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P. 2 Music – Squarebeats - Diversity Week – Harmony Day – What’s On

P. 3 Dance – Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble - Streetfire – workshops - what’s on

P. 4 Theatre – Russian Soup – What’s On - Opportunities

P. 5 Visual Arts – The Second Grid – What’s On – Exhibitions

P. 6 Word – Tosn Rashid – Opportunities

P. 7 Grants - What Else?

The Second Grid - page 5

MAV folio February - April 2004 Revolucion Street

Arthur Day - Squarebeats What’s on Throughout February & March there will be a diverse array of fantastic music to hear in Melbourne including the African Music Series @ the ZOO in Werribee. A Global Sunset Series at the Museum ( Boite ) Yarra Fairfield Amphitheatre series (Boite) www.boite.asn.com Barbukka bar and Café www.barbukka.com February Sun 8 Moloko, Nitin Sawhney, Lee Scratch Perry/Mad Professor, Asian Dub Foundation at Sidney Myer Music Bowl Frank Yamma and Piranpa at Alfred Square Stage, St Kilda Festival Gorani + Why Not! - live to air on the Global Village, PBS-FM; from Barbukka Bar and Restaurant, 279 Smith Street, Fitzroy - $5 entry 3.00 pm Sat 14 Summabeats Red Eyes, Matata Sound, Rumberos, Musiki Manjaro, Little G, True Live, Jesse I and Ras Crucial( Chantdown Babylon Soundsystem), Music Diafrix, Jellywhip and the Safari Klub Soundsystem featuring NUKCb Sun 22 Descarga Total with The Pachuco Playboys, Paul Williamson's Hammond Combo and Joe Camilleri at Outdoor Stage Lawn, Arts Centre Harmony Day Sun 22 Whriling Furphies at The Muso’s Club, Albert Park Yacth Club Fri 27 Ani Di Franco at Palais Theatre, St Kilda Sat 28 Inti-Illimani at Frankston Arts Centre 8.00 pm: Squarebeats - Diversity Week Sun 29 Inti-Illimani at Melbourne Concert Hall 5.00 pm: Multicultural Arts Victoria is working in partnership with the Victorian Sydney Road Street Party - Brunswick Music Festival Multicultural Commission, Federation Square and SBS to present a dynamic program of music from all corners of the world as part of March diversity week celebrations in 2004. Squarebeats will highlight an Tues 2 Youssou N'Dour+Super Etoile de Dakar - Palais Theatre, St Kilda eclectic mix of multicultural musicians and dancers, the best Melbourne Thurs 4 Léo/Les Hurlements d'Léo - Corner Hotel, Richmond has to offer. FREE Fri 5 - Mon 8 Port Fairy Folk Festival - March 17 –23 Federation Sq Music Program Fri Mar 19 Arthur Day & Unified Gecko 12.00 noon Fri 5 - Sun 7 WOMADelaide - Botanical Gardens, Adelaide, SA Sat Mar 20 Vardos & King Bell Soukas ba Congo 2.00 pm Sat 6 Kenny Lopez & Revolucion Street MOOMBA - Alexandra gardens Sun Mar 21 Speil Azoi & Musiki Manjaro 2.00 pm Sun 7 Go Jam MOOMBA - Alexandra gardens Mon Mar 22 Revolucion Street 12.00 noon Tues 9 Grada - from Ireland - Corner Hotel, Richmond Tues Mar 23 Go Jam & Ethiopian dancer Tardias 12.00 noon Wed 10 - Sun 28 Brunswick Music Festival Fri 19 Steeleye Span + Ralph McTell - National Theatre, St Kilda Chris Smither Wed 10 Corner Hotel, Richmond Thur 18 Brunswick Music Festival Harmony Day Fri 26 Clifton Hill Hotel, Queens Parade, Clifton Hill Black Harmony- Koori Youth Will Shake Spears , Richard Sat 27 Uncle Neil's Place, Upwey Frankland , Kutcha Edwards, King Bell and Soukas Ba Congo, Sun 28 Lancefield Winery Little G, Jo Malatji , Somali Community Mar 21 Fairfield Amphitheatre – Heidelberg Rd Fairfield 2.00pm FREE April Sat 3 Brahim Benhim La Kazbah Federation Sq 2.00 pm Thur 8 National Folk Festival, Exhibition Park, Canberra

Seniors Week MAV & Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria will present the opening concert for the Victorian Seniors Festival Mar 14 Melbourne Town Hall FREE MAV folio Page2 Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble - (Folk Ballet and Cossack Dance)

Featuring 32 dancers on stage and over $150,000 in costuming and props, There show 'Awakenings' has been reviewed as "arguably Ukrainian national dance's answer to Riverdance!" Under the artistic direction of Balletmaster Serguei Makarov, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Awakenings is the culmination of several years of artistic collaboration and development which has spanned the globe, from Ukraine to Canada, and now Australia. Touring with Tryzub as guest artists are the Kashtany Duo, (Paul Wright - violin Myroslav Gutej - accordion). ("Its irresistibly foot-tapping music, presented with stylish conviction and a sizzling emotional temperature" - Neville Cohen, The West Australian Newspaper) Dance Streetfire Kristine Nilsen Oma - The Dance Card The Kashtany Duo have just released their long-awaited CD -'STREETFIRE' 'Fiery Virtuoso Gypsy and World Music' "Its irresistibly foot-tapping music presented with stylish conviction and a sizzling emotional temperature" "They have come up with a compilation that deserves a wide audience" (Neville Cohen - ( The West Australian Newspaper) purchase on-line http://www.buywell.com or at Blue Moon , 54 Johnston St, Fitzroy 3065 (03) 9415 1157

Workshops I am a Business with Dancehouse’s General Manager Michael Mitchener Successful Grant Writing - An opportunity to hone your skills in writing applications for funding Wed 25 Feb Bookings and payment by Mon 23 Feb The Dance Card 2004 Fundamentals a live mix-re-mix performance event Put your business hat on and prepare to thoroughly investigate the basics of Deanne Butterworth : Michael Foster : Michaela Pegum : being an artist in business Dianne Reid : Nick Sommerville : Natalie Cursio : Shaun McLeod Wed 31 March Bookings and payment by Mon 29 Mar Siobhan Murphy : Kristine Nilsen Oma : David Wells 9.30-1pm + Monique Aucher (light) Single workshop $40 / $30 Dancehouse Subscribers + Tamil Rogeon & suprise guests (sound) Week 1&2 Both workshops $70 / $50 Dancehouse Subscribers + David Franzke (sound) + Dianne Reid (video re-mix) Week 3 Bookings: 03 9347 2860 or [email protected]

Weeks 1 & 2 Feb 11 - 15, 18 - 22 Wed - Sat @ 7.30pm, Sun @ 5pm What’s On Week 3 Feb 26 - 28 Thurs - Sat @ 7.30pm Thought/Action Improvisations & Other Projects Tickets $12 Bookings 9347 2860 An ongoing series of performance investigations into the relations between Dancehouse 150 Princes St, North Carlton 3054 thinking and action by Amsterdam based dancer and choreographer Frank van www.dancehouse.com.au de Ven and Melbourne based performance maker and theorist Peter Snow. Drawing on Body Weather training, the ideas of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Artaud’s ‘Body Without Organs’, Frank and Peter have collaborated on projects in Amsterdam, Brussels, Gent, Melbourne and Hamilton Downs (as part of Triple Alice, a Body Weather project led by Tess de MANAME Quincey). Thought/Action consists in articulating the intensities of experience in movement and words. To improvise in this way is to begin by attending in Sri Lanka’s highly- rated Sinhalese detail – to oneself, to one another, to the working environment, and to the drama, MANAME will be produced for many shifting relations between these interlacing modes of experience. the first time in Melbourne for Australian audiences. Performance - Thought/Action and 4 grand narratives Fri 30 Jan @ 7.30pm 8 Feb 2004- 2.30 & 6.30 Tickets $10 Free for Workshop Participants Besen Centre Mt Scopus Burwood East, Tickets 8707604 Workshop - How to walk & talk at the same time $40,$25,$20 Sat 31 Jan & Sun 1 Feb, 10-4.30pm Info: MAV 9417 6777 Cost $250 full /$220 Dancehouse Subscribers Bookings essential on [email protected] or 03 9347 2860

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ONE NIGHT ONLY! FRAMEWORK by Sandra Shotlander Russian Soup - From Russian Short DIRECTED by Peta Hanrahan PERFORMED by Andrea Swifte & Saddie Wells Stories Two Australian women meet in a corner of the Metropolitan Museum New York where Picasso's "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" looks into Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghostly dark comedy, brilliantly observed frailties and the close proximity "Black Iris". The play traces the course of their relationship. of love and violence grating; this is the world of Russian Soup. It isn't possible to have a laugh without a last gasp or to trust that hypocrisy "Framework" was first presented at the Universal Theatre Fitzroy. It has had won't flower in the most upright citizen. And it isn't even sure that it will subsequent productions in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane at the Portland all end. Excerpts from: Chekhov, Gogol and Dostoevsky. Women's Theatre, Portland, Oregan USA, and in Melbourne Midsumma by Coburg-Brunswick Theatre Company 1991. As a winner of the 1st Jane Director: John Bolton Actors: Greg Ulfan & Joseph Sherman Chambers Memorial International Playwriting Contest 1983, "Framework" had Musicians: Ernie Gruner & Phillip Carroll two staged readings in New York City by Meridian Gay Theatre, Playwrights Supported by MAV in association with the National Multicultural Festival and Directors' Group NYNY. Canberra. 21 Jan- 8 Feb @ LA MAMA Fri 6 Feb @ 8pm, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Wed./ Fri./ Sun.,6.30pm Thurs./ Sat. 8.30pm $20/25 (supper by BABKAS and CLAYPOTS) Bookings 9662 9966 Tickets $14/$10 BOOKINGS 9347 6142 "Greg Ulfan and Joseph Sherman revealed a world where love, violence, piety, extravagance, pain, laughter and joy consumed their various Opportunities protagonists with shattering verisimilitude." Malcolm Robertson, 2002 Theatreworks season CALL TO YOUNG FILM MAKERS Sun 8- Mon 9 National Multicultural Festival, Canberra DECC (Darebin Ethnic Community Council) in association with the Darebin City Council announce the commencement of What’s On FAITH: The Art of Believing - still seeking a filmmaker for the Hindu component of the Project Tokyo Notes - Major Japanese Play for Melbourne A Video Project which will explore the various Faiths (Islam; Christianity; Oriza Hirata is one of Japan’s most influential contemporary playwrights Hinduism; Buddhism; Indigenous & Alternative.) in the Darebin region, and and his award-winning Tokyo Notes will come to Melbourne in February aims to capture the diverse expressions of faith as experienced by young following a European tour and the Hong Kong Festival. people. Each film makers 10 minute piece will be complied into a sixty minute video to be launched at the Westgarth Cinema and distributed to schools and Set in an art gallery in Tokyo, it is the year 2004 and a devastating war libraries in Darebin. As part of the Living in Harmony Initiative, film makers and ravages Europe. Priceless paintings are evacuated to Japan. But rather the communities they are working within will come together at a forum to than fill the stage with stock images of wartime violence, Hirata depicts discuss their ideas. This is a unique opportunity to work and contribute to the a society mired in self-absorption and the gradual dissolution of human cultural and creative understanding of the multicultural community. relationships. Film Makers will be supplied with cameras and provided with editing suites at Tokyo Notes is a seminal work and the most acclaimed Japanese theatre Open Channel to complete their work. All out of pocket expenses will be of the decade. It proved the foundation of "Quiet Theatre" - making a covered by the project. profound impact on Japanese and world theatre. "Quiet Theatre" is real-time theatre, focussing upon the minutiae of human existence – like Info: Edwina Entwisle on 9230 4337 or email [email protected] Theatre/Film Theatre/Film Chekhov before him, Hirata draws the audience into the lives of his characters through seemingly inconsequential details. At any moment, life can be entertaining, graceful, funny and ridiculous… 18 – 21 Feb @ The CUB Malthouse Bookings: 9685 5111

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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Retrospective Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born sometime in 1932 in a dry creek bed on Napperby station (north-west of Alice Springs). This retrospective pays tribute to his remarkable career, with a comprehensive collection of 48 paintings and two sculptures on loan from various national and international collections. The Second Grid – Architectural and Ian Potter Centre - NGV Australia: Flinders St (Cnr Swanston St) Melbourne contemporary light and building installation 20 Feb-26 Apr, Mon-Thu 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-9pm, Sat-Sun 10am-6pm Adults $10; concession $8; students over 16 $4; under 16 free The Second Grid will explore the urban canvas to create a dialogue between landmark buildings. The light & digital displays will engage a third - Textile sculptures selected by Melbourne fashion label SIX dimension; the space which exists above street level. Sculpted Surface These sculpted surfaces create an imagined space which a body can inhabit, an The city's monumental buildings are part of a gentle urban choreography, environment spun woven from textiles and transformed using Japanese pleating which pay homage to unexplored territories of space. The Second Grid is a technique of Shibori. The exhibition forms part of the 2004 Melbourne Fashion celebration of Melbourne's builders and urban history. Festival and is conjunction with the RMIT Symposium "Intermesh" and the 5th The project is cohosted by gamma SPACE and Deakin University and World Shibori Symposium. Public programs will include artist’s talk and workshop. supported by City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria and Federation Square. It also Linden – St Kilda Centre of Contemporary Arts: 26 Acland Street, St Kilda, received funding from Myer Foundation with the assistance of MAV. 20 March – 19 April, Tuesday - Sunday 1 - 6pm Tarek Ishak, Creative Director of the project is a Melbourne based practising architect who has worked on a number of innovative public and domestic Opportunities projects. The second grid will take place 6 -12 Mar followed by launching at Expressions of interest are sought for exhibitions at The Town Hall Gallery, Federation Square. Info: www.thesecondgrid.com Hawthorn, and the adjoining Community Arts Space. For applications to both spaces, please contact Jeanette Wissell Ph: 03 9278 4770 Exhibitions Space Available at Art on Glass Located at Springvale Library, Art on Glass has been an excellent venue for Death: Mortality and Religious Diversity exposing cultural and artistic expression to the public since opening in 2000.

isual Arts Different religions and cultures have different attitudes, protocols and rituals surrounding death, dying and bereavement. This exhibition uses Submissions for exhibitions are now being taken for 2004/2005. To obtain an interactive web displays, images and artefacts. application form, phone Elizabeth Yong in the Cultural Development Unit, City of Greater Dandenong on 9239 5134 or email: [email protected] Immigration Museum: 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne V - 29 Feb 2004, 10.00am to 5.00pm daily Smyrnios Gallery Australia - Call for exhibition proposals Smyrnios Gallery Australia is uniquely positioned in the heart of one of Melbourne's commercial areas, bordered by Greville and Chapel Streets, in St. Design in Italy 1945-2000 Edmonds Road Prahran. Gallery policy offers exhibition space to a number of The exhibition showcases furniture, lighting and domestic products, young emerging artists as well as those in mid-career, with occasional "guest" including Giovanni Levanti's 1999 cross between a chair and a giant insole. curators. There are 98 other objects on loan from a collection at La Triennale di Milano gallery. For more information visit www.netspace.net.au/~smyrniosgalleryaus or contact the gallery on (03) 9521 4241 Melbourne Meseum: Carlton Gardens, Nicholson St Carlton - 8 March, 10.00am to 5.00pm daily Adult $6; concession/child free Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize The annual competition held in March at the Wyndham Community Cultural Narelle Autio, Paul Blackmore and Trent Parke Centre: 177 Watton St, Werribee - Witness: an Exhibition of Australian Photojournalism For application form and information, call Rose Reber on 0410 522 089 or email: Confronting, controversial, compelling - this is the first exhibition to [email protected] showcase the recent work of ten Australian photojournalists. Set against the shifting terrain of international politics, ever expanding globalisation and the Others Australian outback. Seminar: WHO AM I? WHERE AM I GOING? HOW DO I GET THERE? Monash Gallery of Art: 170 Jells Rd Wheelers Hill Come along to Linden's first professional development seminar for the year and - 21 March, Tue-Fri 10:00am-6:00pm; Sat-Sun 12:00pm-5:00pm learn more about the systems, structures and strategies that operate in the world of contemporary art including how galleries work and most importantly how they Go Fly a Kite! can work for you. An impressive selection of kites from China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Tuesday 3 February 2004 @ 6.30pm, Linden: 26 Acland Street, St Kilda Australia and explores the cultural significance of kite making in these Bookings essential call 9209 6794 or email [email protected] countries. $12 full $10 concession $8 Linden subscriber (refreshments included) Bundoora Homestead: Snake Gully Rd, Bundoora 6 – 29 Feb, Wed – Sun 12- 5.00pm MAV folio Page5 Word

What’s On

Melbourne Emerging Writers' Festival, being held at the Victoria Hotel, 215 Little Collins Street City, over the 23rd - 25th January. The festival program features 68 writers from six different states, including crime, horror and non-fiction writers as well as poets, zinesters, bloggers and novelists, and is available on-line at www.expressmedia.org.au Free opening night launch party at the Victoria Hotel Fri 23 Jan @ 7pm-9pm Tosn Rashid Live hip-hop and spoken word, nibbles provided, drinks at bar prices. Ten years ago Tosn Rashid arrived with his family from Armenia (that part of Armenia which is now considered part of the Soviet Union). In his homeland he is an acclaimed author of eight books, comprising four books of poetry, two of short stories, one of essays and one of plays. Three of these books have been published in Sweden, two in Germany and one is soon to be published in Turkey. Currently, none of his books have been translated in English; hopefully this will be rectified in the near future.

An extract of Tosn's long poem based on a Freedom Fighter's letter to his lover is set out below:

Peshmerga's letter My love! Wipe the tears from your eyes Spread your beauty and pride So the barrels of guns Directed at your chest Are curved And the enemy's hands and fingers Shake on triggers of machineguns

My love! Grief struck mothers Put us to sleep With songs of war and heroism They fed us With cries, tears, groans With words from childhood fairytales The words of murder, torture and prison We are dominated

... My love! So that our children Decorate their passports By a word Kurdistan So that our country Shrunk on the map Opens her wings like a mountain eagle Call for Artists And paints her four pieces JOIN MAV in 2004 BECOME a member today In one colour > As a MAV member you will be listed on our MAV members data base for So that you tie your head artists, groups and organisations FREE. With a pink headscarf That your laughter be heard > You will be able be to submit editorial for inclusion in FOLIO as well as Everywhere in the world list your event, project or exhibition for FREE on the MAV web site and We will paint with our blood in our fortnightly E news._ send MAV details of your performances & Like that of sacrificial lambs event with jpeg pics. The foreheads of our mountains. > You will be able to receive discount to all MAV services and events > Join MAV today there is a membership form page 8. MAV folio Page6 Grants What else? Arts Victoria – www.arts.vic.gov.au Arts Development : Creation or Presentation - Closing Date 1 Mar Arts Innovation - Closing Date 1 Mar CULTURAL INFUSION in Schools. Artists in community - Closing Date 1 Feb PAN ENTERTAINMENT has developed a program to bring live entertainment and Creative Community partnerships - Closing Date 1 Feb interactive education into the primary and secondary educational school system. Local Festivals program - Closing Date 1 Feb This programme is called Cultural Infusion in Schools. "Cultural Infusion began with Music for the future fund - Closing Date 1 Mar a vision to see that all young people in Australia are instilled with a love of the arts Tel: 03 9954 5000 of toll free 1800 134 894 and a first-hand understanding of another culture." PAN is interested in being in contact with culturally diverse performing artists who are also educators. Australia Council - www.ozco.gov.au Info: [email protected] or call 03 9495 6222 Community Cultural Development: New Work - Closing Date 1 Apr Presentation and Promotion - Closing Date 1 Apr Skills and Arts Development Residency - Closing Date 21 Apr Awards Fellowships - Closing Date 1 Apr The Community Cultural Development Board of the Australia Council has Literature: Presentation and Promotion - Closing Date 15 Mar established two new annual awards to recognise, promote and encourage Visual Arts/Craft: New Work - Closing Date 15 Apr leadership and best practice partnerships in community cultural development Key Organisations - Closing Date 15 Apr practice. Fellowships - Closing Date 15 Apr The Young Leaders Award of $10,000 has been created to recognise the Tel: 02 9215 9000 achievements of artists and artsworkers aged 30 years or under. VicHealth – www.vichealth.vic.gov.au The Community Cultural Development Partners Award of $15,000 has been Arts for Health – Community Arts Participation Scheme - Closing Date 28 Mar created to acknowledge best practice in collaborative project planning and Communities Together – Community Festivals and Celebration Schemes implementation. Closing Date 29 Mar Applications by 15 Mar 2004 Tel: 03 9667 1333 Guidelines are available on the Australia Council website at www.ozco.gov.au. For further information, call 02 9215 9029 or 1800 226 912 or email [email protected]. Festivals Australia Festivals Australia provides assistance to regional and community Australian Major Sculpture Commission festivals for the presentation of quality cultural activities. Submissions of interest are sought from experienced public sculptors for a major There are two funding rounds a year which are advertised nationally, with site specific work to be located prominently in the Brisbane CBD. Australian Art closing dates of 15 February and 15 July. Grants are announced in May and Resources as art consultants for a private body are inviting interested sculptors to October for festivals commencing from July and January, respectively. submit slides of recent public projects or concepts. web: Festivals Australia Telephone: 02-6271 1665 Maximum 6 slides per submission. Submissions should be accompanied by a current CV that includes relevant contact Playing Australia information. Playing Australia gives all Australians, wherever they live, better access to some Please mail to Queensplaza Submission of the country's best performing arts. From ballet to indigenous dance, jazz to c/- Australian Art Resources 77 City Road classical music and Shakespeare to bilingual theatre - Playing Australia has STH MELBOURNE VIC 3205 been assisting the touring of performing arts across Australia since 1992. Applications close: Fri Feb 6 web: Playing Australia Telephone: 02-6271 1665 Manningham Gallery exhibition space Visions of Australia Manningham Gallery is calling for expressions of interest from artists, curators and Visions of Australia supports touring exhibitions of Australian cultural material. organisations wishing to exhibit as part of the 2004 and 2005 program. There will be a transitional funding round which will close on Friday, 6 February Manningham Gallery is the City of Manningham's major contemporary arts venue. 2004 for projects commencing between 1 July and 30 September 2004. Its main focus is the contemporary exhibition program which encompasses a broad The new closing dates are: range of visual arts practice including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, > 1 April (for projects commencing from 1 September that year) and; drawing, photography, furniture, installation and multi-media artworks. > 1 September (for projects commencing from 1 February the following year). Closing Date is Tues Jan 27 web: Visions Australia Telephone: 02-6271 1665 Info: 9840 9367

CALL FOR ENTRIES Arts Law The organizers of the International Film Festival of Fine Arts (3rd edition, 21-27 The Arts Law Centre of Australia is the national community legal centre for the Sep 2004 - Szolnok, Hungary) expect film entries that present, (re)interpret pieces arts. Arts Law is a not for profit company limited by guarantee which was of art by means of cinematic methods or deal with the life or certain stages of one established with the support of the Australia Council in 1983 to provide specialised or more artists (art groups). They also welcome works that discover certain legal and business advice and referral services, professional development tendencies or periods of fine arts or their social context. Last but not least, they resources and advocacy for artists and arts organisations. also expect films created by using artistic methods or instruments (e.g. animated Arts Law gives preliminary advice and information to artists and arts organisations and experimental films, features). across all artforms on a wide range of arts related legal and business matters No entry fee. Works produced after 1 Jan 2001 are eligible for competition. including contracts, copyright, business names and structures, defamation, Submission deadline: 31 Mar 2004 insurance and employment. Arts Law publishes a range of materials to assist arts Info: http://www.tiszamozi.hu/01MAIN_PAGE/ang/frame.htm practitioners including free information sheets, guides, checklists, sample contracts with explanatory notes, seminar papers and booklets, plus our quarterly newsletter Art+Law, and quarterly Artlines bulletin on law, the arts and new technology. http://www.artslaw.com.au/

MAV folio Page7 editorial Folio Editorial Team Editor and Chief Jill Morgan A WAY FORWARD …. This year MAV will be assisting the Ethnic Sub-Editors Communities' Council of Victoria to MAV PRIORITIES in 2004 Music Jill Morgan present the opening concert for the Dance Tony Yap > Access and Participation Victorian Seniors Festival to be held on Visual Arts Naomi Ota > Excellence and Innovation March 14th. This concert is funded by the Theatre Elda Koro > Acceptance and Understanding Department of Human Services and is free Word Angela Costi and has a strong and popular following by the more mature 2004 ushers in the Year of the Wood/Green Monkey "Jia Shen". members of Victoria's diverse communities. In the year of the monkey, Multicultural Arts Victoria has Multicultural Arts Victoria Staff Victoria will celebrate DIVERSITY WEEK (17th-23rd March). MAV planned a program that creates discussion and encourages a Executive Officer Jill Morgan dynamic exchange of ideas. has worked in partnership with Federation Square and the Victorian Multicultural Commission to bring a lunch time music Finance Officer Anna Luzza It will be an exciting year for MAV, starting with SUMMABEATS, program Square Beats to Federation Square (19th-23th March) Admin Officer Kerry Drummond in partnership with the Safari Klub, at the Corner Hotel in that reflects the diversity and talent that exists in multicultural Graphic Design Tony Yap Richmond. SUMMABEATS is for all the young at heart and will arts in Victoria. The concerts will be supported by SBS radio IT Elda Koro showcase contemporary culture and music. Safari Klub has and will be free to all. So come on down to Federation Square brought together a great line up for St Valentines day, 14th in March and enjoy the diverse multicultural beats in the street! Multicultural Arts Victoria February. The event is supported by the City of Yarra. On Harmony Day, March 21st, MAV has been proudly Fitzroy Town Hall This year the National Multicultural Festival will be held in supported by the City of Yarra and the Victorian Multicultural 201 Napier St Fitzroy Canberra in early February and MAV has assisted in linking Commission to present a concert "Harmony" on the banks of PO Box 2179 Fitzroy DC 3065 many of our artists into the program. This year Yumi (Tokyo the Yarra at Fairfield Park. Harmony Day provides an P 9417 6777 DasShoku), Vardos, Go Jam , Russian Soup, Unified Gecko and opportunity for all to reflect on the value and our success as a F 9416 3342 the Trammies will head to Canberra to add life to the festival. multicultural society; re-commit to continuing respect, goodwill W www.multiculturalarts.com.au Naomi Ota (MAV artist and Folio sub-editor) has been and understanding between all people of all backgrounds; and successfully chosen to build a contemporary Japanese Garden to say no to racism. at Broadford Secondary College, as part of the Artists in "Harmony" will uniquely bring together indigenous and non- Schools Program. Congratulations to Naomi, who was linked to indigenous black cultures. Artists and elders from the Aboriginal the program through the MAV artists web page. So artists, and emerging African communities will work in partnership to make sure we have your up to date details listed on our web present a professional concert program which will include the page. (Please ring Elda at MAV to find out more.) young in their communities to promote to the local and wider Also congratulations to Marcello D’Amico, MAV Board member, community that racism in any form is unacceptable. on his three month appointment to the Ottowa School of Arts, "Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation lived in the City of Yarra Canada. The School has announced a scholarship in honour of before European settlement. Fitzroy is well known throughout Marcello’s contribution. As well congratulations to MAV Board Australia as a home and meeting place for Aboriginal member Stefan Romaniw, who has been appointed an Australia communities in Victoria and the birthplace of many Indigenous Day Ambassador. organisations" ( City of Yarra plan ). Fitzroy is also the The Moomba Water Festival happens again March 5th - 8th. It birthplace of Multicultural Arts, so this is a great opportunity to is great to have an opportunity to assist in our artists in being celebrate together on Harmony Day and the UN day for the programmed on the main stage this year. So if you can’t make elimination of racism. it to WOMAD or Port Fairy you’ll be pleased to hear there is The harmony concert will be free, so pack a picnic and join us fantastic music happening in Melbourne on the Labour Day at Fairfield Park to say No to Racism! The day is also supported weekend. by Reconciliation Victoria. Also in March a contemporary light and building installation, The Second Grid, will be launched. The program has been creatively directed by Tarek Ishak and is supported by MAV, JILL MORGAN Myer Foundation , City of Melbourne, Arts Victoria and EXECUTIVE OFFICER Federation Square.

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