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MAV FOLIO 70 19/2/08 12:56 PM Page 1 music dance theatre visual arts film new media MAVfolio multicultural arts victoria guide to the arts 70 Inside: P.2 Editorial P.3 Music – Melbourne Food and Wine Festival – Out of the Square – Mista Savona P.4 Cultural Diversity Week – Premiers Gala Dinner – Black Harmony Gathering – Omar Faruk Tekbilek P.5 Visual Arts – Naomi Ota – I Love Pho – Pysanka P.6 -7 Theatre & Dance – Currents of Identity – Palimpsest – Koori Youth 20 years P.8 MAV Youth Trainee – OZCO Music Grants Info Session Palimpsest (tyc in Korea) - Pg 6 MAV folio Feb 2008 - April 2008 MAV FOLIO 70 19/2/08 12:57 PM Page 2 African village the Arts Centre Suzuki Night Market Multicultural Arts Victoria is back in the full swing and has many great things Over the Australia Day long weekend MAV also worked with the Arts Centre on planned for 2008, our 25th year of operation. MAV could not do the work we a unique project to build an African Village. The huts and village were built with do with out the significant support of our key funding partners, The City of the community on the Arts Centre Lawn to celebrate our newly arrived African Melbourne, The City of Yarra and Arts Victoria, plus the valuable support of the communities. It is great to see so many communities being openly welcomed Australia Council and the Victorian Multicultural Commission who importantly to the Arts Centre. fund our cultural development work in the community. MAV has extensive links For Cultural Diversity Week, MAV will once again be working in partnership to many extraordinary artists and communities and has the capacity to create with the Victorian Multicultural Commission in programming and presenting an ongoing vibrant multicultural hub of activity. We look forward to your editorial some of our most talented artists from our community at the Premiers' Gala support for our program in 2008. Dinner on Saturday 15th March. The dinner will highlight the significant MAV has commenced the year by producing once again the sensational contribution in Arts our diverse communities have made. We will also be Suzuki Night market series in partnership with the Queen Victoria Market. Over producing a diverse music program for A Taste of Slow plus in partnership the summer months, until the end of February, MAV presents a fantastic music with kultour and Casula Powerhouse - I Love Pho workshops, exhibition and and performance program on two stages every Wednesday night. Over 20,000 cooking demonstration at ArtPlay people each week experience the exhilaration, bustle and magic of the night As identified in our report The Way Forward the single most important finding market. If you have not been there yet, make sure you make it for one of the was that cultural diversity and Arts for all Victorians is widely accepted and last Wednesday nights in February or you will have to wait for another year to endorsed. The challenge however is to translate this into effective strategies soak up one of the best out door experiences Melbourne has to offer! that will eliminate the perceived and/or real barriers, and increase CALD MAV strongly believes fair and just reconciliation with traditional owners and artists' and communities' participation in the arts. MIX IT UP,The Night Market, true social justice for all Aboriginal people is fundamental to our nation's well- Premiers Gala Dinner, ArtPlay and the Black Harmony Gathering are all very being. Government and communities can play a vital leadership role in effective means of ensuring systemic change and to ensure the increased supporting greater understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal peoples, development of multicultural arts content and infrastructure at local, state and culture and history. national levels. In March we have Cultural Diversity Week. MAV will present reconciliation in On an International level The Tony Yap Company has just returned from action through our unique annual Black Harmony Gathering with the local creative development opportunity working with Theatre Company Nottle late in Koori mob. Black Harmony Gathering will be held at the beautiful Fairfield December in Korea. Through this collaboration Theatre Company Nottle have Amphitheatre celebrating the International Day for the Elimination of Racism at been endeavouring to find a new theatrical language and to make noon on Sunday March 16th. This year marks the fifth year of Black Harmony experimental performances with the Tony Yap Company and to create a and a significant milestone for local Victorian Indigenous dance group Koori universal theatrical language through international exchange. Youth Will Shake Spears, who are celebrating 20 years of dancing in the MAV has also recently supported three of the key artists from the Tony Yap community. Also this year through the support of the Besen Foundation the Company, Tony Yap, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey plus invited Warrior Spirit Art Collective encouraged MAV to create an opportunity for a multimedia artist Kim Lawler to work in Singapore with the Necessary Stage. young indigenous trainee. Little G aka Gina Chrisanthopoulos will be based at MAV to work on Black Harmony. Also working internationally with Singapore is talented visual artist Naomi Ota who has been invited to exhibit at the Esplanade in April/May. This invitation MIX IT UP our award winning partnership program with the Arts Centre begins was an outcome of the Tony Yap Company and Multicultural Arts Victoria's again on the 16th March. The outstanding Omar Faruk Tekbilek, who is an attendance at the Singapore Arts Mart in 2007. This is an exciting outcome for internationally acclaimed musician, will be performing traditional Sufi, folk and the artists and the work becomes a vital part of program celebrating the 10th contemporary music from Turkey and the Middle East. The Arts Centre and Anniversary of the cultural partnership between Singapore and Australia. The MAV have been successfully funded through a strategic partnership grant by MOU has importantly paved the way for Australian artists to engage in the Australia Council Community Partnerships to deliver major community arts collaborations and exchanges with Singapore artists. and cultural development outcomes through MIX IT UP.This is an extraordinary opportunity to engage with the local community to make real difference in the So from grass root events to the international collaborations Multicultural Arts arts both locally and nationally. The first community we will be working with, Victoria is making a difference. We invite you to enjoy the journey with us. for MIX IT UP, will be the Turkish community who will be celebrating 40 years of Turkish migration. Jill Morgan Executive Officer MAV folio Page2 MAV FOLIO 70 19/2/08 12:57 PM Page 3 LABJACD San Lazaro Mista Savona MISTA SAVONA - From Melbourne to Kingston to WOMADelaide Kua Etnika Last year, local producer/ musician Mista Savona took reggae in mu Australia to new and higher heights with the release of his third album Melbourne Meets Kingston. The first ever album length collaboration between Australian and Jamaican artists, Melbourne Meets Kingston saw Mista Savona travel to Jamaica to record and work with extraordinary Jamaican artists such as the legendary Big Youth and newer talents Anthony B, Determine, Stevie Culture and Lisa Dainjah. 'Jamaica is just amazing - musically, culturally and on all levels - it's all about the skills, the vibe and the vocals! Its mad over there, music West Papuan Cultural Choir is everywhere, its the pulse of the nation, and the competition is so strong that the talent is just astonishing….What I wanted to achieve with this record was to get across to Australian audiences the kind of sounds coming out of Jamaica today and the best representation of A Taste of Slow my own sound and style as a musician and producer.' Feb 22 - Mar 8, Slow Food City Marketplace, 23 - 24 Feb, Federation Square With its unique blend of roots reggae, dancehall, hip hop, Middle Eastern and Indian flavours, and outstanding vocal performances, the Like the hare, slowly we are understanding that the fast way of life is not always the best. A album has continued to enjoy strong support, radio airplay and Taste of Slow 2008 counters our frantically-paced culture by focusing on Slow principles that excellent reviews since its release, as well as increasing demand for treasure tradition, cherish communities, celebrate conviviality and value and respect the art of touring and performance of the work. And so the Mista Savona Band contemplation and reflection. The River Terrace along the Yarra,, will be abuzz with activity has evolved bringing together a diverse mob of local Melbourne and entertainment all weekend. Meet and chat with the people who grow, catch, prepare and musical talents, with members of Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, French cook your food. Catch a cooking demonstration from top chefs and home cooks or wander up Guinean, Greek, Maltese, Philipino, Indian and Anglo descent, fronted to the Plaza to see one of the fantastic bands performing: Meltemi, String Theory, Kavisha by the amazing Vida Sunshyne whose credits have included work with Mazzella, Dya Singh, Musiki Manjaro, Klezmeritis and a block party on Saturday(see below). Nitin Sawhney and Lionel Ritchie. FREE www.atatsteofslow.com.au 'Working within different cultures and bringing about new and exciting collaborations between different groups of people is something I really love to do, and this exemplifies that kind of approach to music and Celebrate the Bean musicians.' Sun 2 Mar, 11am-6pm, Waterfront City, Docklands Mista Savona and the band are gearing up for some special An all day, open-air coffee celebration with an abundance of sweet treats for the chocolate performances on 7 March 7 to 9 March at one of the world's most fiends.