Category Documentation
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 […]
What critical questions would you ask of yourself and your own work?
Following on from my own dry conversations in September about unfolding an ‘Arab-centred’ approach to research and to discussion about cultural production, I took the opportunity to document a conversation with an Arab woman artist, in the site of her latest solo exhibition. (Thanks FK for being open and trusting. Thanks to AG for the […]
nizar hassan…
Earlier this year, as a guest of the 2007 Sydney Arab Film Festival, Nizar Hassan, from Palestine, spoke strongly (and dogmatically) around some issues of Arab-centred work processes. I flicked him an email last week inviting a few words towards this 3arabi discussion, and unfortunately he said that he was “in deep deep coma” still […]
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 […]
what is 3arabi?
3arabi mapping contemporary arab australian cultural production 1991-2006 interactively documenting and critically reflecting on all forms of cultural production ~ collaborative and individual work ~ including community cultural development, performance, visual arts, design, writing, film, sound, photography, music, digital arts… have you been involved in creating work over the last 15 years? please contact alissar […]
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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 […]