Category 1990s
1991… Multicultural Theatre Festival
Festival ’91, Multicultural Theatre Alliance, Festival ‘91 “… (was the ) first major activity as the Multicultural Theatre Alliance which we formed in Sydney in 1990 when over twenty theatre companies came together to share experiences and to find common ground.” Participating companies included: Actovivo Dulaang Bayan-Sydney Hellenic Theatrical Group Intransit Kooch Theatre Group Latin American Live […]
1991… Al Qamareya
TAQA Theatre (1990-1999) Al Qamareya (The Moongate) “TAQA Theatre was founded in late 1990 with the aim of developing innovative, contemporary Australian theatre with a strong Arab Australian perspective. TAQA’s first production, Al Qamareya (The Moongate) – performed in Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong throughout 1991 – was one of the first bilingual theatrical representations of Arab Australian […]
1991… Café Hakawati
Café Hakawati was a ground-breaking community theatre process and production in Auburn, developed with local Arab Australian communities during the first Gulf War in 1991. As a speaker at the company’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2006, I remember saying that my involvement in Café Hakawati was personally significant, as it brought together previously schizophrenically separated parts of myself […]
Returning…
Returning … to this 3arabi Mapping project, with a focus on Arab Australian theatre produced in Sydney during the 1990s … leading up to 7arakat in Melbourne. And a new look blog (thanks Maissa)
paula on ‘the politics of bellydancing’…
“… well it just goes to demonstrate that you can resurrect cultural work from the early nineties and still be relevant! 14 years ago a group of arab women produced a performance work (with mostly sold out nights in both sydney and canberra) called the politics of belly dancing. in this piece, issues around cultural […]
hard-centred? soft-centred? arab-centred?
What do I mean by ‘arab-centred’ anyway? (soft centre? hard centre? take a bite and give it to your mum…) Instead of questions continuing to raise more questions, why not reflect on something that is ‘arab-centred’ – and discuss why, from the inside, as an insider… Yesterday found myself inside a discussion that progressed from […]
3arabi Mapping 
significant cultural processes and productions that come to mind for you?
The other day I found some old papers (as you do). Three years ago I had emailed a number of people (see below), attempting a small random ‘survey’ (very Sydney-centred, I admit) to prepare for a presentation at UTS called: “Facing Fear: Community Anti-Racism after September 11, 2001”. ::———-:: 16 Nov 2004 dear friends i […]