Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) is the only organisation of its kind in the State. Essentially MAV provides opportunities and support structures to artists and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as offering culturally diverse art to the public at large...read more EVENTS VISIBLE Free Concert @ The Arts Centre (Hamer Hall) Be part of a musical revolution on Sunday July 20th as contemporary and traditional African, Pacific, West Papuan and Indigenous cultures come together in a massive showcase concert at Hamer Hall to launch the annual Visible CD. Arrive early at 2pm and enjoy an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony, digital art and cultural displays from local African, Indigenous and Pacific communities and live performances by Hard Hustle, Afro Habesha Band, St.Bakhita’s Choir and much more...more. Visible Emerge MIX IT UP Jul 20 dis-location: intercultural collaboration Australia & Singapore Melbourne based Tony Yap Company in partnership with MAV will be hosting a visit from 5 artists from the Singapore based company The Necessary Stage (TNS) in July. The project culminates in a showing...more. Singapore-Australia Creative development: Jul 15-22 Showing: Jul 22 Drums and Lions Drums and Lions allows audiences to be transported to East Africa in this unique musical collaboration between Maltese Australian reggae dynamo Nicky Bomba and Ethiopian born Azmari musician Dereb Desalegn. Touring QLD, NSW, NT, SA and VIC...more. kultour 2 Aug Brisbane 3 Aug Bangalow 28 Aug Darwin 30 Aug Katherine INDONESIA Pusaka with Punakawan Quartet @ The Arts Centre Celebrated pianist Jaya Suprana will escort Melbourne audiences on a rich musical journey through the Indonesian archipelago. Joined by guitarist Jubing Kristanto, percussionist Junaedi Musliman and bass player Heru Kusnadi, Punakawan Quartet specialises in the timeless sufi music of Indonesia, presented with a very contemporary style...more. MIX IT UP Aug 9 REDSPAN Dance Company - Xing, White Fan and The Treasure Redspan Dance Company’s work has an original character and style of its own, expressing a complex and subtle aesthetic which reveals an intimacy, elegance, simplicity and abstract grace. It represents a unique and personal expression of an emerging Chinese culture as it engages with the rest of the world, as told through its recent diaspora...more. kultour 6 Sep Melbourne 10-14 Sep Sydney MULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA 25th BIRTHDAY - Melbourne International Arts Festival Opening The year 2008 marks two significant occasions, the 25th anniversary of the unique cultural organisation Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) and the opening of 23rd Melbourne International Arts Festival. As part of the 25th anniversary, Multicultural Arts Victoria and the Melbourne International Arts Festival have combined forces to present, a massive free concert at Federation Square on Thursday October 9th from 6pm...more. MAV MIAF Oct 9 MULTICULTURAL ARTS VICTORIA 25th BIRTHDAY - Black Jesus Experience at the Famous Speigel Tent (the party continues) The party will continue at the famous Speigel Tent, the Arts Centre, Forecourt, on the Sat 18th October 7pm where Black Jesus Experience a nine piece Afro-Jazz-hip hop ensemble will play. Black Jesus Experience is led by composer and multi instrumentalist Peter Harper who has created an exciting blend of contemporary and traditional Ethiopian song...more. MAV MIAF Oct 18 EMERGE FESTIVAL Presented and produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria, this dynamic arts festival celebrates Victoria’s many diverse refugee and emerging cultures in a series of exciting events around Melbourne from June 10th to July 20th. From Africa to the Far East, from the emerging to the established, from the traditional to the contemporary, music, dance, film, visual arts, cultural foods, crafts and ceremonies - there is something for everyone!...more. Emerge PAST EVENTS PAST EVENTS: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 Past events NEWS VISIBLE IN THE PRESS - African beats hall of fame (The Age Preview, Friday 18 July 2008) Read this review about the VISIBLE event of this years Emerge Festival... African beats hall of fame (The Age Preview, Friday 18 July 2008) Visible Emerge EMERGE IN THE PRESS - Out of Africa (Emerge Main Event Review), The Age, 13 June 2008 Read this review about the main event of this years Emerge Festival... . Emerge EMERGE IN THE PRESS - Life and light from far away (Emerge Review), The Age, 5 June 2008 Read this review of the Journey exhibition, as part of this years Emerge Festival... . Emerge EMERGE CULTURAL NETWORK - Engaging emerging artists and communities (Presentation) View this Emerge Cultural Network Engaging emerging artists and communities presentation that outlines Emerge, Connect and Visible mentoring programs at Multicultural Arts Victoria...view presentation. Emerge Connect Visible MAVs Annual General Report 2007 Multicultural Arts Victorias (MAVs) AGM was held on Tuesday 22nd May 2007 at Fitzroy Town Hall. The Annual General Report 2006 is available. • Rules of Associationrules of association; • MAVs Annual General Report 2006 report MAV Cultural Diversity Week Gala Dinner 2008 - letter of thanks from Hon. John Brumby MP, Premier of Victoria Multicultural Arts Victoria recently produced the entertainment for the Celebrate our Cultural Diversity Week Dinner 2008 in association with the Victorian Multicultural Commission. The Hon. John Brumby MP, Premier of Victoria, has written a letter of congratulation for the success of the event...read letter. 18 Apr 2008 Acclaimed Local Artist TONY YAP Awarded Australia Council DANCE FELLOWSHIP 2008 Multicultural Arts Victoria congratulates Tony Yap on being awarded a two year dance fellowship from Australia Council for the Arts. The fellowship will allow Tony Yap, a long standing MAV member to undertake a two-year program of activity that includes the creative development of a major solo work, Buddha Body Series. His aim is to widen his experience and creative links as an Australian artist in Asia, establish the Tony Yap Company as a company for collaborative connections to network primarily in Asia and internationally and to continue to nurture an appreciation of challenging contemporary Asian Arts to audiences from all multicultural backgrounds...more. 20 Mar 2008 MAV welcomes Indigenous Youth Trainee - Little G AKA Gina Chrisanthopoulos Little G AKA Gina Chrisanthopoulos, has joined the MAV team as a trainee on the Black Harmony Gathering. MAV will train and give professional experience in all aspects of coordination of the event to Gina as a young member of the Indigenous community. Gina draws inspiration from her Aboriginal and Greek backgrounds when rapping, dancing and performing. After studying Indigenous Performing Arts at Swinburne University, Little G earned herself a name performing as the lead in the hit hip-hop musical Bass Anger which confronted issues of friendship, violence, racism and love...more. 18 Feb 2008 New funding program launched - Visy Multicultural Events Assistance Visy Multicultural Event Assistance provides multicultural groups and community organisations with assistance to use community spaces for multicultural events and community celebrations for the benefit of all...more. Download Media Release 18 Oct The Way Forward - Arts in a Multicultural Victoria (Report & Recommendations) The Way Forward - Arts in a Multicultural Victoria - is a report that outlines findings and recommendations that emerged out of extensive community consultations that were undertaken by Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) and the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC)...Read more The report is available here for download (PDF). . MAV & VMC AWARDS Multicultural Arts Victoria & The Arts Centre win Melbourne Award for MIX IT UP! Multicultural Arts Victoria and the Arts Centre won the Melbourne Award in the Corporation Division, for contribution to community, for our unique and significant MIX IT UP! program. The Melbourne Awards identify and celebrate significant contributions which shape the future of Melbourne and inspires others. The awards are coordinated by the City of Melbourne...more. MIX IT UP MAV receives Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) Ambassador Award Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) was the proud recipient of the Victorian Multicultural Commission (VMC) ambassador award which acknowledged the organisations outstanding contribution to communities and artists in Victoria...more. 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