Catch the tram and win! JUNE

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1 Catch the tram and win! JUNE #emergeinyarra

2 Welcome Emerge in Yarra presents a new week-long program for its 12th anniversary with a multitude of free arts workshops, language and cooking classes in addition to live music and theatre performances that showcase the diverse talent that exist in the City of Yarra. Founded in 2004 as a platform for the emerging and refugee artists in Multicultural Arts Victoria s Visible Music Mentoring Program, the festival has since grown to encompass talented emerging and refugee artists from across the city whilst also paying respect to Indigenous Australians as the first people of this land and recognising their continuing spiritual, physical and cultural connection to the land. The festival is timed to coincide with the United Nations World Refugee Day and Refugee Week and celebrates the ever-expanding contributions artists from all sectors of our diverse society have made in building Melbourne s unique cultural landscape and the Creative industry in Victoria. Emerge in Yarra has also been the stimulus and springboard for contemporary cultural activity in outer metro and regional Victoria embracing and unearthing the talents of emerging and refugee artists. Catch a tram and win! Post a photo from your tram ride and tell us which Emerge in Yarra festival event you d like to go to with hashtag #emergeinyarra to win one of 10 limited edition sets of our Black Harmonies and Best of Visible CDs featuring diverse talented artists from Indigenous and refugee backgrounds. Post before 14 June to be in the running to win! 3

3 CALENDAR (Bookings essential for all events - see inside for details) SUNDAY 14 MONDAY 15 TUESDAY 16 WEDNESDAY 17 THURSDAY 18 FRIDAY 19 Languages of Yarra: Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Arabic, Dinka, Mandarin, Vietnamese 10am 7pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy PBS 106.7FM Drive Live with Lalibelas ft. Nhatty Man 3pm-5pm Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria & Melbourne Playback Theatre present: Refugee Week: An interactive performance 7pm-8.30pm Cookin Up Community: Afghani Cuisine 7pm-8.30pm Fitzroy Community Food Centre A Comedy Shindig ft. Nelly Thomas, Diana Nguyen, Dilruk Jayasinha and Kevin Kropinyeri 7.30pm Yarra Youth Services present: Positive Relationships: Arts and Discussion Forum pm Cookin Up Community Nyala African Restaurant 7pm-8.30pm Fitzroy Community Food Centre Etch This: Young Artists Residency & Exhibition Opening reception 6pm 8pm The Ownership Project, Level 1/110 Johnston St, Fitzroy Yarra Settlement Forum and Yarra City Council present: Refugee Week Q&A Panel 6pm-8.30pm Uptown Ethio- Jazz Workshop and Jam Session 6pm-8pm Uptown Jazz Café Level 1, 177 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy DESTA Night 9pm-late (doors 8.30pm) The Luwow Johnston Street, Fitzroy Tickets: Full $10/Conc $5 SATURDAY 20 Cubbies 2pm 4pm Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground), Cnr Condell & Young St, Fitzroy Opening Cubbies: transforming playground games into performance 2-4pm Cubbies Emerge Festival Closing Party 8pm-late (doors 7.30pm) The Workers Club, 51 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Tickets: $10/Conc $5 Cookin Up Community Vietnamese Cuisine 7pm-8.30pm Fitzroy Community Food Centre 4 5

4 Languages of Yarra Sunday 14 June,10am 7pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy trybooking.com/hlqg PBS 106.7FM Drive Live with Lalibelas ft. Nhatty Man Sunday 14 June, 3-5pm 23% of people residing in the City of Yarra speak a language other then English at home (from 2011 census). This is the reality of Yarra and what makes the city so unique in its food, art, fashion and culture. This Emerge festival will introduce you to some of the languages you may be hearing throughout the streets of Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond. Sessions: 10am-11am: Aunty Fay Stewart-Muir and Mandy Nicholson from the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages will teach the foundations of Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung 11.30am-1pm: Arabic with Hakeem Kasem 1.30pm-3pm: Join singer and songwriter Ajak Kwai for a Dinka language class taught through story and song 3.30pm-5pm: Mandarin with Hedy 5.30pm-7pm: Vietnamese with Thang Le An event you can enjoy in the comfort of your very own lounge chair! Tune into Flight 1067 to Africa, with presenter Stani Goma to hear a live set from Ethio-Jazz, Funk, Dancehall and Hip Hop assemblage The Lalibelas ft. Nhatty Man. Founded by Ethiopian bassist Yoseph H. Bekele and fronted by the acclaimed Nhatty Man, a household name in Ethiopia, the band interweave the musical and cultural motifs of its seven members drawing on their combined Ethiopian and Australian heritage. Set your dials to 106.7FM or stream it live, or on demand, at pbsfm.org.au. 6 7

5 The Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV) and Melbourne Playback Theatre present Refugee Week: an interactive performance Monday 15 June, pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy John Watts (ECCV), In a Melbourne Playback Theatre performance the audience s stories and experiences are the content of the performance. This is an opportunity to celebrate and share stories as part of Refugee Week. Stories that may touch on beginning another chapter of one s life in a new land - the achievements, the challenges, the unexpected and the unimagined. A Comedy Shindig Tuesday 16 June, 7.30pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy trybooking.com/hlrm Emerge Festival s inaugural comedy night brings together four distinct comedians whose laughs are grounded in usual places. Smashing stereotypes with humour and pulling up pollies with quick wit, there s nothing like a kick and a giggle to get you thinking differently about the world. The line up: Award winning comedian Nelly Thomas uses the power of funny to try and make the world a better place. Diana Nguyen Vietnamese-Australian/Australian-Vietnamese transforms into her alter ego Kim Huong Nguyen from Phi and Me and shows that Refugee mums are all tough love but they do really care. Especially if you become a doctor. No Drama. Sri Lankan-born Melbourne-based accountant-turned comedian Dilruk Jayasinha will swoon you with his charismatic storytelling and what it s like to be immigrateful. One-man whirlwind Kevin Kropinyeri shares tales of growing up, marriage and the particular experiences of life as an Aboriginal Australian family man. An Ethiopian dinner will be available for purchase, including vegetarian options and Teff grain (gluten-free) snacks 8 9

6 Cookin Up Community Monday 15 June, Wednesday 17 & Thursday 18 June, 7pm-8.30pm Fitzroy Community Food Kitchen (a volunteer will meet you out the front of 125 Napier Street, Fitzroy and direct you to the kitchen) trybooking.com/hlsh Over three evenings, Emerge Festival will plant itself amongst the leafy green surroundings of the Atherton Garden s Housing Estate community garden and kitchen for a series of cooking demonstrations, and of course tastings! Monday 15 June, 7pm-8.30pm Afghani Cuisine Robyn Hughan and Fatemah Ghullami from YUM-ME will treat you to the flavours of Afghanistan, sharing the secrets behind the popular Kaubli Pulow. Made with lamb, rice, raisons and carrots, this pilaf is Afghanistan s national dish, and is named after the capital Kabul. Wednesday 17 June, 7pm-8.30pm By Nyala African Restaurant The stomachs of Fitzroy have been pleasantly satisfied for over 28 years thanks to the culinary talents of Ermias Wondimu and his brother Soloman, who in 1987 set up Melbourne s first African restaurant Nyala, now one of Brunswick Street s longest trading businesses. From Sambosas to Ethiopian Ful, Kenyan Kuku Na Nazi, couscous and Injera, Nyala presents dishes from all four corners of the continent. Join Nyala co-owner Abby Hailemarim as she demonstrates the secrets behind one of her signature dishes on the Nyala menu. Thursday 18 June, 7pm-8.30pm Vietnamese Cuisine Yarra is famous for its unprecedented presence of Vietnamese cuisine. A place where community can conjugate and others can enjoy the vermicelli delights and phở-filled joy of this multicultural city. Learn how to make one of the most popular dishes in Vietnamese restaurants Bò Tái Chanh that blends beef with Rau Răm (Vietnamese coriander), Tía Tô (red perilla) and Ngò Ôm (rice paddy herb). Yarra Youth Services present Positive Relationships: Arts and Discussion Forum Wednesday 17 June, pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy trybooking.com/hobz Yarra Youth Ambassadors invite you to explore issues such as body image, family conflict, self-care, sexual health and more, through art, workshops, music, presentations and Q&A. The forum will look at the different types of relationships in life; with yourself, your loved ones and the world surrounding. Yarra Settlement Forum and Yarra City Council present Refugee Week Q&A Panel Thursday 18 June, 6pm-8.30pm Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier St, Fitzroy Cristina Del Frate on cristina.delfrate@yarracity.vic.gov.au Featuring: Julian Burnside AO QC Abe Nouk MC: Arnold Zable Performance by Afrovival! You will have the opportunity to hear from leading refugee advocates, ask questions and be entranced by their stories and perspectives. This is a event where light refreshments will also be served

7 Uptown Ethio-Jazz Workshop and Jam Session Friday 19 June, 6pm-8pm Uptown Jazz Café Level 1, 177 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy trybooking.com/hlsn Join Ethiopian piano virtuoso Daniel Seifu Atlaw as he demonstrates the intricacies of the five Ethiopian pentatonic scales, the foundation of the nation s rich musical culture. Following on from the workshop, Daniel invites you to join him on stage for an open improvised jam session with talented musicians from Melbourne s Ethiopian community*. After completing study at Ethiopia s prestigious Yared School of Music, Daniel Seifu Atlaw became a resident musician, teacher and composer at Addis Abeba s National Theatre. Since moving to Australia, Daniel has toured with renowned Ethiopian musicians Mohamed Ahmed and Aster Aweke and performs regularly with his own band the JAzmaris. *Bring your own instruments DESTA Night Friday 19 June, 9pm-late (doors 8.30pm) The Luwow Johnston Street, Fitzroy Tickets: Full $10/Conc $5 Opening Cubbies: transforming playground games into performance Saturday 20 June, 2-4pm Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground) Cnr Condell & Young St, Fitzroy Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground) was founded in 1974 in response to the needs of parents moved by the government from slum housing in inner-city Melbourne, into high rise towers. Cubbies is a safe backyard where kids from diverse backgrounds can play, explore, create and make friends. In the lead up to Emerge Festival, theatre makers Claudia Escobar and Brienna Macnish will gather moments of play and transform them into performance. The moments will be captured through film and sound, with a final site-specific installation set amongst and within the slippery slides and cubby houses. Full of adventure and imagination, the performance will take you down the rabbit-hole into a make believe world you ve never seen before. DESTA Entertainment presents a night of Eritrean and Ethiopian culture with performances from Snit Band, local DJs spinning contemporary Habesha tunes, folk dancers and projections created by visual artist Guled Abdulwasi. Grab a cocktail in the tiki-bar inspired Luwow and get grooving to the many unmistakable rhythms of this musically fertile part of the world

8 Emerge Festival Closing Party Saturday 20 June, 8pm-late (doors 7.30pm) The Workers Club, 51 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Tickets: Full $10/Conc $5 (presale at theworkersclub.com.au) Join us for Emerge in Yarra s final shebang, as artists from MAV s Visible Music Mentoring Program hit the stage at the Workers Club to get those goosebumps rising and limbs moving. Visible is a mentoring and collaborative project that links up artists from refugee and asylum seeker communities with established Australian musicians to build industry networks and portfolio materials such as professional recordings, photoshoots, videos and performance opportunities. The night will feature performances from Ethio-funk, jazz and reggae power-force The Lalibelas ft. Nhatty Man, the Black Orchid Stringband playing traditional bass, ukulele, tifa and three part harmonies from across West Papua, vocalist Saharnaz Kia who interweaves traditional Persian prose with contemporary rock, and Afghani-pop duo Reza Fezali and Mohammed Amiri. Cubbies Saturday 20 June, 2 4pm Cubbies Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground) Cnr Condell & Young St, Fitzroy (All ages) trybooking.com/hlqd Enjoy an afternoon in the creatively fertile Cubbies Adventure Playground, delving into diverse art and craft techniques with some of Melbourne s finest artisans and cultural purveyors. From Pacific Island weaving, to traditional Thai paper-cut flags, ittybitty seed planting, Henna and East Asian Printmaking, you ll find something for all ages, big and small. The artists: Vicki Kinai hails from Mt Hagen in Papua New Guinea, she is a master weaver and bilum (string bag) maker, the national symbol for all Papua New Guineans. UB is a community artist, focused on participatory process of collaborative creativity. She will teach the art of Tuo ben 拓本, a traditional printmaking technique, invented in Ancient China. Nakarin Jaikla will facilitate the creation of paper-cut Tang flags, a decorative feature of traditional ceremonies celebrated as part of the Lanna (Northern Thai) culture. Mu Naw Poe and Shuklay Tahpo have been studying tapestry weaving at the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Their work is informed by the traditional cloth weaving of their homelands Myanmar, whilst reflecting the joy of living in their new home Australia. Neeta Patel is the founder of Ada Henna, sharing the ancient Indian body art of Henna/Mehendi, a symbol of good luck. Plus seed planting, music and instrument making and an Ethiopian lunch and coffee ceremony from Saba s Health Foods

9 Etch This: Young Artists Residency & Exhibition Resident artists: Guled Abduwasi, Ayel Akot and Souma Ahmadi Friday 19 June Friday 3 July (open Thursday-Saturday, 12noon-4pm) The Ownership Project, Level 1/110 Johnston St, Fitzroy Opening reception: Thursday 18 June, 6pm 8pm Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with the The Ownership Project presents Etch This, a three-month arts residency and exhibition for young emerging artists from culturally diverse backgrounds residing in the City of Yarra. The young artists - Guled Abdulwasi, Ayel Akot and Souma Ahmadi - were introduced to the art of printmaking under the guidance of experienced printmakers Minela Krupic and Sean Smith. Creating new work around the theme of This is Yarra, they will explore their neighborhood and find characteristics that define the streets, urban architecture, their everyday surroundings and experiences within the City of Yarra. Minela Krupic is a former refugee from Bosnia and graduated from the University of Melbourne s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in printmaking. She is one of the successful recipients of the University of Melbourne, Professional Pathways Scholarship of the Faculty of VCA and MCM which has enabled her to work at MAV for a year (March ) and develop skills in project management and community engagement as well as her own expertise as an artist. Etch This, as part of Emerge in Yarra, is produced by The Ownership Project in partnership with Multicultural Arts Victoria and supported by the Creative Victoria, City of Yarra and the University of Melbourne, Professional Pathways Scholarship of the Faculty of VCA and MCM. Saba s Health Foods Saba founded Saba s Health Food to make Teff accessible to all Australians. As an Ethiopian-Australian growing up eating Teff and having a coeliac younger sister, she wanted to bring this super grain to all Australians. Teff is an ancient Ethiopian grain, packed with nutrition and naturally gluten free. Saba will be present at all the events selling Teff grain bakery products, tea and coffee. She will also be feeding the masses with a specially cooked Ethiopian lunch, dinner and Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony at A Comedy Shindig on Tuesday 16th June & the Cubbies on Saturday 20th June. Guled Abdulwasi Emerge in Yarra illustrator & projectionist Guled Abdulwasi is a multidisciplinary artist based at the Yarra Youth Services Art Studio with mentor Chris Parkinson and is completing a Bachelor of Design (Architecture) at Deakin University. Primarily inspired by culture and geometry and drawing from his research in Pop Art, abstract art and Cubism, Guled works across visual media exploring the relationship between art, architecture, space and our cultural and social interactions with these aspects of our built environment. He has also recently commenced a mentorship with print-maker Minela Krupic. Guled s works have been exhibited in Emerge Festival 2014, Signal Screen Commissions 2014 and he was a finalist in the City of Yarra unearthed Prize presented at Collingwood Gallery. Guled has created the artwork for the Emerge Festival promotional material. His projections will be showing as part of the DESTA Night at Luwow and the Emerge Festival Closing Party at The Workers Club. His printmaking work will also be exhibited at The Ownership Project as part of Etch This. He s pretty much the star of the show

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