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Spring 2019 ar st ye 41 ISSUE 186 THE NORTH & WEST MELBOURNE NEWS IS PRODUCED BY VOLUNTEERS AT THE CENTRE: Connecting Community in North & West Melbourne Inc www.centre.org.au Classes go through the motions Tanaka Nyamvura would begin when they left,” Cliff grimaces. liff Rundle can now laugh about While emergency workers Can awful Sunday morning drained the water from the last month at North Melbourne classrooms, the resulting Language and Learning. mess meant they had to The adult education centre be decontaminated. In two that Cliff manages works to classrooms, carpets had to be Token Armies. Photograph: Dian McLeod empower the CALD (Culturally and removed and new floorboards Linguistically Diverse) community installed. However, classes had to in the Alfred Street public housing continue. And they did. estate. His education facility “That was important because Rich festival feast of theatre and dance occupies the ground floor of an we didn’t want to disrupt students 11-storey block. learning. When classes stop, it can Claire Wilcock exactly what is possible with of King Kong and Walking with “A rogue tree root ruptured a be hard to get students to return,” Sellotape and cardboard boxes – Dinosaurs) and an ensemble of sewerage pipe in a first-floor unit,” Cliff explained. Sam Navarria, he Melbourne International on its first visit to Melbourne. 23 performers. It will run from 16 Cliff said. The flat quickly became NMLL education and compliance TArts Festival is coming to These three shows will run from to 20 October. inundated with raw sewage, with coordinator, agrees. “We stress the the North Melbourne Town Hall 2 to 6 October only. Claire Wilcock is marketing manager at hundreds if not thousands of litres importance of attendance, so we next month. In the festival’s final week, Token Arts House. seeping through the floor to flood had to make sure they had lessons,” The festival will run from 2 to 20 Armies – the first work from NMLL’s rooms below. he said. October and will include some Chunky Move under their new Want to know more? Cliff had been at home relaxing The Department of Health and of the world’s most gripping artistic director Antony Hamilton – Tickets for all shows are available when the first call came through Human Services provided rooms contemporary dance. And Arts will take over the Meat Market. on the Arts House website at and didn’t realise how dire the in another building for students to House will be presenting it right It is epic in scale, ambitious in artshouse.com.au, on 9322 3720, or situation was. “But when I got a use. Bio-cleaners came in to restore here on your doorstep. conceit, and utterly unforgettable at the Arts House box office in North second call, I knew it was serious the flooded classrooms. Offerings will range from physical in execution. This world premiere Melbourne Town Hall. Discounted and I was prepared for the worst. Cliff speaks with admiration theatre that tests the limits of event is an evolutionary leap into tickets for locals: all shows $25 The damage affected all three for how the students handled everyday office supplies to a an unknown tomorrow. except Token Armies $39. Use the classrooms, two of them severely,” the interruption. “It was thrilling dance duet in a space that It features sculptures by Creature code LOCAL if you’re a local resident. he explains. commendable how they put up grows ever smaller. Technology Company (creator The centre’s rooms had with their temporary unsuitable Four epic performances are experienced what the Age accommodation. guaranteed to e ntertain you next indelicately called a ‘poo-nami’. “It just showed how we can month. All you have to do is book “There was water in between the all rally together to achieve a your tickets. classrooms, and police and 30 shared goal.” There will be four shows in the people were working to minimise town hall and the Meat Market. the damage. It soon dawned on Tanaka Nyamvura writes regularly for A North Melbourne-based dance me that a huge clean-up task the News. company, Lucy Guerin Inc., will bring its duet Split back to Arts House after it has been wowing audiences worldwide. Jo Lloyd’s OVERTURE is also making a triumphant return to Arts House following its premiere in August last year. It now has a clutch of awards under its belt. And there’s Branch Nebula’s High Performance Packing Tape – Students coped well with their temporary work area. Photograph: Manatosh Chakma the work that makes you rethink Overture. Photograph: Peter Rosetzky INSIDE Page 5 Page 14 Page 20 4-page Program liftout 2 North and West Melbourne News SPRING 2019 So they did. Phillip explains, and their pursuits, but can reach conversation and critical “We set out in a modest way to into all areas,” he explains. One thinking. Well done, Phillip, and Flowering create an Institute of Postcolonial regret is that he never achieved all who embraced your efforts! Studies that would engage in his goal of a postcolonial opera When Phillip stepped down of a dream critical thinking through a book featuring Indigenous soprano as director, he said, “I’ve handed series, a recognised international Deborah Cheetham. the baton to younger members journal, and a regular series of The choice of the institute’s of the academic community, so of arts and seminars”. founding patrons, the Justice that generational change can Their spontaneous decision Michael Kirby and Professor take place.” captured an opportunity to Lowitja O’Donoghue, reflects He has high praise for new academia work, as Phillip puts it, “on the its commitment to working executive director Melinda critical edges of knowledge, across cultural and disciplinary Hinkson and executive officer John H. Smith and the life of communities”. boundaries. Carlos Morreo. “They have put The independent institute that Phillip speaks highly of both. together a remarkable program.” “If we had really thought it resulted has operated for 23 years “In themselves, and through Phillip is confident the institute Phillip Darby – IPCS’s recently retired through, I don’t think we would with the blessing of, and formal their support, both were terrific will continue to investigate founding director. have embarked on the project,” affiliation with, the University of advocates for the institute.” He and respond creatively to the says Phillip Darby, recently retired Melbourne. also praises Ashish Nandi, from pressing concerns of our time. founding director of the Institute Michael said, “Why don’t we Gradually the institute the Centre for Developing Studies of Postcolonial Studies. buy it and live there together?” broadened out beyond traditional in Delhi. “More than anyone, he John H. Smith writes regularly for the Phillip recalls the day in the After a thoughtful moment Phillip academic activities to encompass helped put the institute on the News. 1990s when it all began. He and replied, “I love you, and your the highlight of Phillip’s work: a international map.” Want to find out more? fellow University of Melbourne family, but I have lived alone all remarkable series of seminars in A spontaneous decision, Learn more about the Institute of academic Michael Dutton were my life. I don’t know if that would the performing arts. supported by a benefactor, Postcolonial Studies at ipcs.org.au; enjoying a glass of wine in Phillip’s work.” After another glass of wine, “This venture demonstrated that transformed a wreck of a email [email protected]. roof-top garden, overlooking a Michael asked, “Why don’t we buy critical approaches to knowledge property into an institute that derelict hotel in Curzon Street. it and develop an institute?” are not restricted to intellectuals is a vital forum for community, Fling into spring Doné De Beer Errol Street and support our local artists and creators. he Spring Fling Street Festival Getting us off to a great start on Tis back for its 42nd year, with the main stage we have Bryon some new twists and old classics. Siren, whose voice is like a siren’s The festival will take place on call. His original songs are sure to Saturday 19 October from 11am tug at your heartstrings and lure to 4pm, in George Johnson Lane, you closer for a better look as he Little Errol Street and Raglan flies between guitar, ukulele and Street. We can’t think of a better tambourine. way to celebrate our inner-city The inimitable Homebrew Morris dancers joined the festivities at a previous Spring Fling. Photographs: Jim Weatherill diversity and local talent than in Verandah Singers hit the the sunshine among friends. stage at 2.55pm. Their joy of The groove doesn’t stop here. mini-circus show, as well as some of nostalgia and stories through The beloved Dog Show will be singing together is clear to There will be interactive dance fancy hula-hoop tricks by Merryn. his acoustic folk music. back, from 1pm to 2pm on the see. Celebrating life to the full, performances in the laneways, Your kids (and you!) will love Keep updated through our main stage. Enter your talented this men’s choir might croon so keep an eye out for when Delyse’s Drama Academy’s skit on social media – Instagram: pets and show off their slick about broken-hearted love you can bust a move. The Jungle Book. From 11.40am, springflingfestival, and Facebook: skills and silly-frills outfits, or just before erupting into a rousing All this dancing can be here’s your chance to make your Spring Fling Street Festival. come along to watch a parade of Elizabethan drinking song or one thirsty work, and your food acting debut in an interactive Whether it be for a boogie, adorable pooches.