August 2010
10 posts
Creative Cultures - an engaging exhibition
by Saad Al Musawi
An exhibition showing artists from different ethnicities was held between the 3rd and the 31st of July. The Creative Cultures exhibition is run every year directly after Refugee Week by Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (SMRC).
The 16 artists exhibited this year represented cultural backgrounds including Sudanese, Congolese, Thai, Irish, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Libyan, Iraqi,...
A conversation about stars, imagination and the...
Nyadol:
Conventional knowledge is the enemy of imagination. It limits out ability to think beyond the ‘status quo‘.
Nyabana (Bern):
I do believe though that we are in a knowledge age where it is widely accepted and expected that improvements be made on current C.K. I think we can tell from the number of PhD candidates graduating from many institutions each semester.
Challenging and coming up...
After Hours Fashion With A Conscience
by Kat Moore
Melbourne Central’s Level 1 Bridge was aglow after hours on Friday 16th of July, as The Social Studio presented a fashion parade showcasing their first collection, TSS1.
Using only recycled and surplus materials, the Social Studio’s young trainees have created an original collection, which made its debut at the RISE Festival in May this year.
Usually well known as a consumer’s...
Community Gardens A Personal Experience
by Concetta Tahir
I first moved into the Richmond high rise thirty years ago. I lived on the 15th floor; I had never lived up that high before. I didn’t want to live there. It was a very rough environment. Concrete, hard, racist, cold. I felt my personal space was threatened, being in the lift so close to all sorts of people. The state of my health at the time compounded all these issues and...
Refugees of Yarra still face discouraging facts...
by Mia Paramashinta
Australian residents who have come here as refugees or asylum seekers, and have good English and local qualifications, have no guarantee of employment. In fact, often it is not easy to gain permanent employment that matches their professional skills.
Boy and Majak, two young gentlemen from Sudan who came to Australia under the Humanitarian Visa are facing what has become a...
Racism - be informed not afraid
by Nyadol Nyuon
Racism can make one feel insignificant in a society that is dominated by the ‘other’. But we are all the ‘other’. And that is the problem.
Recently in Melbourne when I tried to board a tram, my bag got stuck at the doorway. A man covered with tattoos came and helped me pull my bag up and carried it to an empty seat. Normally, if I had met him when I was alone, I would have...
Starting Life Over From Zero
by Anna Tuong
My name is Anna Tuong. This is my story of escape from Vietnam.
I was born in Vietnam (South Saigon). I am from an educated, middle class family. I am one of 11 children and I am in the middle. When I was 17 I started studying dental nursing and I worked for my father who is a dentist.
In 1975, I will never forget it. In South Vietnam, soldiers with weapons tried to protect the...
Trams
by Concetta Tahir
Clunkering Mechanics on Wheels
Portable lounge
With a view for travelling
Airy Ambience
Talk or Not
Up and down
Stop again
The motion goes on
Pattern Unbroken
Green facade leading
Settled high presiding
Unspoken Conformity
Bow to the Rule
...
Musicians and models rise to the occasion for the...
by Michael Hackett
It was late autumn in the city, the usual tourists and visitors from across the globe are watching the luminous big screen, with images and cameras flashing, kids with their parents taking time to soak up the evening air. Looking around inside the BMW Edge Theatre at Federation Square, there are stalls for books with what looks like their authors promoting their products to...
yarraReporter Trainees - On Track To Graduate
by Majak Akot
yarraReporter is an intensive program that trains City of Yarra public housing residents in multimedia and journalism, with the current cadets preparing to graduate.
The yarraReporter is located in Atherton Gardens and is known to many people to provide a broad accessible introduction to the world of journalism. For every eight week training course yarraReporter provides an...