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Festival of All Nations, 1977; hip hop and performance artist Candy Bowers at the Melbourne Fringe, 2010;


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...Arts and Cultural Diversity in Victoria - Listen to Professor Andrew Jakubowicz discuss the events and issues surrounding this topic. Read text commentary

Arts Stories


Interviews:
Fotis Kapetopoulos on cultural diversity and the arts in Victoria - Fotis Kapetopoulos runs Kape arts consultancy. He was the former head of Multicultural Arts Victoria, and an active member of the Australia Council's Multicultural Arts Committee. He also edits the online newspaper for the Greek community, Neos Cosmos. - More ...

History:
A personal history of multicultural arts in Victoria - Fotis Kapetopoulos, a long time activist around multicultural arts, describes and analyses the rise of culturally diverse arts as an important dimension of the Victorian arts scene. - More ...
Artworks: Multicultural Arts - tracing its images of development - From its early evolution in the Spoleto Festival and the Festival of All Nations, through the Shell Folkloric to the contemporary diversity of multiple festivals, Victoria's celebration of Diversity through the arts is tracked here through performance and other posters. (Collection: Fotis Kapetopoulos) - More ...
MMA Links: Multicultural Arts Victoria - Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) provides critical development opportunities for artists from culturally diverse backgrounds, to establish themselves in the Victorian arts scene. - More ...

Interviews:
Jill Morgan, Director, Multicultural Arts Victoria, 2008 - Jill Morgan describes the development and goals of Multicultural Arts Victoria: she is also interviewed on the Mix It Up videos. - More ...

Interviews:
Khalid Abdulwahib, youth development worker, MAV, 2008 - Khalid Abdulwahib (aka MC Azmarino in Diafrix hip hop) discusses issues in developing opportunities for emerging artists from new communities. He is also interviewed on the Mix It Up videos. - More ...
MMA Links: Local Noise interviews Khalid Abdulwahib, MC Azmarino, 2007 - Sydney academics Tony Mitchell and Alastair Pennycook interview Khalid Abdulwahib on the work of Melbourne hip hop group Diafrix. - More ...
MMA Links: Diafrix MySpace page - Diafrix My Space page explores the music of the group, their influences and their fan relationships. - More ...
Performances: Mix It Up - Discovery - Newly arrived musicians discover their opportunities to become performers in Australia through Mix It Up, a joint Victorian Arts Centre and Multicultural Arts Victoria Project - More ...
Performances: Mix It Up - Learning and Creating - In workshops and with mentors, new immigrant musicians build their knowledge about performance and their skills in working in Australian contexts - More ...
Performances: Mix It Up - Growing - Building on their training and personal capacities, new immigrant musicians build powerful performances drawing a diversity of new audiences to the Arts Centre and other venues - More ...
Performances: Mix It Up - Community Voices - They are more than performers, they are advocates and ambassadors for their communities, with music becoming the form through which dialogue begins. - More ...
Artworks: Arts Centre Performance Posters 2006 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these posters from events in 2006. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Posters 2007 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these posters from events in 2007. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Posters 2008 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these posters from events in 2008. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Posters 2009 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these posters from events in 2009. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Images 2006 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these images from events in 2006. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Images 2008 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these images from events in 2008. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Image Collections: Arts Centre Performance Images 2009 - Cultural diversity at the Victorian Arts Centre is conveyed through these images from events in 2009. Some are more "community", some more "professional", all tie together the people of Victoria as performers and audiences. - More ...
Submissions: Mix It Up on Cultural Citizenship - Multicultural Arts: Cultural Citizenship for the 21st century Transcripts: Mix It Up project presented by Milos Milandinovic, The Arts Centre; Ruth Rentschler, Deakin University; Stefan Romaniw, Multicultural Arts Victoria. Presentation made by Multicultural Arts Victoria to symposium on Multicultural Arts for the Australia Council at Parliament House, Canberra - More ...

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Brunswick Stories

Image Collections: Brunswick Music Festival, 2006 - The Sydney Road Jazz and Music Festival closes off the main road through the suburb for a series of musical events drawn from across the globe. These images come mainly from 2006, with a couple from 2008 and 2009 (latter by Elizabeth Gilliam). - More ...
Image Collections: Brunswick Baths Mural - Originally painted in 1985, the Brunswick Public Baths mural has been faded by time, and attacked by vandals. It still retains the vigour of an authentic public art work, created by community artists, that captured a moment in the suburb's and Melbourne's multicultural history. (Brunswick City Baths) - More ...

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Shepparton Stories

Image Collections: Chinese Gardens, International Village, Shepparton - Originally built as a tourist attraction and work creation project in the 1970s, the Village was strongly supported by local business and ethnic leaders. The village began to need renovation, and the local government commissioners decommissioned the site in 1996. The Japanese Folk Museum was destroyed by arson in 1997. Shepparton Council in 2000 proposed to demolish the village and sell the land for housing. A six year fight to save the historic and architecturally valuable site was lost in 2006. In 2009 a small area behind the Council was refashioned as a Chinese lake. - More ...

Performances:
Angels Voices rehearsal - Angels Voices is a Shepparton based group of young singers, all refugees, whose African-beat church music has been transformed into an infectious public performance. Here they rehearse in November 2009, in the Uniting church hall. - More ...

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