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Toumani Diabaté's Symmetric Orchestra bring their high energy, super-charged celebration of Mali music to Melbourne for one night only...more.
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Mix It Up
Jan 10
2010
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Multicultural Arts Victoria's - End of Year Party @ Queen Victoria Market
Hear the sweet soul reggae sounds of Blak Roots plus experience 'All in White or Bright!' percussion and dance party with Tumbarumba percussionists and dancers. All percussion instruments provided and no prior experience needed, just a sense of FUN!! Wear your favourite whites or bright coloured clothing hats costumes and trinkets...more.
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Key Event
Queen Victoria Market
16 Dec
2009
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As part of the Unite Festival 2009, Multicultural Arts Victoria presents 'Do the Right Thing' - an exploration of music and culture as instruments for social change through Discussion, Performance and workshops...more.
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Connect Youth
Dec 13
2009
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Tablet is a new performance art work by Miachael Hornblow involving Dance | Video | Sound | Architectural Installation | Kinetic Sculpture...more.
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Dec 11 & 12
2009
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Urban Prose Compilation CD launch @ Signal features performances by over twenty groups of culturally diverse young MC's, Vocalists, DJ's and dancers representing Melbourne and Sydney's fresh new faces in the Hip Hop and Urban Music community...more.
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Connect Youth
Dec 11
2009
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Be tantalised by the ancient sounds of the didgeridoo, kora and shamisen in the Salon. Hear rich vocals from Samoa and Italy in the Audi Foyer and be entranced by the beautiful vocals of Ria Soemardjo with Fine Blue Thread and Zulya Kamalova with the Children of the Underground, in the acoustic excellence of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall...more.
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Music Deli
Dec 6
2009
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The City of Melbourne continues its successful annual program of commissioning a series of temporary artworks for the public domain. They are seeking innovative proposals from artists or groups of artists which respond to Melbourne's distinct urban setting, and that will make a strong contribution to the city's cultural vitality in 2010...more.
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City of Melbourne
Dec 1
2009
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A cutting edge 60 minute documentary film that captures the fascinating development of two groups of young Sudanese refugees in Melbourne: A-MCs, a group of Sudanese school age boys based in Dandenong who write and perform hip hop music; and a group of four young Sudanese school age girls based in Melbourne's west who learn and perform hip hop dance and music as part of Jungle City Massive...more.
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Launch: Nov 30 &
Dec 14
2009
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Local and international contemporary artists will participate in this inaugural arts and performance festival to be held in Melaka in November this year...more.
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tyc
27 - 29
Nov 2009
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Experience the Suzuki Night Market when it returns on Wednesday nights throughout summer. Queen Victoria Market in association with MAV present some of Melbourne's best world music ensembles & dance artists on two stages between 5.30-10pm every Wednesday. It's the place to be this summer for weird and wonderful wares (200+ stalls), world food, world music & Bars
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Wednesdays
Nov 25 2009 - Feb 24
2010
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Experience Djan Djan & Dya Singh in a crosscultural
fusion of contemporary Indian sounds. "Diabate, Lang & Singh meld mellifluously...this almost definitive world musical trio breathtakingly demonstrates what synergy really means" Australian Stage...more.
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Mix It Up
Nov 22
2009
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Experience this evening of joyous song, great music and exciting dance with the Angels' Voices Band along with King Bell, Martinse Kanda and Shepparton's own Tara Smith...more.
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Shepparton
Nov 21 2009
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Come down to the Arts Centre's BlackBox and experience Blak Roots - some of the rarest vocal talent to hit our shores in recent times and an all original repertoire of soulful African Reggae tunes. They will be joining forces and voices with the new Congolese crew about town, French rappers the NG Boys and a'cappella group Kundalila...
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Mix It Up
Visible
Nov 15
2009
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New Scool Worx @ Loop will showcase new work created by Melbourne's most inspiring up-coming Hip Hop artists and film-makers. Multicultural Arts Victoria's New Scool Rulez project and the Youthworx Media project have seen an explosion of talented young people, from diverse backgrounds, step up and take their skills to a whole new level...more.
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Connect Youth
Nov 12
2009
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An Eye for and Eye highlights the diversity of artistic insight that Indian communities bring to visual arts in Victoria.
The exhibition features the work of photographer Sudeep Lingamneni and painter/sculptor Maitreyi Ray, who each brings a deep sense of multicultural identity and experience to the City Library gallery space...more.
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Mix It Up
Opening 4 Nov
Nov 4-29
2009
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The Cultural Intersections Residency Series explores new creative processes in an intercultural and cross-artform context. Over two nights, four groups of artists present their dynamic work at the Fitzroy Town Hall after a week of experimental creative development...more.
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Oct 31
2009
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Join us @ Iwaki Auditorium and experience Accordian virtuoso Enzo Toppano and son Dean Toppano, with Sanfona, featuring local accordion sensation George Butrumlis...more.
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Music Deli
Oct 30
2009
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Join us @ Melbourne Town Hall for Seniors Week on Friday 9 October and experience
a multicultural concert including artists from Africa, China, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Bolivia, Ireland and Indigenous performers...more.
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Oct 9
2009
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The Arts Centre in partnership with MAV presents the hottest contemporary Latin electro-rock band from Colombia, mixing pop, funk and soul sounds to the vitality, excitement and energy of South American rhythms...more.
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Mix It Up
Oct 4
2009
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This exhibition shows a series of print and collage works about ideas of homeland, identity and belonging and how these ideas change with time. Symbolic forms representing different cultures embody the melding of traditions of husband and wife Pakistani artists Naeem Rana and Nusra Latif Qureshi...more.
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kultour
Opening: 29 Sep
Exhibition: 29 Sep - 8 Nov
2009
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What breed of dog is best? At ArtPlay we're all about mongrels, those mixed up mutts that celebrate the best of every breed. We have 120 mongrels, part reshaped teddy bear and part children's imagination, coming to visit ArtPlay. Artist Mai Long has worked with school students to create these remarkably playful pooches.
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Launch: 29 Sep
Exhibition: 29 Sept - 4 Oct
2009
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Come down to the Arts Centre's BlackBox and experience the combined talents of singer/song writer Jess Harlen with her soul, roots, urban tracks, the smooth, irresistible sounds of Brown Roots Collective and up and coming urban hip hop & r'n'b crew First Verse with their phat bass, melodic flows and sweet harmonies...more.
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Mix It Up
Visible
Sep 6
2009
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The Cultural Intersections Residency Series explores new creative processes in an intercultural and cross-artform context. Over two nights, four groups of artists present their dynamic work at the Fitzroy Town Hall after a week of experimental creative development...more.
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Sep 4
2009
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Participate in thie weekend workshop that introduces Javenese dance and a focus on
the 'Horse Spirit' - a basic Dance technique.
Agung Gunawan is a master in Javanese classical dance in Surya Kencana and at the Kraton (Palace). Agung will make his link between traditional and the contemporary...more.
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tyc
Aug 29-30
2009
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The Buddha My Body - A Palimpsest investigates an eastern perspective on corporeal memory - the body with memory and the body without memory. The characters float within memory and wander through their daily lives, wafting in and out between the two...more.
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tyc
Aug 20-23
2009
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Celebrate Ukraine's National Day - Exhibitions, Workshops & Concert: Free
Experience a whirlwind of cossack dancing, a feast of Ukrainian song, intricate and beautiful Ukrainian folk art including pysanky (easter eggs) and embroidery demonstrations, workshops and exhibitions - Enjoy Ukrainian cuisine and beverages and vibrant cossack dancing, folk art, exhibitions and workshops at BMW Edge, Federation square...more.
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Development
15 Aug 2009
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Experience this live Visible Session @ BlackBox on Sunday August 12 with Kutcha Edwards and Ajak Kwai Band - Black Harmonies...more.
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Mix It Up
Visible
Aug 12
2009
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In This Together is a curated video series exploring Arabness from a broad social, political and religious spectrum, aiming to address (mis)representations of Arab culture through film...more.
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kultour
9 Aug Melbourne
16-21 Aug Darwin
22-29 Aug Malak
8 Aug Bienal Ventosul, Brazil
2009
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Experience the Kavisha Mazzella Trio, made up of Aria Award winning singer songwriter Kavisha on vocals, guitar and accordian, Irini Vela from the greek band the haBiBis on bazouki, mandolin and guitar and Peter Vadiveloo on Percussion...more.
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Regional Arts Victoria
Aug 6-31
2009
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Be part of a musical revolution on Sunday July 26th as contemporary and traditional African cultures come together in a massive showcase at Hamer Hall to launch the annual Visible CD.
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Visible
Emerge
Mix It Up
July 26
2009
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Experience the Fresh - Mix It Up Jam session @ the Art Centre's Black Box on Sund 12 July 5pm-8pm as part of MAV's Mix It Up series. Hip Hop, RnB and soulful vibes - upcoming MC's, Vocalists, and Beatmakers mash it up with the veteran MC Elf Tranzporter, and his multi-talented LO2's Fleet featuring DJ TakaCo, Bboy Lamaroc, Vida-Sunshyne, TWOONE...Keepin the dance floor vibes alive - DJ Kuya and Nomadic Funk will lend their skills to an afternoon of jammin', freestylin' and fresh sounds...more.
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Connect Youth
Mix It Up
Visible
Emerge
Jul 12
2009
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A Tribute to the Women of Rebetika (the Greek blues) - is an
all female cast, featuring an ensemble of local and international artists,
performing songs of love, desire, displacement, sorrow and survival...more.
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Jul 5
2009
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Experience a journey into the depth of ancient Persia lead by the Mehr Ensemble where the sounds of historic Persian instruments played within the framework ancient musical modal systems reincarnates the embedded energies that lift the souls of the lovers of cultural music...more.
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Perth Jul 4
Adelaide Jul 17 & 19
Sydney Aug 1
Brisbane Aug 14
2009
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Experience the first of these unique sessions, featuring two unique acts jamming it out live on stage: The Black Jesus Experience, an exciting blend of traditional Ethiopian song with jazz, funk and hip-hop and Culture Connect - a refreshing, upbeat, progressive 7 piece live hip hop act featuring artists from some of the planet's most exotic locations...more.
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Mix It Up
Visible
Jun 28
2009
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Hosted by ABC Music Deli's Paul Petran, a beautiful concert of exquisite music for voices and strings from Turkey, Afghanistan, Japan and India, made in Australia...more.
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Music Deli
Emerge
June 24
2009
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With an inspiring backdrop of the Love Burma Love Freedom exhibition, the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria is hosint an important forum during Refugee Week to discuss the plight of the Burmese people on the Thai/Burmese border...more.
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Emerge
June 17
2009
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Attracting capacity audiences in past years, Emerge Festival commemorates the United Nations World Refugee Day and celebrates Refugee Week in Australia. From Africa to the Far East, from the traditional to the contemporary, from the emerging to the established, music, dance, visual arts, exotic foods, ancient crafts and ceremonies...more.
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Emerge
Jun 21
2009
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This showing in Melbourne follows a successful presentation of the first phase of this collaboration in April 2009 at Studio Eve, Tokyo. The artists have examined the myth of the Phoenix and found through its detailed journey their individual and universal connection...more.
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International
Jun 19
2009
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Love Burma Love Freedom is...about the rich culture of the South East Asian country...the people and culture of Burma." Andrea Draper, digital artist...more.
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Emerge
June 16 - 27
2009
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Take part in the FRESH 2009 montly professional development training sessions
that includes mentorship and recording leading to performance outcomes...more.
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Connect Youth
Emerge
Apr 18-Oct 17
2009
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Presented and produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria, this dynamic arts festival celebrates Victoria's many diverse refugee and emerging cultures with a series of amazing performances and unique cultural experiences around Melbourne from 16 June to 26 July...more.
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Emerge
Jun 16 - Jul 26
2009
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Meet and gain invaluable knowledge from International Urban music artists. The first installment of the Fresh International Networks sessions welcome's Y-Love, the 'multilingual MC phenomenon taking the world by storm'. Y-Love who hails from Brooklyn, New York will be lending his knowledge and wisdom to MAV's Fresh participants...more.
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Connect Youth
June 14
2009
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Eleftheria Arvanitaki is considered the voice of contemporary Greece. A brilliant, unique and captivating performer, she is an internationally acclaimed artist with numerous awards and Greek platinum records. Her career spans over twenty years, inspiring many songwriters to compose for her...more.
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Mix It Up
May 24
2009
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First of the Buddha Body series, experience this work-in-progress showing focussing on Malaysian shamanistic trance-practice. tyc has recently been awarded the Emerging
Key Organisation Grant from the Dance Board of
the Australia Council for the Arts...more.
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tyc
May 9
2009
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Find out about the 2010 Arts Grants Program of the City of Melbourne. Melbourne is Living the Arts every day. The City of Melbourne is committed to an environment where the people of Melbourne can participate in the arts, where artists and creative industries are encouraged and where Indigenous art and culture is valued and respected. Deadline for applications is Friday 22 May ...more.
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City of Melbourne
Apr 28
2009
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Cafe Rebetika! An Epic story of the heart. Theatre, cabaret, music and dance unite in the exotic and gutsy sub-culture of Greek rebetika. The production is conceived and directed by Stephen Helper. Cafe Rebetika! features an award winning cast led by Tony Nikolakopoulos (Head On, The Wog Boy) and live music by Rebetiki...more.
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Mix It Up
Apr 22 - May 9
2009
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The delegation will strengthen relationships between the Peoples Republic of China and Australia by sharing knowledge and experiences related to Multicultural Affairs. The delegation is designed to give an understanding of the Peoples Republic of China and its 56 ethnic minority groups as well as developing opportunities for collaborative work of the delegates in their respective fields...more.
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International
AMF
Apr 17 - 25
2009
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The myth of the Phoenix resonates in Chinese, Japanese, Ancient Greek and early Christian mythology, and the details of this myth have inspired four distinct artists to develop a performance...more.
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International
Japan
Apr 17
2009
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Tinariwen are the kings and queens of 'Assouf' or guitar poetry from the Sahara Desert. Their rolling yearning grooves and uncompromising messages of simplicity and freedom, distilled over twenty years of struggle, rebellion and exile, have earned them two BBC World Music Award nominations, countless accolades. Performing for one night only in Melbourne, Tinariwen is not to be missed...more.
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Mix It Up
Apr 8
2009
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Cultural Diversity Week is already a highlight on Victoria’s cultural calendar and the celebrations have just become a whole lot more exciting with the addition of a new multicultural festival. Two stages of music from around world, a vibrant marketplace of quality handmade products and an exceptional selection of traditional foods will transform Fed Square into a global fiesta. Don't miss a performance by Felix Baloy from the Afro Cuban All Stars, who will be joined by Kenny López Havana Connection, plus much, much more...more.
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Key Event
21 Mar
2009
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The students of New Star Art School present this beatiful exhibition of hand painted shopping bags using the there 'Loving Nature'...more.
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Cultural Diversity Week
Opening Mon 16 Mar
15 -21 Mar
2009
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Black harmony gathering for Elimination of Racism Day & Cultural Diversity Week 2009 is a sensational showcase of Melbourne's best Indigenous, African, Polynesian and culturally diverse musicians. Say no to racism, held in the heart of Indigenous land and multicultural communities on the banks of the Yarra River...more.
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Harmony
15 Mar
2009
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Come & find out more about funding available from the Australia Council for the Arts Music Board at an info session with Program Officer Peter Keogh. The music board is committed to supporting and promoting a strong arts sector that effectively reflects & celebrates Australia's cultural diversity...more.
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Australia Council
2 Mar 2009
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Inspired by the title of a poem by Australian writer Henry Lawson, Past Caring is an inter-disciplinary theatrical collaboration involving artists from Singapore and Australia...more.
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International
tyc
Singapore
25 Feb -1 Mar
2009
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The Suzuki Night Market returns on Wednesday nights throughout summer.
Experience some of Melbourne's best world music ensembles & dance artists on two stages from 6.30pm. It's the place to be this summer for wonderful wares (200+ stalls), world food, world music & bars...more.
Download Night Market Program
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Key Event
Queen Victoria Market
Wed nights
26 Nov 2008 -
25 Feb 2009
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Experience Mandinka Sound featuring
two extraordinarily talented Melbourne based West African acts:
One Africa (Senegal/Gambia) & Muhanamwe (Guinea). Through music, dance and song, this unique show will take audiences on a journey that traces West African culture in contemporary Australia back to its roots in the ancient Mandinka empire of West Africa...more.
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kultour
11 Feb
2009
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An epic, rapid-fire celebration of Gypsy life & song combining the power of the brass section of the legendary Fanfare Ciocarlia with the Gitano guitars of Kaloome & the soul of the great voices of the Roma community.
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Mix It Up
Jan 18
2009
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