music dance theatre visual arts f ilm new media MAVfolio 49 multicultural arts victoria guide to the arts Inside: 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 MAV folio Page3 Russian Soup pic: Bill Poon 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.