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APRA Professional Development Awards 2011

APRA Professional Development Awards 2011

Kick start your songwriting career with the 2011 APRA Professional Development Award. Eight emerging songwriters and composers will be given a career break thanks to the 2011 Professional Development Awards (PDA), proudly presented by APRA...more.
Application close Nov 29

Position Available: Emerge Cultural Hubs Coordinator

Position Available: Emerge Cultural Hubs Coordinator

An opportunity now exists for a confident, articulate, professional and highly organised individual, with a passion for diversity, to be the face and voice of Multicultural Arts Victoria's (MAVs) Emerge Cultural Hubs...more.
Applications close
5pm Nov 21, 2010
Kultour

Kultour 2012 Touring Program - Applications are now open

Kultour invites applications from emerging and established artists across all art forms whose work reflects Australia's cultural diversity for touring in 2012...more.
kultour
Application close Oct 29

Building Australian Multiculturalism - South Africa

Building Australian Multiculturalism - South Africa

An exciting new partnership between Key Change Music and Multicultural Arts Victoria has enabled 13 young people of various cultural heritages to travel to South Africa on an educational tour. From Johannesburg, Cape Town to Durban they explored the depths of a complex cultural history from tradition, invasion and the long fight for freedom...more.
Connect Youth
Educational Tour:
15-26 September 2010

Review: Music Deli goes Greek, Neos Kosmos

Review: Music Deli goes Greek, Neos Kosmos, 15 September, 2010

Hundereds of people were transported between busy taverns and white clifftops at the Music Deli Goes Greek Concert writes Margaret Paul...
15 September 2010

Preview: Music Deli's Greek flavour, Neos Kosmos, John-Paul Hussey, 26 August, 2010

Preview: Music Deli's Greek flavour, Neos Kosmos

ABC Radio National's 'Music Deli' has an extraordinary event for lovers of Greek Music on Saturday September 4 at the Melbourne Recital Centre writes John-Paul Hessey...
26 August 2010

Mix It Up Review: Los Van Van  (The Age & Sydney Morning Herald)

Mix It Up Review: Los Van Van (The Age & Sydney Morning Herald)

There was no standing ovation at Los Van Van's Melbourne show on Wednesday night. No one in the packed stalls rose from their seats. They didn't need to - they had already been standing, or more precisely, dancing non-stop for two hours. writes Jessica Nicholas...
Mix It Up
13 August 2010

Mix It Up Preview: Fuelled by sound blend, Van Van goes like a train (Sydney Morning Herald)

Mix It Up Preview: Fuelled by sound blend, Van Van goes like a train (Sydney Morning Herald)

THE train, that's what they call Los Van Van in Cuba. It's an apt nickname: for 40 years, the band have been at the forefront of popular music on the island and they show no sign of slowing down, writes Gabriel Wilder...
Mix It Up
10 August 2010

Emerge: Awakening to the rhytims of Africa (The Age)

Emerge: Awakening to the rhytims of Africa (The Age)

A photographer raised among Melbourne's Italian migrants was entranced by the music he discovered in the city's African community writes Larry Schwartz...
Emerge
26 July 2010

Los Van Van Preview: Four decades of Cuban musicality (The Australian)

Los Van Van Preview: Four decades of Cuban musicality (The Australian)

At the Karl Marx Theatre in downtown Havana, 5000 vanvaneros are dancing as if on castors writes Jane Cornwell ...
Mix It Up
20 July 2010

New Heartlands - Refugeee Fine Art Prize 2010

New Heartlands - Refugeee Fine Art Prize 2010

Multicultural Arts Victoria and the AMES are collaborating to launch the inaugural New Heartlands Refugee Fine Art Prize 2010. The Prize celebrates the creative talent and social contribution of visual artists from a refugee background...more.
Applications close
1 October 2010

Emerge Cultural Hubs: Finding the music in Medicare takes talent (The Age)

Emerge Cultural Hubs: Finding the music in Medicare takes talent (The Age)

Simon Landid solves problems through songs, he tells Andra Jackson...
Emerge
16 July 2010

yuyukatha in The Age

yuyukatha in The Age

Singing his way back home, Kutcha Edwards gives voice on stage to his family's tragic story, writes Liza Power...
5 July 2010

Blak Roots - Emerge in The Age

Blak Roots - Emerge in The Age

The answer to creating a sustainable Australia lies in more than simply reducing immigration, say talented Melbourne musicians Aminata Doumbia and William Kadima, both recent migrants from Africa...
Emerge
28 June 2010

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/sweet-sounds-of-somaliberg-20100618-ymp0.html

Emerge Feature: Sweet sounds of Somaliberg (The Age)

Far from their troubled homeland, Somali s in Melbourne are telling their stories through poetry and music, writes Liza Power...
Emerge
19 June 2010

Emerge Feature: Helping refugees dance to a new rhythm of life (The Age)

Emerge Feature: Helping refugees dance to a new rhythm of life (The Age)

Read about the Emerge Festival 2010 in The Age by Andra Jackson.
Emerge
17 June 2010
MAV Annual General Report 2009

MAVs Annual General Report 2009

Multicultural Arts Victoria's Annual General Report 2009 is available for download.
19 May 2010
Hon. John Cain: Patron of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) - Portrait by Wes Walters

Hon. John Cain: Patron of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV)

Former Premier of Victoria Hon. John Cain has accepted to become Patron of Multicultural Arts Victoria's Gift Fund...more.
20 May 2010

Multicultural Arts Victoria's Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Multicultural Arts Victoria's Annual General Meeting (AGM)

MAV's AGM will be held Wednesday May 19th 6:00pm for 6:30pm start, Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall...more.
19 May 2010

tyc in the Press - Rasa Sayang

tyc in the Press - Rasa Sayang

Watch and read about tcy in the press, reviews of the acclaimed interdisciplinary performance work Rasa Sayang, part of a series of productions developed by long term collaborators director/dancer Tony Yap, musicians/composers Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn, visual artist Naomi Ota, and creative collaborator Ben Rogan...more.
tcy
11 May 2010

His steps shaped by the shamans, The Age (Article)

Read about Tony Yap Company's Rasa Sayang in The Age...more.
tyc
20 Apr 2010

Shepparton's little angels, The Age (Article)

Read about Shepparton's Angels' Voices choir in The Age, Multicultural Arts Victoria along with VicHealth has helped to fund and mentor the band... more.
Development
2 Apr 2010
Position Available: Coordinator Administration & Publicity

Position Available: Coordinator Administration & Publicity

An opportunity now exists for a confident, articulate, professional and highly organised individual, with a passion for diversity, to be the face and voice of Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV...more.
Applications close 4pm, 8 Apr 2010
Black Harmonies CD Cover

Black Harmonies CD Launch - 2010

The launch of Black Harmonies first CD, featuring Kutcha Edwards, Diafrix Axmarion and Momo, Peter Rotumah, Casey Atkinson, Tjimba Possum-Burns, Selwyn Burns, Ajak Kwai, Aminata Boumbia, Michelle Belesy, Joe Geia amd more ...more.
Black Harmony
21 Mar 2010