Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Fair Square and Youth for Human Rights Australia presents...

Do The Right Thing - Unite Festival 2009 @ Federation Square

Sunday 13 December 12:00pm - 5:00pm
@ BMW Edge Ampitheatre, Federation Square, Melbourne

Celebrating and creating dialogue through Art, Music and Trade for a better World

Do The Right Thing Media Release

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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.

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Do the Right thing brings together a panel of young culturally diverse community arts leaders from all over Australia to create a dialogue around the Human Rights issues facing young people from emerging communities and disadvantaged backgrounds and to look at how music, art, performance and culture can act as a vehicle toward healing, having a voice and creating real and meaningful social change.

Artists

Special guests invited to speak on the panel include Yarrie and Isatah, two young dancers, MC's and vocalist from Sydney representing the Marrickville based Sierra Leone performance group and who rap about their experiences of war in their mother land.

Also on the panel are young Somalian’s Ramla and Lucky representing the Adelaide based GO-GO Performance project, Big Dubs - a young Sudanese rapper from Melbourne, Claudia and Jorge representing the Mi Amigo International - an art exchange project between Australian and Colombian young people, and Nik Mackay from the Key Change Music project.

Guest performers and workshop presenters include Mondli, a South African born Zulu dancer, actor and Opera Singer who has toured the world's stage in productions such as 'The Mighty Zulu Nation, with theatre companies such as 'The Pride of the Zulu'.

Unite Festival Program & Poster

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UNITE main event at Fed Square including Do the Right Thing Forum, workshops and performances featuring young culturally diverse leaders in the Arts from Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide - exploring the power of music and culture in the pursuit of Human Rights and positive social change

Yarrie