of canonisation, not to mention took place at St Vincent’s the unexpected meeting with If you believe you are eligible for this phase and Church, and was presided Kevin Rudd in the street! over by Father John Ford. Pruny died in St Vincent’s require help in locating a suitable clinic, you Linda Pitt/Kemp ‘Pruny’ with the then Governor Palliative Care unit, with her of Marie Bashir at the formal should contact the National Coronavirus Helpline Born in Moree in 1952, Pruny’s opening of Jarjum College on April 13, 2013. four children by her side. life was full of challenges and Photo: Supplied Her life was dedicated to on 1800 020 080. struggles. Her birth at Moree helping others and she spent Hospital in the segregated section circumstances of her life as many years caring for others in was the beginning of those comparable to life as depicted in home care, but also cared for her challenges. She was one of four the movie Lousy Little Sixpence. own people whenever someone TANYA PLIBERSEK MP children, having three brothers. Later on, finding herself was in need. She is widely remembered for her generosity Federal Member for Sydney Following the death of her homeless in Redfern, she met up mother, Pruny, then aged two, with her brother who was living and care of others – so her funeral 1A Great Buckingham St, Redfern NSW 2016 was adopted by her aunt. They in the Catholic presbytery (now celebration brought people from T: 9379 0700 E: [email protected] lived on the Aboriginal Mission Jarjum College) with Father near and far to share memories. where she attended the primary Ted Kennedy and Mum Shirl. Pruny’s body was taken school, after which she went He invited her to join him, the following Monday to Moree High School until which she did. This proved to for burial at Moree. she was 16. She described the be a happy period in her life. Vale Pruny. S APRIL 2021 COMMENT & OPINION 5

Building trust and empathy with the ‘other’

FAITH students danced on a rickety boat singing one of the Seder ZALMAN KASTEL songs: “and it is this (divine promise) that has stood by our ONE recent evening I got fathers and by us, because it a lift home with a Chinese is not just one (enemy) who Australian dentist. As we drove, stood against us to annihilate I thought about the report that us, but, in every generation … one in three people of Chinese and the Holy One Blessed Be heritage in Australia had been He saves us from their hands”. subjected to mistreatment such But I know that Jews are not as being called names. My the only group subjected to companion told me he had an bigotry. One of the most potent unpleasant experience himself elements to counter racism is on a shopping centre escalator. when we feel empathy with He was walking quickly up the “other”. Yet, experts tell us the escalator in the early days that “we have more empathy of Covid but was stopped by a for those we see as (being) hostile looking man who told like us” and “empathy leads cartoon: norrie mAy-welby him to stop! to helping only in cases when the person in need is a member I cannot know for certain of the in‐group”. This sounds what motivated the man on like a catch- 22, empathy is the escalator to order my key to countering prejudice, Help the Bower aid jobless to rebuild companion to stop. It is likely yet empathy is least likely that the Chinese appearance of in cross-cultural situations, EDITORIAL Those who lose their jobs there to help out, delivering the dentist might have alarmed. unless of course one can come should be able to shift to emergency supplies, including Fear of the other is often the way to see “them” as one of “us”. SSH JobSeeker – but this has tents, tarps and sleeping bags. prejudice and generalisations Once we identify with the been reduced from its peak of It continues to help families in are expressed. In fact, as an other, our fear should decrease, THE federal government’s $1,115.70 to $620.80 a fortnight. these areas as they rebuild their Australian of Jewish heritage and trust should increase. Trust JobKeeper scheme ended on Last year, the Bower homes through the provision acknowledging fear and bigotry is a combination of a choice March 28. And by its own Reuse and Repair Centre in of furniture and other items. was an important part of my to put our faith in others and estimates, between 100,000 and Marrickville expanded its Closer to home, the Bower Passover celebration on March a response to information 150,000 JobKeeper recipients will humanitarian programs in assists locals. One example of this 27 when we commemorated available to us. I certainly felt lose their jobs in coming weeks. response to the pressure the was when it distributed clothing the exodus of the Israelites little trust in my neighbours pandemic was placing on and essentials to help members of from Egyptian slavery. The not buying up all the pasta and In Greater Sydney alone, people’s lives, and the extra the homeless community who’d slavery was the consequence toilet paper in the supermarket that translates to 22,000 – calls for help it was receiving. established a “tent city” and of the Pharaoh designating the in early Covid days because I 33,000 people. It had already been communal kitchen in Hebrew as a threat to Egypt. was shocked and unsettled by That’s a large number of running House to Home to in response to a lack of housing Passover is a time for the sight of the empty shelves. individuals facing “the JobKeeper support victims of domestic options and government support. gratitude and memory about Ensuring everyone has what cliff” – and for many forced into violence and asylum seekers. With JobKeeper ending, the the Jewish experience, but also they need certainly helps with unemployment, falling off a cliff Based on that experience, it Bower needs your donation to calls Jews to stand against trust. Yet, there is mistrust that may well be what it feels like. launched HomeKeeper to provide ensure its HomeKeeper program prejudice against others as is not based in fact. The dentist Nationally, the end of the free or heavily subsidised can continue to support those we remember that we were has not recently arrived from wage subsidy scheme is set to household items for people doing experiencing hardship. mistreated as strangers in Egypt. Wuhan, he lives in Sydney and cause the biggest economic it tough through the loss of their Whether people need a fridge, One highlight of Jewish his family is from Hong Kong. S shock since the pandemic job, income or other hardship. a washing machine, a wardrobe, memory on Passover is singing itself. Sectors hit hardest by job When bushfires devastated crockery or a bike for transport my maternal grandfather’s song. Rabbi Zalman Kastel AM is National losses will be those still dealing the South Coast in the summer they can choose what they need on The song recalls his journey Director of Together for Humanity, with pandemic disruptions of 2019-20, and residents lost the strength of your generosity. S from Vladivostok during World which fosters interfaith and including tourism, hospitality, their homes and everything War II. He told us how he and intercultural understanding and arts and entertainment. they owned, the Bower was To donate go to: bit.ly/3mj8L89 hundreds of other Yeshiva www.togetherforhumanity.org.au

Online threats to teens closer to home

HUMAN AFFAIRS abuse (15 per cent) and having in the School of Science at things said online that damaged Edith Cowan University, AMY CHENG their reputation (15 per cent). said teenagers don’t have the Dr Luci Pangrazio, Alfred capacity to make judgements SOME of the greatest online Deakin Postdoctoral Research about safety because they don’t dangers to teenagers come Fellow at Deakin University, have that life experience. from their peers, a recent conducts research on young “They believe what they see, report has revealed. people’s digital worlds. they want to trust other people “We tend to think about and, in many cases, they’re The report from the eSafety risks and harm as if it’s out evolving physically, emotionally, Children and teens are in close contact with the world and its dangers – so assisting them to use these Commissioner surveyed in the world, but often a lot sexually and looking for platforms critically and safely is vital. Photo: Supplied 627 teenagers aged 12-17 of the challenges that young opportunities to explore their in September 2020. people face are things far character as they’re evolving, and said it is important to not “So, to say ‘no, don’t use it’ It found that, out of those closer to home,” she said. they’ll often take risks,” he said. undervalue the benefits of or ‘it’s terribly dangerous’, in surveyed, 30 per cent said being “It’s not just leaving them on “On the internet, you are social media to young people. a way, is reckless because it contacted by a stranger was their their own [online]. I think too milliseconds if not microseconds “It is a very positive thing is going to be their future. top negative experience. However, often we just assume that they’re away from the world. for them and, when it works “And not being a part of it is almost one third, or 30 per cent, going to be all right, we’ll just “And that exposes you to a well and when it’s respectful likely to be just as debilitating said that their negative online make them aware of the stranger broad range of dangers where with appropriate boundaries, for a school child now as being experience related to bullying that danger and that’s the end of that, individually you have access it is a significant part of their grounded would’ve been for us occurred at school. This included but it’s far more complicated.” to every conceivable form social bonding, and it is every as children.” S being deliberately excluded from Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate of inappropriate content of bit as important as in our events or social groups (16 per Professor and Associate Dean different kinds of harm.” childhoods of going to the park See esafety.gov.au for online cent), receiving online threats or of Computing and Security Professor Haskell-Dowland with your friends,” he said. safety resources. 6 The Review – April 2021 Arts & Culture in The Review Your Neighbourhood ‘Conversations with Margaret Preston’

EXHIBITIONS

Anna North

ZETLAND: In its second major show of the year, Sullivan+Strumpf presents the latest offerings from one of Australia’s most exciting young Indigenous artists, Tony Albert, in a symbolic collaboration with one of the country’s leading early 20th century modernists, Margaret Preston.

Margaret Preston believed that the richness and sophistication of Indigenous Australian iconography should be incorporated into a national visual language that would set Australia apart. She was one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use the unique designs and motifs and natural- pigment colour schemes of local Aboriginal artists in her work. Albert concedes Preston’s intentions were sound however he is aware that her artistic and commercial success opened the door to cultural pillaging, with many Aboriginal designs and motifs Tony Albert reclaims the designs and motifs from Margaret Preston’s Aboriginal woodblock prints, to honour the subjects and voices of the work’s original creators. Photo: Rhett Hammerton appropriated for decades to come. This is a complicated collaboration. It explores Preston’s surrounded me. The objects and the In Conversations with desire to create a visual national images of Aboriginal people are Margaret Preston Albert turns identity, and the fact that her artistic beautiful. As the collection grew, the tables on history and influence created a mass market so did I. I started to understand its reclaims the designs and motifs that naively and stereotypically problematic undertones. I have had from Preston’s Aboriginal depict Aboriginal people and their to reconcile with the nature of the woodblock prints, to honour culture. By contrast the intentions collection as I got to know more the subjects and voices of the around Albert’s work have always about it, but also understand the work’s original creators. What a been personal, attached to his social, political and environmental glorious take back it is. See it. life, and seen through the prism aspects. I am ever fascinated by the of an Aboriginal experience of collection and it is still growing. Tony Albert: Conversations living and working in Australia. While a lot of the work I do with with Margaret Preston is at Albert explains: “I came the collection is hard-hitting, a little Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney, across this discarded ephemera bit of me still looks at the imagery 799 Elizabeth Street, Zetland, in secondhand shops and fell in through the loving eyes of my until Saturday April 10. love with it. It represented my childhood. It is this juxtaposition View online at family and the people I loved that and tension which fascinates me.” www.sullivanstrumpf.com

Universe behind closed doors

THEATRE impact in the arts. Working with performers spanning the ages SSH of 23 to 63, Tiny Universe looks into what is happening for people WHAT’S happening in our private behind closed doors. How do we moments that no one else might cope when no one else is looking? be able to see or understand? “We are so excited to be What are the rituals we perform, bringing our dynamic theatre or methods of self-soothing organisations together on this that help us make sense of our project. Our performers are place in the world? Who are we exploring the very painful as well “out there”? Who are we outside as the very funny experiences How do we cope when no one else is looking? Photo: Joshua Morris and David Molloy (overlay) of our own tiny universe? of life – and the reasons why sometimes it is easier to just hide This is the first time Milk Crate away. What we’re finding is that the the uncertainty,” says Margot Tiny Universe will show at PACT PACT, 107 Railway Pde, Theatre and Shopfront Arts Co-op issue of self-discovery is something Politis, Artistic Director of Milk Erskineville for two weeks in May. Erskineville will join forces on a bold new that affects us at all stages of our Crate Theatre, who is co-directing milkcratetheatre.com/tinyuniverse intergenerational work, bringing lives – maybe when we are older the show with Shopfront Arts’ Tiny Universe BOOK: together a combined 60 years of we just get a little more used to Creative Director Natalie Rose. May 20-29 shopfront.org.au/tc-events/17039/ The Review – April 2021 7

and the present production, The Book Review life-saving kindness of others. by Catherine DeMayo The Reviews Secret of Chimneys, is particularly We first meet Mindla in 1930s enjoyable. The context is England Warsaw, working her fingers to of the 1920s – the age of the the bone in a tannery to help Film Review and undermining the movement “bright young things” – and the support her parents and many by Lindsay Cohen but ultimately doing nothing to play is a heady and hilarious mix siblings. A chance encounter with prevent the march of civil rights. of frothy badinage, girl power, Kubush – a clown with the famous The reality is a lot more romance and political thriller. Circus Staniewski – ultimately complicated than that, but The narrative not so gently turns to love, and the couple interestingly the only real satirises the British establishment. marry and have a child, Gad. disappointment of Judas and the Black Following the discovery of oil in The Nazi invasion of Poland, of Messiah is when it tries to capture the Republic of Herzoslovakia, its course, spells immediate danger some of the complexity and touch Prince and British representatives for Mindla, Kubush and the entire on the lives of supporting characters. rendezvous under the guise Jewish population of Poland The film is too long as a result and of a house party at Caterham. (which numbered some 3 million loses focus. So, it’s ironic that both Neither the easily panic-stricken in 1933). The Circus Staniewski Kaluuya and Stanfield received George Lomax (Victor Moore) was, for a time, a safe refuge for Oscar nominations for Best Actor of the Foreign Office, nor the Kubush as the occupying Nazis in a Supporting Role and neither pale financier Banks (Thomas loved it, and allowed it to flourish. was considered to be the lead. Southwell), are figures to induce The family’s hazardous journey Kaluuya is the favourite with the confidence in government policy. to eventual safety in Australia bookies at $1.25. Judas and the Black The women gathered in the house The Freedom Circus – one takes them to Moscow, Uganda Messiah is a roughie to take out Best are much more inspirational and family’s death-defying act to and then a refugee camp in Picture at $19, but irrespective of resentful of the assumed authority escape the Nazis and start Rome. In the 1950s they arrive winning or losing, it’s still great value. of Lomax. They include the elderly a new life in Australia in Melbourne. Most of their Judas and the Black Messiah Rating: Four clenched fists. and worldly-wise Lady Caterham Sue Smethurst extended families perish at Director: Shaka King (Sandra Bass), her vivacious niece, Penguin, $43.99 the hands of the Nazis. Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith » [email protected] Lady Eileen Brent (Dominque Mindla and Kubush work long Stanfield, Jesse Plemons Nesbitt), and Lomax’s secretary, With fewer and fewer living hours in factories, until, in 1959, Genre: Black Powerful Billie Eversleigh (Abbie Love). witnesses to the horrors of the Kubush gets a job as Sloppo Theatre Review Billie’s sophisticated friend, Virginia Nazi genocide, every firsthand the Clown in the Tarax Show, a Good films educate. They provide by Catherine Skipper Revel (Rachele Edson), is surprised account takes on more importance children’s program on Channel 9. insight and cause reflection. Judas by a tall, dark stranger (Hamish in the struggle for remembrance. The Freedom Circus shows and the Black Messiah is a good film. Macdonald) who tries to blackmail The story of Mindla and her us humanity at its worst, Like most Australians, my her about the contents of a letter. husband Kubush, as told by Sue and its best. While Kubush knowledge of the Black Panther Also noteworthy are the Smethurst, the wife of their and Mindla are eminently movement pretty much started amazing Superintendent Battle grandson and a senior writer with resourceful, their survival is also and ended with the image of two (David Stewart-Hunter), the The Australian Women’s Weekly, is a thanks to the kindness – and, black-power-saluting American franglised English of Monsieur stark reminder of Nazi atrocities; often, courage – of others. athletes and the supportive Aussie, Lemoine ( Jack Elliot Marshall) it is also a tale of courage, » [email protected] Peter Norman, on the dais in Mexico of the Sûreté, and the weirdly resourcefulness, audacity and the City in 1968. But the movement is so impressive antics of Boris Andrassy much more important than that one (also Hamish McDonald). historical and striking sports photo. After the mysterious Anthony What Judas and the Black Cade (Patrick Tangye) arrives at Messiah taught me were Caterham a corpse is discovered important history lessons. and he is nervous under police The Black Panther movement rose scrutiny. The confession of his to prominence partly as a sometimes third name brings the tangled violent and political response to tale to its fairytale conclusion. the assassinations of Malcolm X The Secret of Chimneys is lovely and Martin Luther King Jr. Its The Secret of Chimneys fun. There’s a body, a stolen letter, Experience yoga in a welcoming environment at Urban Soul. figurehead was the radical left-wing Writer: Agatha Christie a secret code, a hidden necklace firebrand Fred Hampton (Daniel Director: Molly Haddon and a missing person, along with A groovy, community-focused yoga studio in the heart of Alexandria. Kaluuya). 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