FUSION - Arts & law

ARTS LAW WEEK LAUNCH

6-8pm (6.30 start), Monday 7 May
the Arts Centre, ANZ Pavilion
ONLY BY RSVP by Thursday 3 May to 9417 6777 or office@multiculturalarts.com.au
or SMS "FUSION" + your NAME to 0424 138 689

FUSION Arts Law Week Launch

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    MEDIA COVERAGE OF EVENT

  • The Sydney Morning Herald, Performances: Top judge beats rap, Tuesday 4 May 2007.
  • The Age, Melbourne, 'Judege Jerry' gives artists the word, Tuesday 4 May 2007.

    Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with the Arts Law Centre of Australia and the Victorian Arts Law Consortium proudly present 'FUSION' - THE LAUNCH OF ARTS LAW WEEK VICTORIA - Monday 7 May 2007

    JUDGES AND HIP HOP ARTISTS COMBINE FORCES TO CELEBRATE AUSTRALIA’S DIVERSITY

    'FUSION - Arts & Law' will launch this year's Victorian Arts Law Week - where judges and hip hop artists will combine forces to create never-seen-before performances. FUSION kicks off at 6.00 for a 6.30pm start at the Arts Centre, ANZ Pavilion, on Monday 7 May 2007.

    FUSION will showcase debut performances by four highly acclaimed and culturally diverse artists. Joel Ma from 'TZU', MCs Azmarino and Momo from 'Diafrix' , Elf Tranzporter and Mita & Reuben Kaa as '2XL' have collaborated with some of Australia's most brilliant legal minds to create original work focused on human rights - this year’s theme for Victoria Arts Law Week. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, member of the High Court of Australia, Justice Marcia Neave AO, Judge Felicity Hampel and Julian Burnside QC, have each provided the artists with an item of inspiration. The new Victorian Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Lynne Kosky MP, will also be attending. The event will be free.

    PERFORMERS

    MCs Azmarino & Momo from Diafrix - a rare blend of new Australian urban with an African bent. Their music delivers rhymes that flow from English to French to Swahili and back again. Combine two parts Hip-Hop with one part Soul, add a twist of Dancehall and you are well on the way. Off the stage, an important component of Diafrix’ work is educating youth in schools and youth centres about racism, refugee issues and advocacy. See http://www.diafrix.com/

    Joelistics (Joel Ma from TZU) MC, producer, multi instrumentalist and Ray Charles impersonator. Performed at Arts Law Week 2006 Launch alongside Justice Heerey. Joelistics' interest in hiphop grew out of an adolescent love for swearing and a natural lean towards social and political comment. As a teenager in the late 90's he was the antithesis of the Howard/Hanson version of Australia. Joelistics has acted in plays, had poems published in magazines, has facilitated workshops in schools and prisons and thought long and hard about the nature of reality. He considered a career in terrorism but discovered music to be much more effective. Joelistics has a well-earned reputation as an electrifying performer, equally at ease with an intimate spoken word audience as he is with a ten thousand-strong festival crowd. His attitude can best be summed up with this: "In my bat belt I've got three main tools: a dose of common sense, a sense of humour and a truck load of funk. My mission is clear. I'm here to change the world."

    He is a member of one of Australia's most popular hiphop groups 'TZU' where he moonlights as a rapper, a producer and a raconteur. In his own words, "I'm interested in telling stories, in forging originality, in painting details that make us feel more human. I'm trying to coax forth the best qualities I can in my music. The parts of us that are proud to be different, that willfully fight against injustice, that love passionately and dream dangerously. The parts that are sublime, ridiculous and above all honest." See http://www.tzu.com.au/.

    Elf Tranzporter
    MC/ BeatBoxer/ Producer / DJ - Born in Los Angeles, California, 1967 (Australian resident since 1992) Marlon Ray G. Porter, aka. Elf Tranzporter, (ex- MetaBassnBreath) maintains a prominent live-show presence within Melbourne's infamous hiphop, dub and electronic music scene accompanied by shows before large audiences in the US.

    Combining musical, poetical and political realms, Elf blends a unique style of eclectic musicality with politically charged lyricism with a mission to "serenade the barricade" in his own words. Supporting Elf’s sonic journeys include schools and youth centres around Sydney, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, The Basement, Sydney, appearing at the Big Day Out, 2001 and 2002, Channel V, Adelaide Festival 2002. The last two decades hail a range of collaborations including with Q-Bert, Black Eyed Peas, (S.O.B. '98 NYC, w/MB'n'B), Spearhead, Run DMC, and The Roots. Check out www.combatwombat.org and www.championnation.net for Elf’s solo and collaborative works.

    Mita Kaa & Reuben Kaa as 2XL
    From caberet to pop and back through rnb and rock, this duo performs true feel-good music with a hiphop edge. X-Factor finalists, Mita and Reuben perform as 2XL, blending Mita’s musical background of Stevie Wonder and Tom Jones, with Reuben’s rnb and hiphop influences. This eclectic mix resonates with soul, old school rnb, fused with the rhythm and rhymes of new rnb and hiphop.

    LAW PROFESSIONALS

    Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, member of the High Court of Australia

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  • Courage Speech, 'FUSION' - The Launch of Arts Law Week Victoria Melbourne, Monday 7 May 2007.

    Julian Burnside QC

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    Justice Marcia Neave AO

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    Judge Felicity Hampel.

    Her Honour Judge Felicity Hampel SC was appointed to the County Court of Victoria in 2005, after commencing practice as a barrister in 1981. In 1996, Judge Hampel was appointed Queen’s Counsel, converting to Senior Counsel in 2001.

    Judge Hampel joined the Board of Trinity College in 2005. She is also a part-time Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission, a member of the Board and Management Committee of the Australian Advocacy Institute, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Monash University, an Advisory Board member of the Castan Centre for Human Rights, and a Steering Committee member of the International Institute for Forensic Studies.

    Her Honour is a former President of Liberty Victoria, and a founding member of Australian Women Lawyers and the Women Barristers Association. She has been Vice Chair of the Victorian Bar Readers Course Committee, a Board Member of the Royal Women’s Hospital, and a member of the Victorian Committee of Musica Viva, RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee, and the Victorian Bar Equality before the Law Committee.

    LAUNCH

    The event will be launched by the new Victorian Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Lynne Kosky MP.

    MORE INFORMATION

  • For further media information, please contact Jade Enge, 0422 693 429.
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    PROUDLY SPONSORED BY

           

           

    LEAD LEGAL SPONSOR

    MAJOR LEGAL SPONSORS

                                       
       
                                       

    PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

    The Victorian Arts Law Consortium: Arts Access Victoria, Arts Industry Council (Victoria), Arts Management Advisory Group, Ausdance Victoria, Australia Business Arts Foundation, Express Media, Melbourne Fringe, Next Wave, OPENChannel, Public Interest Law Clearing House and Victorian Writers’ Centre.

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