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2 pm Sunday 9 April, Archibald Fountain,
Hyde Park North.
Invite your friends to the Facebook event here
Over the last few years there have been nationwide rallies on Palm Sunday for refugee rights, supported by peace groups, unions, church groups and refugee rights organisations.
Public support for refugees is growing. This year’s rally on Palm Sunday can be another display of the determined opposition to the government’s treatment of refugees and help build the momentum for change.
Rally 12.30pm Friday 10 February
Immigration Department, 26 Lee St, Sydney
The Immigration Department wants to ban mobile phones in domestic detention centres like Villawood by the end of February. Life in detention is cruel and isolating enough. Banning mobiles will make it harder for refugees to communicate with relatives, friends and legal support. This is yet another attempt to hide what goes on inside detention. Join us to demand that asylum seekers and refugees be allowed to keep phones and their ability to freely communicate.
The White House statement today that the US resettlement deal with Australia is still “under consideration” has blown Malcolm Turnbull’s re-assurances out of the water.
There were already doubts about the deal following White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s statement that the refugees would be subjected to new “extreme vetting” procedures.
The cap on the number the US will accept now announced of 1250 is not enough to ensure all refugees on Manus and Nauru get a place in the US. There are already around 1800 recognised refugees there. Hundreds are going to be left behind, even if the deal goes through, and even if refugees survive the extreme vetting. It’s time to end the uncertainty and #BringThemHere.
Read our full media release here.
Speakers include:
Rita Mallia State President CFMEU NSW Construction Division
Mehreen Faruqi Greens MP, NSW parliament
Dulce Muñoz Mexican migrant, Mums for Refugees activist, and Women’s March co-organiser
MC: Ian Rintoul Refugee Action Coalition
Invite your friends via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1701269136837174/
Trump’s ban on people from selected Muslim countries entering the US has sparked worldwide disgust. Trump has also put a four month freeze on refugees, and an indefinite freeze on refugees from Syria.
We need to oppose this same racism here in Australia. Malcolm Turnbull claims Trump is “emulating” his own border protection policies aimed at targeting Muslims and keeping out refugees. Turnbull claims that Trump will honour the deal to resettle some of them in the US. But there is still no indication how many refugees the US will accept or how long the process will take. We need to protest to demand that Turnbull end the targeting of Muslims, welcome refugees, close the detention camps and #BringThemHere. Organised by Refugee Action Coalition
The Flagship Event of the Commedia dell’Arte Day 2017 will be held in Sydney, Australia organised by ‘Fools in Progress Inc.’ and ‘Commedia con Corinna’.
Commedia dell’Arte Day is a unique opportunity for the large community of Commedia performers in Australia to meet and exchange experiences, knowledge and expertise about the contemporary practice of Commedia dell’Arte.
The Commedia dell’Arte Day is celebrated every year on February 25, and is proclaimed by the Italian cultural association SAT as an action of the incommedia.it project in support of SAT‘s appeal to the nation of Italy and to the United Nations (UNESCO) to recognize Commedia dell’Arte as an official piece of “Intangible Cultural Heritage”. Every year the SAT committee declares a city to be the flagship event of the Commedia dell’Arte Day and a well-known cultural figure dedicates a message to the worldwide events.
Olly Crick (Old Spot Theatre Company, Gloucestershire, UK)
Dr. Corinna Di Niro (Commedia con Corinna Adelaide, SA)
Dr. Dominique Sweeney
CSU Lecturer (Wagga Wagga, NSW)
Tony Kishawi (Lightwire Theatrical Productions , Gympie, QLD)
Bianca Bonino (Fools in Progress, Sydney, NSW)
Faith Martin: producer of the documentary, COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE – A LOVE STORY and author of the Commedia dell’Arte Day Message 2017.
Supported by:
The Inner West Council and the Commonwealth through the Australian National Commission for UNESCO of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Day 1: 25th February
08.30: Registration tea/coffee
09.00: Key note speaker – Dr. Corinna Di Niro, Univ SA. Adelaide SA
10.00: Olly Crick (Presentation & Demonstration) 11.00 am morning tea
11.20: Presentation by Dr. Dominique Sweeney CSU Wagga Wagga NSW
12:30: Lunch break
01.30 – 2:30: Teachers Sharing Session led by Bianca e Corinna
03.00 – 05:00: WE HAVE FAITH IN COMMEDIA : Discussion Panel and Q&A led by Faith Martin.
05:00: Fools in Progress performance
05.20: Refreshments
06:00: End of the day
Location: Italian Forum Cultural Centre 24 Norton Street, Piazza Level, Leichhardt NSW 2040
Day 2: 26th February
Commedia dell’Arte Day 5-hour Professional Development lead by Olly Crick
10:00am to 3:30 pm
(Coffee/tea and light refreshment provided)
Location: Balmain Town Hall, 370 Darling St. Balmain NSW 2041
BOOKINGS:
Early Bird extended to 10th February
2 DAY CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP
25th-26th Feb.
$300 early bird fee (or $ 350 full price)
1 DAY CONFERENCE
25th Feb.
$200 early bird fee (or $250 full price)
WE HAVE FAITH IN COMMEDIA
25th Feb
Discussion Panel and Q&A lead by Faith Martin.
TICKET PRICE @ $35.00
5 HOUR INTENSIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT lead by Olly Crick 26th Feb.
$200 early bird fee (or $250 full price)
Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney (STICS) brings this amazing and insightful documentary to Sydney and offers a unique discussion with the director and local Aboriginal academics exploring the state of Human Rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Northern Territory.
https://www.facebook.com/event
Attention: Amnesty International supporters
Just 6 days to our major event in the Amnesty International Calendar.
Write for Rights
Come, Write for Rights with us at Paddington on Sunday December 4. Last year across Australia there were 111,000 actions which led to the release of 5 people wrongly jailed overseas by their Governments, like Phyoe Phyoe Aung.
This year be there again or for the first time come along. If we act together we can again definitely bring about people’s release.
The event is free to attend at the Berkelouw Bookshop,19 Oxford Street, Paddington(top floor) Sunday December 4 between 3pm and 5pm. If you want grab a beverage , or a bite to eat from the cafe downstairs and join us in a very informal atmosphere.
Please register at aia.esgroup@gmail.com
Ivan Ajduk
Co-Convenor AIES
On behalf of
Amnesty International Australia – Eastern Suburbs Group
We meet on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
Follow us on…
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AmnestyESGroup
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmnestyEasternSuburbsGroup
Please register at aia.esgroup@gmail.com
Ivan Ajduk
Co-Convenor AIES
On behalf of
Amnesty International Australia – Eastern Suburbs Group
We meet on the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
AWARD WINNERS
BEST FILM ($1000 from FILEF):
Journey
Director and Producer: Radheya Jegatheva
All alone and lost in space, luckily the astronaut finds someone else going through the same difficulty and they join forces to travel the Universe together.
The Jury: A young filmmaker with a great technical grasp of animation combined with a sensitive, imaginative and moving message about the future of humanity
SECOND PRIZE ($500 from FILEF):
Rafiullah Khan Speech for Kamil Hussein
Director Alfred Pek
Producer/s Alfred Pek, in association with People Just Like Us
A reading of the speech from Rafiullah Khan, one of Australia’s asylum seekers offshore detainees. Rafiullah is grieving for his friend Kamil Hussein who has taken his own life in Manus Island Detention Centre, and he pleads to Australia to accept the offshore detainees and end their suffering
The Jury: This emotionally engaging film about one – of a number of – morally challenging subjects for all Australians has a powerful and moving message.
UNDER 18 ($100 Apple Gift Voucher):
We Are All in This Together
Director Giulio Robilliard
Four school girls, two Iranian refugees and two Aussies from Maroubra, show us what happens when we open our heart to each other.
The Jury: A great yet simple idea for a film – usually the best – shows how kids accept each other through contact and exchange – something adults should be doing more of!
BEST INTERPRETATION (Camera 101, a course on acting in front of a camera, from Actors Centre of Australia):
Gerard O’Dwyer in Anaconda
Director Jerome Pearce
Producer Information and Cultural Exchange
Gerard O’Dwyer has a growing reputation as a performer, leading man and one of the ambassadors for the ‘Don’t Dis My Ability’ campaign. In ‘Anaconda’ we get a glimpse of Gerard backstage as he practices to overcome his stutter before walking onstage to tell his story.
The Jury: directed by Jerome Pearce about rehearsals by actor Gerard O’Dwyer, Anaconda is a clever and subtle film about overcoming a disability, his stutter before a performance
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STINGRAY SISTERS
Sydney premiere with Director Katrina Channells
Dramatic documentary series Stingray Sisters is a window into the live of the Eather sisters as they navigate their way between two very different cultural worlds and struggle to protect their home from oil and gas exploration.
Friday, December 2nd, 6.30pm
Redfern Community Centre
TICKETS: Eventbrite.com.au
Mehreen Faruqi and the Greens invite you to a special movie screening that will kick-start their campaign to get rid of the Baird Government’s devastating new land clearing laws.
Destructive laws
NSW parliament passed legislation last week that will enable the destruction of native vegetation and wildlife throughout NSW, and endanger precious habitats.
The Greens opposed this legislation and moved 63 amendments to try to improve it. The Liberals, Nationals, Christian Democrats and Shooters & Fishers voted together to block us at every point.
Our task is now to remove the Baird Government, repeal these terrible laws and enact new legislation that protects our precious biodiversity.
Invitation to film screening
Cultivating Murder is a new documentary that tells the story of Glen Turner, a public servant who was murdered while trying to protect the environment from illegal land clearing. You can view a short trailer for the film on Mehreen Faruqi’s facebook page.
There will be two Sydney screenings:
Monday 5th December, 6.30pm – New Law School Annex, University of Sydney
and
Thursday 8th December, 6:30pm – Manly Senior Citizens Club, 275 Pittwater Rd
It’s a powerful story and the filmmakers need support to finish it. So even if you can’t make one of the screenings, you may still like to contribute to their crowd funding campaign.
You can also sign up for further information about The Greens campaign to protect biodiversity.
SPEAK UP
Join Aboriginal People’s Defence of Human Rights
March, Saturday, December 10th, 2016
Sydney CBD
2016 FILEF Short Film Competition and Festival “Inclusion/e”
The films screened on 22 October at the Italian Forum Cultural Centre available to watch now on FILEF Youtube channel
PRESS RELEASE
About 200 people attended the 3rd edition of FILEF Short Film Festival on the theme “INCLUSION/E”, on Saturday 22 October in the Italian Forum Cultural Centre in Leichhardt, the closing event of Double Belonging Festival 2016.
A diverse range of short films participated, 14 altogether, by directors of all ages, from only 12 to over 70 years old, not only Australian and Italian, but also born in Lebanon, Iran, Malaysia, Cambodia and Indonesia. According to the jury deciding the winners “has been a very difficult decision because of the diverse and compelling attributes of all the films. We’d like to commend all participants, because individually they all have something special – either they are innovative, moving, original, incisive politically and/or their subjects very well chosen. They are a testament to a strong creative and humanitarian urge among the emerging filmmakers”.
First prize ($1000 offered by FILEF) went to young filmmaker Radheya Jegatheva, born in Malaysia and living in Perth, with “Journey”.
Second prize ($500 also offered by FILEF) went to “Rafiula Khan’s Speech for Kamil Hussein” directed by Alfred Pek in association with People Just Like Us, while the Under 18 Prize went to 12 year old Giulio Robilliard for We Are All In This Together.
Finally, prize for best performance. “Camera 101, a course in acting in front of a Camera” offered by Actor Centre Australia, went to Gerard O’Dwyer in Anaconda directed by Jerome Pearce and produced by Information and Communication Exchange.
Particularly well received by the audience was Inclusion by Franco Baldi (Sicily: a melting pot of civilizations that came from the sea and left their imprint. Still today, new guest keep coming from the sea); Together for Humanity by Rabbi Zalman Kastel and Larry Gray (School children of different backgrounds – Muslim, Jewish and Christians address the NSW Parliament speaking about inclusion, racism, multicultural issues and the treatment of people with disabilities). Applause also for On This Land by Izzat Nadeem (A link between Palestinians under occupation and the First People of this continent, expressed through Palestinian poetry spoken in an Aboriginal language) and for the animation Baird’s Paradise, by cartoonist Rocco Fazzari (a parody of NSW governemnt quest to gain control of public land to build apartment blocks).
The opening screenings, out of competition, were dedicated to Italian mass immigration, yesterday and today, in the 1960s and now, with the new wave of young people on working holiday in Australian farms. Also out of competition, filmmakers Fabio Cavadini and Mandy King introduced a short version of their Time to Draw the Line, an overview of the vexed issue of maritime boundaries between Australia and Timor Leste. A boundary that Australia imposed in its favour, by including in its side an area in the Timor Sea rich in oil reserves.
In his welcoming address, Claudio Marcello of the FILEF Committee stressed the need for social inclusion in these times of fear of the different. “We should be proud of multiculturalism, in which Australia for many years has been an example to the world”, he said. “Now multiculturalism is in danger by a resurgence of racism and intolerance, towards “the other, towards Muslim communities in particular”, he added.
The event was opened by Murri poet and activist Ken Canning from the Binjara Nation, who stressed the need for a Treaty with Australia’s First People, rather than a symbolic mention in the Constitution, as the only way to obtain the preservation of a living culture e genuine self-determiantion.
Prizes were awarded on behalf of the jury by Dean Carrey, Artistic Director of Actor Centre Australia, a sponsor of this competition, which conducts acting classes and manages cultural evets in the Italian Forum Cultural Centre. The Short Film Festival, on 22 October, was the closing event of Double Belonging 2016 and the screenings and award ceremony were followed by a party in the foyer, with music by Sicilian street artist Santino Salvadore.
